三维磁条需要在快速扩散的下海地中缓慢冷却
Sarah M Maher1, Jeffrey S Gee2, Michael J Cheadle3
1Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. s1maher@ucsd.edu.
Nature
|September 23, 2021
概括
地球的磁场记录了海洋地的冷却. 新发现显示冷却速度缓慢,在快速扩散的地中延伸8公里的热轴区域,挑战了以前的热水冷却模型.
科学领域:
- 地质学
- 海洋地质学
- 板块构造
背景情况:
- 地球的磁场印在冷却的海洋地上, 形成磁异常,
- 低地的极性边界作为同热体,对于理解地冷却和积累过程至关重要.
- 现有的地震,地质测速和热模拟研究提供了关于中海山脊附近热损失机制的相互矛盾观点.
研究的目的:
- 探讨岩强,迅速扩散的海洋地的热结构和冷却过程.
- 为了调和热量损失和融化运输机制的相互矛盾的解释.
- 改进海洋地积和磁性异常形成的模型.
主要方法:
- 在两个不同的区域使用近底磁化解决方案分析磁异常.
- 定向岩石样本的古磁分析以确定极性成分和冷却速度.
- 集成磁性数据与现有的地震和热建模约束.
主要成果:
- 在堤-加布罗过渡附近的地温度在100万年内保持在500°C左右.
- 在堤-盖布罗过渡200米以内确定了水平下极限,距离轴线外延伸7-8公里.
- 在三个极度间隔中发现了缓慢冷却的直接证据,证实了大约8公里偏离轴的广热轴区域.
结论:
- 快速扩散的地的磁性结构表明缓慢的冷却和宽的热轴区域,与山脊轴附近的快速热水冷却不一致.
- 这些发现表明,热量在迅速扩散的海洋环境下层的较大区域中会逐渐消失.
- 这项研究完善了我们对活跃海洋扩散中心的融化运输,结晶和地积过程的理解.
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