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14 | 14 | "potential mantle temperature":1573, |
15 | 15 | "features": |
16 | 16 | [ |
| 17 | + // Define a mantle layer, which has a uniform temperature of 1573 K. The mantle layer has a composition 2, which represents peridotite. |
17 | 18 | {"model": "mantle layer", "name": "peridotite mantle", "coordinates": [[-500e3, 100e3], [-500e3, -100e3], [16000e3, -100e3], [16000e3, 100e3]], |
18 | 19 | "min depth": 0, "max depth":10000e3, |
19 | 20 | "composition models": |
20 | 21 | [{"model": "uniform", "min depth":0.0, "max depth":10000e3, "compositions": [2]}], |
21 | 22 | "temperature models": |
22 | 23 | [{"model": "uniform", "min depth":0.0, "max depth":10000e3, "temperature": 1573}]}, |
23 | 24 |
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| 25 | + // Define an overriding plate, which is 80 km thick, 2500 km long, has a linear temperature profile, and is assigned the peridotite composition |
24 | 26 | {"model": "oceanic plate", "name": "Overriding Plate", |
25 | 27 | "coordinates": [[4000e3, -100e3], [4000e3, 100e3], [7500e3, 100e3], [7500e3, -100e3]], |
26 | 28 | "min depth": 0, |
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29 | 31 | "temperature models": [{"model": "linear", "top temperature":273, "bottom temperature":1573, "min depth": 0, "max depth":80e3}] |
30 | 32 | }, |
31 | 33 |
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| 34 | + // Define the unsubducted portion of the subducting plate. The plate is 3000 km long, 120 km thick, has a plate cooling geotherm, |
| 35 | + // and is assigned a layered composition. From top to bottom, the layers are a 10 km thick sediment, a 10 km thick mid-ocean ridge |
| 36 | + // basalt, a 10 km thick gabbro, and a 90 km thick peridotite, with and initial bound water equal to 2 wt%, 1 wt%, 0.5 wt%, and 1 wt%, |
| 37 | + // respectively. |
32 | 38 | {"model": "oceanic plate", "name": "Subducting Plate", |
33 | 39 | "coordinates": [[4000e3, -100e3], [4000e3, 100e3], [1000e3, 100e3], [1000e3, -100e3]], |
34 | 40 | "min depth": 0, |
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49 | 55 | , "min depth": 0, "max depth": 300e3, "bottom temperature": 1573}] |
50 | 56 | }, |
51 | 57 |
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| 58 | + // Define the subducted portion of the subducting plate. The slab has the same compositional properties as the |
| 59 | + // unsubducted portion defined in the feature above. The slab is 1100 km long in total, first curving to a dip |
| 60 | + // of 45 degrees over 300 km, and then continuing down at a constant 45 degree dip for another 800 km. The |
| 61 | + // temperature is defined using a plate cooling model for the base of the plate, and an infinite half-space |
| 62 | + // model for the top of the plate. |
52 | 63 | {"model":"subducting plate", "name":"Slab", |
53 | 64 |
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54 | 65 | "coordinates":[[4000e3, -100e3],[4000e3, 100e3]], |
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