Habitable Planets: Interior Dynamics and Long
... 3. Plate tectonics and scaling Despite the possible importance of plate tectonics on planetary habitability, as discussed above, how plate tectonics arises is still not well understood. At the present day, Earth is unique in our solar system, with the other terrestrial planets Venus and Mars instead ...
... 3. Plate tectonics and scaling Despite the possible importance of plate tectonics on planetary habitability, as discussed above, how plate tectonics arises is still not well understood. At the present day, Earth is unique in our solar system, with the other terrestrial planets Venus and Mars instead ...
Plate tectonic controls on atmospheric CO2 levels since the Triassic
... oceans (31), and calculations based on these, such as for seawater chemistry (37), are based on extrapolation. For pre-Cretaceous time, we therefore prefer to use our total subduction-zone length curve instead, because it is based on (indirect) observation; mantle structure. In Fig. 2B we show, in a ...
... oceans (31), and calculations based on these, such as for seawater chemistry (37), are based on extrapolation. For pre-Cretaceous time, we therefore prefer to use our total subduction-zone length curve instead, because it is based on (indirect) observation; mantle structure. In Fig. 2B we show, in a ...
The westward drift of the lithosphere
... grouped hotspots into three main families that have very little internal relative motion (Pacific, Indo-Atlantic, and Iceland). In his analysis, Pacific hotspots have remained nearly fixed relative to each other during the last 80 m.y. We do not yet have a reliable constraint on the source depth of ...
... grouped hotspots into three main families that have very little internal relative motion (Pacific, Indo-Atlantic, and Iceland). In his analysis, Pacific hotspots have remained nearly fixed relative to each other during the last 80 m.y. We do not yet have a reliable constraint on the source depth of ...
Sea-Floor Spreading
... can change the size and shape of the oceans. • Because of these processes, the ocean floor is renewed about every 200 million years. • That is the time it takes for new rock to form at the mid-ocean ridge, move across the ocean, and sink into a trench. ...
... can change the size and shape of the oceans. • Because of these processes, the ocean floor is renewed about every 200 million years. • That is the time it takes for new rock to form at the mid-ocean ridge, move across the ocean, and sink into a trench. ...
Lexie Carletti
... boundary is called a subduction zone. Here an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide and the denser oceanic plate sinks or subducts under the other plate. Then, the oceanic plate starts to melt from intense heat and causes magma chambers. When these magma chambers get to full they explode and ...
... boundary is called a subduction zone. Here an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide and the denser oceanic plate sinks or subducts under the other plate. Then, the oceanic plate starts to melt from intense heat and causes magma chambers. When these magma chambers get to full they explode and ...
The Canadian Rockies and Alberta Network (CRANE)
... stacking over all azimuths. We convert these time-domain receiver functions to depth based on PREM (Dziewonski and Anderson, 1981), which provides a first-order approximation for the depths of crust and mantle reflectors in the absence of more accepted regional P or S velocity models. If one assumes ...
... stacking over all azimuths. We convert these time-domain receiver functions to depth based on PREM (Dziewonski and Anderson, 1981), which provides a first-order approximation for the depths of crust and mantle reflectors in the absence of more accepted regional P or S velocity models. If one assumes ...
Appalachian Mountains
... Earth’s Topography When Earth’s topography is plotted on a graph, a pattern in the distribution of elevations emerges. Most of Earth’s elevations cluster around two main ranges of elevation—0 to 1 km above sea level and 4 to 5 km ...
... Earth’s Topography When Earth’s topography is plotted on a graph, a pattern in the distribution of elevations emerges. Most of Earth’s elevations cluster around two main ranges of elevation—0 to 1 km above sea level and 4 to 5 km ...
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... Substitutes for Ca in plagioclase (but not in pyroxene), and, to a lesser extent, for K in Kfeldspar. Behaves as a compatible element at low pressure where plagioclase forms early, but as an incompatible at higher pressure where plagioclase is no longer stable. ...
... Substitutes for Ca in plagioclase (but not in pyroxene), and, to a lesser extent, for K in Kfeldspar. Behaves as a compatible element at low pressure where plagioclase forms early, but as an incompatible at higher pressure where plagioclase is no longer stable. ...
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... Substitutes for Ca in plagioclase (but not in pyroxene), and, to a lesser extent, for K in Kfeldspar. Behaves as a compatible element at low pressure where plagioclase forms early, but as an incompatible at higher pressure where plagioclase is no longer stable. ...
... Substitutes for Ca in plagioclase (but not in pyroxene), and, to a lesser extent, for K in Kfeldspar. Behaves as a compatible element at low pressure where plagioclase forms early, but as an incompatible at higher pressure where plagioclase is no longer stable. ...
GEOL 1010 - Research at UVU
... i) Differentiation occurs when, as the magma first begins to become solid, mafic minerals (rich in Fe (iron), Mg (magnesium) and Ca (calcium)) such as olivine and pyroxene crystallize, sink, and are separated from the magma (recall from Bowen’s Reaction Series that mafic minerals have higher meltin ...
... i) Differentiation occurs when, as the magma first begins to become solid, mafic minerals (rich in Fe (iron), Mg (magnesium) and Ca (calcium)) such as olivine and pyroxene crystallize, sink, and are separated from the magma (recall from Bowen’s Reaction Series that mafic minerals have higher meltin ...
Whole-mantle convection with tectonic plates preserves
... MORB, the Australian-Antarctic Discordance is clear evidence of a sharp transition between the two, leading to suggestions of a mantle convection boundary17, potentially separated by remnant slab material18. Importantly, for understanding mantle convection, isotopically-different ocean crust indicat ...
... MORB, the Australian-Antarctic Discordance is clear evidence of a sharp transition between the two, leading to suggestions of a mantle convection boundary17, potentially separated by remnant slab material18. Importantly, for understanding mantle convection, isotopically-different ocean crust indicat ...
Geodynamics Workshop 2012 PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS
... debate: Classical models of purely thermal plumes predict a kilometer-scale surface uplift above the rising plume head [e.g. 2]. On the contrary, several paleogeographic and paleotectonic field studies indicate significantly smaller surface uplift during the development of many LIPs, such as the Sib ...
... debate: Classical models of purely thermal plumes predict a kilometer-scale surface uplift above the rising plume head [e.g. 2]. On the contrary, several paleogeographic and paleotectonic field studies indicate significantly smaller surface uplift during the development of many LIPs, such as the Sib ...
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... Absolute ages obtained from igneous rocks samples recovered from mid-ocean ridges reveal that: A. rocks ages get older with greater distance from the axis of the spreading ridge B. the pattern of rock ages is mirrored on each side of the spreading ridge C. the duration of each magnetic interval is t ...
... Absolute ages obtained from igneous rocks samples recovered from mid-ocean ridges reveal that: A. rocks ages get older with greater distance from the axis of the spreading ridge B. the pattern of rock ages is mirrored on each side of the spreading ridge C. the duration of each magnetic interval is t ...
Geodynamic basis of heat transport in the Earth
... A brief period of violent thermonuclear activity, the TTauri phase, occurs during the early stages of star formation with grand eruptions and super-intense ‘solar-wind’ that is sufficient to strip the gas envelopes from the inner four planets, as demonstrated by the Hubble Space Telescope image of a ...
... A brief period of violent thermonuclear activity, the TTauri phase, occurs during the early stages of star formation with grand eruptions and super-intense ‘solar-wind’ that is sufficient to strip the gas envelopes from the inner four planets, as demonstrated by the Hubble Space Telescope image of a ...
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... This is in agreement with previous studies in Europe and may be interpreted primarily in terms of variations of thickness and strength of the low-velocity zone. In this depth range, the average structure for the Hercynian part of western Europe is intermediate between that of the Shield and that of ...
... This is in agreement with previous studies in Europe and may be interpreted primarily in terms of variations of thickness and strength of the low-velocity zone. In this depth range, the average structure for the Hercynian part of western Europe is intermediate between that of the Shield and that of ...
Mantle Discontinuities - Northwestern University
... mantle boundary obtained by Shearer's [I9901 global stacking study is 660 km,with topography of less than 20 km. By observing SH-polarized ScS, and sScS, mantle reverberations, Revenaugh and Jordan [1987, 1989, 1990a, 1990bl obtain a normal-incidence reflection coefficient of 0.072kO.010 at 660 km, ...
... mantle boundary obtained by Shearer's [I9901 global stacking study is 660 km,with topography of less than 20 km. By observing SH-polarized ScS, and sScS, mantle reverberations, Revenaugh and Jordan [1987, 1989, 1990a, 1990bl obtain a normal-incidence reflection coefficient of 0.072kO.010 at 660 km, ...
between Earth Expansion and Seafloor Spreading
... floods of plateau basalts covering hundreds of square kilometers in Brazil, in South Africa, in India, and in Antarctica. This was the moment of disruption…. Henceforth the present southern continents were on their own. Each daughter continent inherited a leading edge of fold mountains that had form ...
... floods of plateau basalts covering hundreds of square kilometers in Brazil, in South Africa, in India, and in Antarctica. This was the moment of disruption…. Henceforth the present southern continents were on their own. Each daughter continent inherited a leading edge of fold mountains that had form ...
WORKSHOP REPORTS B. Ildefonse1, DM Christie2
... Ocean and in the Red Sea, including an ODP leg. I will defend my PhD thesis next week (“Pulsating generation of the oceanic lithosphere and isotopic fingerprints of its mantle source”). During my thesis research at Columbia University (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), I have been investigating the ...
... Ocean and in the Red Sea, including an ODP leg. I will defend my PhD thesis next week (“Pulsating generation of the oceanic lithosphere and isotopic fingerprints of its mantle source”). During my thesis research at Columbia University (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), I have been investigating the ...
Seismogenic zone input: the upper plate contribution in Costa Rica
... ≤4000 km3/Ma/km of trench during the last half million years in the region where the Cocos Ridge is currently subducting. The removed portion of the forearc is (to the best of our knowledge) formed by an accretionary complex of Galapagos-produced seamounts that entered the subduction zone from the ...
... ≤4000 km3/Ma/km of trench during the last half million years in the region where the Cocos Ridge is currently subducting. The removed portion of the forearc is (to the best of our knowledge) formed by an accretionary complex of Galapagos-produced seamounts that entered the subduction zone from the ...
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... ing results from the fields of seismics, seismology, gravity, pe‐ trology, geochemistry, petrophysics, and geothermics. It ex‐ amines a unique set of samples from the uppermost crust down to the lithospheric mantle, providing a full coverage of composi‐ tional, density, thermal co ...
... ing results from the fields of seismics, seismology, gravity, pe‐ trology, geochemistry, petrophysics, and geothermics. It ex‐ amines a unique set of samples from the uppermost crust down to the lithospheric mantle, providing a full coverage of composi‐ tional, density, thermal co ...
Mantle plume
A mantle plume is a mechanism proposed in 1971 to explain volcanic regions of the earth that were not thought to be explicable by the then-new theory of plate tectonics. Some such volcanic regions lie far from tectonic plate boundaries, for example, Hawaii. Others represent unusually large-volume volcanism, whether on plate boundaries, e.g. Iceland, or basalt floods such as the Deccan or Siberian traps.A mantle plume is posited to exist where hot rock nucleates at the core-mantle boundary and rises through the Earth's mantle becoming a diapir in the Earth's crust. The currently active volcanic centers are known as ""hot spots"". In particular, the concept that mantle plumes are fixed relative to one another, and anchored at the core-mantle boundary, was thought to provide a natural explanation for the time-progressive chains of older volcanoes seen extending out from some such hot spots, such as the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain.The hypothesis of mantle plumes from depth is not universally accepted as explaining all such volcanism. It has required progressive hypothesis-elaboration leading to variant propositions such as mini-plumes and pulsing plumes. Another hypothesis for unusual volcanic regions is the ""Plate model"". This proposes shallower, passive leakage of magma from the mantle onto the Earth's surface where extension of the lithosphere permits it, attributing most volcanism to plate tectonic processes, with volcanoes far from plate boundaries resulting from intraplate extension.