The role of hot uprising plumes in the initiation of plate-like regime of three-dimensional mantle convection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Yoshida, Masaki ^a   Ogawa, Masaki ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL CONVECTION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; STRESSES; VISCOSITY;

LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE CONVECTION; RUPTURE STRENGTH;

GEOPHYSICS;

MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 18244411486     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl017376     Document Type: Article

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