Thermal evolution of the Earth: Secular changes and fluctuations of plate characteristics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 465-481

  Labrosse, S ^a   Jaupart, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

continental growth; cooling of the Earth; early Earth; plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CONTINENTAL GROWTH; MANTLE; OCEANIC PLATES;

EARTH (PLANET);

HEAT BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; MANTLE CONVECTION; PARAMETERIZATION; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 34447517065     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.046     Document Type: Article

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