Numerical model of the supercontinental cycle stages: Integral transfer of the oceanic crust material and mantle viscous shear stresses

Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-100

  Bobrov, A M ^a   Trubitsyn, A P ^a  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Mass transfer; Numerical experiment; Shear stresses; Supercontinental cycle

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MASS TRANSFER; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SHEAR STRESS; SUPERCONTINENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 43049094102     PISSN: 00393169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11200-008-0007-1     Document Type: Article

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