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Plate tectonics — the mantle heat engine
earth science
The crust rides plates driven by convection in the mantle - the Earth's internal heat rising and sinking, a heat engine bounded by the second law. Continents drift, oceans open, mountains rise. Rests on thermodynamics.
source
Narrow Highway — earth science
card id
card_earth_plate_tectonics
address
WIT.codex.FCT/plate-tectonics-the-mantle-heat-engine/REF.WITNESSED@narrow-highway
adjoining cards
- part of → Earth science — the planet, read in deep time — a pillar of earth science (Plate tectonics)
- connects at → Thermodynamics — the arrow and the one end — mantle convection is a heat engine - plate tectonics runs on the second law
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