Fig. 3: Fracture development across shells with various thicknesses. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Fracture development across shells with various thicknesses.

From: Breaking Earth’s shell into a global plate network

Fig. 3

Surface fracture development for seven model runs with different shell thickness (other variables held constant), imaged in terms of uplift with total fracture lengths. Dashed lines indicate the evolution beyond the thermal expansion limit (see text). The spheres show displacement (articulated as in Fig. 1) as each model run achieves a total length of surface fractures of 4.0E + 05 km.

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