A large number of polycrystalline materials, both manmade and natural, display preferred
orientation of crystallites. Such alignment has a profound effect on anisotropy of physical …

The Urey ratio describes the contribution of internal heat production to planetary‐scale
energy balance, and knowing this thermal budget for Earth is essential to understand its …

Archean passive margins. In When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Planet Earth?(eds KC
Condie & V. Pease.), pp. 149–56. Geological Society of America Special Paper no. 440 …

The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to
all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant …

Observations of seismic anisotropy yield some of the most direct constraints available on
both past and present-day deformation in the Earth's mantle. Insight into the character of …

Measurements of the splitting or birefringence of seismic shear waves that have passed
through the Earth's mantle yield constraints on the strength and geometry of elastic …

2.16 Seismic anisotropy of the deep Earth from a mineral and rock physics perspective Page
452 16 Seismic Anisotropy of the Deep Earth from a Mineral and Rock Physics Perspective D …

Modelling the geoid has been a widely used and successful approach in constraining flow
and viscosity in the Earth's mantle. However, details of the viscosity structure cannot be …

Recent seismological work has revealed new structures in the boundary layer between the
Earth's core and mantle that are altering and expanding perspectives of the role this region …

The anisotropic single crystal seismic properties are reviewed in the light of recent
experimental and theoretical determinations. Although considerable progress has been …