Continents, supercontinents, mantle thermal mixing, and mantle thermal isolation: Theory, numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Lenardic, A ^a   Moresi, L ^b   Jellinek, A M ^c   O'Neill, C J ^d   Cooper, C M ^e   Lee, C T ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mantle convection; supercontinent

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; LITHOLOGY; TECTONICS;

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVECTIVE FLOW; CONVECTIVE MOTIONS; DYNAMIC REGIMES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATERAL MIXING; LATERAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; LOCAL COOLING; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OCEANIC REGIONS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUPERCONTINENTS; THERMAL ISOLATION; THERMAL MIXING; THERMAL NETWORK; TWO-STATE;

THERMAL INSULATION;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; INSULATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OVERTURN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUPERCONTINENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 80055042773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003663     Document Type: Article

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