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- W1966171059 abstract "By treating the lithosphere as a diffusive boundary layer to mantle convection, the convective speed or mantle creep rate, ϵ̇, can be related to the mantle-derived heat flux, Q̇. If cell size is independent of Q̇2 then ϵ̇ ∝ Q̇. (If cell size varies with Q̇, then a different power law prevails, but the essential conclusions are unaffected.) Then the factthat for constant thermodynamic efficiency of mantle convection, the mechanical power dissipation is proportionalto Q̇, gives convective stress σ ∝ Q̇−1, i.e. the stress increases as the convection slows. This means an increasing viscosityor stiffness of the mantle which can be identified with a cooling rate in terms of a temperature-dependent creep law. If we suppose that the mantle was at or close to its melting point within 1 or 2 × 108 years of accretionof the Earth, the whole scale of cooling is fixed. The present rate of cooling is estimated to be about 4.6 × 10−8 deg y−1 for the average mantle temperature, assumed to be 2500 K, but this very slow cooling rate represents a loss ofresidual mantle heat of 7 × 1012 W, about 30% of the total mantle-derived heat flux. This conclusion requires theEarth to be deficient in radioactive heat, relative to carbonaceous chondrites. A consideration of mantle outgassing and atmospheric argon leads to the conclusion that the deficiency is due to depletion of potassium, and that the K/U ratio of the mantle is only about 2500, much less than either the crustal or carbonaceous chondritic values. Thetotal terrestrial potassium is estimated to be about 6 × 1020 kg. Acceptance of the cooling of the Earth removes the necessity for potassium in the core." @default.
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- W1966171059 title "The cooling Earth: A reappraisal" @default.
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