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Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
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
 | 
10 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 10 Feb 2016

On the thermal gradient in the Earth's deep interior

M. Tirone

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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.
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