Can large increases in viscosity and thermal conductivity preserve large-scale heterogeneity in the mantle?

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 86-102

  Naliboff, John B ^a   Kellogg, Louise H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mantle dynamics; Mixing; Thermal conductivity; Thermal convection

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ENTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY;

EARTH MANTLE; MANTLE DYNAMICS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ENTROPY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MIXING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRACER; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33947547372     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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