Modelling Drips and Delamination with Underworld
Modelling the relative time-scales of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and
delamination, using Underworld
With Adam Beall, Cardiff University.
Why model sub-continental gravitational instabilities?
Within the plate tectonics framework, continents are generally considered to
have a much lower density than the asthenosphere below and therefore avoid the
kind of recycling that the