Compaction-dissolution waves in an upwelling mantle column

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1057-1075

  Hesse, M A ^a   Schiemenz, A R ^a,b   Liang, Y ^a   Parmentier, E M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Magma genesis and partial melting; Magma migration and fragmentation; Mantle processes; Mechanics, theory, and modelling; Mid ocean ridge processes; Permeability and porosity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX EIGENVALUES; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; LINEAR STABILITY; LINEAR THEORY; LOCAL EQUILIBRIUM; MAGMA GENESIS; MAGMA MIGRATION; MANTLE PROCESSES; MELT FRACTION; MELT MIGRATION; MELT PRESSURES; MELT VELOCITY; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; ORTHOPYROXENE; OSCILLATORY INSTABILITY; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POROUS COLUMNS; POWER-LAW; REGIME DIAGRAM; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; STEADY STATE SOLUTION; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE PROPERTIES; WAVE-NUMBER SELECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OLIVINE; PHASE VELOCITY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUBILITY; STABILITY; VELOCITY;

COMPACTION;

COMPACTION; DISSOLUTION; EIGENVALUE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIVINE; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERMEABILITY; PHASE VELOCITY; POROSITY; SEISMIC WAVE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; UPWELLING;

EID: 79955668389     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05177.x     Document Type: Article

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