English: Left: Heat-pipe tectonics develops a thicker and colder lithosphere by repetitive volcanic resurfacing. The lithosphere remains at low temperature, i.e. 600 degree Celsius, in great depth.
Right: Plate tectonics develops a thinner and hotter lithosphere that it raises to 1500 degree Celsius at shallow depth.
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Moore, William B.; Webb, A. Alexander G. (2013). "Heat-pipe Earth". Nature. 501 (7468): 501–505. doi:10.1038/nature12473. ISSN 0028-0836.
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Moore, William B.; Webb, A. Alexander G.
Arevalo, Ricardo; McDonough, William F.; Luong, Mario
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