A third feature that is commonly ascribed to the complexity of the Earth’s lithosphere, and thus related to SOC as well, is fractality, which corresponds to a scale-invariance in the spatial domain2,3. Fractality, which is typically assessed by estimating a noninteger dimension16referred to ...
In the 1860s the British physicistJames Clerk Maxwellrevolutionized the world of physics with his electromagnetic theory. He developed four mathematical equations, known as the Maxwell Equations, that described how electric and magnetic fields interact. These equations unified the previously separate fields...
As discussed earlier in section 4.1, two mega-sequences - syn-rift and post-rift seismic sequences can be differentiated based on the seismic characteristics. Characteristics of these interpreted seismic facies are described below. 4.3. Syn-rift and Post-rift Seismic Sequences The Dangerous Grounds...
Argyle is situated in the Halls Creek Orogen, a rheologically-weak rift zone with thinner lithosphere that is prone to reactivation7. Additional heat from the Derim Derim-Galiwinku-Yanliao large igneous province and/or mechanical extension from the breakup of Nuna could have reactivated mantle-...
The Andean magmatic arc started in the Jurassic as a consequence of the subduction of the oceanic lithosphere in the westernmost margin of the South American plate after the breakup of Gondwana, and it extended along the present-day Coastal Cordillera till nowadays (Dalziel et al.1987; Mpodozi...
15 argued that the “monster shift” was an episode of TPW, i.e., the shift resulted from excitation from mantle convection and the net rotation of the lithosphere relative to the mantle is negligible. Most recently, a Late Jurassic palaeomagnetic pole obtained from dikes from Greenland with...
. below causes the phenomenon known as sea-floor K. spreading. L. (15) Given that the earth is not expanding in size to M. any appreciable degree, how can "new" litho- N. sphere be created at a mid-ocean ridge For new . lithosphere to come into being in one region, an ...
Is the westerly rotation of the lithosphere an ephemeral accidental recent phenomenon or is it a stable process of Earth's geodynamics? The reason why the tidal drag has been questioned as the mechanism determining the lithospheric shift relative to the underlying mantle is the apparent too high ...
The environment’s temperature is determined by the formula in accordance with the average temperature increment in the lithosphere in the amount of 30 °C/km for the well as follows: TE=15⋅(Hb+He)+T0,TE=15⋅Hb+He+T0, (15) where T0 is the soil temperature at the depth of non...
The Earth system can be considered in terms of coupled “spheres”: the cryosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. One way of considering how the scope of DNB applications fits into earth system science is to examine how the current reference data fall into those categories....