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A numerical simulation of mental evolution based on a two-dimentional mentle GCM

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13640416
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 固体地球物理学
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

OGAWA Masaki  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Associate Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 助教授 (30194450)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Keywordsmantle connection / plate tectonics / magmatism / mantle evolution / numerical simulation / プレート運動
Research Abstract

The earlier numerical model of coupled magmatism-mantle convection system has been extended by including moving plates and the extended model of the coupled system (or mantle GCM) has been applied to the problem of mantle evolution. The numerical model suggests that the earth's mantle has evolved in two stages. On the earlier stage when the mantle is strongly heated by radioactive elements, the lower mantle are hot enough to frequently induce mantle overturn and the resulting plume activity. The magmatism induced by the plume activity makes plate motion and ridge volcanism strongly time-dependent. As the internal heating by radioactive elements becomes weaker than a threshold (the second stage), however, the mantle overturn suddenly stops and mantle convection and ridge volcanism becomes more steady. The ridge volcanism and hot spot volcanism induced by mantle overturn make the mantle chemically stratified with the deeper part of lower mantle occupied by magmatic products and the uppermost mantle occupied by residue of magma throughout the earth's history in spite of the whole mantle convection induced by subducting slabs that penetrate deep into the lower mantle. The thermal and chemical state of the numerically modeled mantle well captures the overall features of the present earth's mantle revealed by recent geochemical and seismological observation. The transition from the first to the second stage may corresponds to the Archean-Proterozoic boundary of the earth's history.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All Other

All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] Ogawa, M.: "Plate-like regime of a numerically modeled thermal convection with temperature-, pressure-, and stress-history-dependent viscosity"J.Geophys.Res. 108・B2. ETG2-1-ETG2-18 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ogawa, M.: "Chemical stratification in a two-dimensional convecting mantle with magmatism and moving plates"J.Geophys.Res. 108.B12. ETG5-1-ETG5-20 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ogawa, M.: "Plate : the regime of a numerically modeled thermal connection with temperature, pressure, and stress-history-dependent viscosity"J.Geophys.Res.. 108, B2. ETG2-1-ETG2-18 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ogawa, M.: "Chemical stratification a two-dimentional connecting mantle with magmatism and moving plates"J.Geophys.Res.. 108, B2. ETG5-1-ETG5-20 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] M.Ogawa: "Chemical stratification in a two-dimensional converting mantle with magmatism and moving plates"J.Geophys.Res.. 108・B12(AGUホームページ). (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] M.Yoshida, M.Ogawa: "The role of hot uprising plumes in the initiation of Plate-like regime of three-dimensional mantle convection"Geophys.Res.Lett.. (in press). (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Masaki Ogawa: "Plate-like regime of a numerically modeled thermal convection in a fluid with temperature-, pressure-, and stress-history-dependent viscosity"J. Geophys. Res.. 108・B2. (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Masaki Ogawa: "The plate-Like regime of a numerically modeled thermal conversion in a fluid with temperature-, Pressure-, and sties-history-dependent viscosity"Journal of Geophysical Research. (in press). (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2001-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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