Self-Gravity, Self-Consistency, and Self-Organization in Geodynamics and Geochemistry

Earth's Deep Mantle: Structure, Composition, and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 165-186

  Anderson, Don L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth Mantle Research; Heat Convection, Natural Research; Seismology Research; Thermochemistry Research

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAT CONVECTION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL INTERFACES; EARTH MANTLE; HIGH-FREQUENCY SCATTERING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MANTLE GEOCHEMISTRIES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

GEODYNAMICS;

EID: 84950999543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/160GM11     Document Type: Chapter

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