Geophysics Seminar (Spring 2012)

Time: Friday 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: EPSc 184

The theme in this semester is the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB). We will discuss some classic papers as well as latest researches from seismological, experimental, and geodynamical perspectives.

You are more than welcome to contribute to the reference list.

Contact Shawn Wei (songqiaowei@wustl.edu) for more information.

Reference (docx file)

• Abt, D. L., et al. (2010), North American lithospheric discontinuity structure imaged by Ps and Sp receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 115(B9), B09301, DOI: 10.1029/2009jb006914. (PDF)
• Behn, M. D., G. Hirth, and J. R. Elsenbeck Ii (2009), Implications of grain size evolution on the seismic structure of the oceanic upper mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 282(1), 178-189. (PDF)
• Fischer, K. M., H. A. Ford, D. L. Abt, and C. A. Rychert (2010), The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 38(1), 551-575. (PDF)
• Gaherty, J. B., T. H. Jordan, and L. S. Gee (1996), Seismic structure of the upper mantle in a central Pacific corridor, J. Geophys. Res., 101(B10), 22291-22309. (PDF)
• Gaherty, J. B., M. Kato, and T. H. Jordan (1999), Seismological structure of the upper mantle: a regional comparison of seismic layering, Phys. Earth Planet. In., 110(1-2), 21-41. (PDF)
• Hirth, G., and D. Kohlstedt (2003), Rheology of the Upper Mantle and the Mantle Wedge: A View from the Experimentalists, in Inside the Subduction Factory, edited by J. M. Eiler, pp. 83-105, AGU, Washington, DC. (PDF)
• Höink, T., A. M. Jellinek, and A. Lenardic (2011), Viscous coupling at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q0AK02. (PDF)
  
• Jackson, I., and U. H. Faul (2010), Grainsize-sensitive viscoelastic relaxation in olivine: Towards a robust laboratory-based model for seismological application, Phys. Earth Planet. In., 183(1-2), 151-163. (PDF)
• Kawakatsu, H., P. Kumar, Y. Takei, M. Shinohara, T. Kanazawa, E. Araki, and K. Suyehiro (2009), Seismic Evidence for Sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundaries of Oceanic Plates, Science, 324(5926), 499-502. (PDF)
• Karato, S.-i. (2012), On the origin of the asthenosphere, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 321-322, 95-103, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.001. (PDF)
• Lekic, V., S. W. French, and K. M. Fischer (2011), Lithospheric Thinning Beneath Rifted Regions of Southern California, Science, 334(6057), 783-787. (PDF, SOM)
  
• Morgan, J. P., W. J. Morgan, Y.-S. Zhang, and W. H. F. Smith (1995), Observational hints for a plume-fed, suboceanic asthenosphere and its role in mantle convection, J. Geophys. Res., 100(B7), 12753-12767. (PDF)
• Nishimura, C. E., and D. W. Forsyth (1989), The anisotropic structure of the upper mantle in the Pacific, Geophys. J. Int., 96(2), 203-229. (PDF)
• Romanowicz, B. (2009), The Thickness of Tectonic Plates, Science, 324(5926), 474-476, DOI: 10.1126/science.1172879. (PDF)
• Rychert, C. A., and P. M. Shearer (2009), A Global View of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary, Science, 324(5926), 495-498, DOI: 10.1126/science.1169754. (PDF, SOM)
• Schmerr, N. (2012), The Gutenberg Discontinuity: Melt at the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary, Science, 335(6075), 1480-1483, DOI: 10.1126/science.1215433. (PDF, SOM)
  
• Stixrude, L., and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2005), Mineralogy and elasticity of the oceanic upper mantle: Origin of the low-velocity zone, J. Geophys. Res., 110(B3), B03204. (PDF)

Links

Earthscope LAB Worksop (September, 2011) http://www.earthscope.org/workshops/lab11