Timeline for How would plate tectonics differ if Earth had no water?
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| Jan 1, 2015 at 9:16 | comment | added | Isopycnal Oscillation | @stali i was interested because you mentioned instabilities. Which you expanded on in the comment - thanks. I have studied and simulated Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in Boussinesq fluids, and it is interesting to see the same phenomena at those scales and with markedly different materials. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 15:22 | comment | added | stali | @IsopycnalOscillation It is relevant though the reasons are subtle. See plate tectonics depends on mantle convection which depends on the viscosity of mantle rocks and onset of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. Water can alter both viscosity of olivine as well lower its melting point which in turn will have an effect on the onset of convection as well as its evolution. Now how drastic this effect is unknown. The only insight we have is from numerical simulations. It is my area :). | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 7:29 | comment | added | Isopycnal Oscillation | @Michael thanks, it is not my area so to me it was not clear. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 7:20 | comment | added | Gimelist | @IsopycnalOscillation only the first line is somewhat relevant to the question. The rest is unrelated. | |
| Dec 23, 2014 at 7:50 | comment | added | Isopycnal Oscillation | Why the downvotes? A comment may have been more helpful. | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 16:38 | history | answered | stali | CC BY-SA 3.0 |