Dynamic Models of Continental Extension: U.S. Atlantic Margin and Red Sea

P.I.开发了一个有限差分模型，描述了被动大陆边缘伸展和裂谷的演化。已经为P.I.提供了资金，以使他的理论研究与美国东部成本和红海边缘的观测数据相一致。将试图解释裂谷作用的不对称性质，最大伸展轨迹随时间的移动，以及裂谷作用之前和期间的隆起和岩浆活动的分布。这个模型不需要先验假设剪切的性质是“简单的”或“纯粹的”，这是一个共同的起点，限制了其他建模技术复制代表裂边的各种特征的能力。

The P.I. has developed a finite difference model that describes the evolution of stretching and rifting along passive continental margins. Funding has been granted for the P.I. to reconcile his theoretical studies with observational data from the margins of the U.S. east cost and Red Sea. An attempt will be made to account for the asymmetric nature of rifting, the shifting of the locus of maximum extension with time, and the distribution of uplift and magmatism prior to and during rifting. This model needs no a apriori assumptions regarding the character of shearing as either "simple" or "pure", acommon starting point that limits other modeling techniques in their ability to duplicate the variety of features that typify rifted margins.