On the relative influence of heat and water transport on planetary dynamics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 380-388

  Crowley, John W ^a   Gérault, Mélanie ^b,c   O'Connell, Richard J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Heat and water transport; Plate tectonics; Thermal evolution; Urey ratio; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC EVOLUTION; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; DYNAMIC FEEDBACK; EVOLUTION MODELS; EXPLICIT EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSPORT; MANTLE VISCOSITY; PARAMETERIZED; RATE OF CHANGE; RELATIVE STRENGTH; SURFACE OCEAN; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TIME-SCALES; UREY RATIO; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WATER CYCLE; WATER TRANSPORT;

DEGASSING; TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGASSING; GEODYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VISCOSITY; WATER FLOW;

EID: 80053381495     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.035     Document Type: Article

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