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convection

[kuhn-vek-shuhn] / kənˈvɛk ʃən /


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Their analysis indicates that these plume-like features are likely created by thermal convection, a slow churning motion inside the ice driven by temperature differences.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Others could be linked to heat driven convection within the mantle as it recycles subducted slabs of Earth's crust.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026

According to this idea, the planet was capped by a stiff, unmoving outer shell while heat-driven convection took place deeper in the mantle.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

However, decades of helioseismic studies have revealed conflicting information about how these flows behave deep inside the convection zone.

From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025

I’d been thinking about convection currents, isobars and isotherms.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd




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