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Ferropericlase Control of Lower Mantle Rheology: Impact of Phase Morphology
Abstract The rheological properties of Earth’s lower mantle play a key role for global mantle dynamics. The mineralogy of the …
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High-stress creep preceding coseismic rupturing in amphibolite-facies ultramylonites
Coeval pseudotachylytes (solidified melts produced during seismic slip) and mylonites are generally regarded as the geological record …
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Pore-scale permeability prediction for Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids
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Critical Bursts in Filtration
Particle detachment bursts during the flow of suspensions through porous media are a phenomenon that can severely affect the efficiency …
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Grain size assisted thermal runaway as a nucleation mechanism for continental mantle earthquakes: Impact of complex rheologies
Abstract Thermal runaway has been proposed as a potential mechanism to initiate intermediate-depth earthquakes as well as …
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Tomographic Study of Internal Erosion of Particle Flows in Porous Media
In particle-laden flows through porous media, porosity and permeability are significantly affected by the deposition and erosion of …
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3D geodynamic models for the development of opposing continental subduction zones: The Hindu Kush–Pamir example
The development of opposing continental subduction zones remains scantly explored in three dimensions. The Hindu Kush–Pamir orogenic …
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Critical Fragmentation Properties of Random Drilling: How Many Holes Need to Be Drilled to Collapse a Wooden Cube?
A solid wooden cube fragments into pieces as we sequentially drill holes through it randomly. This seemingly straightforward …
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Tensile stress relaxation in unsaturated granular materials
The mechanics of granular media at low liquid saturation levels remain poorly understood. Macroscopic mechanical properties are …
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Lithospheric stresses in Rayleigh–Bénard convection: effects of a free surface and a viscoelastic Maxwell rheology
Summary Numerical models of mantle convection typically employ a temperature-or pressure-dependent viscous or viscoplastic rheology and …
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