Long Term Tectonics

The Long Term Tectonics Working Group aims to provide numerical tools to researchers who investigate the behavior of the lithosphere and upper mantle over time scales on the order of 10^4-9 years. Studies undertaken by the LTT community commonly focus on subduction of the tectonic plates, creation and evolution of mid-ocean ridges, upwelling and self-spreading of sub-lithospheric mantle plumes, and large-scale continental deformation. Such simulations are complex and involve multiple scales of interaction between materials of widely varying rheologies, from linear/non-linear viscous to brittle faulting, as well as other multi-physics problems like two-phase flow of melts or other fluids and chemical evolution during the above processes.

Committee Members

• John Naliboff co-Chair (New Mexico Tech)
• Jolante van Wijk, co-Chair (New Mexico Tech)
• Cedric Thieulot co-Chair (Utrecht University)
• Mark Behn (Boston College)
• Susanne Buiter (Aachen University)
• Claire Currie, (University of Alberta)
• Lijun Liu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• Eric Mittelstaedt (University of Idaho)

Moving lithospheric modeling forward: Attributes of a community computer code

CTSP: Coupling of Tectonic and Surface Processes

Upcoming Workshops

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Software Packages

ASPECT         Gale          Plasti           SNAC

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Forum

Discussion Forum: Long-Term Tectonics

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