The gutenberg discontinuity: Melt at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6075, 2012, Pages 1480-1483

  Schmerr, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DISCONTINUITY; FLUID FLOW; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE CONVECTION; OCEAN BASIN; PACIFIC PLATE; PARTIAL MELTING; SUBDUCTION; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; VISCOSITY; VOLCANO;

EID: 84858766347     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1215433     Document Type: Article

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