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核－幔边界的动力学背景 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1
根据传播矩阵方法，并把由联合反演得到的同时满足长波地形起伏、板块运动速度、重力位异常资料以及地震层析先验知识的全地幔三维异常密度作为载荷，以求取核－幔边界的动力学背景．计算结果显示：１．所求的核－幔边界起伏图像与Ｈａｇｅｒ等根据格林函数方法所求得的核－幔边界的起伏在全球范围内基本相符．２．核－幔边界处的环型场仅在数量上降为地表处的环型场的１／８左右，而极型场较地表处的极型场的流动图像有显著变化，数值也增为地表处极型场的３倍左右． 相似文献
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旋转椭球型地球的固体地幔与液态地核间相互作用而产生的逆向本征模通常称之为地球自由核章动,自由核章动的品质因子（Q值）能有效反映核幔边界层能量耗散特征,与核幔边界的黏滞度密切相关.本文首次利用全球地球动力学计划网络23个台站27组高密度采样的高精度超导重力仪器观测数据,采用迭积技术,确定了自由核章动参数Q值,进而计算了核幔边界的黏滞系数.数值结果说明获得的核幔边界动力学黏滞系数达到103 Pa·s量级,与加拿大科学家Smylie等利用VLBI观测资料获得的最新结果一致,这说明重力技术是有效应用于研究地球深内部结构的重要手段之一. 相似文献
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核幔边界地形结构以山崩、滑塌或浊流方式的部分崩塌，可导致外核和下地幔温度的突然变化。尽管这些塌陷现象是一种假想，然而调查这种潜在的结果是令人感兴趣的。这些事件所产生的下降流可破坏地核对流并触发地磁偏移和倒转。由内核冻结产生的漂浮沉积物被假想可重建山崩结构。大山崩可触发地幔热柱。来自地球外的倾斜撞击给核幔边界以高剪切力，并能同时触发一次或多次山崩，从而观察到陨石坑、玻璃陨石与磁场倒转之间的巧合。触发的山崩可以解释最大著名火山区(翁通爪哇高原)的形成和始于35Ma白垩纪的地磁静止期之间的巧合以及所报道的大型溢流玄武岩和生物灭绝之间的巧合。 相似文献
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在地球表层存在着占地表面积约30%的具有低固有密度、高黏度的大陆岩石圈.由于其特殊的物理化学性质,大陆岩石圈通常不直接参与下方的地幔对流,但其与地幔对流格局有着重要的相互影响.大量研究显示,在中太平洋和非洲的下地幔底部,存在着两块占核幔边界（CMB）面积约20%的高密度热化学异常体（由于其剪切波速度较低,常称作低剪切波速度省（LSVPs））.LSVPs的演化既受地幔对流的影响,同时也影响地幔物质运动的格局和动力学过程.本文系统研究了存在大陆岩石圈,下地幔LSVPs的地幔对流模型.模拟结果显示：（1）当大陆体积较小时,其边缘常伴随着俯冲,大陆区域地幔常处于下涌状态,其上地幔温度较低,大陆岩石圈在水平方向处于压应力状态.随着大陆体积的增大,大陆边缘的俯冲逐渐减弱,大陆区域地幔由下涌转为上涌,其上地幔温度较高,大陆岩石圈水平方向处于拉应力状态.（2） 岩石圈与软流圈边界（LAB）在大陆下方较深,温度较低;在海洋区域较浅,温度较高.随着大陆体积的增大,陆洋之间LAB深度、温度的差异逐渐减小.（3）大陆区域地幔底部LSVPs物质的丰度与大陆的体积呈正相关.当大陆体积较小时,大陆下方的LSVPs丰度比海洋区域少.随着大陆体积的增大,大陆下方LSVPs的丰度逐渐增大.（4）海洋地区地表热流高,且随时间波动大,大陆地区地表热流低,随时间波动较小;LSVPs区域的核幔边界热流低. 相似文献
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JGR(Journal of Geophysical Research:Solid Earth)于2012年10月12日,发表了题为"Multi-technique equation of state for Fe2SiO4melt and the density of Fe-bearing silicate melts from 0to 161GPa"的文章指出,地球早期地幔的冷凝结晶可能始于核幔边界或下地幔。地球形成初期,地幔可能是一个整体熔融或局部熔融的巨大岩浆洋,其深度直达核幔边界。尽管目前地幔的物质大多都是固 相似文献
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如果地幔的钙钛矿中存在两个分层的地球化学储集层或有矿物相变，那么这两个地球化学层或矿物相之间的边界就可能位于1800km的深度到核幔边界(CMB)之间。我们通过对密集的太平洋西北地震台网(PNSN)数百个短周期垂直分量远震地震波形叠加，搜寻可以在该边界上产生的ScP前驱波(S-P反射波)。太平洋西北地震台网记录了清晰的ScP震相，并保存有4个地震的P-ScP时间窗。估计我们的探测阚值的阻抗反差大于4％。没有资料证明在1800km与核幔边界之间存在陡变结构，意味着在阿拉斯加和墨西哥湾以下1800km至核幔边界之间不存在陡变的地震不连续面：除非不连续面不是陡变的，存在大的地形起伏，或小的阻抗变化。虽然不是结论性的，但这个观测与在这一深度范围没有全球范围的地球化学储集层的边界和没有相变的地球模型相一致。 相似文献
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攀枝花古地幔柱的形成与演化对这一地域的大地构造格局、金属矿产的聚集和区域大陆动力学研究均有着极为重要的科学意义和应用价值.本文通过穿越攀枝花古地幔柱中心部位的四条人工源深部地震探测剖面和区域地球物理边界场响应研究提出：（1）攀枝花古地幔柱具有特异的壳、幔速度结构;（2）在其中心部位由结晶基底到壳、幔边界均为高速体,且结晶基底和Moho界面局部隆起、地壳内部存在厚达10余千米的低速层,且被数条深、大断裂切割;（3）重力场、磁力场的边界异常场响应组构了攀枝花古地幔柱的地表形态和中心部位的圈闭范围. 相似文献
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David E. Loper 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1975,11(1):43-60
The feasibility of a precessionally driven dynamo is investigated. The relative orientation of the angular-velocity vectors of the mantle and core and the precession vector of the earth are determined from a torque balance. The core and mantle are acted upon by separate gravitational torques and mutual interaction torques resulting from pressure, viscous and magnetic stresses at the core-mantle interface. The viscous and magnetic torques are determined using the results of a detailed analysis of the Ekman-Hartmann and magnetic diffusion layers generated at the core-mantle interface by the misalignment of the mantle and core angular-velocity vectors. The dissipative torques are found to be weaker by a factor of 10?4 than those estimated by Malkus (1968) and Stacey (1973), resulting in only 3.5 · 107 W being extracted from the rotational kinetic energy of the earth by these mechanisms. Furthermore, it is found that all of this energy is dissipated in the boundary layers at the core-mantle interface and none is available to drive the geodynamo. 相似文献
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The case for radioactivity in the core based on the power requirements of the geodynamo is re-evaluated. Previous calculations of mantle regulation of core thermal evolution have used an inappropriate formula. New calculations with a more appropriate formula yield lower core heat loss in the past, thus mitigating the implication of unreasonably high past core and mantle temperatures. Multiple thermal evolutions leading to present heat flows are also demonstrated, depending on the efficiency of mantle removal of core heat, some with moderately high past core heat loss and some with low and steady core heat loss. The latter would permit a low- or moderate-power dynamo without core radioactivity. Key uncertainties are the efficiency of core cooling by the mantle, the thermal conductivity of the core and the energy or entropy flow required to maintain the dynamo. The present rate of heat loss from the core is argued to be still rather uncertain, and a commonly used estimate of the thermal conductivity of the core is shown plausibly to be too high and in any case to be uncertain by perhaps a factor of 2. The geochemical difficulties associated with postulating radioactive heat sources in the core are stressed. 相似文献
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《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1999,110(1-2):83-93
Using density–pressure relationships for mantle silicate and core alloy closely matching PREM we have constructed six models of the Earth in different evolutionary states. Gravitational energies and elastic strain energies are calculated for models with homogeneous composition, separated mantle and liquid core, separated inner and outer cores with the inner core either liquid or solid and models with increased densities, representing cooling of either the mantle or core. In this way we have isolated the gravitational energy released by each of several evolutionary processes and subtracted the consequent increase in strain energy to obtain the net energy released as heat or geodynamo power. Radiogenic heat (∼7.8×1030 J) is found to contribute only about 25% of the total heat budget, the balance originating as residual gravitational energy from the original accretion and from core separation (14×1030 J). The total energy of compositional convection, driven by inner core formation, is 3.68×1028 J and this is the most important (or even the only) energy source for the dynamo for the most recent 2 billion years. It appears unlikely that the inner core existed much before that time. The total net (gravitational minus strain) energy released in the core by the process of inner core formation, 11.92×1028 J, is not much less than the thermal energy released in this process, 15.1×1028 J. In the mantle the net (gravitational minus strain) energy released by thermal contraction is about 20% of the heat release. All of the numerical results are presented in a manner that allows simple rescaling to any revised density estimates. 相似文献
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V. P. Trubitsyn A. N. Evseev M. N. Evseev A. V. Evseeva 《Izvestiya Physics of the Solid Earth》2013,49(5):660-667
Thermal convection in the mantle is caused by the heat transported upwards from the core and by the heat produced by the internal radioactive sources. According to the data on the heat transfer by the mantle plumes and geochemical evidence, only 20% of the total heat of the Earth is supplied to the mantle from the core, whereas most of the heat is generated by the internal sources. Along with the models that correctly allow for the internal heat sources, there are also many publications (including monographs) on the models of mantle convection that completely ignore the internal heating or the heat flux from below. In this study, we analyze to what extent these approximations could be correct. The analytical distributions of temperature and heat flux in the case of internal heating without convection and the results of the numerical modeling for convection with different intensity are presented. It is shown that the structure of thermal convection is governed by the distribution of the heat flux in the mantle but not by the heat balance, as it is typically implicitly assumed in most works. Heat production by the internal sources causes the growth of the heat flux as a function of radius. However, in the spherical mantle of the Earth, the heat flux decreases with radius due to the geometry. It turned out that with the parameters of the present Earth, both these effects compensate each other to a considerable extent, and the resulting heat flux turns out to be nearly constant as a function of radius. Since the structure of the convective flows in the mantle is determined by the distributions of heat flux and total heat flux, in the Cartesian models of the mantle convection the effective contribution of internal heating is small, and ignoring the heat flux from the core significantly distorts the structure of the convective currents and temperature distributions in the mantle. 相似文献
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Although vigorous mantle convection early in the thermal history of the Earth is shown to be capable of removing several times the latent heat content of the core, we are able to construct a thermal evolution model of the Earth in which the core does not solidify. The large amount of energy removed from the model Earth's core by mantle convection is supplied by the internal energy of the core which is assumed to cool from an initial high temperature given by the silicate melting temperature at the core-mantle boundary. For the smaller terrestrial planets, the iron and silicate melting temperatures at the core-mantle boundaries are more comparable than for the Earth, and the cores of these planets may not possess enough internal energy to prevent core solidification by mantle convection. Our models incorporate temperature-dependent mantle viscosity and radiogenic heat sources in the mantle. The Earth models are constrained by the present surface heat flux and mantle viscosity. Internal heat sources produce only about 55% of the Earth model's present surface heat flow. 相似文献
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Recognition that the cooling of the core is accomplished by conduction of heat into a thermal boundary layer (D″) at the base of the mantle, partly decouples calculations of the thermal histories of the core and mantle. Both are controlled by the temperature-dependent rheology of the mantle, but in different ways. Thermal parameters of the Earth are more tightly constrained than hitherto by demanding that they satisfy both core and mantle histories. We require evolution from an early state, in which the temperatures of the top of the core and the base of the mantle were both very close to the mantle solidus, to the present state in which a temperature increment, estimated to be ～ 800 K, has developed across D″. The thermal history is not very dependent upon the assumption of Newtonian or non-Newtonian mantle rheology. The thermal boundary layer at the base of the mantle (i.e., D″) developed within the first few hundred million years and the temperature increment across it is still increasing slowly. In our preferred model the present temperature at the top of the core is 3800 K and the mantle temperature, extrapolated to the core boundary without the thermal boundary layer, is 3000 K. The mantle solidus is 3860 K. These temperatures could be varied within quite wide limits without seriously affecting our conclusions. Core gravitational energy release is found to have been remarkably constant at ～ 3 × 1011 W. nearly 20% of the core heat flux, for the past 3 × 109 y, although the total terrestrial heat flux has decreased by a factor of 2 or 3 in that time. This gravitational energy can power the “chemical” dynamo in spite of a core heat flux that is less than that required by conduction down an adiabatic gradient in the outer core; part of the gravitational energy is used to redistribute the excess heat back into the core, leaving 1.8 × 1011 W to drive the dynamo. At no time was the dynamo thermally driven and the present radioactive heating in the core is negligibly small. The dynamo can persist indefinitely into the future; available power 1010 y from now is estimated to be 0.3 × 1011 W if linear mantle rheology is assumed or more if mantle rheology is non-linear. The assumption that the gravitational constant decreases with time imposes an implausible rate of decrease in dynamo energy. With conventional thermodynamics it also requires radiogenic heating of the mantle considerably in excess of the likely content of radioactive elements. 相似文献
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K. D. Aldridge J. Bloxham V. Dehant D. Gubbins R. Hide J. Hinderer K. A. Hutcheson D. Jault C. A. Jones H. Legros J. -L. Le Mouël D. Lloyd J. M. Wahr K. A. Whaler K. Zhang 《Surveys in Geophysics》1990,11(4):329-353
Several aspects of core-mantle interactions were considered during a Royal Astronomical Society Discussion Meeting on 12th May 1989, including modelling the geomagnetic field at the core surface, the morphology of the field between 1600 and 1820 AD, dynamo theory, Taylor's constraint, fluid motions at the top of the core that reproduce the observed secular variation, pressure coupling between the core and mantle and its geophysical consequences, topographic core-mantle coupling, angular momentum transfer at the core-mantle interface, the detection and implications of core oscillations, particularly those with associated fluctuations in the Earth's rotation rate, and the seismological determination of the core-mantle boundary topography from lateral inhomogeneities in the mantle. 相似文献
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Lower mantle heterogeneity could cause deviations from axial symmetry in geodynamo properties. Global tomography models are commonly used to infer the pattern of core–mantle boundary heat flux via a linear relation that corresponds to a purely thermal interpretation of lower mantle seismic anomalies, ignoring both non-thermal origins and non-resolved small scales. Here we study the possible impact on the geodynamo of narrow thermal anomalies in the base of the mantle, originating from either compositional heterogeneity or sharp margins of large-scale features. A heat flux boundary condition composed of a large-scale pattern and narrow ridges separating the large-scale positive and negative features is imposed on numerical dynamos. We find that hot ridges located to the west of a positive large-scale core–mantle boundary heat flux anomaly produce a time-average narrow elongated upwelling, a flow barrier at the top of the core and intensified low-latitudes magnetic flux patches. When the ridge is located to the east of a positive core–mantle boundary heat flux anomaly, the associated upwelling is weaker and the homogeneous dynamo westward drift leaks, precluding persistent intense low-latitudes magnetic flux patches. These signatures of the core–mantle boundary heat flux ridge are evident in the north–south component of the thermal wind balance. Based on the pattern of lower mantle seismic tomography (Masters et al., 2000), we hypothesize that hot narrow thermal ridges below central Asia and the Indian Ocean and below the American Pacific coast produce time-average fluid upwelling and a barrier for azimuthal flow at the top of the core. East of these ridges, below east Asia and Oceania and below the Americas, time-average intense geomagnetic flux patches are expected. 相似文献
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《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2006,241(1-2):202-210
Plumes rising from the core–mantle boundary (CMB) are often assumed to transport most, or all, of the heat conducted across the CMB. Here this assumption is explored using numerical convection models in idealized geometries that lead to a single plume under steady-state or near steady state conditions. Plume heat transport is calculated for different internal heating rates using two methods and compared to the CMB heat flux. For these conditions, it is found that the heat flux transported by plumes in the upper mantle is only a fraction of the core heat flux and, thus, core heat flow estimates derived from observed hotspots could be multiplied by a factor of several. 相似文献
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全球地表热流是反映地球内部热与动力学过程的一种主要能流.本文在三维球坐标框架下，就几个不同的粘度模型分别研究地幔内部密度异常(基于全球地震层析结果)以及板块运动激发的地幔流动的热效应及其对于观测地表热流产生和分布特征的贡献.由于地幔动力系统具有较高的Pe数，可以期望由板块运动激发的地幔流动将强烈地扰动地幔内部初始传导状态下的温度场以及地表热的热流分布.结果表明，与地幔内部密度异常产生的热效应相比，运动的板块及其激发的地幔流动在全球地表观测热流的产生和分布特征上起着更为重要的作用.观测到的大洋中脊处的高热流在很大程度上可以归因于板块激发的地幔流动的热效应.计算的平均温度剖面较好地揭示了岩石圈和D″层的温度特征，即温度随深度的剧烈变化，这与我们目前通过其他手段对岩石圈和D″层的温度结构了解是一致的.一个下地幔粘度比上地幔高出30倍的粘度结构(文中使用的粘度模型2)较之其余模型的拟合程度似乎更好. 相似文献