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convection cell
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convection cell [kən′vek·shən ‚sel]
(geophysics)
A concept in plate tectonics that accounts for the lateral or the upward and downward movement of subcrustal mantle material as due to heat variation in the earth.
(meteorology)
An atmospheric unit in which organized convective fluid motion occurs.
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He speculated that the measurements may be affected by giant convection cells on the star's surface that are like convection granules on the sun, but so large that they bulge out of the surface.
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The pattern, which the convection cells will exhibit, remains still unspecified and will be determined only when symmetries are considered.
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SUMMARY Oceanic islands tend to occur at the young ends of hotspot trails because they record the passage of oceanic plates over rising convection cells (plumes) in the mantle, of the propagation of cracks in the lithosphere.
Igneous rock associations 4. Oceanic island volcanism I mineralogy ... by Mallory-Greenough, Leanne M. / Geoscience Canada
 
 
 
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