ERC Advanced Grant · 2017
RHEOLOGY OF EARTH MATERIALS: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN TIMESCALES IN THE LABORATORY AND IN THE MANTLE
Most large-scale geological process such as plate tectonics or mantle convection involve plastic deformation of rocks. With most recent developments, constraining their rheological properties at natural strain-rates is something we can really achieve in the decade to come. Presently, these theological properties are described with empirical equations which are fitted on macroscopic, average properties, obtained in laboratory experiments performed at human timescales. Their extrapolation to Earth’s conditions over several orders of magnitude is highly questionable as demonstrated by recent comparison with surface geophysical observables. Strain rates couple space and time. We cannot expand…
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