Evidence for Whole Mantle Convection Driving Cordilleran Tectonics

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 4239-4248 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Spencer ◽  
J. B. Murphy ◽  
C. W. Hoiland ◽  
S. T. Johnston ◽  
R. N. Mitchell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mantle Convection ◽  
Cordilleran Tectonics

PLANETARY SELF-ORGANIZATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-282
Author(s):  
OLEG IVANOV
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical System ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Mantle Convection ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Rotation Speed ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Kinematic Parameters ◽  
The Earth ◽  
New Type

The general characteristics of planetary systems are described. Well-known heat sources of evolution are considered. A new type of heat source, variations of kinematic parameters in a dynamical system, is proposed. The inconsistency of the perovskite-post-perovskite heat model is proved. Calculations of inertia moments relative to the D boundary on the Earth are given. The 9 times difference allows us to claim that the sliding of the upper layers at the Earth's rotation speed variations emit heat by viscous friction.This heat is the basis of mantle convection and lithospheric plate tectonics.

EVIDENCE FOR SUBDUCTION ALONG THE LEECH RIVER FAULT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CORDILLERAN TECTONICS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Seyler ◽  
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James Kirkpatrick ◽  
Alexis Licht ◽  
Dana Šilerová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cordilleran Tectonics

DETRITAL ZIRCON STRATIGRAPHY OF PERMIAN TO MIOCENE STRATA FROM DILLON AREA, SW MONTANA, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL CORDILLERAN TECTONICS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris M. Baird ◽  
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Megan A. Mueller ◽  
Megan A. Mueller ◽  
Derek Pierce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Cordilleran Tectonics

Ups and Downs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Livermore
Keyword(s):  
Mantle Convection ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Inner Core ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Great Depth ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S

Despite the dumbing-down of education in recent years, it would be unusual to find a ten-year-old who could not name the major continents on a map of the world. Yet how many adults have the faintest idea of the structures that exist within the Earth? Understandably, knowledge is limited by the fact that the Earth’s interior is less accessible than the surface of Pluto, mapped in 2016 by the NASA New Horizons spacecraft. Indeed, Pluto, 7.5 billion kilometres from Earth, was discovered six years earlier than the similar-sized inner core of our planet. Fortunately, modern seismic techniques enable us to image the mantle right down to the core, while laboratory experiments simulating the pressures and temperatures at great depth, combined with computer modelling of mantle convection, help identify its mineral and chemical composition. The results are providing the most rapid advances in our understanding of how this planet works since the great revolution of the 1960s.

scholarly journals Feedbacks between a non-Newtonian upper mantle, mantle viscosity structure and mantle dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 224 (2) ◽  
pp. 961-972
Author(s):  
A G Semple ◽  
A Lenardic
Keyword(s):  
Upper Mantle ◽  
Lower Mantle ◽  
Mantle Convection ◽  
Mantle Flow ◽  
Mantle Dynamics ◽  
Plate Motions ◽  
Low Viscosity ◽  
Mantle Viscosity ◽  
Flow Feature ◽  
Mantle Rheology

SUMMARY Previous studies have shown that a low viscosity upper mantle can impact the wavelength of mantle flow and the balance of plate driving to resisting forces. Those studies assumed that mantle viscosity is independent of mantle flow. We explore the potential that mantle flow is not only influenced by viscosity but can also feedback and alter mantle viscosity structure owing to a non-Newtonian upper-mantle rheology. Our results indicate that the average viscosity of the upper mantle, and viscosity variations within it, are affected by the depth to which a non-Newtonian rheology holds. Changes in the wavelength of mantle flow, that occur when upper-mantle viscosity drops below a critical value, alter flow velocities which, in turn, alter mantle viscosity. Those changes also affect flow profiles in the mantle and the degree to which mantle flow drives the motion of a plate analogue above it. Enhanced upper-mantle flow, due to an increasing degree of non-Newtonian behaviour, decreases the ratio of upper- to lower-mantle viscosity. Whole layer mantle convection is maintained but upper- and lower-mantle flow take on different dynamic forms: fast and concentrated upper-mantle flow; slow and diffuse lower-mantle flow. Collectively, mantle viscosity, mantle flow wavelengths, upper- to lower-mantle velocities and the degree to which the mantle can drive plate motions become connected to one another through coupled feedback loops. Under this view of mantle dynamics, depth-variable mantle viscosity is an emergent flow feature that both affects and is affected by the configuration of mantle and plate flow.

Small-scale mantle convection system and stress field under the Pacific plate

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han-Shou Liu ◽  
Edward S. Chang ◽  
George H. Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Stress Field ◽  
Mantle Convection ◽  
Pacific Plate ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Pacific
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