Depth-dependent viscosity and mantle stress amplification: Implications for the role of the asthenosphere in maintaining plate tectonics

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 30-41

  Höink, Tobias ^a   Lenardic, Adrian ^a   Richards, Mark ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes; Mantle processes; Planetary interiors; Planetary tectonics; Rheology: mantle

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY; CHANNEL THICKNESS; CONVECTION CURRENTS; DEPTH DEPENDENTS; HIGH VISCOSITIES; LOW VISCOSITY; LUBRICATION EFFECT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE PROCESSES; NORMAL STRESS; PLANETARY INTERIORS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SCALING TRENDS; SCALINGS; SPHERICAL SHELL; STAGNANT LID; STRESS-DEPENDENT; TECTONIC PLATES; UPPER BOUNDARY;

AMPLIFICATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

TECTONICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84866430803     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05621.x     Document Type: Article

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