Constraints on viscous dissipation of plate bending from compressible mantle convection

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 154-164

  Leng, Wei ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressible; Mantle convection; Plate bending; Viscous dissipation

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE; EARTH'S MANTLE; EARTH'S SURFACE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE CONVECTION MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETER SPACES; PLATE BENDING; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE MOTIONS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC PLATES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION HISTORY; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

FORCED CONVECTION; TECTONICS;

VISCOUS FLOW;

BENDING; DISSIPATION; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 77956012239     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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