Oceanic lithosphere
Low heat flow from young oceanic lithosphere at the Middle America Trench off Mexico
... the oceanic lithosphere entering the Middle America Trench at the latitude of our survey is aged around 10 ...age lithosphere. The mean ob- served value for this age lithosphere is 80–90 mW/m ...
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The hydrothermal power of oceanic lithosphere
... the oceanic lithosphere have been de- veloped that include constraints on the properties of the man- tle and crust from mineral physics experiments (Hasterok, 2010; Grose and Afonso, ...the ...
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Constraining fault friction in oceanic lithosphere using the dip angles of newly-formed faults at outer rises
... the oceanic lithosphere using earthquake focal mechanisms from subduction zone outer ...the oceanic lithosphere have a low coefficient of friction, due to either low-friction clay minerals ...
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A reassessment of outer-rise seismicity and its implications for the mechanics of oceanic lithosphere
... (v) Dynamic topography of the incoming oceanic plate. These parameters, influencing both the bending moment and in- plane stress, all result in changes to the depth of the transition from normal-faulting to ...
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Tippers at island geomagnetic observatories constrain electrical conductivity of oceanic lithosphere and upper mantle
... the oceanic lithosphere and upper mantle from available single-site geomagnetic obser- vatory data that otherwise cannot be used for induc- tion ...the oceanic lithosphere and upper mantle in ...
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Diamond formation by carbon saturation in C–O–H fluids during cold subduction of oceanic lithosphere
... 364 5.1 Diamond nucleation and crystallization in C-O-H fluids DISCUSSION 365 366 The LCU diamonds display most of the typical features of metamorphic microdiamonds in 367 UHPM terranes [r] ...
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Ionian Abyssal Plain: a window into the Tethys oceanic lithosphere
... Fig. 1). The location of the line was chosen to cover the area of the IAP that is neither affected by the emplacement of vol- canic structures (Medina seamounts in the south) nor by the advancing thick accretionary ...
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Global distribution of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: a new look
... The plate model proposed by McKenzie (1967) is known to provide a better fit to heat flow data from ocean crust with ages greater than 100 Ma. Nevertheless, it also overestimates heat flow for ocean crust with ages less ...
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Computational Approaches to Localized Deformation Within the Lithosphere and for Crust Mantle Interactions
... of oceanic lithosphere is one possi- ble driving force responsible for brittle ridge segmentation among many others ...of oceanic lithosphere should exceed its ...
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Evidence for multiphase folding of the central Indian Ocean lithosphere
... the lithosphere, generally coincided with the phases of folding, but there are examples of folding of the oceanic lithosphere without associated reverse ...
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Tagging modality in Oceanic languages of Melanesia
... In our MelaTAMP research project, we carry out a comparative, corpus-based study on tense, aspect, and modality (TAM) categories in seven Oceanic languages: Daakaka, Dalkalaen, Daakie, Mavea, Nafsan, Saliba-Logea, ...
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An intercomparison of global oceanic precipitation climatologies
... sensors, the positioning of rain features in the two data sets agrees very well; however, the intensity of features differs on account of the different algorithms employed. The global mean oceanic precipitation in ...
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Understanding Lithosphere and Mantle Dynamics with Numerical Models Constrained by Observations
... Although a number of studies have tracked the topography in subduction zone models (e.g., Zhong and Gurnis, 1994; Billen and Gurnis, 2001; Kaus et al., 2008; Gerya and Meilick, 2011), predicting reliable topographic ...
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Oceanic distribution and behavior of green sturgeon
... A petition to list the green sturgeon as threatened or endangered under the U.S. En- dangered Species Act was filed in 2001 (EPIC et al. 2001). This petition led to a status review that documented some critical gaps in ...
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Vortex formation by unstable oceanic jets
... - The modal analysis of nonlinear simulations reveals that vortex detachment is correlated with the growth of long waves, while meander stabilization occurs when only the fundamental wav[r] ...
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The Barotropic Instability of the Oceanic Jet Currents
... processes is the problem of the stability of the system of two opposed jet currents in the rotating layer of shallow water and its solution based on the experimental research of jet currents with horizontal rate shift in ...
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Reciprocate: Learning [in] Islandic-Oceanic Style
... The form of learning that i hope for, which constitutes learning in islandic-Oceanic style, is where everyone in the encounter are learners and the encounter is exchanging and mutual. It is not required to be ...
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A Grammar of Mavea: an oceanic language of Vanuatu
... SUB SUBJ SVC TR vI v2 VI VT literally locative noun non-applicable negation number nominalizer noun phase object trial/paucal plural possessive prepositional phrase preposition present p[r] ...
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On the acoustic model of lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling before earthquakes
... of lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling before earthquakes, it is assumed that atmospheric acoustic and acoustic-gravity waves are generated several days before earthquakes in earthquake preparation zones ...
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Superficial and Deep Structure of Central Asia as Example of Continental Lithosphere Heterogeneity
... solidity for the mantle depths. These data are established by splitting of seismic waves from remote earthquakes. Pn-wave velocities are mainly low in the east part of central Asia and higher in the west (Figure 9). The ...
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