Focussing of stress by continents in 3D spherical mantle convection with self-consistent plate tectonics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Rolf, T ^a   Tackley, P J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL; YIELD STRESS;

ARCHAEAN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRITICAL STRENGTH; FIRST-ORDER; GAIN INSIGHT; HIGHER YIELD; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LITHOSPHERIC; LONG TERM STABILITY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE CONVECTION MODELS; MANTLE FLOW; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; STAGNANT LID; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE HEAT LOSS; THERMAL BLANKETING; THICKNESS RATIO;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; EPISODIC EVENT; HEAT FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MANTLE CONVECTION; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; SPHERE; SURFACE FLUX; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 80052988252     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048677     Document Type: Article

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