This is not my subject, but would it be possible to estimate a theoretical
maximum velocity from constraints due to mantle viscosity? Also, one would
assume that the primum mobile (the heat supply) is not greatly varying over
time, which would argue for a system behaving in a fairly steady way with
respect to rates of movement.
Roger Musson
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