Coupling mantle convection and tidal dissipation: Applications to Enceladus and Earth-like planets

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Běhounková, Marie ^a   Tobie, Gabriel ^b   Choblet, Gaël ^b   Čadek, Ondřej ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSIPATION; HEAT FLOW; HEAT SOURCE; MANTLE CONVECTION; RHEOLOGY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; STRAIN RATE; THERMAL EVOLUTION; UPWELLING; VOLCANISM;

EID: 77957741538     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003564     Document Type: Article

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