Past and present seafloor age distributions and the temporal evolution of plate tectonic heat transport

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 233-242

  Becker, Thorsten W ^a   Conrad, Clinton P ^b   Buffett, Bruce ^c   Müller, R Dietmar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

oceanic heat flow; plate tectonics; seafloor age distributions

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION MODELS; HEAT TRANSPORTS; OCEAN CHEMISTRIES; OCEAN FLOORS; OCEANIC HEAT FLOW; OCEANIC PLATES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PAST AND PRESENTS; PLATE MOTIONS; PLATE TECTONICS; PRODUCTION RATES; SEAFLOOR AGE DISTRIBUTIONS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SPREADING RATES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT EVOLUTIONS; TIME-VARYING; TRANSIENT STATE; TRIANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PARAMETERIZATION; RESTORATION; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; TECTONICS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

HEAT FLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR; SUBDUCTION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 60749136266     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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