A numerical study of energy balances and flow planforms in earth's mantle with radioactive heating, the 660 km-depth phase boundary and continents
It is well established that the temperature gradients in the interiors of internally-heated mantle convection models are subadiabatic (e.g. Parmentier et al., 1994; Bunge et al., 1997, 2001). The subadiabatic gradients have been explained to arise due to a balance between vertical advection and inte...
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University of Saskatchewan
2009
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| Online Access: | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-07072009-085828/ |