Temporal variations in the convective style of planetary mantles

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 79-89

  Loddoch, Alexander ^a   Stein, Claudia ^a   Hansen, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

convective regimes; episodic regime; mantle convection; stagnant lid; transitional behaviour

Indexed keywords

MANTLE CONVECTION; STAGNANT LID; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; STRAIN RATE; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33750328009     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.08.026     Document Type: Article

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