The Earth is cooling down by convecting its heat from the interior to the surface, where it can be dissipated into space. Ambient mantle that rises to deliver its heat melts before it reaches the surface, and the basaltic magma forms new crust along oceanic ridges ([Ahern and Turcotte, 1979][1]; [
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