[HTML][HTML] The upper mantle beneath Asia from seismic tomography, with inferences for the mechanisms of tectonics, seismicity, and magmatism

H Dou, Y Xu, S Lebedev, BC de Melo… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The structure and dynamics of the upper mantle control tectonics, seismicity, magmatism,
and the development of mineral deposits. Seismic tomography maps spatial variations in …

Global shear speed structure of the upper mantle and transition zone

AJ Schaeffer, S Lebedev - Geophysical Journal International, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The rapid expansion of broad-band seismic networks over the last decade has paved the
way for a new generation of global tomographic models. Significantly improved resolution of …

Map** the Moho with seismic surface waves: A review, resolution analysis, and recommended inversion strategies

S Lebedev, JMC Adam, T Meier - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The strong sensitivity of seismic surface waves to the Moho is evident from a mere visual
inspection of their dispersion curves or waveforms. Rayleigh and Love waves have been …

Global adjoint tomography: first-generation model

E Bozdağ, D Peter, M Lefebvre… - … Supplements to the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present the first-generation global tomographic model constructed based on adjoint
tomography, an iterative full-waveform inversion technique. Synthetic seismograms were …

WINTERC-G: map** the upper mantle thermochemical heterogeneity from coupled geophysical–petrological inversion of seismic waveforms, heat flow, surface …

J Fullea, S Lebedev, Z Martinec… - Geophysical Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a new global thermochemical model of the lithosphere and underlying upper
mantle constrained by state of the art seismic waveform inversion, satellite gravity (geoid …

Plume-driven recratonization of deep continental lithospheric mantle

J Liu, DG Pearson, LH Wang, KA Mather… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Cratons are Earth's ancient continental land masses that remain stable for billions of years.
The mantle roots of cratons are renowned as being long-lived, stable features of Earth's …

African cratonic lithosphere carved by mantle plumes

NL Celli, S Lebedev, AJ Schaeffer, C Gaina - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
How cratons, the ancient cores of continents, evolved since their formation over 2.5 Ga ago
is debated. Seismic tomography can map the thick lithosphere of cratons, but its resolution is …

The upper mantle beneath the South Atlantic Ocean, South America and Africa from waveform tomography with massive data sets

NL Celli, S Lebedev, AJ Schaeffer… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present a tomographic model of the crust, upper mantle and transition zone beneath the
South Atlantic, South America and Africa. Taking advantage of the recent growth in …

Imaging the North American continent using waveform inversion of global and USArray data

AJ Schaeffer, S Lebedev - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
The deployment of USArray during the last decade has produced dense sampling of the
central part of the North American continent with broadband seismic data. Regional …

The tilted Iceland Plume and its effect on the North Atlantic evolution and magmatism

NL Celli, S Lebedev, AJ Schaeffer, C Gaina - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Iceland and the encompassing Northeast Atlantic are characterized by abundant volcanism,
anomalously high topography and, in many places, anomalously thick basaltic crust. This …