Finding Weaknesses in the Earth's Crust (IMAGE)

University of Adelaide

Finding Weaknesses in the Earth's Crust

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This is a map of viscosity of the crust and upper mantle produced by our modeling. Warm colors are low viscosity (weak) and cool colors are high viscosity (strong).

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Credit Jiashun Hu, University of Illinois

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