Mantle Plumes on Venus: Implications for Mantle Viscosity, Water Content, and Melting

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Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011lpi....42.2689s&link_type=abstract

42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.2689

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We simulate the number of hot mantle plumes in a three-dimensional cubed
sphere geometry. We find a relatively low viscosity mantle, with only
wet melting, is most consistent with the number of deep plumes,
lithospheric thickness, and estimated internal heating.

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