The impact of variability in the rheological activation parameters on lower-mantle viscosity stratification and its dynamics

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 188, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Matyska, Ctirad ^a   Yuen, David A ^b   Wentzcovitch, Renata M ^b   Čížková, Hana ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation parameters; Lower mantle dynamics; Lower mantle rheology; Plume clusters; Postperovskite (ppv) phase transition; Radiative thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION PARAMETER; CARTESIANS; CONVECTION MODEL; CREEP PARAMETERS; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; FERROPERICLASE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GRAIN-SIZE REDUCTION; HIGH PRESSURE; HUBBARD; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE MINERALS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MULTISCALES; PARAMETERIZED MODEL; PLUME CLUSTERS; PLUME DYNAMICS; POST-PEROVSKITE; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; SPIN CROSSOVERS; SPIN-STATE; THERMAL EXPANSIVITY; VISCOSITY STRATIFICATION;

CREEP; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYNAMICS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SPIN DYNAMICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BULK MODULUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; ELASTICITY; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH PRESSURE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; PARAMETERIZATION; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION; RHEOLOGY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 80053298741     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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