Plate motions and the viscosity structure of the mantle - Insights from numerical modelling

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 29-40

  Stein, Claudia ^a   Hansen, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

low viscosity zone; mantle convection; plate motion; rheology; stagnant lid

Indexed keywords

(1 1 0) SURFACE; BALANCE (WEIGHTING); COMPLEX FLUID RHEOLOGY; CONVECTING MANTLE; EARTH'S MANTLE; ELSEVIER (CO); FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; GENERAL (CO); IN ORDER; LOCAL EXTREMA; LOCAL MAXIMUM; LOCAL MINIMUMS; LOW VISCOSITY; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PARAMETER RANGING; PLATE MOTIONS; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; SPECIFIC VISCOSITY; STRESS DEPENDENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); UPPER MANTLE;

COLLOIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VISCOSITY;

MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE MOTION; POSTGLACIAL; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 47749126118     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.050     Document Type: Article

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