Seismic tomography, surface uplift, and the breakup of Gondwanaland: Integrating mantle convection backwards in time

By Clinton P. Conrad, Michael Gurnis. 2003

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Joint seismic-geodynamic-mineral physical modelling of African geodynamics: A reconciliation of deep-mantle convection with surface geophysical constraints (2010, methodology): “The S20RTS model has beenwidely used in past studies of Africanmantle dynamics (e.g. King and Ritsema 2000; Gurnis et al., 2000; Daradich et al., 2003; Conrad and Gurnis 2003; Behn et al., 2004).”
The solid Earth’s influence on sea level (2013, background): “Dynamic topography thus provides geodynamicists with a new sea-level constraint on deep Earth dynamics (e.g., Conrad and Gurnis, 2003; Conrad et al., 2004; Gurnis, 1990a; Gurnis et al., 2000; Liu et al., 2008; Spasojevic et al., 2009), but it has also required records of sea-level change over…”
Comparison of azimuthal seismic anisotropy from surface waves and finite strain from global mantle-circulation models (2003, methodology): “While active tracer methods (e.g. Schott et al. 2000) and backward convection models (e.g. Conrad & Gurnis 2003) would be better suited for problems in which the detailed distribution of density anomalies matters, we shall not be concerned with any improvement of the backward advection scheme at…”
The many surface expressions of mantle dynamics (2010, background): “Advances in predicting past and present dynamic topography In recent years, geodynamicists have embarked on a complex modelling exercise to predict past dynamic topography by running mantle convection models backwards in tim”
Identifying global seismic anisotropy patterns by correlating shear-wave splitting and surface-wave data (2009, background): “In global tomographic models, one of the most intriguing features is the African Superswell (e.g., Nyblade and Robinson, 1994; Ritsema and van Heijst, 2000; Conrad and Gurnis, 2003), which is an ongoing, large-scale, northward oriented mantle upwelling.”
Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model (2008, background): “…When these models are extended back to the Cretaceous, however, pure backward advection of mantle density anomalies becomes increasingly unreliable [Conrad and Gurnis, 2003], as more of the past mantle temperature anomalies may have diffused away and therefore cannot be reconstructed by…”