The upper mantle beneath the South Atlantic Ocean, South America and Africa from waveform tomography with massive data sets

Southward propagation of Nazca subduction along the Andes

(2019) Yi-Wei Chen et al.   NATURE

Hot Upper Mantle Beneath the Tristan da Cunha Hotspot From Probabilistic Rayleigh-Wave Inversion and Petrological Modeling

(2018) Raffaele Bonadio et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Retrodictions of Mid Paleogene mantle flow and dynamic topography in the Atlantic region from compressible high resolution adjoint mantle convection models: Sensitivity to deep mantle viscosity and tomographic input model

(2018) L. Colli et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Hotspot tracks in the South Atlantic located above bands of fast flowing asthenosphere driven by waning pulsations from the African LLSVP

(2018) John O'Connor et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The nature of subslab slow velocity anomalies beneath South America

(2017) Daniel Evan Portner et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The deforming Nazca slab in the mantle transition zone and lower mantle: Constraints from teleseismic tomography on the deeply subducted slab between 6°S and 32°S

(2017) Alissa Scire et al.   Geosphere

The origin of Patagonia revealed by Re-Os systematics of mantle xenoliths

(2017) Manuel Enrique Schilling et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Marine magnetotellurics imaged no distinct plume beneath the Tristan da Cunha hotspot in the southern Atlantic Ocean

(2017) Kiyoshi Baba et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Rhyacian evolution of the eastern São Luís Craton: petrography, geochemistry and geochronology of the Rosário Suite

(2017) Bruna Karine Correa Nogueira et al.   Brazilian Journal of Geology

Major influence of plume-ridge interaction, lithosphere thickness variations, and global mantle flow on hotspot volcanism-The example of Tristan

(2016) Rene Gassmöller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

On the use of sensitivity tests in seismic tomography

(2016) N. Rawlinson et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

An automatically updatedS-wave model of the upper mantle and the depth extent of azimuthal anisotropy

(2016) Eric Debayle et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Causes of intraplate seismicity in central Brazil from travel time seismic tomography

(2016) Marcelo Peres Rocha et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Small-scale thermal upwellings under the northern East African Rift from S travel time tomography

(2016) Chiara Civiero et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Age distribution of Ocean Drill sites across the Central Walvis Ridge indicates plate boundary control of plume volcanism in the South Atlantic

(2015) John M. O'Connor et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Influence of subduction history on South American topography

(2015) Nicolas Flament et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Crustal structure of Precambrian terranes in the southern African subcontinent with implications for secular variation in crustal genesis

(2015) Marsella Kachingwe et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Absolute plate motion of Africa around Hawaii-Emperor bend time

(2015) S. M. Maher et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Toward a generalized plate motion reference frame

(2015) T. W. Becker et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The geological history of northwestern South America: from Pangaea to the early collision of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (290–75Ma)

(2015) Richard Spikings et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Uncertainties in crustal thickness models for data sparse environments: A review for South America and Africa

(2015) M. van der Meijde et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

(2015) Scott W. French et al.   NATURE

Joint inversion for global isotropic and radially anisotropic mantle structure including crustal thickness perturbations

(2015) Sung-Joon Chang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Imaging the North American continent using waveform inversion of global and USArray data

(2014) A.J. Schaeffer et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Origin of azimuthal seismic anisotropy in oceanic plates and mantle

(2014) Thorsten W. Becker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Cameroon Line: Analysis of an intraplate magmatic province transecting both oceanic and continental lithospheres: Constraints, controversies and models

(2014) M. Stephen Njome et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Rayleigh wave phase velocities in the Atlantic upper mantle

(2014) Esther K. James et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography

(2014) S. W. French et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Rapid South Atlantic spreading changes and coeval vertical motion in surrounding continents: Evidence for temporal changes of pressure-driven upper mantle flow

(2014) L. Colli et al.   TECTONICS

Crustal structure beneath the Paleozoic Parnaíba Basin revealed by airborne gravity and magnetic data, Brazil

(2014) David L. de Castro et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Flat slab subduction, trench suction, and craton destruction: Comparison of the North China, Wyoming, and Brazilian cratons

(2014) Timothy M. Kusky et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The development of magmatism along the Cameroon Volcanic Line: Evidence from seismicity and seismic anisotropy

(2014) R. S. M. De Plaen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

The tectonic evolution of the Transbrasiliano Lineament in northern Paraná Basin, Brazil, as inferred from aeromagnetic data

(2014) Julia B. Curto et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

The deep seismic structure of the Ethiopia/Afar hotspot and the African superplume

(2013) S. E. Hansen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Global shear speed structure of the upper mantle and transition zone

(2013) A. J. Schaeffer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Neoproterozoic evolution of the basement of the South-American platform

(2013) Benjamim Bley de Brito Neves et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Waveform Tomography Reveals Channeled Flow at the Base of the Oceanic Asthenosphere

(2013) S. French et al.   SCIENCE

Full waveform tomography of the upper mantle in the South Atlantic region: Imaging a westward fluxing shallow asthenosphere?

(2013) Lorenzo Colli et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The African Plate: A history of oceanic crust accretion and subduction since the Jurassic

(2013) Carmen Gaina et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Extruding the Borborema Province (NE-Brazil): a two-stage Neoproterozoic collision process

(2013) Carlos E. Ganade de Araujo et al.   TERRA NOVA

Subducted slabs stagnant above, penetrating through, and trapped below the 660 km discontinuity

(2013) Yoshio Fukao et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

A lithospheric instability origin for the Cameroon Volcanic Line

(2012) L. Milelli et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle structure beneath Africa and Arabia from adaptively parameterized P-wave tomography: Implications for the origin of Cenozoic Afro-Arabian tectonism

(2012) Samantha E. Hansen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A shear wave velocity model of the European upper mantle from automated inversion of seismic shear and surface waveforms

(2012) C. P. Legendre et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Seismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of South America and surrounding oceanic basins

(2012) Gary S. Chulick et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geological and geochemical evolution of the Trincheira Complex, a Mesoproterozoic ophiolite in the southwestern Amazon craton, Brazil

(2012) Gilmar José Rizzotto et al.   LITHOS

Hotspot trails in the South Atlantic controlled by plume and plate tectonic processes

(2012) John M. O’Connor et al.   Nature Geoscience

The global CMT project 2004–2010: Centroid-moment tensors for 13,017 earthquakes

(2012) G. Ekström et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Evidence for an age progression along the Tristan-Gough volcanic track from new 40Ar/39Ar ages on phenocryst phases

(2012) Joana Kristin Rohde et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Inferring upper-mantle structure by full waveform tomography with the spectral element method

(2011) V. Lekić et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Mantle transition zone thickness beneath Cameroon: evidence for an upper mantle origin for the Cameroon Volcanic Line

(2011) Angela Marie Reusch et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Surface wave tomography across Afar, Ethiopia: Crustal structure at a rift triple-junction zone

(2011) M. Guidarelli et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Subduction dynamics and the origin of Andean orogeny and the Bolivian orocline

(2011) F. A. Capitanio et al.   NATURE

Upper mantle structure beneath Cameroon from body wave tomography and the origin of the Cameroon Volcanic Line

(2010) A. M. Reusch et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Paraná flood basalts: Rapid extrusion hypothesis confirmed by new 40Ar/39Ar results

(2010) David S. Thiede et al.   GEOLOGY

Uplift of quaternary shorelines in eastern Patagonia: Darwin revisited

(2010) Kevin Pedoja et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Upper-mantle seismic structure beneath SE and Central Brazil from P- and S-wave regional traveltime tomography

(2010) Marcelo Peres Rocha et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

S40RTS: a degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function measurements

(2010) J. Ritsema et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

The Río de la Plata Craton: a review of units, boundaries, ages and isotopic signature

(2010) Pedro Oyhantçabal et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Crustal segments in the North Patagonian Massif, Patagonia: An integrated perspective based on Sm–Nd isotope systematics

(2010) Carmen I. Martínez Dopico et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Surface wave tomography: Imaging of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath central and southern Africa?

(2010) S. Fishwick   LITHOS

The geochronological framework of the Irumide Belt: A prolonged crustal history along the margin of the Bangweulu Craton

(2009) B. De Waele et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

A new starting point for the South and Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

(2009) Maryline Moulin et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin

(2009) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

The lithospheric architecture of Africa: Seismic tomography, mantle petrology, and tectonic evolution

(2009) G.C. Begg et al.   Geosphere

Precambrian geotectonic units of the Río de La Plata craton

(2009) Leda Sánchez Bettucci et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

The Thickness of Tectonic Plates

(2009) B. Romanowicz   SCIENCE

Neogene uplift of central eastern Patagonia: Dynamic response to active spreading ridge subduction?

(2009) Benjamin Guillaume et al.   TECTONICS

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

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

Upper mantle seismic structure beneath the Ethiopian hot spot: Rifting at the edge of the African low-velocity anomaly

(2008) I. D. Bastow et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

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

(2008) Chang Li et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

SPICE benchmark for global tomographic methods

(2008) Yilong Qin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Global upper-mantle tomography with the automated multimode inversion of surface andS-wave forms

(2008) Sergei Lebedev et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Seismic structure of Precambrian lithosphere: New constraints from broad-band surface-wave dispersion

(2008) Sergei Lebedev et al.   LITHOS

Age and autochthonous evolution of the Sunsás Orogen in West Amazon Craton based on mapping and U–Pb geochronology

(2008) J.O.S. Santos et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Upper mantle structure of shear-waves velocities and stratification of anisotropy in the Afar Hotspot region

(2008) D. Sicilia et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Neogene kinematic history of Nazca–Antarctic–Phoenix slab windows beneath Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula

(2008) Katrin Breitsprecher et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS