Parameterized thermal convection in a layered region and the thermal history of the Earth

Buoyancy Effects in Fluids

1973 • 2,905 citations

An analysis of the variation of ocean floor bathymetry and heat flow with age

1977 • 2,778 citations

Buoyancy Effects in Fluids

1974 • 2,715 citations

The heat flow through oceanic and continental crust and the heat loss of the Earth

1980 • 1,183 citations

Distribution of stresses in the descending lithosphere from a global survey of focal‐mechanism solutions of mantle earthquakes

1971 • 1,002 citations

Convection in the earth's mantle: towards a numerical simulation

1974 • 671 citations

Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment-I. The Forward Problem

2007 • 523 citations

Geochemical modeling of mantle differentiation and crustal growth

1979 • 444 citations

The mean age of mantle and crustal reservoirs

1979 • 410 citations

Speculations on the Thermal and Tectonic History of the Earth

2007 • 329 citations

Relative Contributions of Uranium, Thorium, and Potassium to Heat Production in the Earth

1964 • 318 citations

Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth

1975 • 273 citations

Whole planet cooling and the radiogenic heat source contents of the Earth and Moon

1980 • 269 citations

Calculations on the thermal history of the Earth

1959 • 268 citations

Heat loss from the earth: A constraint on Archaean tectonics from the relation between geothermal gradients and the rate of plate production

1978 • 267 citations

Thermal histories of convective Earth models and constraints on radiogenic heat production in the Earth

1980 • 258 citations

The coupled turbulent transports of salt and and heat across a sharp density interface

1965 • 252 citations

Thermal evolution of Earth and Moon growing by planetesimal impacts

1979 • 250 citations

Two-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection

1973 • 213 citations

The behaviour of a stable salinity gradient heated from below

1968 • 212 citations

Subsolidus convective cooling histories of terrestrial planets

1979 • 200 citations

Thermal evolution of the Earth's core

1979 • 193 citations

Heat Loss from the Earth: New Estimate

1974 • 188 citations

The present thermal state of the terrestrial planets

1972 • 182 citations

Thermal convection with strongly temperature-dependent viscosity

1976 • 174 citations

Bulk compositions of the moon and earth, estimated from meteorites

1974 • 172 citations

Parameterized mantle convection and the Earth's thermal history

1978 • 156 citations

Composition of the Mantle and Core

1977 • 154 citations

The heating of the earth during its formation

1978 • 148 citations

On the thermal evolution of the earth

1980 • 147 citations

Experimental Demonstration of the Existence of Peridotitic Liquids in Earliest Archean Magmatism

1975 • 145 citations

Focal mechanisms and seismic energy release of deep and intermediate earthquakes in the Tonga‐Kermadec Region and their bearing on the depth extent of mantle flow

1979 • 144 citations

On the scale of mantle convection

1977 • 133 citations

On the stability of a series of double-diffusive layers

1971 • 128 citations

A thermal history model for the Earth with parameterized convection

1979 • 120 citations

Viscosity-depth profile of the Earth's mantle: Effects of polymorphic phase transitions

1977 • 119 citations

Finite-amplitude thermal convection in a spherical shell

1974 • 101 citations

Steady and transient thermal convection in a fluid layer with uniform volumetric energy sources

1977 • 101 citations

Absolute abundance and distribution of Rb, K and Sr in the earth

1968 • 98 citations

Heat and salt transport through a diffusive thermohaline interface

1976 • 98 citations

The petrogenesis of peridotitic komatiites: Evidence from high-pressure melting experiments

1977 • 97 citations

The Thermal History of the Earth

1956 • 69 citations

Composition of the earth: Chondritic or Achondritic?

1971 • 67 citations

Cooling of the earth

1941 • 61 citations

The cooling Earth: A reappraisal

1980 • 60 citations

Convection with decaying heat sources: constant viscosity

1980 • 57 citations

THE TRANSFER OF HEAT FROM THE CORE OF THE EARTH

1950 • 47 citations

Correction to: Absolute abundance and distribution of Rb, K and Sr in the earth

1968 • 45 citations

Finite-Amplitude thermal convection within a self-gravitating fluid sphere

1972 • 41 citations

Possible controls on the bulk composition of the earth - Implications for the origin of the earth and moon

1977 • 37 citations

Core cooling by subsolidus mantle convection

1979 • 35 citations

SECTION 23: RADIOACTIVE DECAY CONSTANTS AND ENERGIES

1966 • 24 citations

On the cooling of the moon by solid convection

1975 • 14 citations

Lunar and terrestrial potassium and uranium abundances: implications for the fission hypothesis.

1979 • 14 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations