📷 Beautiful capture of network-like patterns known as "force chains"

This is Figure 2 of https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae009 by D.W. Vasco and co-authors

Wikepedia article on force chains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_chain

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Are you headed to #AGU2023 and interested in transient rheology or the thermodynamic state of the upper mantle? Then check out this list of sessions and abstracts related to the iSTRUM (inveStigating the Transient Rheology of the Upper Mantle) project and consider adding them to your schedule!

https://istrum.github.io/blog/agu-2023/

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