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Thermal Model of Changes in the Thickness of the Continental Lithosphere over Time

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The results of numerical modeling for the increase and decrease in the thickness of a highly viscous continental lithosphere under whole-mantle convection on a time interval of 3.5 Ga were considered. It was found that the initial period of lithosphere growth took about 1.1 Ga, followed by a period of its slow thinning because of gradual heating of the mantle by several hundred degrees from the thermal insulation effect of the lithosphere.

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  1. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 123810, Russia

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  2. Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 113556, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.P. Trubitsyn, V.P. Trubitsyn, 2018, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2018, Vol. 481, No. 6.

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Trubitsyn, A.P., Trubitsyn, V.P. Thermal Model of Changes in the Thickness of the Continental Lithosphere over Time. Dokl. Earth Sc. 481, 1104–1107 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X18080330

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