Basaltic accumulation instability and chaotic plate motion in the earliest mantle inferred from numerical experiments

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Fujita, Kunihiro ^a   Ogawa, Masaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT SOURCE; HEATING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 72049092375     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006222     Document Type: Article

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