Hughes and a young Caltech engineer, Dick Palmer, built a plane called the H-1 (featuring a unique retractable landing gear) which Hughes piloted to a...
This movie shows what could potentially happen in the Earth's mantle as a large supercontinent moves around the surface. The non-subducting continent is shown by...
This animation shows what would happen to the topography of a continent and relative sea level change as the continental plate interacted with mantle convection....
This animation shows the evolution of passive tracers which are stirred by a simple, but plausible, model of time dependent mantle convection associated with plate...
This is an animation of thermal convection with a strong temperature and stress dependent rheology in which perfect tectonic plates develop. More details at...
This animation shows a set of models created in collaboration with Dr. Shijie Zhong (U. Colorado, Boulder) that simulates the evolution of an oceanic plate...
