ERC Consolidator Grant · 2017
Magma-Assisted Tectonics: two-phase dynamics of oceanic and continental rifts
There is widespread recognition of the central role of magma at divergent plate boundaries. However in almost all models, magmatism is treated as a by-product and is excluded from the dynamics. A thorough understanding of continental rifts and mid-ocean ridges, which are fundamental to plate tectonics, requires consistent models of magma intrusion into the lithosphere and crust. This is a proposal to develop models in which magmatism is an integral thermal, chemical, and mechanical component, and hence to better understand the basic functioning of plate tectonics. Diverse insight and constraints on divergent boundaries come from decades of careful observation. But lacking adequate models of…
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