Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1211-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1211-2021
Research article
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31 May 2021
Research article |  | 31 May 2021

Looking beyond kinematics: 3D thermo-mechanical modelling reveals the dynamics of transform margins

Anthony Jourdon, Charlie Kergaravat, Guillaume Duclaux, and Caroline Huguen

Model code and software

A scalable, matrix-free multigrid preconditioner for finite element discretizations of heterogeneous Stokes flow (https://bitbucket.org/ptatin/ptatin3d/src/master/) May, D. A., Brown, J., and Le Pourhiet, L. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2015.03.014

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Short summary
The borders between oceans and continents, called margins, can be convergent, divergent, or horizontally sliding. The formation of oceans occurs in a divergent context. However, some divergent margin structures display an accommodation of horizontal sliding during the opening of oceans. To study and understand how the horizontal sliding part occurring during divergence influences the margin structure, we performed 3D high-resolution numerical models evolving during tens of millions of years.