Controls on plume heat flux and plume excess temperature

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Leng, Wei ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 45149091478     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005155     Document Type: Article

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