Email this article Thermal Model of Changes in the Thickness of the Continental Lithosphere over Time
- Authors: Trubitsyn A.P.1, Trubitsyn V.P.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth
- Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics
- Issue: Vol 481, No 2 (2018)
- Pages: 1104-1107
- Section: Geophysics
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/1028-334X/article/view/193948
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X18080330
- ID: 193948
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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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