Secular cooling of Earth as a source of intraplate stress

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May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept..455s&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 455-457 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Geophysics

Contraction, Earth Surface, Plates (Tectonics), Stress Analysis, Continental Drift, Convective Heat Transfer, Cooling, Stress Distribution

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The once popular idea that changes in planetary volume play an important role in terrestrial orogeny and tectonics was generally discarded with the acceptance of plate tectonics. It is nonetheless likely that the Earth has been steadily cooling over the past 3-4 billion years, and the global contraction that accompanied such cooling would have led to a secular decrease in the radius of curvature of the plates. The implications of this global cooling and contraction are explored here for the intraplate stress field and the evolution of continental plates.

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