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  • Introduction
    • Installation
    • Using System MPI Binaries
    • Using Custom MUMPS Libraries
      • Model Building, Execution and Plotting
      • Using Input Files
      • Background Command-line Execution
      • Batch Remote Execution
      • Batch Local Execution
      • Plotting Marker Swarms in Parallel
      • Model List
      • Polyphase Extension n17
      • Extension with Weak Fault
      • Extension with Softening b14
      • SDR Dynamics
      • Visco-elasto-plastic Extension with Downhill Diffusion
      • Slab Retreat
      • Sandbox Extension
      • Sandbox Shortening
      • Spreading Center
      • Hot Box Melting
    • Introduction
      • Conservation of Momentum and Mass
      • Conservation of Energy
      • Staggered Grid Structure
      • Staggered Grid Generation
      • Marker Distribution
      • Discretization of the 2D Stokes-continuity Equations
      • Discretization of Heat-conduction Equation
      • Stokes Boundary Conditions
      • Heat Boundary Conditions
    • Marker-Grid Interpolation
    • Stokes-Continuity Algorithm
    • Heat Algorithm
    • Sediment Transport
    • Melt
    • Lava Flow
    • Viscous Creep
    • Strain Weakening
    • Hydrothermal Circulation
    • Serpentinization
    • Main Steps
      • Pre-solver Steps
      • Rock Property Update Steps
      • Latent Heat Update Steps
      • Hydrothermal Update Steps
      • Marker Failure Properties Update Steps
      • Marker Creep Viscosity Update Steps
      • Melt Damage Update Steps
    • Stokes-solver Steps
    • Heat-solver Steps
    • Advection-solver Steps
      • Post-solver Steps
      • Topography
      • Melt Extraction
      • Sediment Transport
      • Lava Flow
      • Marker Transformation
    • API Overview
    • EarthBoxState
      • ModelManager
      • XdmfTimeStepsManager
      • Initialization
      • StickyAirGeometry
      • EarthLayering
      • LithoStrongZones
      • Plume
      • CrustalHole
      • RayleighTaylor
      • MobileWall
      • Sandbox
      • InternalVelocityZone
      • FractureZone
      • WeakFault
      • WeakSeed
      • Initialization
      • Pressure
      • Temperature
      • TransientBottomTemperature
      • Velocity
      • VelocityFromStrainRate
      • VelocityStop
      • VelocityStep
      • MarkerCoordinates
      • MarkerTemperature
      • MarkerFriction
      • MarkerCohesion
      • MarkerDilatancy
      • MarkerViscousStrainSoftening
      • MarkerPreexponential
      • MarkerStressLimits
      • MarkerBoundaryFriction
      • MarkerMaterials
      • Material Collection Files
      • Material Properties
      • Material Input
      • Material Types
      • Material Domains
      • RockProperties
      • Hydrothermal Circulation
      • Serpentinization
      • StokesContinuitySolver
      • GlobalPlasticityLoop
      • HeatSolver
      • Advection
      • Interpolation
      • MeltModel
      • MeltExtraction
      • MeltExtrusion
      • MeltDamage
      • Topography
      • Sealevel
      • RelativeBaseLevel
      • SedimentTransport
      • SaltDeposition
      • Execution
      • Initialization
      • Examples
    • Command-line Arguments
    • Case Management
    • MaterialLibrary
    • Collection: Lithospheric Deformation eb1
    • Collection: Benchmarks
    • Collection: Benchmarks SFS
    • Collection: Sandbox
    • Command-line Plotter
    • Scalar Grid Plots
    • Velocity Vector Plots
    • Marker Swarm Plots
    • Yield Strength Plots
    • Stokes Convergence Plots
    • Data Types
    • ModelData
      • Benchmarks
      • BoundaryConditions
      • Carbonate
      • Conversion
      • Geometry
      • Gravity
      • Grids
      • HeatEquation
      • Interpolation
      • Markers
      • Materials
      • Melting
      • StokesContinuity
      • Timestep
      • Topography
    • Units
    • Benchmarks
    • Single Execution
    • Batch Execution
      • Couette Flow with Viscous Heating
      • Channel Flow Variable Conductivity
      • Channel Flow Non Steady Temperature
      • Channel Flow Non Newtonian
      • Solid Body Rotation
      • Rayleigh Taylor Instability
      • Elastic Slab
      • Viscoelastic Stress Buildup
      • Box Convection Isoviscous 1a
      • Plasticity Benchmark Kaus10
      • Seafloor Spreading
      • Flexure Triangular Hole
      • Viscoelastic Extension
      • Viscoelastic Contraction
      • Simple Sedimentation
  • References
Version
  • Models
  • Models
  • Slab Retreat
  • Slab Retreat
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Subduction Zone Initiation at a Fracture Zone

see EarthBox/examples/models/slab_retreat
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