Response of mantle heat flux to plate evolution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Stein, C ^a,b   Lowman, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISCOSITY;

CARTESIAN GEOMETRY; FINITE THICKNESS PLATES; FREE-SLIP; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MOBILE BOUNDARIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; UNIFORM VISCOSITY; UPPER MANTLE;

HEAT FLUX;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; GEOMETRY; HEAT FLUX; MANTLE CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SLIP; VISCOSITY;

EID: 78650507640     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045283     Document Type: Article

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