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Mantle convection is the very slow creep of Earth's solid silicate mantle as convection currents carry heat from the interior to the planet's surface. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Mantle convection causes tectonic plates to move around the Earth's surface.
Mantle convection describes the movement of the mantle as it transfers heat from the white-hot core to the brittle lithosphere. The mantle is heated from below, cooled from above, and its overall temperature decreases over long periods of time.
Mantle convection: Thermal convection in the terrestrial planetary mantles, the rocky layer be-tween crust and core, in which hot material rises, cold material sinks and the induced flow governs plate tectonic and volcanic activity, as well as chemical segregation and cooling of the entire planet.
Mantle convection refers to the process through which excess heat is extracted from the Earth's interior by establishing ascending hot and descending cold currents in the mantle, influencing the patterns of convection and chemical mixing in the Earth's interior.
Mantle convection is a fundamental driver of tectonic plate movements. It shapes the Earth’s surface features and plays a crucial role in geological processes such as the formation of mountains and the opening of ocean basins.
Mantle convection is the central theory for how the Earth works, i.e., what drives geological motions as well as the cooling history and chemical evolution of the planet.
Mantle convection governs the geological activity and the thermal and chemical evolution of terrestrial planets and understanding the physical processes of convection helps us reconstruct histories of planets over billions of years after their formation.
Mantle convection is the process by which the excess heat in the Earth's deep interior is transferred to its surface through the fluid-like motions of the rocks in the mantle.
Role of plate tectonics in the topology of basal mantle structures. Three-dimensional thermochemical mantle convection models in spherical geometry on the Yin-Yang grid 17,18 were conducted with ...
Explore the fundamentals of mantle convection, the movement within Earth’s mantle essential for plate tectonics, volcanism, and geological change. Mantle convection is the slow, churning motion of Earth’s mantle, which is a layer of solid rock between Earth’s crust and its core.