Contributions of Grain Damage, Thermal Weakening, and Necking to Slab Detachment
We investigate the impact of three coupled weakening mechanisms on the viscous detachment of a stalled lithospheric slab: structural weakening due to necking, material weakening due to grain size reduction, using a two-phase grain damage model, and thermal weakening due to shear heating (thermal dam...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Earth Science |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2020.00254/full |