The role of shear heating in lubricating mantle flow

Physics & Astronomy

• core-mantle boundary 100%
• Earth mantle 89%
• shear 51%
• heating 47%
• rheology 45%
• temperature 22%
• convection 18%
• viscosity 15%
• Boussinesq approximation 14%
• limbs 12%
• strain rate 9%
• exponents 8%
• temperature dependence 6%
• composite materials 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• core-mantle boundary 71%
• mantle 55%
• heating 53%
• rheology 37%
• temperature 28%
• vigor 24%
• power law 17%
• convection 14%
• viscosity 14%
• lower mantle 10%
• downwelling 10%
• strain rate 9%
• shear zone 9%
• upper mantle 8%

Chemical Compounds

• Shear 69%
• Rheology 67%
• Flow 48%
• Velocity 15%