The onset of convection in fluids with strongly temperature-dependent viscosity cooled from above with implications for planetary lithospheres

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 371-386

  Zaranek, Sarah E ^a   Parmentier, E M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Lithosphere; Temperature dependent viscosity

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 4143149548     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.013     Document Type: Article

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