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To determine the primary physical mechanisms driving mantle convection and evaluate the fluid dynamics of heat transfer with internal generation.

October 28, 1965Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Heat transfer and convection currents

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DTD. C. TozerNewcastle University

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Theoretical analysis reveals radiogenic heating drives unstable convection in Earth's outer mantle, suggesting a physical mechanism for narrow ocean ridges and orogenic belts.

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To determine the primary physical mechanisms driving mantle convection and evaluate the fluid dynamics of heat transfer with internal generation.
Conducted a semi-quantitative theoretical analysis of convection dynamics in a medium with internal heat generation.
Evaluated conventional marginal stability models in incompressible fluids against mantle heat transfer behavior.
Identified radiogenic heating combined with thermal conduction as the most probable driving force behind contemporary mantle convection.
Determined that marginal stability models in incompressible fluids oversimplify mantle dynamics, with realistic flow being unstable and confined to the outer mantle.
Showed that the unstable convection pattern provides a physical explanation for the narrow, linear geometry of ocean ridges and orogenic belts.

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D. C. Tozer (1965) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9e221ae056b05edee9830a https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1965.0038

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Theoretical analysis reveals radiogenic heating drives unstable convection in Earth's outer mantle, suggesting a physical mechanism for narrow ocean ridges and orogenic belts.

Heat transfer and convection currents

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Heat transfer and convection currents

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