Effect of the mid-mantle viscosity and phase-transition structure on 3D mantle convection
- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
- Vol. 118 (1-2) , 135-148
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9201(99)00140-5
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