Roles of lithospheric strain softening and heterogeneity in determining the geometry of rifts and continental margins. Imaging, Mapping and Modelling Continental Lithosphere Extension and
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Abstract
Abstract: Plane strain thermo-mechanical finite-element model experiments are used to investi-gate the effects of frictional–plastic strain softening and inherited weakness on the style of litho-spheric extension. The model results are compared with the Newfoundland–Iberia conjugate rifted margins with the goal of understanding the lithospheric properties that controlled their evol-ution during rifting. Our proposition is that coupling between the plastic–viscous layering, acting together with frictional–plastic strain softening localized on inherited weak heterogeneities, can explain the initial wide rift and distributed rift basins that are later abandoned in favour of a narrow rift in which mantle lithosphere is exhumed to the surface. The models comprise uniform composition viscous and plastic layers in which focused deformation is nucleated on either a single weak ‘seed ’ or a statistical white noise distribution of inherited strain. Strain soft-ening of frictional–plastic layers acts as a positive feedback mechanism that creates localized shear zones from the inherited weak heterogeneities. The sensitivity of deformation to the choice of softening parameters and the type of inherited noise is examined in cases where the deeper part of the crust is either weak or strong. Lithosphere-scale models with a single weak seed exhibit a range of asymmetric and symmetric
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