Numerical and Laboratory Studies of Mantle Convection: Philosophy, Accomplishments, and Thermochemical Structure and Evolution

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 83-99

  Tackley, Paul J ^a   Xie, Shunxing ^a   Nakagawa, Takashi ^b   Hernlund, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; HEAT CONVECTION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTH MANTLE; LABORATORY STUDIES; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; THERMO-CHEMICAL STRUCTURES;

TECTONICS;

EID: 84951113895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/160GM07     Document Type: Chapter

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