Chapter 16 Hydrothermal

The topics covered in this chapter can be summarized as follows:

Section Summary
16.1 The Temperature of Earth’s Interior Earth’s temperature increases with depth (to around 5000°C at the centre), but there are significant variations in the rate of temperature increase. These variations are related to differences in composition and the existence of convection in the mantle and liquid part of the core.

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