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Thermal convection in an isoviscous layer and in the Earth’s mantle

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Very Slow Flows of Solids

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The density of the solid medium has been hitherto considered as a constant. In fact, in real media it depends somewhat on pressure p because the medium always has an elastic behavior (superimposed on the viscosity that we are considering), and on temperature T.

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Lliboutry, L.A. (1987). Thermal convection in an isoviscous layer and in the Earth’s mantle. In: Very Slow Flows of Solids. Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3563-1_9

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