The role of Poiseuille flow in creating depth-variation of asthenospheric shear

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1297-1310

  Natarov, Svetlana I ^a   Conrad, Clinton P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Mantle processes; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; AXIS ORIENTATION; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; AZIMUTHAL SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; COUETTE AND POISEUILLE FLOWS; COUETTE FLOWS; COUETTE-POISEUILLE FLOW; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HORIZONTAL PRESSURE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE PROCESSES; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; PLATE MOTIONS; POISEUILLE FLOW; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATAS; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; THERMAL HISTORY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY AMPLITUDES;

ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE GRADIENT; ROTATION; STREAM FLOW; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; ASTHENOSPHERE; FLOW MODELING; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PROCESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE;

EID: 84865306058     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05562.x     Document Type: Article

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