Tectonic Plate Motion (arrows) and Viscosity Arising from Global Mantle Flow Simulation (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Tectonic Plate Motion (arrows) and Viscosity Arising from Global Mantle Flow Simulation

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Plate boundaries, which can be seen as narrow red lines are resolved using an adaptively refined mesh with 1km local resolution. Shown are the Pacific and the Australian tectonic plates and the New Hebrides and Tonga microplates.

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Georg Stadler, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, UT Austin

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