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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Plate dynamics"”.
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Geophysical and petrological constraints on ocean plate dynamics
… and subsequent motion of oceanic lithospheric plates through geophysical and petrological methods. Ocean crust and lithosphere forms at mid-ocean ridges as the underlying asthenosphere rises, melts, and flows away from the ridge axis. In Chapters 2 and 3, I present the results from partial …
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Geophysical and petrological constraints on ocean plate dynamics
… and subsequent motion of oceanic lithospheric plates through geophysical and petrological methods. Ocean crust and lithosphere forms at mid-ocean ridges as the underlying asthenosphere rises, melts, and flows away from the ridge axis. In Chapters 2 and 3, I present the results from partial …
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Dynamic processes at submarine plate boundaries
The theory of plate tectonics provides a simplified yet powerful framework to describe the motion of lithospheric plates and the deformation that takes place at their boundaries. Although plate boundaries represent a small fraction of the earth’s surface, the localisation of stresses, resulting …
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Modeling, Visualizing, and Understanding Complex Tectonic Structures on the Surface and in the Sub-Surface
<p>Plate tectonics is a relatively new theory with many details of plate dynamics which remain to be worked out. Moving plates can interact by divergence, lateral sliding, convergence, or collision. At a convergent plate boundary, a lithospheric slab of oceanic crust and upper mantle is subducted …
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Structure of the Patagonian fold-thrust belt in the Magallanes region of Chile, 53° - 55° S Lat.
… superposition of a left-lateral strike-slip plate margin defined by the Magallanes- Fagnano fault zone. In this dissertation, I present new geologic maps, cross sections and detailed macro- and microscopic structural analyses that describe the geometry and kinematic evolution of the …
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On the dynamics of rigid and flexible structures under complex flows
… efforts have been placed on characterizing the dynamics of structures under a wide range of flow. However, associated phenomena under turbulence are poorly understood. Quantitative description of the non-linear, multiscale interaction between structure dynamics and flow remains as an outstanding …