Properties of oceanic lithosphere: Revised plate cooling model predictions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 333-334, Issue , 2012, Pages 250-264

  Grose, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling models; Oceanic lithosphere; Seafloor heat flow; Seafloor subsidence; Thermal diffusivity; Thermal expansion

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; COOLING MODEL; EFFECTIVE PROPERTY; HEAT TRANSPORT PROPERTY; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; MINERAL PHYSICS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PLATE COOLING; PLATE MODEL; PLATE THICKNESS; REFERENCE MODELS; SEA FLOOR; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSIVITY; THERMAL MODEL;

HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MODELS; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; UNDERWATER MINERAL RESOURCES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

COOLING; DATABASE; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLUX; MANTLE PLUME; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEAFLOOR; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84861334058     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.037     Document Type: Article

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