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Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2001

Effects of Continents on Earth Cooling: Thermal Blanketing and Depletion in Radioactive Elements

Cécile Grigné
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Estimate of mantle heat flow under continental shields are very low, indicating a strong insulating effect of continents on mantle heat loss. This effect is investigated with a simple approach: continents are introduced in an Earth cooling model as perfect thermal insulators. Continental growth rate has then a strong influence on mantle cooling. Various continental growth models are tested and are used to compute the mantle depletion in radioactive elements as a function of continental crust extraction. Results show that the thermal blanketing effect of continents strongly affects mantle cooling, and that mantle depletion must be taken into account in order not to overestimate mantle heat loss. In order to obtain correct oceanic heat flow for present time, continental growth must begin at least 3 Gy ago and steady‐state for continental area must be reached for at least 1.5 Gy in our cooling model.
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hal-00583907 , version 1 (07-04-2011)

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Cécile Grigné, Stéphane Labrosse. Effects of Continents on Earth Cooling: Thermal Blanketing and Depletion in Radioactive Elements. Geophysical Research Letters, 2001, 28 (14), pp.2707-2710. ⟨hal-00583907⟩
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