On 'steady-state' heat flow and the rheology of oceanic mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 13-1-13-4

  Korenaga, Jun ^a   Jordan, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; HEAT CONVECTION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

GEODYNAMICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GEODYNAMICS; GEOID; HEAT FLOW; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PROCESS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 0037113695     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016085     Document Type: Article

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