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Secular Cooling

Secular Cooling is a theoretical construct in planetary science that denotes the gradual reduction in a planet's internal thermal energy over geologic time due to radiogenic decay and conductive heat loss, distinguishing it from transient or localized thermal processes.

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Urey ratio and the structure and evolution of Earth's mantle

Jun Korenaga · Reviews of Geophysics · 2008 · 371 citations

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Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth

Richard M. Palin, M. Santosh, Wentao Cao et al. · Earth-Science Reviews · 2020 · 335 citations · Full text

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<i>Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin</i>

Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise, David B. Wilson · Physics Today · 1991 · 286 citations

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Petrological evidence for secular cooling in mantle plumes

Claude Herzberg, Esteban Gazel · Nature · 2009 · 282 citations

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Whole planet cooling and the radiogenic heat source contents of the Earth and Moon

G. Schubert, D. J. Stevenson, P. Cassen · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1980 · 274 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JK
    Jun Korenaga

    Yale University, United States

    7 publications · 806 citations

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  2. DA
    David A. Yuen

    University of Minnesota, United States

    3 publications · 151 citations

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  3. PA
    Peter A. Cawood

    Monash University, Australia

    2 publications · 303 citations

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  4. DG
    David Gubbins

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 189 citations

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  5. TK
    Tomoko Korenaga

    Yale University, United States

    2 publications · 45 citations

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Institutions

109

  1. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    923 citations

  2. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    232 citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    14 publications

    444 citations

  4. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    617 citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    15 publications

    840 citations

  6. The University of Adelaide

    Adelaide, Australia

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    662 citations

  7. Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    La Jolla, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    252 citations

  8. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    1.2K citations

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  1. Geophysical Research Letters

    9 publications · 529 citations

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 6 publications · 454 citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

    4 publications · 142 citations

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  4. Geophysical Journal International

    GJI · 5 publications · 243 citations

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  5. Nature

    4 publications · 334 citations

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