Plate-like regime of a numerically modeled thermal convection in a fluid with temperature-, pressure-, and stress-history-dependent viscosity

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Ogawa, Masaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mantle convection; Moving plate; Numerical model; Stress history; Two dimensional

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; HEAT FLOW; MANTLE; P-T CONDITIONS; STRESS;

EID: 18344419004     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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