The importance of radiative heat transfer on superplumes in the lower mantle with the new post-perovskite phase change

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 71-81

  Matyska, Ctirad ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lower mantle phase transition; Numerical modelling; Radiative thermal conductivity; Superplumes

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; PHASE CHANGE; SUPERPLUMES;

EARTH SCIENCES; HEAT TRANSFER; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF GASES; VISCOSITY OF GASES;

THERMAL PLUMES;

HEAT FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 18544363095     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.10.040     Document Type: Article

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