Cómo los supercontinentes y superocéanos afectan la rugosidad del fondo marino.

Joanne M Whittaker1, R Dietmar Müller, Walter R Roest

  • 1Earthbyte Group, School of Geosciences, Building F09, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. jw@getech.com

Nature
|December 19, 2008
PubMed
Resumen

La rugosidad del fondo marino tiene un impacto significativo en la circulación de calor del océano. El análisis global revela que las anomalías de rugosidad residual no se deben únicamente a las tasas de propagación, lo que sugiere que las diferencias de surgimiento del manto influyen en la acreción de la corteza oceánica.

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