Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0345157
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
NUMERICAL MODELS OF PLATE TECTONICS, MANTLE CONVECTION AND SLAB DYNAMICS WITH EVOLVING FAULTS. We plan to develop a method for simulating large-scale geological structures with a much improved treatment of tectonic faults in 3D. Current computer models have sharp geological faults at plate boundaries represented by broad, blurred zones. New techniques for modeling cracks in engineering structures will be scaled up to the whole Earth. This will help us to understand how the Earth's plates move and interact now and in the past and how the structure of the continents arose. Not only is this intrinsically interesting, it will also be of immediate practical benefit to geological modelers.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2003
End Date: 12-2005
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $300,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geophysics | Geophysics Not Elsewhere Classified | Geotectonics | Numerical Analysis |
