support from the US National Science Foundation grants NSF EAR-0406658 and EAR-0909319;funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Public Law111-5)
Small-scale convection supplies heat flow of ~17 mW m-2 to the base of stable continents where xenolith studies resolve the geotherm.However,effects of small-scale convection are difficult to resolve in ocean basins....
In this paper,the upper structural layer of the southern Yellow Sea Basin (SYSB) is further divided into three layers based on the latest obtained high-resolution single-channel seismic profiles.Combined with the bore...