Earth interior model
Simplified model of the Earth’s interior and its global dynamics featuring a solid inner and a fluid outer core, a viscous partially molten but not fluid mantle, and characteristic surface topography.
Simplified model of the Earth’s interior and its global dynamics featuring a solid inner and a fluid outer core, a viscous partially molten but not fluid mantle, and characteristic surface topography.
Comparison of suggested mantle convection in the Earth (mobile-lid mode) and Venus (inefficient short slab mode).
Opening of the North East Atlantic Ocean and dynamic support from the Iceland mantle plume.
Temporal evolution of subduction initiation in a global, 3-D spherical numerical experiment showing the cold plates and hot mantle plumes.
Illustration of the Earth with parts of its mantle extracted showing plate creation, cooling, and destruction.
Temporal evolution of a global, fully spherical, 3D model of whole-mantle convection.
Temporal evolution of a global, fully spherical, 3D model of whole-mantle convection.
Illustrative vertical cross-section showing the oceanic plate as part of whole-mantle convection.
A schematic highlighting Ocean-plate tectonics: ocean-plate formation, cooling and destruction as part of the planet's global mantle convection.