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NetherMod Day 3 – Science & Windsurfing

August 30, 2017
NetherMod Day 3 – Science & Windsurfing
Thorsten Becker presents his keynote lecture on subduction dynamics

Let’s keep going with the programme: today’s talks dealt with the following topics: (1) Lower mantle rheology–what do we really know? (2) Modelling plasticity and fractures in porous media: everything goes wrong! (3) Complexities of subduction dynamics. The first keynote talk was on the rheology of the lower mantle, an important part of the Earth. John Hernlund spent his 45 min describing wh ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 2 – Secret Summary

August 29, 2017
NetherMod Day 2 – Secret Summary
Potayto, potahto?
Credit: Agricultural Research Service

The first science day at Nethermod was kicked of by the crust & lithosphere modelling session, followed by the first talk in the methodological advances session. Thibault Duretz discussed how using lithospheric heterogeneities can help to form complex rifting styles without using an explicit strain weakening formulation. Switching to the subduction evolution of the Farallon plate, Claire Curri ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 2 – The science starts

August 28, 2017
NetherMod Day 2 – The science starts
Lakeview from the hotel by Yue Zhao

Today’s NetherMod update is written by Yue Zhao. She did her MSc at Utrecht University and is now a PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. To study the thermal evolution of the Moon, she incorporates high temperature and pressure experimental results from her group into numerical models of lunar mantle convection.   After a wonderful ice-breaking evening in the glimmering setting sun over ...[Read More]

NetherMod Day 1 – Breaking the ice

August 27, 2017
NetherMod Day 1 – Breaking the ice
Everyone got their letter to Hogwarts Nethermod

This week the EGU Blog Team is attending Nethermod, so we will give you daily updates! Nethermod is the XV International Workshop on Numerical Modelling of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics. The 2017 workshop is held at a lakeside hotel near Putten, The Netherlands. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Utrecht University, the Oslo University Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), the European ...[Read More]