Lower-mantle material properties and convection models of multiscale plumes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 430, Issue , 2007, Pages 137-163

  Matyska, Ctirad ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth dependent thermal expansivity; Partially layered convection; Post perovskite phase transition; Radiative heat transfer in D"; Shear heating; Temperature and pressure dependent viscosity

Indexed keywords

PEROVSKITE; THERMAL PLUMES; VISCOSITY;

POST-PEROVSKITE PHASE TRANSITION; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; SHEAR HEATING; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES; THERMAL EXPANSIVITY;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

HEAT TRANSFER; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION; SPINEL; STRATIFICATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSITION ZONE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 75749113657     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2430(155)     Document Type: Article

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