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Originally Posted by cjameshuff
Poor thermal conductivity of rock...
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Sorry
cjameshuff, what you said makes perfect sense, but I worded my question badly. My fault.
I should have asked: how do we account for the
faster than expected rate of surface cooling? How did the
initial insulation of rock appear so fast?
As I understand it (and this is where I may be going wrong):
1. We used to think the surface of Hadean Earth was hot.
2. We now have reasonable evidence to think that it
might have been cooler.
aurora and
Hugh Jass referring to the OP article:
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Originally Posted by aurora
I think the article was saying that the surface apparently cooled faster than previously thought.
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Originally Posted by Hugh Jass
It is still interesting that Crustal rocks seem to have formed a couple 100 million years prior to previously thought, and be maybe more widespread...
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Do you know what we've changed in our models to accommodate (2), instead of (1)?
Or is this still a matter of dispute? I haven't gone and blundered into ATM have I?
