dynamic modeling of rifting.pptVIP

BENCHMARK (IMEDL 2004) Dynamic modeling of rifting Physical approach (parameter space analysis). Use of the physical parameterization to interrogate the geology (Benchmark exercise?). What’s working and what’s not. What is needed to improve the geological approach? Rheologies Elastic Visco-elastic Maxwell (Non-Linear Creep Laws) Elasto-Plastic (Mohr-Coulomb, the material has both cohesional and frictional strength) FLAC, Fast Lagrangian analysis of continua (Podlatchikov, Poliakov). Self-consistent dynamic model of the lithosphere (state of stress, strain, strain rate, viscosity,