Oscillating and stagnating plumes in the Earth's lower mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 90-105

  Samuel, Henri ^a   Bercovici, David ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compositional heterogeneity; convection; lower mantle; oscillatory; thermochemical plumes

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; COMPRESSIBILITY; HEAT CONVECTION; MINERALOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS; SEISMOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES;

COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY; EARTH'S LOWER MANTLE; THERMOCHEMICAL PLUMES;

EARTH (PLANET);

HOT SPOT; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; MINERALOGY; PRESSURE EFFECT; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 33746478690     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.037     Document Type: Article

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