Yet that's just what researchers have done, using a seemingly simple laboratory model of rifting on the seafloor.
Most suggestions of palaeohydrological connections in tropical Africa are based on circumstantial evidence in combination with general models of rifting and uplifting [ 2] rather than on geomorphological evidence like in other parts of the continent where palaeochannels can be traced over considerable areas and are reasonably well dated, e.g. [ 5- 7].
I have analyzed the distribution of plate sizes of the 159 plates to compare it with a law proposed by Koehn et al. (2008), based on a numerical model of plate rifting.
Lastly, we apply the new methodology to study geodynamic models of continental rifting and break-up in order to understand the diverse range of passive continental margins we observe on Earth today.
Most existing models for the evolution of rift basins predict the development of deep-water depositional systems during the stage of greatest tectonic subsidence, when accommodation generation potentially outpaces sedimentation.
In this paper, we propose a vector-bone dynamical model to against the transmission of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) between ruminants and mosquitoes, where impulsive vaccination for susceptible ruminants is introduced.
Similarly, climate-based models have helped predict recent outbreaks of Rift Valley fever among humans and animals in Africa (23 ).
The evolution of the northeastern flank of the Baikal rift system can be explained by a model of oblique rifting which accounts for the architecture of rift basins, the pattern of Late Cenozoic active faults, and the stress pattern derived from structural and seismicity data.
For the vector-borne Rift Valley fever virus, the risk-mapping model using these climate data predicted areas where outbreaks of Rift Valley fever in humans and animals were expected and occurred in the Horn of Africa from December 2006 to May 2007 (29).
Analysis of model results in terms of statistics of fault length and orientation, as well as deformation architecture, and its comparison with the MER suggest that models of two-phase rifting (with a first phase of NW-SE extension followed by E-W rifting) or constant NW-SE extension, as well as models of constant ENE-WSW rifting are not able to reproduce the fault architecture observed in nature.
