Heat fluxes at the Earth's surface and core-mantle boundary since Pangea formation and their implications for the geomagnetic superchrons

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 205-216

  Zhang, Nan ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat flux; Magnetic polarity reversals; Mantle convection; Supercontinent pangea

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAK-UP; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTH'S SURFACE; GEODYNAMO PROCESS; GLOBAL TECTONICS; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; MAGNETIC POLARITY REVERSAL; MANTLE CONVECTION; PALEOZOIC; PLATE MOTIONS; SEA FLOOR; SPHERICAL MODELS; SUPERCONTINENTS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; HEAT CONVECTION; MAGNETIC POLARITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HEAT FLUX;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRETACEOUS; GEOMAGNETISM; HEAT FLUX; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MANTLE CONVECTION; PALEOZOIC; PLATE MOTION; SLAB; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 79956321439     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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