Stirring in three-dimensional mantle convection models and implications for geochemistry: 2. Heavy tracers

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Huang, Jinshui ^a,b   Davies, Geoffrey F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

3 D model; Geochemical heterogeneity; Mantle stirring; Thermal chemical convection

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649089957     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001621     Document Type: Article

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