Mantle flow model across Tonga and New Hebrides slabs (2010)

Mantle flow model across Tonga and New Hebrides slabs (2010)

The latest advances in computational science now allow resolutions at sub 1-km scales as shown in this zoom-in of the New Hebrides and Tonga slabs in a global model of mantle flow. Such models incorporate laboratory-based rheology models, assimilate data at a variety of scales and can made predictions in deformation and state of stress at fines scales while also predicting global plate motions. From Stadler et al. [2010].
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Year: 2010
Details: From GeoPRISMS Draft Science Plan
Media Type: Illustration
Data Type: Interpretation:Geologic
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Investigator: Michael Gurnis
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