Computational Infrastructure
for Geodynamics (CIG)

Community-driven organization advancing Earth science by providing the infrastructure for the development and dissemination of software for geophysics and related fields.

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Research Highlight

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Coupling mantle convection (ASPECT) to lithosphere and surface processes to understand North American tectonics

Contributed by Alireza Bahadori and Jacqueline Austerman, Columbia University 

Dramatic topographic extension, an unparalleled suite of data from field observations and EarthScope, and well-constrained plate boundary evolution make the western United States a world-class natural laboratory for studying the thermomechanical processes of extensional collapse. The present-day Basin and Range province of Southwestern North America (SWNA) is the product of this complete period of extension. The extensional period is generally recognized to consist of an early phase in latest Eocene-Oligocene, in which metamorphic core complexes formed through evolution of low-angle normal faults that eventually exhumed highly sheared middle-crustal rocks (Bahadori and Holt, 2019).

In a pair of studies we model mantle flow using ASPECT ... [full article]

 

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Exploring flash heating coupled with mm-scale contact evolution in granite. Monica BarberyBrown University. •  register  •  More Info 

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Making the Ocean Floor: Two-phase dynamics of mantle melting and formation of oceanic lithosphere.   Adina PusokOxford University •  register  •  More Info 

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Hydrothermal friction experiments on simulated basaltic fault gouge and implications for megathrust earthquakes, Hanaya Okuda,  University of Tokyo. •  register  •  More Info  

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What can we learn about friction evolution and rupture behavior from laboratory experiments?, Vito RubinoEcole Central de Nantes. •  register  •  More Info 

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Calypso

v1.2.0
A set of codes for MHD dynamo simulation in a rotating spherical shell using spherical harmonics expansion methods.
Current release: 2017-07-17
GNU GPL v2 or newer license

PyLith

v3.0.3

Finite-element code for dynamic and quasistatic simulations of crustal deformation, primarily earthquakes. and volcanoes
Current release: 2022-10-14
MIT license

Rayleigh

v1.1.0

A 3-D convection code designed for the study of dynamo behavior in spherical shell geometry. 
 
Current release: 2022-05-05
GNU GPL v3 or newer license

SW4

v3.0 beta

3-D seismic modeling, with a free surface condition on the top boundary, absorbing super-grid conditions on the far-field boundaries, and an arbitrary number of point force and/or point moment tensor source terms. 
Current release: 2012-11-02
GNU GPL v2 or newer license

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