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Articles | Volume 14, issue 4
Articles | Volume 14, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-389-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-389-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 4
Research article
 | 
13 Apr 2023
Research article |  | 13 Apr 2023

Tectonic interactions during rift linkage: insights from analog and numerical experiments

Timothy Chris Schmid, Sascha Brune, Anne Glerum, and Guido Schreurs

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-389-2023-supplement

Data sets

Effect of sieving height on density and friction of brittle analogue material: Ring-shear test data of quarz sand used for analogue experiments in the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern Timothy Schmid, Guido Schreurs, Michael Warsitzka, and Matthias Rosenau https://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2020.006

Effect of sieving height on density and friction of brittle analogue material: Ring-shear test data of corundum sand used for analogue experiments in the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern Timothy Schmid, Guido Schreurs, Michael Warsitzka, and Matthias Rosenau https://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2020.005

Model code and software

anne-glerum/paper-Schmid-Tectonic-interactions-during-rift-linkage: Update ASPECT branch (v.2.0.0) Anne Glerum https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7701374

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Short summary
Continental rifts form by linkage of individual rift segments and disturb the regional stress field. We use analog and numerical models of such rift segment interactions to investigate the linkage of deformation and stresses and subsequent stress deflections from the regional stress pattern. This local stress re-orientation eventually causes rift deflection when multiple rift segments compete for linkage with opposingly propagating segments and may explain rift deflection as observed in nature.
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