Plate Bending, Energetics of Subduction and Modeling of Mantle Convection: a Boundary Element Approach


Gianluca Gerardi, Laboratoire FAST Fluides, Automatique et Systemes Thermiques, Orsay Cedex, France, Neil M Ribe, Laboratoire FAST, Orsay, France and Paul J Tackley, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland