Living dead slabs in 3-D: The dynamics of compositionally-stratified slabs entering a " slab graveyard" above the core-mantle boundary

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 188, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 150-162

  Tackley, Paul J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; D'; Mantle convection; Mid ocean ridge basalt; Slabs; Thermo chemical convection

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURES; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DENSE LAYER; FINGERING INSTABILITIES; FIRST-ORDER; FOLDING MECHANISM; GLOBAL SIMULATION; HARZBURGITES; HEATING UP; HIGH DENSITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATERAL GRADIENT; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; LOW DENSITY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SEISMIC STUDIES; SLABS; STRATIFIED LAYERS; THERMO-CHEMICAL STRUCTURES;

DYNAMICS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BASALT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FRICTION; HARZBURGITE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLAB; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052675660     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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