Development of anisotropic structure in the Earth's lower mantle by solid-state convection

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6878, 2002, Pages 310-314

  McNamara, Allen K ^a   Van Keken, Peter E ^a   Karato, Shun Ichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTH (PLANET); SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARIES;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SLAB;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

PACIFIC RIM;

EID: 0037149535     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416310a     Document Type: Letter

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