Plumes anchored by a high viscosity lower mantle in a 3D mantle convection model featuring dynamically evolving plates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Lowman, J P ^a   Gait, Andrew D ^b   Gable, C W ^c   Kukreja, Harish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

CARTESIAN GEOMETRIES; INITIAL CONFIGURATIONS; LOWER MANTLES; MANTLE CONVECTION MODELS; MANTLE PLUMES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE VELOCITIES; SURFACE MOTIONS; UPPER MANTLE VISCOSITIES; UPPER MANTLES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GEODYNAMICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 57749181063     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035342     Document Type: Article

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