The influence of temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity on the conductive cooling rates of plutons and temperature-time paths in contact aureoles

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 317-318, Issue , 2012, Pages 157-164

  Nabelek, Peter I ^a   Hofmeister, Anne M ^b   Whittington, Alan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact aureoles; Heat flow; Latent heat; Numerical simulation; Pluton cooling; Thermal diffusivity

Indexed keywords

BASALT SILLS; CONDUCTIVE COOLING; DOLOSTONES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FLUID FLUXES; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; HEAT FLOWS; HEAT TRANSPORT MODEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIQUIDUS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; PLUTONS; SOLIDIFICATION TIME; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

BASALT; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; GRANITE; LATENT HEAT; PLASMAS; SOLIDIFICATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

AUREOLE; BASALT; COOLING; DIFFUSIVITY; EMPLACEMENT; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; HEAT CAPACITY; HEAT FLOW; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MAGMA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUTON; SILL; SOLIDIFICATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WALL ROCK;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84255194455     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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