How flat is the lower-mantle temperature gradient?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 171-183

  Monnereau, Marc ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Geothermal gradient; Mantle; Spherical models; Temperature

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0037200413     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00756-2     Document Type: Article

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