HR: 1340h
AN: NG33C-0193 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Dynamics of Microplates
AU: * Bodenschatz, E
EM: eberhard.bodenschatz@ds.mpg.de
AF: MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Fassberg 11, Goettingen, 37077 Germany
AU: Katz, R
EM: katz@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Rte 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AB: Rotating, growing microplates are observed in a wax analog model of sea-floor spreading. We show that wax microplates are kinematically similar to sea-floor tectonic microplates in terms of spreading rate, growth rate and their characteristic spiral pseudofault geometry. We propose a theory for the formation of microplates.
UR: http://www.iop.org/EJ/njp
DE: 3040 Plate tectonics (8150, 8155, 8157, 8158)
DE: 4460 Pattern formation
DE: 4485 Self-organization
DE: 8110 Continental tectonics: general (0905)
SC: Nonlinear Geophysics [NG]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005