A high-order numerical study of reactive dissolution in an upwelling heterogeneous mantle-I. Channelization, channel lithology and channel geometry

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 641-664

  Schiemenz, Alan ^a,b   Liang, Yan ^a   Parmentier, E M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magma migration and fragmentation; Mid ocean ridge processes; Numerical solutions; Physics and chemistry of magma bodies; Self organization

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL GEOMETRY; CHANNEL INITIATION; DISSOLUTION REACTIONS; HARZBURGITES; HIGH-ORDER; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LENGTH SCALE; MAGMA MIGRATION; MELT FLUX; MELT FRACTION; MELT MIGRATION; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; NUMERICAL SCHEME; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ORTHOPYROXENE; POROUS COLUMNS; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SPATIAL RELATIONS; SUCTION RATES; UPWELLING RATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LITHOLOGY; POROSITY; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLUBILITY;

DISSOLUTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISSOLUTION; DUNITE; GEOMETRY; HARZBURGITE; LHERZOLITE; LITHOLOGY; MAGMA CHAMBER; MANTLE PROCESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PETROLOGY; POROSITY; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 79960357712     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05065.x     Document Type: Article

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