Dynamical consequences in the lower mantle with the post-perovskite phase change and strongly depth-dependent thermodynamic and transport properties

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 229-243

  Tosi, Nicola ^a,b   Yuen, David A ^c   Čadek, Ondřej ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lattice thermal conductivity; Lower mantle dynamics; Phase transitions; Post perovskite; Thermal expansivity

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; COMBINED EFFECT; CONDUCTIVITY MODELS; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; HEAT TRANSPORT; HIGH-PRESSURE EXPERIMENT; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; LONG LIFETIME; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE PARAMETERS; PLANFORM; POST-PEROVSKITE; POST-PEROVSKITE PHASE CHANGE; PRESSURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; QUASI-STEADY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SUPERPLUMES; THERMAL ANOMALIES; THERMAL EXPANSIVITY; TRANSITION ZONES;

ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTAL LATTICES; HEAT CONVECTION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMODYNAMICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77957283001     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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