The gabbro-eclogite phase transition and the elevation of mountain belts on Venus

Details The gabbro-eclogite phase transition and the elevation of mountain belts on Venus The gabbro-eclogite phase transition and the elevation of mountain belts on Venus

Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9815025n&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. E8, p. 15,025-15,031.

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Eclogite, Gabbro, Garnets, Mountains, Phase Transformations, Venus Surface, Phase Diagrams, Planetary Crusts, Planetary Mantles, Thermodynamic Equilibrium

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The hypothesis is explored that the crust-mantle boundary of Venus is not in phase equilibrium but rather is rate-limited by the temperature-dependent volume diffusion of the slowest ionic species. The 1D thermal evolution problem is solved assuming that the mountains formed by uniform horizontal shortening of the crust and the lithospheric mantle at a constant rate. The time-dependent density structure and surface elevation are calculated by assuming a temperature-dependent reaction rate and local Airy isostatic compensation. For a horizontal strain rate of 10 exp -15/s or greater, the temperature increase at the base of the crust during mountain formation is modest to negligible, the deepening lower crust is metastable, and the surface elevation increases as the crust thickens. For strain rates less than 10 exp -16/s, crustal temperature increases with time because of internal heat production and the lower crust is more readily transformed to the dense eclogite assemblage. For such models, a maximum elevation is reached during crustal shortening.

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