
Heat Transport and Energetics of the Earth and Rocky Planets
Description
Key Features
- Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the thermal evolution of large planetary bodies, including contributed chapters from leading experts
- Includes relevant observations of Earth and large-scale heat transfer, a critical review of existing paradigms of the current thermal state of the Earth, and a discussion of heat flow on the other rocky planets
- Covers macroscopic phenomena as they pertain to deciphering the thermal structure of planetary bodies
Readership
Researchers and graduate students in geophysics, geology, geochemistry, seismology, and planetary science
Table of Contents
1. Observational Constraints on Heat Transport inside Earth
2. Models for Conductive (Diffusive) Cooling on Planetary Scales
3. Heat Transport Processes on Planetary Scales
4. Physical Constraints on the Initial Conditions and Early Evolution of the Solar System
5. Final-stage, Large-scale Gravitational Processes affecting Planetary Heat Transfer
6. Thermal models of the Continental Lithosphere
7. Thermal models of the Oceanic lithosphere
8. Thermal Structure of the Lower Mantle and Core
9. Thermo-chemical Evolution of the Earth
10. Thermal History of the Terrestrial
11. Chondrules
12. Conclusions and Future Work
Product details
- No. of pages: 366
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: November 22, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128189443
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128184301
About the Author
Anne Hofmeister
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