Mechanical and thermal effects of floating continents on the global mantle convection

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 313-322

  Trubitsyn, Valeriy ^a,b,c   Kaban, Mikhail K ^a,b   Rothacher, Marcus ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Continental evolution; Mantle convection; Plate velocities

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; CONTINENTAL EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CONTINUITY CONDITIONS; CONVECTION PATTERNS; DOWNWELLINGS; FREE CONVECTIONS; HORIZONTAL CONVECTIONS; INTERNAL HEATING; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE CONVECTIONS; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; MECHANICAL COUPLINGS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLATE VELOCITIES; REPULSIVE FORCES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHIES; SPHERICAL CAPS; UNIFORM VISCOSITIES;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

BACKARC BASIN; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DOWNWELLING; HEAT FLUX; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VISCOSITY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 55649091227     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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