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pyMelt: An extensible Python engine for mantle melting calculations
Volcanica, 2022 Modelling the melting of Earth’s mantle is crucial for understanding the distribution of volcanic activity on Earth and for testing models of mantle convection and mantle lithological heterogeneity.
Simon Matthews +2 more
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Giant Porphyry Copper Deposits Caused by a Slab Jamming in the Mantle Transition Zone
Terra Nova, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Two giant porphyry copper deposits in the Southern Central Andes formed during the Miocene–Pliocene transition when a bend in the subducting Juan de Fernández hotspot chain jammed in the mantle transition zone, causing mega‐scale slab‐kinking. This geometry implies mechanical resistance that caused East–West compression and eventually a thrust‐
Nipaporn Nakrong +5 more
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P and S Wave Anisotropic Tomography of the Banda Subduction Zone
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 In subduction zones with slab‐slab interactions, the pattern of mantle convection is very complex and still unclear. In this study, we jointly invert a large number of P and S wave arrival time data of local earthquakes for 3‐D isotropic and anisotropic ...
Yuanyuan Hua, Dapeng Zhao, Yi‐Gang Xu
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Geodynamo and mantle convection simulations on the Earth Simulator using the Yin-Yang grid
, 2005 We have developed finite difference codes based on the Yin-Yang grid for the geodynamo simulation and the mantle convection simulation. The Yin-Yang grid is a kind of spherical overset grid that is composed of two identical component grids. The intrinsic
Akira Kageyama +14 more
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Age, Depth, and Residual Depth Anomalies in the North Pacific: Implications for Thermal Models of the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle [PDF]
, 1986 We present an empirical basement depth versus age relation for the North Pacific Ocean, based on the statistical treatment of an ocean-wide gridded data set.
Renkin, Miriam K., Sclater, John G.
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Top-driven asymmetric mantle convection [PDF]
, 2015 The role of decoupling in the low-velocity zone is crucial for understanding plate tectonics and mantle convection. Mantle convection models fail to integrate plate kinematics and thermodynamics of the mantle. In a first gross estimate, we computed at >300 km3/yr the volume of the plates lost along subduction zones. Mass balance predicts that slabs are
DOGLIONI, Carlo, D. L. Anderson
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Mantle convection and diamonds
LITHOSPHERE (Russia), 2023 Research subject. The present evolutionary stage of geodynamic theory is associated with the idea of thermochemical convection of various levels in the Earth's mantle, where the centrifugal branches are represented by plumes, and the centripetal - by subduction zones. Aim.
V. N. Puchkov, D. A. Zedgenizov
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The case for dynamic subsidence of the U.S. east coast since the Eocene [PDF]
, 2008 The dynamic subsidence of the United States east coast is addressed using the discrepancy between regional and global estimates of sea level, elevation of paleoshorelines, and adjoint models of mantle convection that assimilate plate motions and seismic ...
Gurnis, Michael +3 more
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On the Role of Rheological Memory for Convection‐Driven Plate Reorganizations
Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 Understanding the temporal variability of plate tectonics is key to unraveling how mantle convection transports heat, and one critical factor for the formation and evolution of plate boundaries is rheological “memory,” that is, the persistence of weak ...
L. Fuchs, T. W. Becker
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Interior Structures and Tidal Heating in the TRAPPIST-1 Planets [PDF]
, 2018 With seven planets, the TRAPPIST-1 system has the largest number of exoplanets discovered in a single system so far. The system is of astrobiological interest, because three of its planets orbit in the habitable zone of the ultracool M dwarf.
Barr, Amy C. +2 more
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