Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0346039

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0346039

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Computer simulation to study emergence of material texture in the Earth and Plate Tectonics. Plate tectonics has played a crucial role in the evolution and dynamics of the earth impacting on the diversity of life, mineralisation, and crustal dynamics. Despite its significance, how and under what conditions material texture and plate tectonics emerge from a proto-planet is not well understood. New computational methodologies to simulate the evolution of the plate-mantle system will be used to study how the upper mantle emerges as a thermo-mechanically distinct boundary layer, how this emergent structure relates to anisotropy in the upper mantle, and how it is affected by cross-scale effects controlling fault zone behaviour and crustal dynamics.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $215,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Dynamical Systems | Simulation And Modelling | Geology | Geotectonics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Earth sciences | Mathematical sciences |

Other Keywords

Dynamical Systems | Earth sciences | Geology | Geotectonics | Mathematical sciences | Other Non-Ferrous Ores (E.G. Copper, Zinc) | Simulation And Modelling

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