Animation showing the temporal evolution of a global, fully spherical, 3D model of whole-mantle convection with hot temperature isosurface (red), indicating mantle plumes, and stiff viscosity isosurfaces (grey), indicating subduction zones of heavy tectonic surface plates.
- Creator: Fabio Crameri
- This version: 07.08.2021
- License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri from Crameri and Tackley (2016) is available via the open-access s-ink.org repository.
- Related reference: Crameri, F., and P. J. Tackley (2016), Subduction initiation from a stagnant lid and global overturn: new insights from numerical models with a free surface, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 3(1), 1–19, doi:10.1186/s40645-016-0103-8
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