A heat flow based cooling model for tectonic plates

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 361, Issue , 2013, Pages 34-43

  Hasterok, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Global heat loss; Heat flow; Oceanic heat loss; Seafloor age; Seafloor spreading

Indexed keywords

BASAL TEMPERATURE; COOLING MODEL; DATA SETS; FLOW BASED; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; OBSERVED DATA; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE COOLING; PLATE MODEL; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; REASONABLE VALUE; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; STATISTICAL CONSTRAINTS; TECTONIC PLATES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

ESTIMATION; HEAT LOSSES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

HEAT TRANSFER;

ASTHENOSPHERE; COOLING; HEAT FLOW; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; MANTLE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84870782539     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.036     Document Type: Article

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