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Norman H. Sleep
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 227
Citations - 19529
Norman H. Sleep is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lithosphere & Mantle (geology). The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 225 publications receiving 18590 citations. Previous affiliations of Norman H. Sleep include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Northwestern University.
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Hotspots and Mantle Plumes' Some Phenomenology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the available data, mainly topography, geoid, and heat flow, describing hotspots worldwide to constrain the mechanisms for swell uplift and to obtain fluxes and excess temperatures of mantle plumes.
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The habitat and nature of early life
Euan G. Nisbet,Norman H. Sleep +1 more
TL;DR: It is possible that early life diversified near hydrothermal vents, but hypotheses that life first occupied other pre-bottleneck habitats are tenable (including transfer from Mars on ejecta from impacts there).
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Cenozoic magmatism throughout east Africa resulting from impact of a single plume
TL;DR: In this article, a model of a single large plume impinging beneath the Ethiopian plateau is presented, which takes into account lateral flow and ponding of plume material in pre-existing zones of lithospheric thinning.
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Carbon dioxide cycling and implications for climate on ancient Earth
Norman H. Sleep,Kevin Zahnle +1 more
TL;DR: In the early Earth, processes involving tectonics were more vigorous than at present, and the dynamic mantle buffer dominated over the crustal one as discussed by the authors, and the mantle cycle would have maintained atmospheric and oceanic CO2 reservoirs at levels where the climate was cold in the Archean unless another greenhouse gas was important.
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Thermal Effects of the Formation of Atlantic Continental Margins by Continental Break up
TL;DR: In this paper, the observed subsidence rate on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States declined exponentially with a time constant of about 50My, as it does for ridges, and deviations of the observed sedimentation from a smooth curve with respect to time could be associated with eustatic changes and variations in the supply of sediments.