Research Article

A Magma Accretion Model for the Formation of Oceanic Lithosphere: Implications for Global Heat Loss

Figure 5

Results of numerical simulations illustrating the dependence of VBA model response to changes in the values assumed for plate thickness (a), basal temperatures (b) and thermal diffusivity (c). The dark squares are the mean oceanic heat flow values.
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