Convection scaling and subduction on Earth and super-Earths

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 492-502

  Valencia, Diana ^a   O'Connell, Richard J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

parameterized convection; plate tectonics; super Earths

Indexed keywords

DRIVING FORCES; DRY AND WET; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; PARAMETERIZED CONVECTION; PLATE COOLING; PLATE STRUCTURE; PLATE TECTONICS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; RESISTANCE INCREASE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUPER-EARTHS; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TIME-SCALES; VALENCIA;

BUOYANCY; DEFORMATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; FEEDBACK; PLANETS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

TECTONICS;

BUOYANCY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTH; ENERGY DISSIPATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 70249147925     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.015     Document Type: Article

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