Mantle upwellings above slab graveyards linked to the global geoid lows

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 435-438

  Spasojevic, Sonja ^a   Gurnis, Michael ^a   Sutherland, Rupert ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; GEODYNAMICS; GEOID; LOWER MANTLE; MESOZOIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLAB; TOPOGRAPHY; TROUGH; UPWELLING; WAVELENGTH;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77954837179     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo855     Document Type: Article

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