On the thermal gradient in the Earth's deep interior

Tirone, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-229-2016

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-229-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-229-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

Research article

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10 Feb 2016

Research article |

| 10 Feb 2016

On the thermal gradient in the Earth's deep interior

M. Tirone

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Feb 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 08 Sep 2015)

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SC C1065: 'But how to estimate the zeta parameter?', Paul Asimow, 08 Sep 2015
- AC C1067: 'reply to Paul', massimiliano tirone, 08 Sep 2015
RC C1258: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Oct 2015
- AC C1382: 'reply to reviewer#1', massimiliano tirone, 21 Nov 2015
EC C1852: 'Final comment on paper "On the Thermal Gradient in the Earth's Deep Interior"', Juan Carlos Afonso, 14 Jan 2016

Short summary

This study aims to present a comparison of the thermal gradient in the Earth mantle computed from full-scale geodynamic thermal models and from the thermodynamic description provided by the Joule-Thomson (JT) formulation. The main result is that the thermal gradient from the JT model is in good agreement with the full-scale geodynamic models and it is better suited than the isentropic (adiabatic reversible) thermal model to describe temperature variations in the planetary interiors.