Numerical model of heat flow in back-arc regions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 243-252

  Kukačka, Martin ^a   Matyska, Ctirad ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

heat flow; mantle wedge; subduction model

Indexed keywords

COMMON FEATURES; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DIP ANGLES; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLOWS; MANTLE WEDGE; MANTLE WEDGES; NEW TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL MODELS; REDUCED VISCOSITIES; ROBUST BEHAVIORS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; STEADY STATES; SUBDUCTING PLATES; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE MODELS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE HEAT FLOWS; VELOCITY FIELDS;

CAVITY RESONATORS; FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; TECTONICS; THEOREM PROVING; VISCOSITY;

HEAT FLUX;

BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; HEAT FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC WEDGE; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 56449128395     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.055     Document Type: Article

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