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Alan Aitken
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Crustal Heterogeneity of Antarctica Signals Spatially Variable Radiogenic Heat Production
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
20 january 2024
Lu Li, Alan Aitken
Geothermal heat flow (GHF) is a key basal boundary condition for Antarctic ice‐sheet flow. Large‐scale variations are resolved by sever...
Towards Linking Subglacial Geological Conditions with Ice Sheet Model Parameterization
MODELING OF THE CRYOSPHERE: GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS I POSTER
cryosphere | 14 december 2023
Lu Li, Mareen Loesing, Alan Aitken
Understanding future changes of the Antarctic ice sheet requires knowledge of subglacial boundary conditions, including the spatial variation of bed r...
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Thermal and compositional structure beneath the Greater McArthur Basin in North Australia Craton
LITHOSPHERIC HEAT FLOW: UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF CRUSTAL PROCESSES AND MANTLE DYNAMICS POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Lu Li, Alan Aitken, Weronika Gorczyk, Mark Jessell
The Greater McArthur Basin in the North Australian Craton has had a prolonged history of sediment subsidence and multi-stage rifting and inversion sin...
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Antarctic Sedimentary Basins and Their Influence on Ice‐Sheet Dynamics
REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS
31 august 2023
Alan Aitken, Lu Li, Bernd Kulessa, Dustin M. Schro...
Knowledge of Antarctica's sedimentary basins builds our understanding of the coupled evolution of tectonics, ice, ocean, and climate. Sedimentary b...
Heterogeneous structure of Antarctic crust for solid-earth and cryosphere interaction research
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND EARTH-ICE INTERACTIONS BENEATH ICE SHEETS AND ICE SHELVES II POSTER
cryosphere | 16 december 2021
Lu Li, Alan Aitken
Knowing the heterogeneous crustal structure is essential for understanding the ice dynamics, glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) and tectonic history i...
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Crust-mantle interaction processes in an Australian Proterozoic intracontinental boundary revealed by Gravity Inversion and Seismic Studies
IMAGING EARTH STRUCTURES FROM THE SURFACE DOWN TO THE UPPER MANTLE WITH MULTIPLE GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL DATA II POSTERS
study of earth's deep interior | 16 december 2020
Polyanna Moro, Alan Aitken
The composition and lithospheric architecture of the continental crust between the West Australian Craton (WAC) and the North Australian Craton (NAC) ...
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Mapping Undercover: Using Integrated Potential Field Interpretation, Inversion and 3D Modelling to Assess Basin Prospectivity.
ADVANCES IN EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS I
near surface geophysics | 15 december 2020
Mark Lindsay, Sandra Occhipinti, Crystal LaFlamme,...
Potential field interpretation and three-dimensional modelling combined with geochemical analyses are used to examine the subsurface below the poorly ...
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The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future
REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS
11 november 2020
Taryn Noble, Elcho Rohling, Alan Aitken, Helen C. ...
The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and i...