Thermal Model of Changes in the Thickness of the Continental Lithosphere over Time


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Abstract

The results of numerical modeling for the increase and decrease in the thickness of a highly viscous continental lithosphere under whole-mantle convection on a time interval of 3.5 Ga were considered. It was found that the initial period of lithosphere growth took about 1.1 Ga, followed by a period of its slow thinning because of gradual heating of the mantle by several hundred degrees from the thermal insulation effect of the lithosphere.

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A. P. Trubitsyn

Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth

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Email: atrub@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 123810

V. P. Trubitsyn

Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth; Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics

Email: atrub@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 123810; Moscow, 113556

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