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Oceanic crust thickness, Archaean

If, as many suppose, the Archaean mantle had a higher potential temperature than the modern mantle, it is important to examine the implications of this for melt production during the early history of the Earth. The relationship between mantle potential temperature and melt thickness during adiabatic melting was outlined in Section 3.1.4.3 and may be briefly summarized by stating that as mantle potential temperature increases so will the melt production, as expressed in the depth of the melt column and the melt thickness. This is illustrated in Fig. 3.26, which shows how deeper, higher-temperature melting should lead to the formation of a thicker oceanic crust. [Pg.109]


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