Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1976
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976jgr....81.5267m&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 81, Oct. 10, 1976, p. 5267-5280.
Physics
Geophysics
19
Convective Flow, Earth Gravitation, Earth Mantle, Free Atmosphere, Gravity Anomalies, Pacific Ocean, Data Correlation, Geophysics, Gravitational Fields, Imaging Techniques, Photomaps, Synoptic Measurement, Variance (Statistics)
Scientific paper
The two-scale model of mantle convection developed by Richter and Parsons (1975) predicts that if the depth of the convective layer is about 600 km, then for a plate moving at 10 cm/yr, longitudinal convective rolls will be produced in about 50 million years, and the strike of these rolls indicates the direction of motion of the plate relative to the upper mantle. The paper tests these predictions by examining a new global free air gravity model complete to the 30th degree and order. The free air gravity map developed shows a series of linear positive and negative anomalies (with transverse wavelengths of about 2000 km) spanning the Pacific Ocean, crossing the Pacific rise and striking parallel to the Hawaiian seamounts. It is suggested that the pattern of these anomalies may indicate the presence of longitudinal convective rolls beneath the Pacific plates, a result which tends to support the predictions of Richter and Parsons.
Marsh Bruce D.
Marsh James G.
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