This web-page provides numerical modelling based animations for various
geodynamic processes that can be used for teaching:
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INTRUSION EMPLACEMENT PROCESSES
- Magma ballooning in the lower crust (Gerya and Burg, 2007):
Magma_Ballooning.ppt
- Intrusion of magmatic pipe (Gerya and Burg, 2007):
Magmatic_Pipe.ppt
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SUBDUCTION PROCESSES
- Forming of subduction channel and exhumation of HP rocks
(Gerya et al., 2002; Gerya and Stöckhert, 2006): Subduction.ppt
- Cold plumes and cold waves along slabs (Gerya et al., 2004,
Zhu et al., 2009): Cold_Plumes.ppt
- 3D_Cold_Plumes_1.mpeg
- 3D_Cold_Plumes_2.mpeg
- Rigid body rotation ("subduction wheel") in oceanic
subduction (Gorczyk et al., 2006):
- Lithology Subduction_wheel_rocks.wmv
- Viscosity Subduction_wheel_viscosity.wmv
- Seismic velocity (vp) Subduction_wheel_seismo.wmv
- Subduction and melting under continental margin (Gorczyk et
al., 2007):
- Stable subduction regime Stable_subduction.wmv
- Fore-arc extension and slab retreat regime
Retreating_subduction.wmv
- Transitional regime between above two
Transient_subduction.wmv
- Subduction with backarc basin opening(Gerya and Meilick,
2010): A) general view irep_z1.wmv B) zoom irep_z.wmv
- Subduction with tranf-lithospheric plumes(Gerya and
Meilick, 2010) irev_z.wmv
- Subduction initiation at a passive continental margin
(Nikolaeva et al., 2010) Subduction_Initiation.ppt
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COLLISION PROCESSES
- Exhumation of UHP rocks during incipient collision (Gerya
et al., 2008, Lithos) Hot_Channel.ppt
- Two-sided collision (Faccenda et al., 2007)
Two_Sided_Collision.ppt
- Arc-Continent collision (Gerya, unpublished) mica.ppt
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EXTENSION PROCESSES
- Development of transform faults at mid-ocean ridges (Gerya,
2010) Transform_Faults.ppt
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DIAPIRISM
- Growth of a diapir (Gerya, 2010): Diapir.ppt
- Crustal diapir exhuming granulite facies rocks (Gerya et
al., 2000): Granulite.ppt
- Cold diapirs growing in Bushveld intrusion and in
subduction zones (Gerya et al., 2003; Gerya and Yuen, 2003):
Cold_Diapirs.ppt
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SLAB BREAKOFF PROCESSES
- Simplified model of slab detachment (Gerya et al., 2004):
Detachment.mpg
- Detachment.mpg
- Multiple-scale models of slab breakoff and UHP rocks
exhumation (Gerya, unpublished results): Breakoff.ppt
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PLANETARY PROCESSES
- Planetary accretion by meteorite impacts (Gerya and Yuen,
2007): Impacts.ppt
- Planetary reshaping (shell tectonics) during iron core
formation (Gerya
and Yuen, 2007; Lin et al., 2009; Golabek et al., 2009):
Shell_Tectonics.ppt
- Decomposition.wmv
- Collective_diapirism.wmv
- Fragmentation.wmv
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