Open AccessBasalts as temperature probes of Earth's mantle
Author(s) -
Claude Herzberg
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609
H-Index - 215
eISSN - 1943-2682
pISSN - 0091-7613
DOI - 10.1130/focus122011.1
Subject(s) - geology , basalt , mantle (geology) , earth (classical element) , geophysics , earth science , geochemistry , astrobiology , physics , mathematical physics
The Earth is cooling down by convecting its heat from the interior to the surface, where it can be dissipated into space. Ambient mantle that rises to deliver its heat melts before it reaches the surface, and the basaltic magma forms new crust along oceanic ridges ([Ahern and Turcotte, 1979][1]; [
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