Three-dimensional convection under drifting plates

Details Three-dimensional convection under drifting plates Three-dimensional convection under drifting plates

Sep 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17.1497c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, Sept. 1990, p. 1497-1500.

Physics

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Earth Mantle, Free Convection, Plates (Tectonics), Rectangular Planforms, Three Dimensional Models, Boundary Layers, Plumes, Rayleigh Number, Seismic Waves

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Three-dimensional numerical models are used to study the planform of thermal convection in rectangular boxes, imposing uniform velocity at the surface. This problem is relevant to the structure of mantle convection under moving tectonic plates. Different planforms can be obtained depending on the Rayleigh number, viscosity structure and length of the plate. If there is a thin low viscosity layer in the uppermost part of the model, the solution consists of narrow ascending plumes below the divergent edge of neighboring plates as well as descending sheets below lines of plate convergence. If the experimental box is long, well developed drifting columnar blobs arise from the unstable lower boundary layer, giving the solution an oscillatory character.

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