Published May 1987
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Secular cooling of Earth as a source of intraplate stress
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Description
The once popular idea that changes in planetary volume play an important role in terrestrial orogeny and tectonics was generally discarded with the acceptance of plate tectonics. It is nonetheless likely that the Earth has been steadily cooling over the past 3-4 billion years, and the global contraction that accompanied such cooling would have led to a secular decrease in the radius of curvature of the plates. The implications of this global cooling and contraction are explored here for the intraplate stress field and the evolution of continental plates
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Reports of planetary geology and geophysics program, 1986
- Journal Page Range
- p. 3.
- Report number
- N--87-23341
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19029978
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTRACTION; COOLING; EARTH PLANET; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; THEORETICAL DATA
- Descriptors DEC
- DATA; INFORMATION; NUMERICAL DATA; PLANETS