Energy dissipation and geometric structure at spreading plate boundaries

Details Energy dissipation and geometric structure at spreading plate boundaries Energy dissipation and geometric structure at spreading plate boundaries

Nov 1973

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973e%26psl..20..419f&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 20, Issue 3, p. 419-424.

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A simple analytical model of injection of solid material under ocean ridge axes and of shearing action under transform faults is presented on the basis of high temperature creep laws. The orthogonality between ridge axes and transform faults is explained by the principle of least-energy dissipation in the plastic flow at diverging plate boundaries and it is shown that this striking surface geometry implies the existence of a narrow vertical injection channel under oceanic ridges. Present address: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA.

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