Temperature distribution in the three-layered upper mantle beneath a continent

Abstract

Abstract Temperature distribution in the upper mantle underneath the continent, as well as temperature distribution in the lower mantle, is obtained. In the continental lithosphere, the solution to the heat transfer equation is obtained in the model of conduction heat transfer with inner heat within the crust. To calculate the temperature distribution in the upper and lower mantle, we use the results of laboratory and theoretical modeling of free convective heat transfer in a horizontal layer heated from below and cooled from above.