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Fig. 11

From: Iron snow, crystal floats, and inner-core growth: modes of core solidification and implications for dynamos in terrestrial planets and moons

Fig. 11

Evolution of Martian core heat flow. Core–mantle heat flow as a function of time for models with early plate tectonics (solid line) and stagnant-lid convection throughout their entire evolution (dashed line), with initial temperature differences across the CMB of ΔT cm = 0 K and ΔT cm = 250 K. The gray region marks the range of the critical core–mantle heat flux along the adiabat and the orange region the suggested time period of the global magnetic field (after Breuer and Spohn 2003)

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