Cooling of the earth, Urey ratios, and the problem of potassium in the core

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Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.1655b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 15, p. 1655-1658.

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Chemical Composition, Earth Core, Earth Mantle, Geotemperature, Heat Flux, Cooling, Geochemistry, Mathematical Models, Potassium

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The compatibility of mantle Urey ratios U(m) calculated from thermal evolution models with those calculated from geochemical models is considered. The initial heat generation rate in the mantle used for the thermal evolution models was derived from two geochemical models of the present-day primitive mantle with concentrations of U of 20 ppb (2.7 times chondritic) and 26 ppb (3.5 times chondritic), respectively. The depletion of the mantle through continental crust production was allowed for; the effect of including the continental crust on U(m) is a reduction of its value by about 0.1. To balance the observed average value of the surface heat flow q(s), it was assumed that the core may contain K up to cosmochemically constrained quantities. For 26 ppb U in the present primitive mantle no core heat sources are required. The core heat flow is between 25 and 33 percent of q(s).

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