Analog Models for Earth Sciences

The Earth is a difficult "object" to study. The timescales and the length scales of Earth processes span several orders of magnitudes. Moreover, most Earth processes started in geological times, well before human records, and sometimes at inaccessible depths. That is the reason why Earth scientists needed to set up spatially and temporally scaled models to contextualize their sparse and static data (e.g., seismological, geochemical, geological, petrological, rock physics data) into a comprehensive evolutionary picture and test their ideas about the evolution of geologic structures.