More constraints on internal heating rate of the Earth's mantle from plume observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Leng, Wei ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; COOLING; ENERGY BALANCE; HEATING RATE;

COOLING EFFECTS; EARTH'S MANTLES; INTERNAL HEATING; LOWER BOUNDS; MANTLE CONVECTIONS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PLUME DYNAMICS; UPPER MANTLES;

HEATING;

COOLING; EARTH; HEATING; MANTLE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PLUME;

EID: 62749116797     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036449     Document Type: Article

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