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Mass heterogeneities and convection in the earth's mantle inferred from gravity and core-mantle boundary irregularities 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Mass heterogeneities in the earth's mantle are retrieved from the gravity data and the topography of the core-mantle boundary as well as the topography of the earth's surface. A mantle circulation induced by the heterogeneities is modelled by solving the Stokes problem for incompressible Newtonian fluid. The derived models of mantle motions correlate well with the plate tectonics and point at a close relation between the surface tectonic activity and the processes in the vicinity of the core-mantle boundary. 相似文献
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We study the importance of the zones of weakness and the pattern of downgoing flow in steady-state models of subducting lithosphere, which interacts mechanically and thermally with the ambient mantle. The non-linear system of governing equations consists of (i) the momentum equation in stream function formulation and (ii) the steady-state heat transfer equation including conduction and advection of heat and dissipation. A finite element method has been applied to this system. We consider the viscosity to be a non-linear function of both the temperature and the stream function. In steady-state two-dimensional (2D) flow, the stream function isolines follow material trajectories. They are used to follow the top of the subducting slab, which because of its possible increase in water content, is assumed to have a lower viscosity. The zone of weakness has been thus obtained in the self-consistent fashion since the stream function as well as the temperature are the output from our modeling and no a priori assumptions about the shape of the bending lithosphere are taken into account. It was shown that several orders decrease of viscosity in the zone of weakness is required to obtain the dip angle of about 45°. If the decrease of viscosity is not sufficient enough, the subducted slab either sinks almost vertically or does not exhibit a plate-like behavior. We have also demonstrated that shear heating can unrealistically increase at the zone of weakness for fast subductions if decrease of viscosity is underestimated. 相似文献
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Ctirad Matyska Reviewers O. Man Reviewers M. Burda 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》1987,31(3):252-257
Summary The paper is concerned with the mathematical properties of the density distribution within the Earth obtained by inverting of the external gravity field, provided an Earth's reference density model, used as the initial guess, is available. The method of regularization, which proves the existence, the uniqueness and the stability of the solution, which is nearest the initial guess in the L
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Summary The paper deals with some problems connected with the evaluation of the temperature gradient topocorrections for the purposes of the Earth's heat flow measurements. Some errors, occurring in the routine use of the method, suggested by Jeffreys and Bullard (JB method), are discussed. An example of simple topographic features is used to compare this method with the results obtained by a numerical solution of the heat conduction equation (NS method) by means of the finite difference method. The calculations have shown that the NS method is more precise, but its results are very sensitive to the approximation of the surface used. A stepwise approximation of the surface used in a 3-D model of a real mountainous region causes artificial oscillations of the surface values of the topocorrections, and the accuracy of the obtained results is comparable with that of the JB method. Thus, we are faced with the problem of a more appropriate approximation of the relief without the mentioned negative consequences to the superficial values of the topocorrections.
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Two large cold masses in the deep mantle have been delineated by using long-wavelength seismic tomographic models in conjunction with mineralogical experimental data at high pressure. These cold anomalies are found under the western Pacific and the Americas with temperatures more than 1000 degrees below the ambient mantle temperature. These strong cold anomalies existing in the lower mantle today would suggest that there might have existed not too long ago a substantial temperature jump across a thermal boundary layer between the upper and lower mantle. Numerical simulations in an axisymmetric spherical-shell model incorporating the two major phase transitions have shown that very large pools of cold material with temperatures of around 1500 K can be flushed down to the core–mantle boundary during this tumultuous gravitational instability. A correlation is found between the current locations of these very cold masses and regions of past subduction since the Cretaceous. Correlation analysis shows that the slab mass-flux into the lower mantle does not behave in a steady-state fashion. These findings may support the idea of a strong gravitational instability with origins in the transition zone, as suggested by numerical models of mantle convection. 相似文献
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Summary An analogy of the Hellinger-Reissner functional for the Stokes problem is constructed and the way of determining its minimum by means of spherical harmonic vectors and tensors is described. The variational method is applied to a Newtonian mantle in which the body forces were estimated on the basis of global inversion of gravitational and topographic data. The method is then generalized to the case of a realistic rheology (power-law creep), and prospects of the generalised method are briefly discussed. 相似文献
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