Searching for models of thermo-chemical convection that explain probabilistic tomography. I. Principles and influence of rheological parameters

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 357-373

  Deschamps, Frédéric ^a   Tackley, Paul J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical anomalies; Mantle convection; Mantle rheology; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; POWER SPECTRUM; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

BUOYANCY RATIOS; CARTESIANS; CLAPEYRON SLOPES; DEEP MANTLES; DENSE MATERIALS; DENSITY ANOMALIES; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; INITIAL LAYERS; LONG TERMS; LOWER MANTLES; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE RHEOLOGY; MODEL SPACES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHIES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY CONTRASTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; PROBABILITY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 55649086408     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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