Mantle convection
Mantle convection is the very slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior to the planet's surface. The Earth's surface lithosphere rides atop the asthenosphere and the two form the components of the upper mantle. The lithosphere is divided into a number of tectonic plates that are continuously being created or consumed at plate boundaries. Accretion occurs as mantle is added to the growing edges of a plate, associated with seafloor spreading. This hot added material cools down by conduction and convection of heat. At the consumption edges of the plate, the material has thermally contracted to become dense, and it sinks under its own weight in the process of subduction usually at an ocean trench.
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Mantle convection
Mantle convection is the very slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior to the planet's surface. The Earth's surface lithosphere rides atop the asthenosphere and the two form the components of the upper mantle. The lithosphere is divided into a number of tectonic plates that are continuously being created or consumed at plate boundaries. Accretion occurs as mantle is added to the growing edges of a plate, associated with seafloor spreading. This hot added material cools down by conduction and convection of heat. At the consumption edges of the plate, the material has thermally contracted to become dense, and it sinks under its own weight in the process of subduction usually at an ocean trench.
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Convecção mantélica é o movime ...... e sobre a superfície da Terra.
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Konveksi mantel atau arus konv ...... rapi di Bumi, Mars, dan Venus.
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Konwekcja w płaszczu Ziemi – z ...... płyt tektonicznych litosfery.
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La convecció del mantell és el ...... licat més lleugers al mantell.
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La convección del manto es el ...... cato más livianos en el manto.
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La convection mantellique est ...... accord avec les observations.
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Mantelconvectie is convectiest ...... tentektoniek in de lithosfeer.
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Mantle convection is the very ...... licate minerals to the mantle.
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Ís éard atá i gceist le comhio ...... l go mall mall an t-am ar fad.
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الحمل الحراري للدثار (بالإنجلي ...... كات الألومنيوم في طبقة الدثار.
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Convecção mantélica é o movime ...... sso de subducção numa fossa oc
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Konveksi mantel atau arus konv ...... tersisa dari pembentukan Bumi.
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Konwekcja w płaszczu Ziemi – z ...... płyt tektonicznych litosfery.
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La convecció del mantell és el ...... ormalment en una fossa marina.
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La convección del manto es el ...... ta, una reacción endotérmica.
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La convection mantellique est ...... accord avec les observations.
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Mantelconvectie is convectiest ...... tentektoniek in de lithosfeer.
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Mantle convection is the very ...... on usually at an ocean trench.
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Ís éard atá i gceist le comhio ...... gas ar an scéal go mbrúchtann
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الحمل الحراري للدثار (بالإنجلي ...... ية الاندساس في الخندق المحيطي.
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Comhiompar i screamh an Domhain
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Convecció del mantell
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Convección del manto
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Convection mantellique
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Convecção mantélica
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Konveksi mantel
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Konwekcja w płaszczu Ziemi
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Mantelconvectie
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Mantelkonvektion
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Mantle convection
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