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A model for convection in the upper mantle of the Earth comprising two flows, one of percolating melt fluid (which need be no more than a small volume fraction in the intergranular channels of coherent solid matter), the other a solid plastic flow, avoids some paradoxical features of other models for mantle convection. This model leads to a reasonably consistent account of the processes of continental drift.
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FRANK, F. Two-component Flow Model for Convection in the Earth's Upper Mantle. Nature 220, 350–352 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220350a0
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