Email this article The model of whole mantle convection with formation of a long living reservoir feeding the mid-ocean ridge
- Authors: Evseev M.N.1, Trubitsyn V.P.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Physics of the Earth
- Institute of the Theory of Earthquake Prediction and Mathematical Geophysics
- Issue: Vol 476, No 1 (2017)
- Pages: 1062-1065
- Section: Geophysics
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/1028-334X/article/view/190841
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X17090197
- ID: 190841
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Abstract
This paper shows the results of numerical experiments that reproduce the main global structures in the mantle. In particular, it is shown how, under whole mantle convection, a subducting plate produces circulation currents feeding the mid-ocean ridge.
About the authors
M. N. Evseev
Institute of Physics of the Earth
Email: trub@ifz.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 123810
V. P. Trubitsyn
Institute of Physics of the Earth; Institute of the Theory of Earthquake Prediction and Mathematical Geophysics
Author for correspondence.
Email: trub@ifz.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 123810; Moscow, 113556
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