Earth Tides, Global Heat Flow, and Tectonics
- 29 May 1970
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 168 (3935), 1084-1087
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.168.3935.1084
Abstract
The power of a heat engine ignited by tidal energy can account for geologically reasonable rates of average magma production and sea floor spreading. These rates control similarity of heat flux over continents and oceans because of an inverse relationship between respective depth intervals for mass transfer and consequent distributions of radiogenic heat production.Keywords
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