Three-dimensional SeaMARC II, gravity, and magnetics study of large-offset rift propagation at the Pito Rift, Easter microplate

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Martinez ◽  
David F. Naar ◽  
Thomas B. Reed ◽  
Richard N. Hey
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Rift Propagation ◽  
Seamarc Ii ◽  
Easter Microplate

scholarly journals Ice shelf rift propagation: stability, three dimensional effects, and the role of marginal weakening

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Paul Lipovsky
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Ice Shelf ◽  
Linear Elastic ◽  
Partial Contact ◽  
Rift Propagation ◽  
Elastic Fracture ◽  
Shelf Margins ◽  
Determining Factor

Abstract. Understanding the processes that govern ice shelf extent are of fundamental importance to improved estimates of future sea level rise. In present-day Antarctica, ice shelf extent is most commonly determined by the propagation of through-cutting fractures called ice shelf rifts. Here, I present the first three-dimensional analysis of ice shelf rift propagation. I present a linear elastic fracture mechanical (LEFM) description of rift propagation. The model predicts that rifts may be stabilized when buoyant flexure results in contact at the tops of the near-tip rift walls. This stabilizing tendency may be overcome, however, by processes that act in the ice shelf margins. In particular, both marginal weakening and the advection of rifts into an ice tongue are shown to be processes that may trigger rift propagation. Marginal shear stress is shown to be the determining factor that governs these types of rift instability. I furthermore show that rift stability is closely related to the transition from uniaxial to biaxial extension known as the compressive arch. Although the partial contact of rift walls is fundamentally a three-dimensional process, I demonstrate that it may be parameterized within more numerically efficient two-dimensional calculations. This study provides a step towards a description of calving physics that is based in fracture mechanics.

scholarly journals Ice shelf rift propagation: stability, three-dimensional effects, and the role of marginal weakening

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1673-1683
Author(s):  
Bradley Paul Lipovsky
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Tangential Displacement ◽  
Ice Shelf ◽  
Linear Elastic ◽  
Partial Contact ◽  
Rift Propagation ◽  
Iceberg Calving ◽  
Elastic Fracture ◽  
Shelf Margins

Abstract. Understanding the processes that govern ice shelf extent is important to improving estimates of future sea-level rise. In present-day Antarctica, ice shelf extent is most commonly determined by the propagation of through-cutting fractures called ice shelf rifts. Here, I present the first three-dimensional analysis of ice shelf rift propagation. I model rifts using the assumptions of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). The model predicts that rifts may be stabilized (i.e., stop propagating) when buoyant flexure results in the partial contact of rift walls. This stabilizing tendency may be overcome, however, by processes that act in the ice shelf margins. In particular, loss of marginal strength, modeled as a transition from zero tangential displacement to zero tangential shear stress, is shown to favor rift propagation. Rift propagation may also be triggered if a rift is carried with the ice flow (i.e., advected) out of an embayment and into a floating ice tongue. I show that rift stability is closely related to the transition from uniaxial to biaxial extension known as the compressive arch. Although the partial contact of rift walls is fundamentally a three-dimensional process, I demonstrate that it may be parameterized within more numerically efficient two-dimensional calculations. This study constitutes a step towards a first-principle description of iceberg calving due to ice shelf rift propagation.

scholarly journals Interactions between propagating rifts and linear weaknesses in the lower crust

Geosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1617-1640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas E. Molnar ◽  
Alexander R. Cruden ◽  
Peter G. Betts
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Rift Basins ◽  
Significant Control ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Rift Propagation ◽  
Continental Rifts ◽  
Extension Direction ◽  
Changes Over Time

Abstract Pre-existing structures in the crust such as shear zones, faults, and mobile belts are known to exert a significant control on the structural evolution of continental rifts. However, the influence of such features when the extension direction progressively changes over time remains uncertain. Here we present new results from three-dimensional lithospheric-scale laboratory experiments of rotational extension that provide key insights into the temporal evolution of propagating rifts. We specifically test and characterize how rifts propagate and interact with linear crustal rheological heterogeneities oriented at variable angles with respect to the extension direction. Results show that approximately rift-parallel pre-existing heterogeneities favor the formation of long, linear faults that reach near-final lengths at early stages. Low angles between the heterogeneities and the propagating rift axis may result in strong strike-slip reactivation of the pre-existing structures if they are suitably oriented with respect to the stretching direction. When the linear heterogeneities are oriented at intermediate to high angles rift branches become laterally offset as they propagate, resulting in complex rhombic fault patterns. Rift-perpendicular crustal heterogeneities do not affect fault trends during rift propagation, but cause stalling and deepening of laterally growing rift basins. Similarities between the analogue experimental results and selected natural examples provide insights on how nature finds the preferential pathway to breakup in heterogeneous continental lithosphere.

The orbit of Pluto over a long interval of time

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 227-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Orbit ◽  
Numerical Integration ◽  
Restricted Problem ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Third ◽  
Circular Restricted Problem ◽  
Resonance Relation

The paper presents a summary of the results obtained by C. J. Cohen and E. C. Hubbard, who established by numerical integration that a resonance relation exists between the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. The problem may be explored further by approximating the motion of Pluto by that of a particle with negligible mass in the three-dimensional (circular) restricted problem. The mass of Pluto and the eccentricity of Neptune's orbit are ignored in this approximation. Significant features of the problem appear to be the presence of two critical arguments and the possibility that the orbit may be related to a periodic orbit of the third kind.

Conformation of Ribosomes from Escherichia Coli

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 210-211
Author(s):  
M. Boublik ◽  
W. Hellmann ◽  
F. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Binding Sites ◽  
Ribosomal Proteins ◽  
Fluorescent Dyes ◽  
Protein Biosynthesis ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
And Function

The present knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of ribosomes is far too limited to enable a complete understanding of the various roles which ribosomes play in protein biosynthesis. The spatial arrangement of proteins and ribonuclec acids in ribosomes can be analysed in many ways. Determination of binding sites for individual proteins on ribonuclec acid and locations of the mutual positions of proteins on the ribosome using labeling with fluorescent dyes, cross-linking reagents, neutron-diffraction or antibodies against ribosomal proteins seem to be most successful approaches. Structure and function of ribosomes can be correlated be depleting the complete ribosomes of some proteins to the functionally inactive core and by subsequent partial reconstitution in order to regain active ribosomal particles.

Ultrastructural Investigations of the Contractile Filaments of Amoebae

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 188-189
Author(s):  
P.L. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Cytoplasmic Streaming ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Amoeboid Movement ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Chemical Conditions ◽  
Complete Interpretation

Previous freeze fracture results on the intact giant, amoeba Chaos carolinensis indicated the presence of a fibrillar arrangement of filaments within the cytoplasm. A complete interpretation of the three dimensional ultrastructure of these structures, and their possible role in amoeboid movement was not possible, since comparable results could not be obtained with conventional fixation of intact amoebae. Progress in interpreting the freeze fracture images of amoebae required a more thorough understanding of the different types of filaments present in amoebae, and of the ways in which they could be organized while remaining functional.The recent development of a calcium sensitive, demembranated, amoeboid model of Chaos carolinensis has made it possible to achieve a better understanding of such functional arrangements of amoeboid filaments. In these models the motility of demembranated cytoplasm can be controlled in vitro, and the chemical conditions necessary for contractility, and cytoplasmic streaming can be investigated. It is clear from these studies that “fibrils” exist in amoeboid models, and that they are capable of contracting along their length under conditions similar to those which cause contraction in vertebrate muscles.

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