Intraplate volcanism at the edges of the Colorado Plateau sustained by a combination of triggered edge-driven convection and shear-driven upwelling

Steady incision of Grand Canyon at the million year timeframe: A case for mantle-driven differential uplift

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Dynamics of lithospheric thinning and mantle melting by edge-driven convection: Application to Moroccan Atlas mountains

(2014) Lars Kaislaniemi et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

On the origin of recent intraplate volcanism in Australia

(2014) D. Rhodri Davies et al.   GEOLOGY

Double layering of a thermochemical plume in the upper mantle beneath Hawaii

(2013) Maxim D. Ballmer et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Non-hotspot volcano chains produced by migration of shear-driven upwelling toward the East Pacific Rise

(2013) M. D. Ballmer et al.   GEOLOGY

Mantle transition zone shear velocity gradients beneath USArray

(2012) Brandon Schmandt   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lithosphere versus asthenosphere mantle sources at the Big Pine Volcanic Field, California

(2012) Esteban Gazel et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Evolutionary aspects of lithosphere discontinuity structure in the western U.S.

(2012) Alan Levander et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Melting under the Colorado Plateau, USA

(2012) Mary R. Reid et al.   GEOLOGY

Upper-mantle anisotropy beneath the Cameroon Volcanic Line and Congo Craton from shear wave splitting measurements

(2012) Franklin W. Koch et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

The formation of volcanic centers at the Colorado Plateau as a result of the passage of aqueous fluid through the oceanic lithosphere and the subcontinental mantle: New implications for the planetary water cycle in the western United States

(2012) Holger Sommer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Origin of Columbia River flood basalt controlled by propagating rupture of the Farallon slab

(2012) Lijun Liu et al.   NATURE

A sporadic low-velocity layer atop the western U.S. mantle transition zone and short-wavelength variations in transition zone discontinuities

(2011) B. Schmandt et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Diverse, discrete, mantle-derived batches of basalt erupted along a short normal fault zone: The Poison Lake chain, southernmost Cascades

(2011) L. J. P. Muffler et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Time dependence of intraplate volcanism caused by shear-driven upwelling of low-viscosity regions within the asthenosphere

(2011) Todd Anthony Bianco et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Continuing Colorado plateau uplift by delamination-style convective lithospheric downwelling

(2011) A. Levander et al.   NATURE

Patterns of intraplate volcanism controlled by asthenospheric shear

(2011) Clinton P. Conrad et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mantle dynamics of continentwide Cenozoic subsidence and tilting of Australia

(2011) Lydia DiCaprio et al.   Lithosphere

Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis

(2011) K.E. Karlstrom et al.   Lithosphere

Joint seismic–geodynamic-mineral physical modelling of African geodynamics: A reconciliation of deep-mantle convection with surface geophysical constraints

(2010) Alessandro M. Forte et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Depth dependent azimuthal anisotropy in the western US upper mantle

(2010) Huaiyu Yuan 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

Constraints on upper mantle viscosity from the flow-induced pressure gradient across the Australian continental keel

(2010) Christopher Harig et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A mechanism for low-extent melts at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

(2010) Christy B. Till 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

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

Small-scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for topography, magmatism, and evolution of Proterozoic lithosphere

(2010) J.W. van Wijk et al.   GEOLOGY

Mechanisms of low-flux intraplate volcanic fields—Basin and Range (North America) and northwest Pacific Ocean

(2010) Greg A. Valentine et al.   GEOLOGY

Shrinking of the Colorado Plateau via lithospheric mantle erosion: Evidence from Nd and Sr isotopes and geochronology of Neogene basalts

(2010) Ryan Crow et al.   GEOLOGY

Slab-plume interaction beneath the Pacific Northwest

(2010) Mathias Obrebski et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

High-resolution transition zone structures of the Gorda Slab beneath the western United States: Implication for deep water subduction

(2010) Aimin Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Stagnant slab, wet plumes and Cenozoic volcanism in East Asia

(2010) Guillaume C. Richard et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Depth constraints on azimuthal anisotropy in the Great Basin from Rayleigh-wave phase velocity maps

(2009) Caroline Beghein et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Three-dimensional dynamics of hydrous thermal-chemical plumes in oceanic subduction zones

(2009) Guizhi Zhu et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Intraplate volcanism with complex age-distance patterns: A case for small-scale sublithospheric convection

(2009) M. D. Ballmer et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Water-induced convection in the Earth's mantle transition zone

(2009) Guillaume C. Richard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow

(2009) Robert B. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Colorado Plateau magmatism and uplift by warming of heterogeneous lithosphere

(2009) Mousumi Roy et al.   NATURE

Vertical mantle flow associated with a lithospheric drip beneath the Great Basin

(2009) John D. West et al.   Nature Geoscience

Shear-driven upwelling induced by lateral viscosity variations and asthenospheric shear: A mechanism for intraplate volcanism

(2009) Clinton P. Conrad et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Deep-mantle contributions to the surface dynamics of the North American continent

(2009) A.M. Forte et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Small-scale convection during continental rifting: Evidence from the Rio Grande rift

(2008) J. van Wijk et al.   GEOLOGY

Buoyant melting instabilities beneath extending lithosphere: 1. Numerical models

(2008) John W. Hernlund et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Near-surface diagnostics of dripping or delaminating lithosphere

(2008) Oğuz H. Göğüş et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Water contents in mantle xenoliths from the Colorado Plateau and vicinity: Implications for the mantle rheology and hydration-induced thinning of continental lithosphere

(2008) Zheng-Xue Anser Li et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Two-stage subduction history under North America inferred from multiple-frequency tomography

(2008) Karin Sigloch et al.   Nature Geoscience