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| While most envision a geologist as someone
who spends most of their time banging on rocks, there is a whole
community of Earth scientists who bang on computers to better
understand the inner workings of our planet. Since the dawning of
the plate tectonics’ revolution, Earth scientists have been working to
connect the physics that dictates convective systems to the geologic
observations. Much of the success of this initiative is due to
the development and use of numerical simulations that model convection
within the Earth’s interior. In this presentation, I will
showcase the results of both two- and three-dimensional simulations of
infinite Prandtl, high Rayleigh number convecting systems with partial
insulating lids. These simulations demonstrate the first order
role that continents play in the Earth’s thermal evolution as well as
our attempts to unravel and quantify that capacity. |
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 3D convection simulations with
two continental blocks
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