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Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-567-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-567-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
Research article
 | 
07 May 2024
Research article |  | 07 May 2024

The influence of viscous slab rheology on numerical models of subduction

Natalie Hummel, Susanne Buiter, and Zoltán Erdős

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Simulations of subducting tectonic plates often use material properties extrapolated from the behavior of small rock samples in a laboratory to conditions found in the Earth. We explore several typical approaches to simulating these extrapolated material properties and show that they produce very rigid subducting plates with unrealistic dynamics. Our findings imply that subducting plates deform by additional mechanisms that are less commonly implemented in simulations.
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