Sentences with phrase «mantle cool»

The researchers were the first to discover that the Pacific Plate is formed by a combination of mechanisms: The plate thickens as the rocks of the mantle cool, the chemical makeup of the rocks that form the plate changes with depth, and the mechanical behavior of the rocks change with depth and their proximity to where the plate is being formed at the mid-ocean ridge.

Another possible scenario is that small - scale convection is taking place within the channel as chunks of mantle cool and sink.

In contrast, the analysis supported the hypothesis of mantle heating during the age of Pangea, and mantle cooling after the breakup of the supercontinent.

Taras Gerya at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich reviewed studies that modelled Earth's early formation and found that the process changed as the mantle cooled.

On the hot young Earth, the outer layer was too weak and soft for plate tectonics to operate until the upper mantle cooled enough to allow sections of crust to slip under each other, or subduct, at collision zones some 3.2 to 2.5 billion years ago.

Only when the mantle cooled further did that modern - style subduction start, about 750 million years ago.

It is believed that these were formed as Mercury's core and mantle cooled and contracted after the crust had solidified.

The temperatures recorded in the rocks show that the lower crust and uppermost mantle cooled and solidified almost instantly, Dygert said — like a «hot frying pan being plopped in a sink of water» — while the deeper mantle cooled more gradually.

In the long - term, sea level is mainly controlled by the thermal evolution of the mantle and by the movement of the continents, and for sea level to remain constant there must be a balance between mantle cooling and continental growth.

Not exact matches

The region is located right above the boundary between the hot liquid outer core and the stiffer, cooler mantle.

High points on the ridges tend to be associated with higher mantle temperatures, while low points are associated with a cooler mantle.

Back then the Earth's lithosphere was already thick and cool, but the mantle was still very hot, providing enough energy to significantly weaken the lithosphere above the plumes.

The fact that they appear to be five times wider in the lower mantle suggests that they also differ chemically from the surrounding cooler rock.

Jagoutz says the results suggest that sometime between 3 billion years ago and today, as the Earth's interior cooled, the mantle switched from a one - layer convection system, in which slabs flowed freely from upper to lower layers of the mantle, to a two - layer configuration, where slabs had a harder time penetrating through to the lower mantle.

The image outlines areas with a temperature at 300 degrees Celsius cooler than the surrounding mantle, with different colors representing different depths.

Since about 2.5 billion years ago, the mantle has been cooling — a phenomenon that doesn't influence the climate on the surface of the Earth and has nothing to do with the issue of short - term human - made climate change.

Above the 670, the mantle churned slowly like a very shallow pot of boiling water, delivering heat and rock at mid-ocean ridges to make new crust and cool the interior and accepting cold sinking slabs of old plate at deep - sea trenches.

Magma from the mantle forms oceanic crust when it rises from the mantle to the surface at spreading centers and cools into the rock that forms the very bottom of the seafloor.

The finding that splitting up Pangea cooled the mantle is important because it gives a more nuanced view of the mantle temperature that influences tectonics on Earth, Van Avendonk said.

«Breakup of supercontinent Pangea cooled mantle and thinned crust.»

Since cooler mantle temperatures generally produce less magma, it's a trend that's making modern day ocean crust thinner.

But to do this accurately the scientists had to know how Earth's mantle would respond to an ice burden, and that depended on whether it was hot and fluid or cool and viscous.

The deep mantle - derived buoyancy, together with plate cooling at the surface, creates negative buoyancy that together explain the observations along the East Pacific Rise and surrounding Pacific subduction zones.

It also was thought that planets were able to self - regulate their internal temperature via mantle convection — the underground shifting of rocks caused by internal heating and cooling.

They found in its first 400 million years, Earth's mantle was too hot and runny to push around plates, and that in about 5 billion years, the planet will cool to the point that plate tectonics will cease, according to a study published in the newest issue of the journal Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.

These magma layers probably lasted no more than 100 million years, but they strongly affected the rate at which our planet cooled, as well as how various elements were distributed within Earth's crust and the underlying layer known as the mantle, the researchers say.

Crustal material is much cooler than mantle material, and therefore denser.

According to Konhauser, this «nickel famine» coincided with the cooling of the earth's mantle, which curtailed volcanic eruptions of nickel - rich lava.

In the mantle - plume theory, Anderson explains, the heat that is transferred upward via jets is balanced by the slower downward motion of cooled, broad, uniform chunks of mantle.

Geoscientists have thought the zones are partially molten, yet the pockets are puzzling because many are observed in cooler regions of the deep mantle.

When material in the planet's crust cools, it sinks, displacing material deeper in the mantle and forcing it upward.

This cooling and plate tectonics drives mantle convection, the cooling of the core, and Earth's magnetic field.

Because the edge of the North American continent is colder than a plate near an active margin, Levin suspects this edge is cooling the mantle — the layer just below the crust that extends toward the earth's core.

The Moon, thought to have been created by the collision of a Mars - sized body with the Earth, began as a molten or partially molten body that separated as it cooled into a crust, mantle and core.

By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences have found that water probably penetrates deep into the crust and upper mantle at mid-ocean spreading zones, the places where new crust is made.

Since samples from the core - mantle boundary should have indistinguishable cooling rates, MG pallasites could not have cooled at this location.»

In the Sheeted Sill hypothesis, circulating seawater cools many small magma deposits at different depths in the lower crust, which would simultaneously cool the upper mantle.

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Temperature tends to respond so that, depending on optical properties, LW emission will tend to reduce the vertical differential heating by cooling warmer parts more than cooler parts (for the surface and atmosphere); also (not significant within the atmosphere and ocean in general, but significant at the interface betwen the surface and the air, and also significant (in part due to the small heat fluxes involved, viscosity in the crust and somewhat in the mantle (where there are thick boundary layers with superadiabatic lapse rates) and thermal conductivity of the core) in parts of the Earth's interior) temperature changes will cause conduction / diffusion of heat that partly balances the differential heating.

No one denies that radioactive decay happens in the mantle and the core cools.

The widely accepted mantle plume conjecture has been justified by experiments and calculations that violate the laws of thermodynamics for an isolated cooling planet.

The rate of cooling of the core and mantle is thousands of times less than the energy coming in.

Thus heat from the Sun «creeps» up the temperature gradient in the atmosphere, and then further up the steeper temperature gradient in the outer crust, and even further through the mantle until, whether you choose to believe it or not, it actually supports the core temperature, preventing the core from cooling off, even on planets like Uranus where no energy is created in the core.

When the earth cools, the mantle must contract (2nd law), but the molten mantle, retaining internal heat, does not.

The deep mantle - derived buoyancy, together with plate cooling at the surface, creates negative buoyancy that together explain the observations along the East Pacific Rise and surrounding Pacific subduction zones.

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