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Thermal influences on spontaneous rock dome exfoliation

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, February 2018
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Title
Thermal influences on spontaneous rock dome exfoliation
Published in
Nature Communications, February 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41467-017-02728-1
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Brian D. Collins, Greg M. Stock, Martha-Cary Eppes, Scott W. Lewis, Skye C. Corbett, Joel B. Smith

Abstract

Rock domes, with their onion-skin layers of exfoliation sheets, are among the most captivating landforms on Earth. Long recognized as integral in shaping domes, the exact mechanism(s) by which exfoliation occurs remains enigmatic, mainly due to the lack of direct observations of natural events. In August 2014, during the hottest days of summer, a granitic dome in California, USA, spontaneously exfoliated; witnesses observed extensive cracking, including a ~8000 kg sheet popping into the air. Subsequent exfoliation episodes during the following two summers were recorded by instrumentation that captured-for the first time-exfoliation deformation and stress conditions. Here we show that thermal cycling and cumulative dome surface heating can induce subcritical cracking that culminates in seemingly spontaneous exfoliation. Our results indicate that thermal stresses-largely discounted in dome formation literature-can play a key role in triggering exfoliation and therefore may be an important control for shaping domes worldwide.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 60 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 30%
Researcher 9 15%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Professor 3 5%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 12 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 27 45%
Physics and Astronomy 6 10%
Environmental Science 3 5%
Engineering 3 5%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 16 27%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2022.
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#1,503,250
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