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Table 2 Regional model setups

From: Subduction initiation from a stagnant lid and global overturn: new insights from numerical models with a free surface

   

Constant

Yield stress

  
   

yield stress

gradient

Mean

 
 

Top

Resolution

(σ y,const)

(Δ σ y )

plate strength

 

Tag

boundary

(n x×n y)

[non-dim]

[MPa]

[non-dim]

[MPa]

Regime

lid01

Free-slip

256×64

-

Stagnant

lid02

Free

256×64

-

Stagnant

lidA1

Free-slip

256×64

0.0003

4.4

0

4.4

Mobile

lidA1crit

Free-slip

256×64

0.00035

5.1

0

5.1

Stagnant

lidA2

Free-slip

256×64

0.0004

5.8

0

5.8

Stagnant

lidA3

Free-slip

256×64

0.0005

7.3

0

7.3

Stagnant

lidA4

Free

256×64

0.0003

4.4

0

4.4

Mobile

lidA5

Free

256×64

0.0004

5.8

0

5.8

Mobile

lidA5crit

Free

256×64

0.00045

6.6

0

6.6

Stagnant

lidA6

Free

256×64

0.0005

7.3

0

7.3

Stagnant

lidB1

Free-slip

256×64

0

0

0.003

4.9

Mobile

lidB2

Free-slip

256×64

0

0

0.004

6.5

Stagnant

lidB3

Free-slip

256×64

0

0

0.005

8.1

Stagnant

lidB4

Free-slip

256×64

0

0

0.006

9.7

Stagnant

lidB5

Free

256×64

0

0

0.003

4.9

Mobile

lidB6

Free

256×64

0

0

0.004

6.5

Mobile

lidB7

Free

256×64

0

0

0.005

8.1

Mobile

lidB8

Free

256×64

0

0

0.006

9.7

Stagnant

lidC1

Free-slip

256×64

0.0005

7.3

0.0045

5.5

Mobile

lidC1crit

Free-slip

256×64

0.00055

8.0

0.00495

6.0

Stagnant

lidC2

Free-slip

256×64

0.0006

8.7

0.0054

6.5

Stagnant

lidC3

Free-slip

256×64

0.0007

10.2

0.0063

7.6

Stagnant

lidC4

Free

256×64

0.0005

7.3

0.0045

5.5

Mobile

lidC5

Free

256×64

0.0006

8.7

0.0054

6.5

Mobile

lidC5crit

Free

256×64

0.00065

9.5

0.00585

7.1

Mobile

lidC6

Free

256×64

0.0007

10.2

0.0063

7.6

Stagnant

  1. See “ Regional model” section for more explanations