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Plate Tectonics examples

One executed example per breakthrough in Breakthroughs in Plate Tectonics, in chronological order, each with an asserted check of the result it shows. Download the Python source or notebook from each page. Plate Tectonics: units, equations and validation records units and limits; all examples use deterministic synthetic inputs and require no downloads.

Euler’s rotation theorem (1776)

Euler's rotation theorem (1776)

Airy’s isostasy (1855)

Airy's isostasy (1855)

Kelvin’s cooling Earth (1862)

Kelvin's cooling Earth (1862)

Kelvin’s conduction on a discrete grid

Kelvin's conduction on a discrete grid

Hertz’s floating elastic plate (1884)

Hertz's floating elastic plate (1884)

Wegener’s continental drift (1912)

Wegener's continental drift (1912)

Holmes’s mantle convection (1931)

Holmes's mantle convection (1931)

Hess’s seafloor spreading (1962)

Hess's seafloor spreading (1962)

Vine, Matthews and Morley’s magnetic stripes (1963)

Vine, Matthews and Morley's magnetic stripes (1963)

Wilson’s transform faults (1965)

Wilson's transform faults (1965)

McKenzie and Parker’s plates on a sphere (1967)

McKenzie and Parker's plates on a sphere (1967)

Isacks, Oliver and Sykes’s subducting slabs (1968)

Isacks, Oliver and Sykes's subducting slabs (1968)

Walcott’s lithospheric flexure under loads (1970)

Walcott's lithospheric flexure under loads (1970)

Morgan’s hotspot tracks (1971)

Morgan's hotspot tracks (1971)

Forsyth and Uyeda’s slab pull (1975)

Forsyth and Uyeda's slab pull (1975)

Parsons and Sclater’s depth-age law (1977)

Parsons and Sclater's depth-age law (1977)

NUVEL-1 relative plate motions (1990)

NUVEL-1 relative plate motions (1990)