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The tectonic style and viability of modern plate tectonics in the early Earth is still debated. Field observations and theoretical arguments both in favor and against the uniformitarian view of plate tectonics back until the Archean continue to accumulate. Here, we present the first numerical modeling results that address for a hotter Earth the viability of subduction, one of the main requirements for plate tectonics. A hotter mantle has mainly two effects: 1) viscosity is lower, and 2) more melt is produced, which in a plate tectonic setting will lead to a thicker oceanic crust and harzburgite layer. Although compositional buoyancy resulting from these thick crust and harzburgite might be a serious limitation for subduction initiation, our modeling results show that eclogitization significantly relaxes this limitation for a developed, ongoing subduction process. Furthermore, the lower viscosity leads to more frequent slab breakoff, and sometimes to crustal separation from the mantle lithosphere. Unlike earlier propositions, not compositional buoyancy considerations, but this lithospheric weakness could be the principle limitation to the viability of plate tectonics in a hotter Earth. These results suggest a new explanation for the absence of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism (UHPM) and blueschists in most of the Precambrian: early slabs were not too buoyant, but too weak to provide a mechanism for UHPM and exhumation.
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Answer:
The volume of the gas at a pressure of 65.0 kPa would be 363 mL
Explanation:
Boyle's Law is a gas law that relates the pressure and volume of a certain amount of gas, without temperature variation, that is, at constant temperature.
Boyle's law states that the pressure of a gas in a closed container is inversely proportional to the volume of the container, when the temperature is constant. In other words, the product P · V remains constant at the same temperature:
P*V=k
Being P1 and V1 the pressure and volume in state 1 and P2 and V2 the pressure and volume in state 2 are fulfilled:
P1*V1=P2*V2
In this case:
- P1= 45 kPa= 45,000 Pa (being 1 kPa=1,000 Pa)
- V1= 525 mL= 0.525 L (being 1 L=1,000 mL)
- P2= 65 kPa= 65,000 Pa
- V2= ?
Replacing:
45,000 Pa* 0.525 L= 65,000 Pa*V2
Solving:
V2=0.363 L=363 mL
<u><em>The volume of the gas at a pressure of 65.0 kPa would be 363 mL</em></u>
The ocean absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere wherever air meets water. Wind causes waves, giving more opportunity for the water to absorb the carbon dioxide.
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D
. It describes a compound being broken down into the elements from which it was formed.
Explanation:
A compound consists of two or more elements chemically combined together in a chemical reaction. The compound carbon monoxide is represented by the chemical symbol, CO. This means that it contains 1 atom of the carbon element and 1 atom of the Oxygen element.
This compound is formed when carbon is directly oxidized in a limited supply of oxygen. In the above reaction, this compound is disintegrated into its individual components, namely, carbon and oxygen.
