Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1974
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974e%26psl..21..190r&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 21, Issue 2, p. 190-193.
Physics
Scientific paper
In the present note a boundary-layer model of thermal convection throughout the mantle is outlined. It is shown that recent criticisms of mantle-wide convection by A.E. Ringwood do not apply to this model. The phase transitions discussed by Ringwood are consistent with the model, and in fact provide an additional driving force for the convective motion. It is further noted that the model offers explanations of the core-mantle coupling hypothesized by R. Hide from consideration of correlations between the earth's magnetic and gravity fields, and of the appearance in several parts of the world of pairs of trenches separated by distances of the order of 2000 km.
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