[CIG-LONG] CIG-LONG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 2

Walter Landry walter at geodynamics.org
Tue Oct 19 01:47:53 PDT 2010


<Guillaume.Duclaux at csiro.au> wrote:
> Should be something like
> 1e-5 m2/s-1

In that case, the timescale for thermal equilibrium is much faster
than anything else.  The velocity magnitude of 4.5e7 becomes
4.5e-18 m/s = 1.4e-8 cm/year, which is a bit slow.  So he is presumably
interested in a different problem with higher velocities?

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org


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