convection
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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
Vocabulary lists containing convection
Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Introductory
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