The combined influences of variable thermal conductivity, temperature- and pressure-dependent viscosity and core-mantle coupling on thermal evolution

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 259-278

  van den Berg, A P ^a   Rainey, Emma S G ^b,c   Yuen, Davey A ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COOLING; CORE ANALYSIS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RHEOLOGY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

CORE; MANTLE FLOW; MENTAL THERMAL EVOLUTION; VISCOSITY CONTRASTS;

VISCOSITY;

CORE (PLANETARY); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; COUPLING; MANTLE CONVECTION; RHEOLOGY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 14944346598     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.10.008     Document Type: Article

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