Time-dependent convection models of mantle thermal structure constrained by seismic tomography and geodynamics: Implications for mantle plume dynamics and CMB heat flux

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 785-815

  Glisovic P ^a   Forte, A M ^a   Moucha, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes; Heat flow; Hotspots; Planetary tectonics; Rheology: mantle; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION OF MASS; CONVECTION CURRENTS; CONVECTION MODEL; CONVECTION SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE FLOW; DEPTH DEPENDENTS; DYNAMIC IMPACTS; EARTH STRUCTURES; EARTH'S MANTLE; FLOW DYNAMICS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GEOTHERMS; HIGH VISCOSITIES; INSTANTANEOUS FLOW; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MANTLE THERMAL STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; RADIAL PROFILES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE PLATES; TECTONIC PLATES; THERMAL CONVECTION MODEL; THERMAL IMAGES; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME WINDOWS; TIME-DEPENDENT EVOLUTIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DYNAMICS; ENERGY BALANCE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEODYNAMICS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL PLUMES; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY BALANCE; GEODYNAMICS; GREEN FUNCTION; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLUX; HOT SPOT; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHOD; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84863774464     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05549.x     Document Type: Article

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