Multi-scale dynamics and rheology of mantle flow with plates

The importance of slab pull and a global asthenosphere to plate motions

(2012) Joost van Summeren et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A free plate surface and weak oceanic crust produce single-sided subduction on Earth

(2012) F. Crameri et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Rapid weakening of subducting plates from trench-parallel estimates of flexural rigidity

(2012) Katrina M. Arredondo et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Plate Motions and Stresses from Global Dynamic Models

(2012) A. Ghosh et al.   SCIENCE

Segmentation of the Farallon slab

(2011) Lijun Liu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geologically current motion of 56 plates relative to the no-net-rotation reference frame

(2011) Donald F. Argus et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Origin of localized fast mantle flow velocity in numerical models of subduction

(2011) Magali I. Billen et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

An analytic model of convection in a system with layered viscosity and plates

(2011) John W. Crowley et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

p4est: Scalable Algorithms for Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Forests of Octrees

(2011) Carsten Burstedde et al.   SIAM JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Plate tectonics and net lithosphere rotation over the past 150My

(2010) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Complex subduction and small-scale convection revealed by body-wave tomography of the western United States upper mantle

(2010) Brandon Schmandt et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle dynamics and seismic anisotropy

(2010) Maureen D. Long et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

State of stress in slabs as a function of large-scale plate kinematics

(2010) Eugenio Carminati et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Constraints on lithosphere net rotation and asthenospheric viscosity from global mantle flow models and seismic anisotropy

(2010) Clinton P. Conrad et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Global slab deformation and centroid moment tensor constraints on viscosity

(2010) L. A. Alpert et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Slab stress and strain rate as constraints on global mantle flow

(2010) Laura Alisic et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Reconciling surface plate motions with rapid three-dimensional mantle flow around a slab edge

(2010) Margarete A. Jadamec et al.   NATURE

Mantle upwellings above slab graveyards linked to the global geoid lows

(2010) Sonja Spasojevic et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Flow: From Local to Global Scales

(2010) G. Stadler et al.   SCIENCE

Parallel scalable adjoint-based adaptive solution of variable-viscosity Stokes flow problems

(2009) Carsten Burstedde et al.   COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING

Emergence of a low-viscosity channel in subduction zones through the coupling of mantle flow and thermodynamics

(2009) Laura Baker Hebert et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle flow in subduction systems: The subslab flow field and implications for mantle dynamics

(2009) Maureen D. Long et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Towards absolute plate motions constrained by lower-mantle slab remnants

(2009) Douwe G. van der Meer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Deep slab hydration induced by bending-related variations in tectonic pressure

(2009) Manuele Faccenda et al.   Nature Geoscience

Reconciling strong slab pull and weak plate bending: The plate motion constraint on the strength of mantle slabs

(2008) Benjun Wu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Trench migration, net rotation and slab–mantle coupling

(2008) F. Funiciello et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust

(2008) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A new global model forPwave speed variations in Earth's mantle

(2008) Chang Li et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The Subduction Zone Flow Field from Seismic Anisotropy: A Global View

(2008) M. D. Long et al.   SCIENCE

Rheologic controls on the dynamics of slab detachment

(2007) Erin R. Andrews et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS