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Member Since 1979
Wiki Royden
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor
Education
Doctorate
1982
Honors & Awards
Walter H. Bucher Medal
Received December 2019
Francis Birch Lecture
Received December 2005
Union Fellow
Received January 2003
Current Roles
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
Publications
Basal Mantle Flow Over LLSVPs Explains Differences in Pacific and Indo‐Atlantic Hotspot Motions
Surface hotspot motions are approximately a factor of two faster in the Pacific than the Indo‐Atlantic, and the Indo‐Atlantic large low...
January 01, 2024
Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean
August 11, 2014
AGU Abstracts
Slab dips as constraints on upper mantle pressure
STATE OF THE ARC: QUESTIONS AND PROGRESS ON SUBDUCTION ZONE GEODYNAMICS II ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 12 december 2023
Adam Holt, Samuel Goldberg, Leigh Royden
Most existing constraints on mantle flow or the dynamic pressure that drives this flow are either sparse or indirect. This study focuses on assessin...
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A New Model for Dynamic and Thermal Compensation around Mantle Plumes: Implications for Volume and Heat Flux
INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON INTRAPLATE MAGMATISM, MANTLE PLUMES, AND THE DEEP EARTH – BOTH PAST AND PRESENT II POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2021
Zachary Molitor, Leigh Royden, Oliver E. Jagoutz
Mantle plumes are structures associated with diapiric upwelling into the asthenosphere, requiring concomitant flow beneath the lithosphere away from t...
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Paleocene Latitude of the Kohistan-Ladakh Arc Indicates Multi-Stage India-Eurasia Collision
TETHYAN DYNAMICS I
tectonophysics | 10 december 2020
Craig Martin, Oliver E. Jagoutz, Rajeev Upadhyay, ...
The nature of the collision events involved in the Himalayan orogeny offers insight into the role of convergent margins in plate reconfigurations, glo...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2024
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2022 - 2023
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2016 - 2016
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
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