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Science 29 May 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3935, pp. 1084 - 1087
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3935.1084
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Earth Tides, Global Heat Flow, and Tectonics

Herbert R. Shaw 1

1 U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. 20242

The power of a heat engine ignited by tidal energy can account for geologically reasonable rates of average magma production and sea floor spreading. These rates control similarity of heat flux over continents and oceans because of an inverse relationship between respective depth intervals for mass transfer and consequent distributions of radiogenic heat production.


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