The thermochemical structure and evolution of Earth's mantle: Constraints and numerical models

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1800, 2002, Pages 2593-2609

  Tackley, Paul J ^a   Xie, Shunxing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical evolution; Geochemistry; Mantle convection; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FLOW KINETICS; GEOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037111766     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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