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On the evolution of the water ocean in the plate-mantle system
Here, we investigate a possible scenario of surface seawater evolution in the numerical simulations of surface plate motion driven by mantle dynamics, including thermo-chemical convection and water migration, from the early to present-day Earth to ...
Takashi Nakagawa +3 more
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Tectonic plates in 3D mantle convection model with stress-history-dependent rheology
Plate tectonics is a key feature of the dynamics of the Earth’s mantle. By taking into account the stress-history-dependent rheology of mantle materials, we succeeded in realistically producing tectonic plates in our numerical model of mantle convection ...
Takehiro Miyagoshi +2 more
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The Afar and Ethiopian plateaus are in a dynamic uplift due to the mantle plume, therefore, considering the plume effect is necessary for any geophysical investigation including the estimation of lithospheric stress in this area. The Earth gravity models
Andenet A. Gedamu +2 more
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On the location of plumes and lateral movement of thermochemical structures with high bulk modulus in the 3-D compressible mantle [PDF]
The two large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base of the lower mantle are prominent features in all shear wave tomography models. Various lines of evidence suggest that the LLSVPs are thermochemical and are stable on the order of hundreds ...
Gurnis, Michael +3 more
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Mineral phase transitions can either hinder or accelerate mantle flow. In the present day, the formation of the bridgmanite + ferropericlase assemblage from ringwoodite at 660 km depth has been found to cause weak and intermittent layering of mantle ...
Ranpeng Li +4 more
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Intraplate Seamounts as a Window into Deep Earth Processes [PDF]
Seamounts are windows into the deep Earth that are helping to elucidate various deep Earth processes. For example, thermal and mechanical properties of oceanic lithosphere can be deter-mined from the flexing of oceanic crust caused by the growth of ...
Anthony A.P. Koppers, Anthony B. Watts
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Osmium isotopes and mantle convection [PDF]
The decay of (187)Re to (187)Os (with a half-life of 42 billion years) provides a unique isotopic fingerprint for tracing the evolution of crustal materials and mantle residues in the convecting mantle. Ancient subcontinental mantle lithosphere has uniquely low Re/Os and (187)Os/(188)Os ratios due to large-degree melt extraction, recording ancient melt-
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Physical State of the Deep Interior of the CoRoT-7b Exoplanet [PDF]
The present study takes the CoRoT-7b exoplanet as an analogue for massive terrestrial planets to investigate conditions, under which intrinsic magnetic fields could be sustained in liquid cores.
Bruntt +10 more
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A Simple Thermodynamic Model of the Internal Convective Zone of the Earth
As it is well known both atmospheric and mantle convection are very complex phenomena. The dynamical description of these processes is a very difficult task involving complicated 2-D or 3-D mathematical models.
Karen Arango-Reyes +3 more
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Implementation and application of adaptive mesh refinement for thermochemical mantle convection studies [PDF]
Numerical modeling of mantle convection is challenging. Owing to the multiscale nature of mantle dynamics, high resolution is often required in localized regions, with coarser resolution being sufficient elsewhere.
Leng, Wei, Zhong, Shijie
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