Sentences with phrase «mantle flow patterns»
In the future, Conrad wants to use this new understanding of mantle flow patterns to predict changes in sea level over geologic time.
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«It was as if I was seeing the «ghosts» of ancient mantle flow patterns, recorded in the geologic record of plate motions!»
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«Recent geophysical studies have suggested that the pattern changes because the mantle rocks flow less easily at that depth,» Shim said.
Led by a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney's School of Geosciences, researchers used the Southern Hemisphere's most highly integrated supercomputer to reveal flow patterns deep in the Earth's mantle — just above the core — over the past 100 million years.
Previously, scientists proposed that changes in the circulation of molten material in Earth's mantle — the slow - flowing material that lies between our planet's core and its crust — pushed the terrain east of the Andes upward, thereby changing drainage patterns.