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Thinking inside the (sand)box

and December 16, 2020
Thinking inside the (sand)box
Zoomed view of part of the crestal collapse graben formed over a listric fault in a sandbox model

Ahhh analogue models… Those beautiful little (or not so little) worlds inside a box, captivatingly beautiful, impossibly detailed… (sorry, getting carried away, am I?). This week, Alex Hughes gives us the insider’s report on what actually goes on in analogue modelling labs when the “Experiment running, do not disturb!!” sign is on the door. Analogue models have been a ...[Read More]

What can we learn from geodynamic failure?

and October 28, 2020
Artwork reading
AllMyFault by L. Perez Diaz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

In this week’s post, Mohamed Gouiza discusses the challenges of living under constant stress, paralysed by the possibility of failure and self-perceived inevitability of impending breakup. Continental rifting, of course! Oh… did you think I was talking about life as a researcher? Under tensile stress, the lithosphere stretches, the asthenosphere rises, the crust fails, and rifts form. During this ...[Read More]