Plumbing systems of large igneous provinces (LIPs) on Earth and Venus: Investigating the role of giant circumferential and radiating dyke swarms, coronae and novae …

KL Buchan, RE Ernst - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The flood basalts of large igneous provinces (LIPs) are fed by a vast and often complicated
plumbing system that can include giant dyke swarms, sill complexes, mid-to upper-crustal …

100 years of seismic research on the Moho

C Prodehl, B Kennett, IM Artemieva, H Thybo - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The detection of a seismic boundary, the “Moho”, between the outermost shell of the Earth,
the Earth's crust, and the Earth's mantle by A. Mohorovičić was the consequence of …

The heterogeneous upper mantle low velocity zone

H Thybo - Tectonophysics, 2006 - Elsevier
The upper mantle low velocity zone (LVZ) is a depth interval with slightly reduced seismic
velocity compared to the surrounding depth intervals. The zone is present below a relatively …

Constraints on the depth and thermal history of cratonic lithosphere from peridotite xenoliths, xenocrysts and seismology

KA Mather, DG Pearson, D McKenzie, BA Kjarsgaard… - Lithos, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite the relatively long-standing availability of numerical approaches for estimating
palaeogeotherms using peridotite xenolith Pressure–Temperature (P–T) data, the practise of …

Circum-Arctic Lithosphere Evolution (CALE) Transect C: displacement of the Arctic Alaska–Chukotka microplate towards the Pacific during opening of the Amerasia …

EL Miller, KE Meisling, VV Akinin, K Brumley… - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This paper synthesizes the framework and geological evolution of the Arctic Alaska–
Chukotka microplate (AACM), from its origin as part of the continental platform fringing …

Crustal structure of the Arabian plate: new constraints from the analysis of teleseismic receiver functions

K Al-Damegh, E Sandvol, M Barazangi - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2005 - Elsevier
Receiver functions for numerous teleseismic earthquakes recorded at 23 broadband and
mid-band stations in Saudi Arabia and Jordan were analyzed to map crustal thickness within …

Precambrian crustal evolution: seismic constraints from the Canadian Shield

DA Thompson, ID Bastow, G Helffrich… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
Whether or not plate tectonic processes operated on a younger, hotter Earth remains
ambiguous. Seismic data from new networks in the Hudson Bay region of the Canadian …

Crustal structure of Baffin Bay from constrained three-dimensional gravity inversion and deformable plate tectonic models

JK Welford, AL Peace, M Geng… - Geophysical Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Mesozoic to Cenozoic continental rifting, breakup and spreading between North America
and Greenland led to the opening, from south to north, of the Labrador Sea and eventually …

The crustal structure of the Alpha Ridge at the transition to the Canadian Polar Margin: Results from a seismic refraction experiment

T Funck, HR Jackson, J Shimeld - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The crustal structure of the Alpha Ridge and its connection to the Canadian Polar Margin
was studied by a seismic refraction experiment consisting of a 350‐km‐long line almost …

ArcCRUST: Arctic crustal thickness from 3‐D gravity inversion

N Lebedeva‐Ivanova, C Gaina… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ArcCRUST model consists of crustal thickness and estimated crustal thinning factors
grids for the High Arctic and Circum‐Arctic regions (north of 67° N). This model is derived by …