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Plateness of the Oceanic Lithosphere and the Thermal Evolution of the Earth’s Mantle

In: High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering’ 05

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  • Uwe Walzer

    (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Institut für Geowissenschaften)

  • Roland Hendel

    (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Institut für Geowissenschaften)

  • John Baumgardner

    (University of California, Dept. Earth Planet. Science)

Abstract

Summary Compared to [33], the model of the thermal evolution of the Earth’s mantle is considerably improved. The temporal development of the radial viscosity profile due to cooling of the Earth could substantially be taken into account by numerical progress using a new variant of the temperature- and pressure-dependence of the shear viscosity of the mantle, namely Eq (5). The laterally averaged heat flow, the Urey number, the Rayleigh number and the volume-averaged temperature as a function of time come up to the expectations that stem from the parameterized evolution models. The mentioned evolution parameters of the present paper better approximate the observational data. Contrary to the parameterized curves, these quantities show temporal variations. This seems to be more realistic for geological reasons. Due to the activation enthalpy, the presented viscosity profile has a highly viscous transition layer (TL) with steep viscosity gradients at the phase boundaries. A low-viscosity zone is situated above and below the TL, each. The lithosphere moves piecewise en bloc. Thin cold sheet-like downwellings have an Earth-like distribution.

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  • Uwe Walzer & Roland Hendel & John Baumgardner, 2006. "Plateness of the Oceanic Lithosphere and the Thermal Evolution of the Earth’s Mantle," Springer Books, in: Wolfgang E. Nagel & Michael Resch & Willi Jäger (ed.), High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering’ 05, pages 289-304, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-29064-3_23
    DOI: 10.1007/3-540-29064-8_23
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