Constant-temperature lava-crust growth law

ID: constant-temperature-lava-crust-growth-law

In the radiogenically heated lava-lake crust model, temperature stays constant precisely when . Then , and an initially absent crust satisfies the displayed law for . It follows by integrating from zero to . The crust starts as and tends to only at infinite time. The equilibrium remains thin only if .

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