Mechanism for generating stagnant slabs in 3-D spherical mantle convection models at Earth-like conditions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 341-352

  Yanagisawa, Takatoshi ^a   Yamagishi, Yasuko ^a   Hamano, Yozo ^a   Stegman, Dave R ^b   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Bina, Craig ^b   Inoue, Toru ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mantle convection; Phase transition; Plate like motion; Spherical shell; Stagnant slab

Indexed keywords

CLAPEYRON SLOPE; CO-EXISTING STATE; CONTINUOUS FEATURES; CONVECTION MODES; CONVECTIVE FLOW; EARTH-LIKE CONDITIONS; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE CONVECTION MODELS; MANTLE DYNAMICS; MINERAL PHASE TRANSITION; NATURAL MODES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLASTIC YIELDING; PLATE-LIKE MOTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REGIME DIAGRAM; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SPHERICAL MODELS; SPHERICAL SHELL; STAGNANT SLAB; SURFACE HEAT FLOW; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOSITY INCREASE; VISCOSITY STRATIFICATION;

MINERALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SPHERES; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EARTH; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; PLATE MOTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 78649444157     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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