Simple features of mantle-wide convection and the interpretation of lower-mantle tomograms

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-22

  Sleep, Norman H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geothermal gradient; Mantle convection; Plume heads; Plumes; Slabs; Subduction; Tomography

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037217823     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0713(03)00008-7     Document Type: Article

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