-These results demonstrate the potential key role of pre-existing faults in guiding the evolution of lithospheric deformation. However, given the nonlinearity of the rheology and governing equations, minor variations in fault strength, geometry, lithospheric structure, and boundary velocities may lead to significant variations in the spatiotemporal evolution of deformation. Similarly, changing the numerical resolution is likely to also affect the results, as the brittle shear band width by introduced by the plastic damper (1e21 Pa s) is still likely not fully resolved at the maximum resolution of 1e21 Pa s. Furthermore, varying degrees of minor variations in the model results will likely occur if a stricter nonlinear solver tolerance is selected. This cookbook provides a flexible framework for exploring the effects of these parameters, and application to hypothesis-driven questions such as fault reactivation, inversion of rift basins, or the partitioning of strain in complex orogens.
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