Melting and mantle flow beneath a mid-ocean spreading center

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Jul 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992e%26psl.111..493c&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (ISSN 0012-821X), vol. 111, no. 2-4, July 1992, p. 493-516.

Physics

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Earth Mantle, Geophysical Fluids, Latent Heat, Melting, Mid-Ocean Ridges, Ocean Bottom, Earth Crust, Melting Points, Plates (Tectonics)

Scientific paper

The effects of a latent heat of melting and the advection of heat by the melt on the mantle temperature, melt production rate, and melt migration in the mantle beneath mid-ocean ridges are examined in numerical experiments in which the flow in the mantle is driven by the motion of the surface plates and by melting-induced variations in mantle density. Results demonstrate the relative effect of the various forces, fluxes, and parameters and their interactions on the mantle flow, melting, and melt migration.

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