Fractal Plate Tectonics

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2002-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202320v1

Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(3), 1105, doi:10.1029/2002GL015043 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Latex with AGU style files provided, 10 pages including 2 figures

Scientific paper

We analyze in details the statistical significance of the claim by Bird [2002] of a power law distribution of plate areas covering the Earth and confirm that the power law with exponent 0.25 +- 0.05 is the most robust and parsimonious model for all plates, including the very largest plates, when taking into account the constraint that the plates areas must sum up to 4 pi steradians. We propose a general class of fragmentation models that rationalize this observation and discuss the implications for the earth dynamics and the general self-organization of tectonic deformations at multiple scales.

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