Low plume excess temperature and high core heat flux inferred from non-adiabatic geotherms in internally heated mantle circulation models

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 3-10

  Bunge, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Heat flux; Non adiabatic geotherm

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL PLUMES;

CORE MANTLE BOUNDARY; HOT PLUME UPWELLINGS; MANTLE CIRCULATION MODEL; MANTLE ENERGY BUDGET; NON-ADIABATIC GEOTHERM;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS;

HEAT FLUX; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME;

EID: 28444453636     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2005.03.017     Document Type: Article

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