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A Mid‐Lithospheric Discontinuity Detected Beneath 155 Ma Western Pacific Seafloor Using Sp Receiver Functions
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
10 march 2024
Kai-Xun Chen, Karen M. Fischer, Donald W. Forsyth

This study probes the lithosphere‐asthenosphere system beneath 155 Ma Pacific seafloor using teleseismic S‐to‐p receiver fun...

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Teleseismic Shear-wave Splitting with Data from the Old ORCA Experiment in the Southwest Pacific
SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS II ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Joshua Finch, Joseph S. Byrnes, Joseph Phillips, J...
Results from SKS splitting provide constraints on seismic anisotropy in the upper mantle, which helps constrain the dynamics of the lithosphere-asthen...
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Spatial Variation in Anisotropic Shear Velocity of Old Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere in the Southwest Pacific
SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS II ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Joseph Phillips, James B. Gaherty, Joshua B. Russe...
Regional anisotropic structure of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system provides important constraints on the formation, evolution, and dynamic...
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A Dynamic Oceanic Asthenosphere Revealed by High Shear Attenuation in the Pacific
EXPLORING COMPLEX MANTLE DYNAMICS WITH OBSERVATIONS, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, AND COMPUTER MODELS III POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 11 december 2023
Joshua B. Russell, Colleen A. Dalton, Christopher ...
The cooling and thickening of oceanic lithosphere as it spreads from the mid-ocean ridge is fundamental to plate tectonics, and the base of this therm...
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Spatial Variation in Anisotropic Structure and Phase Velocity of Old Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere in the Southwest Pacific
BRIDGING BOUNDARIES IN THE LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE SYSTEM: MODELS AND OBSERVATIONS II POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 13 december 2022
Joseph Phillips, James B. Gaherty, Joshua B. Russe...
Regional anisotropic structure of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system provides important constraints on the formation, evolution, and dynamic...
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Imaging Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System beneath 155 Ma Pacific Seafloor using S-to-p Receiver Functions
BRIDGING BOUNDARIES IN THE LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE SYSTEM: MODELS AND OBSERVATIONS II POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 13 december 2022
Kai-Xun Chen, Donald W. Forsyth, Karen M. Fischer
The structure of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system is key to deciphering the evolution of tectonic plates and to resolving fundamental issu...
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Sub‐Lithospheric Small‐Scale Convection Tomographically Imaged Beneath the Pacific Plate
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
26 september 2022
Zachary Eilon, Lun Zhang, James B. Gaherty, Donald...

Small‐scale convection beneath the oceanic plates has been invoked to explain off‐axis nonplume volcanism, departure from simple seaflo...

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Surface-Wave Anisotropy of 125-Ma Oceanic Lithosphere and Asthenosphere in the Southwest Pacific
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF THE LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE SYSTEM II POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 13 december 2021
Joseph Phillips, James B. Gaherty, Joshua B. Russe...
Regional anisotropic structure of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system provides important constraints on the formation, evolution, and dynamic...
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