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Figure 19

From: Towards scaling laws for subduction initiation on terrestrial planets: constraints from two-dimensional steady-state convection simulations

Figure 19

Snapshots of stress fields before and at the point of failure for case R a=3×107, θ=16, a=0.75, T 0=0.8, τ y =6.6×105. Time sequence goes from left to right and top to bottom. White arrows show velocities. (a) and (b) are close to beginning of simulation, (c) is at the mid-point between the start and failure, and (d-i) are right before overturning (depicted in (j-l)) occurs.

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