On the regional variation of heat flow, geotherms, and lithospheric thickness

Tectonophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 1977, Pages 279-296

  Pollack, Henry N ^a   Chapman, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 49349138460     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(77)90215-3     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Comparison of crust and mantle structure beneath shields and the influence of shield on the dynamics of plate motions
2. Crust and mantle structure of shields and their role in global tectonics
3. Density and composition of the upper mantle: first approximation as an olivine layer
4. Heat flow and thermal history in New York and New England
5. The structure of the upper mantle under the United States from the dispersion of Rayleigh waves
6. A pyroxene geotherm
7. Seismic waves and earth structure in the Canadian shield
8. Cold spot in West Africa: anchoring the African plate
9. Heat flow and incipient rifting in Central Africa
10. Global heat flow a new look
11. Density distribution and constitution of the mantle
12. Fundamentals of ridge crest topography
13. The driving mechanisms of plate tectonics
14. Upper mantle shear wave velocity differences beneath Australia by surface wave analysis and inversion, 10 to 200 second period range
15. Contrasted melting relations in a pyrolite upper mantle under midoceanic ridge, stable crust and island arc environments
16. Genesis of Archean peridotitic magmas and constraints on Archean geothermal gradients and tectonics
17. The sinking lithosphere and the focal mechanisms of deep earthquakes
18. Heat flow and surface radioactivity measurements in the Precambrian shield of Western Australia
19. Melting and phase relations in a natural peridotite to 40 kilobars
20. Heat flow and radioactivity in Australia
21. The origin of continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins
22. Observation and inversion of surface-wave dispersion
23. Melting of a peridotite nodule at high pressures and high water pressures
24. Crustal temperature and heat production implications of the linear heat-flow relation
25. Variations of upper-mantle structure under the Pacific Ocean
26. Some remarks on heat flow and gravity anomalies
27. Speculations on the thermal and tectonic history of the earth
28. Numerical modelling of instantaneous plate tectonics
29. Melting of Iherzolite from Ichinomegata at high pressures
30. Thermal model of ocean ridges
31. Relationship between terrestrial heat flow and the tectonics of continents
32. A comparison of the thermal characters of shields
33. Composition and evolution of the upper mantle
34. Heat generation of plutonic rocks and continental heat-flow provinces
35. Basic heat flow data from the United States
36. Heat flow in the western United States
37. Thermal conductivity of earth materials at high temperatures
38. The implication of terrestrial heat flow observations on current tectonic and geochemical models of the crust and upper mantle of the earth
39. Comparison of long-wavelength residual elevation and free-air gravity anomalies in the north Atlantic and possible implications for the thickness of the lithospheric plate
40. A continental crustal model and its geothermal implications
41. Some simple physical models for absolute plate motions
42. A method of estimating the melting-point gradient in the earth's mantle
43. The creep strength of the earth's mantle
44. Variations in lithospheric thickness in Canada
45. Upper-mantle structure beneath the north Pacific and the marginal seas
46. Regionality of group velocities of Rayleigh waves in the Pacific and thickening of the plate