A preliminary numerical study on water-circulation in convecting mantle with magmatism and tectonic plates

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 216, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-11

  Fujita, Kunihiro ^a   Ogawa, Masaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magmatism; Mantle convection; Numerical model; Water circulation

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC CRUST; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CONVECTING MANTLE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EFFECT OF WATER; HEAT-PRODUCING ELEMENTS; INJECTED WATER; INTERNAL HEATING; LITHOSPHERIC; MAGMATISMS; MANTLE CONVECTION; SOLID-STATE CONVECTION; SOLIDUS TEMPERATURE; TECTONIC PLATES; WATER CIRCULATION; WATER STORAGE CAPACITY;

BASALT; HEATING RATE; NUMERICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TECTONIC PLATE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84872977088     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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