Searching for models of thermo-chemical convection that explain probabilistic tomography. II-Influence of physical and compositional parameters

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-18

  Deschamps, Frédéric ^a   Tackley, Paul J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mantle structure and composition; Probabilistic tomography; Thermo chemical convection

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY RATIO; CLAPEYRON SLOPE; DENSE MATERIALS; EARTH'S MANTLE; ENDOTHERMIC PHASE TRANSITION; INTERNAL HEATING; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION; MASS EXCHANGE; MODEL SPACES; PROBABILISTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER; SECOND ORDERS; STANDARD VALUES; THERMAL DENSITY; THERMAL VISCOSITY; THERMO-CHEMICAL; THERMO-CHEMICAL CONVECTION; THERMOCHEMICAL MODELS; VISCOSITY CONTRAST;

BUOYANCY; EARTH (PLANET); FLOW PATTERNS; HEATING; LAKES; MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TITRATION; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BUOYANCY FORCING; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 68349129898     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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