Possible effects of lateral viscosity variations induced by plate-tectonic mechanism on geoid inferred from numerical models of mantle convection

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-85

  Yoshida, Masaki ^a  

^a Marine Earth Science/Technology Ctr   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geoid; Mantle convection; Numerical simulation; Plate tectonics; Subduction zone; Topography

Indexed keywords

GEOID; MANTLE CONVECTION; PLATE TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 4644299929     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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