Implications of post-perovskite transport properties for core-mantle dynamics

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 180, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 235-243

  Čížková, Hana ^a   Čadek, Ondřej ^a   Matyska, Ctirad ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

CMB heat flux; D''; Dislocation creep; Mantle convection; Post perovskite

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION PARAMETER; CARTESIAN MODEL; CORE-MANTLE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CREEP PARAMETERS; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; DIFFUSION CREEP; DISLOCATION CREEP; DOWN-WELLING; DYNAMIC REGIMES; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; LINEAR DIFFUSION; LOW VISCOSITY; LOWER MANTLE; LOWERMOST MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; POST-PEROVSKITE; POST-PEROVSKITE PHASE CHANGE; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SLAB AREA; SLAB DEFORMATION; THERMAL CONVECTIONS; UPWELLING PLUME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; ELASTICITY; GEOMAGNETISM; HEAT FLUX; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OXIDE MINERALS; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

PEROVSKITE;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; GEOID; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HEAT FLUX; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; P-T CONDITIONS; PEROVSKITE; RHEOLOGY; SLAB; THERMAL CONVECTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 77953287128     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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