Survival times of subducted slab remnants in numerical models of mantle flow

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 23-36

  Jarvis, Gary T ^a   Lowman, Julian P ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D mantle flow; 3D numerical models; mantle flow models; slab remnants; viscosity stratification

Indexed keywords

MANTLE FLOW; SLAB REMNANTS; VISCOSITY STRATIFICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VISCOSITY;

EARTH (PLANET);

MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; STRATIFICATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34447261873     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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