[aspect-devel] Plate motion reconstrucion - Layered rheology

Maxwell Rudolph maxrudolph at ucdavis.edu
Wed Oct 25 14:20:55 PDT 2017


Eleonora,
There is a 'depth dependent' material model that allows you to prescribe a
depth-dependent viscosity prefactor to any of the other material models.

Max

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Eleonora Ficini <
eleonora.ficini at uniroma1.it> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I am a PhD student, I recently started to use ASPECT and I have two
> different questions:
>
> 1) I would like to know if someone tried to include plate motion
> reconstruction (from GPlates) into ASPECT. If yes, what kind of files does
> ASPECT need? It seems that the manual doesn't mention the correct way to
> built the velocity/time file.
>
> 2) In a global spherical model, how is the layered rheological structure
> (especially regarding a 100 km thick lithosphere)?
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
>
> All the best,
> Eleonora
>
>
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