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Science 2 June 1972:
Vol. 176. no. 4038, pp. 1023 - 1024
DOI: 10.1126/science.176.4038.1023
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Drift of Continental Rafts with Asymmetric Heating

L. Knopoff 1, K. A. Poehls 1, and R. C. Smith 1

1 Department of Physics and Institute of Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles 90024

A laboratory model of a lithospheric raft is propelled through a viscous asthenospheric layer with constant velocity of scaled magnitude appropriate to continental drift. The propulsion is due to differential heat concentration in the model oceanic and continental crusts.


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