A thick pipe‐like heat‐transfer mechanism in the mantle: Nonlinear coupling between 3‐D convection and variable thermal conductivity
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 27 (1) , 17-20
- https://doi.org/10.1029/1999gl008338
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