Effects on the long-wavelength geoid anomaly of lateral viscosity variations caused by stiff subducting slabs, weak plate margins and lower mantle rheology

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 172, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 278-288

  Yoshida, Masaki ^a   Nakakuki, Tomoeki ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geoid anomaly; Mantle convection; Numerical calculation; Plate margin; Subducting slab; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

GEOID ANOMALY; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PLATE MARGIN; SUBDUCTING SLAB;

VISCOSITY;

GEOID; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 57749085327     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.10.018     Document Type: Article

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