[aspect-devel] Some helps about ASPECT

[John Naliboff]

Hi Elisa,

Welcome to ASPECT!

> If I create a lithosphere age file (a .txt file with different ages in) and I input it, is ASPECT able to read it? 

Yes, you can certainly setup ASPECT to do this.  I know of one person who has done something similar to what you describe.  To get to know the code better, it would be a good exercise to work through this.  

As guidance for reading in data for initial conditions, look at the section of the manual (and relevant source code) that describes reading in temperature boundary data ‘Boundary temperature model/Ascii data model’.

Note that you can also create functions defined within the input file that can create lateral and depth-dependent temperature field.  See ‘Initial conditions/Function’ parameter section in the manual.  You could distinguish between continental and oceanic domains in this manner as well.

Cheers,
John

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Assistant Project Scientist, CIG
Earth & Planetary Sciences Dept., UC Davis





> On May 19, 2016, at 2:20 AM, ELISA FIERRO <elisa.fierro at unicam.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm an italian PhD student in Geodynamics and the topic of my PhD is studying mantle dynamics beneath the Red Sea during its various opening phases. To do this I downloaded the latest version of Aspect (1.5.0-pre) (after trying CitcomS) and I'm learning to use it.
> 
> I need to distinguish the oceanic lithosphere from the continental domain and I would do it defining a thermal boundary layer and different lithosphere ages. 
> My questions are: 
> If I create a lithosphere age file (a .txt file with different ages in) and I input it, is ASPECT able to read it? 
> if it so, how can I set up this in the input file? 
> if it's not, is there a way to distinguish the two lithospheric domains?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Elisa Fierro
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