Viscoelastic mantle convection and lithospheric stresses

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-63

  Beuchert, Marcus J ^a,b   Podladchikov, Yuri Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Geomechanics; Mechanics, theory, and modelling; Numerical solutions; Rheology: crust and lithosphere; Rheology: mantle

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; CONVECTION MODEL; DIVERGENCE-FREE SOLUTIONS; ELASTIC BEHAVIOUR; GEOMECHANICS; LITHOSPHERIC; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE CONVECTION MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POWER LAW CREEP; SHEAR HEATING; STRESS DISTRIBUTION; STRESS FIELD; STRESS-DEPENDENT; TECHNICAL BACKGROUND; THERMAL CONVECTION MODEL; VISCOELASTIC MODELS; VISCOELASTIC RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY VARIATIONS; VISCOUS MODELS;

DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MODELS; RHEOLOGY; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

VISCOSITY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMECHANICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RHEOLOGY; STRESS FIELD; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 78349269598     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04708.x     Document Type: Article

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