Geodynamic modelling provides a powerful tool to investigate processes in the Earth's crust,
mantle, and core that are not directly observable. However, numerical models are inherently …

Observations of rift and rifted margin architecture suggest that significant spatial and
temporal structural heterogeneity develops during the multiphase evolution of continental …

Density instabilities in the lithosphere can founder gravitationally via viscous drip** and
decoupling from overlying crust. The lithospheric drip** concept has been invoked across …

Geodynamic modelling provides a powerful tool to investigate processes in the Earth's crust,
mantle, and core that are not directly observable. However, numerical models are inherently …

The spatiotemporal interaction of large‐and regional‐scale upper mantle forces can prevail
in collisional settings. To better understand the role of these forces on post‐subduction …

Geodynamical simulations over the past decades have widely been built on quadrilateral
and hexahedral finite elements. For the discretization of the key Stokes equation describing …

Strain localization is a fundamental characteristic of plate tectonics. The resulting
deformation structures shape the margins of continents and the internal structure of tectonic …

Venus is a terrestrial planet with dimensions similar to the Earth, but a vastly different
geodynamic evolution, with recent studies debating the occurrence and extent of tectonic …

The tectonics of East Asia are notoriously complex. Consisting of an intricate patchwork of
microplates and accreted terranes, even the Cenozoic tectonic history of the region remains …

Back-arc basins in continental settings can develop into oceanic basins, when extension
lasts long enough to break up the continental lithosphere and allow mantle melting that …