The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of the art in seismic
tomography, and trace its origins from pioneering work in the early 1970s to its present …

Magmatism has occurred throughout Earth's history. From the early Earth to the modern
plate-tectonic Earth, the amount of magmatism has varied, but it has always occurred on …

Three approaches are used to reduce the error in the satellite‐derived marine gravity
anomalies. First, we have retracked the raw waveforms from the ERS‐1 and Geosat/GM …

This paper presents the results of the first quantitative petrological modelling of abyssal
peridotites. The mantle beneath a ridge may be considered as two regions:(1) the melting …

This paper discusses the geological and geophysical data available on mid‐ocean ridges
with outcrops of serpentinized mantle peridotites, with the objective of better constraining the …

From GF Becker's and LV Pirsson's early enunciations linking the dynamics of magma
chambers to the rock records of sills and plutons to this day, two features stand at the centre …

Small amounts of felsic, evolved plutonic rocks, often called oceanic plagiogranites, always
occur as veins or small stocks within the gabbroic section of the oceanic crust. Four major …

We develop methodologies to obtain accurate measurements of shear wave splitting and
apply these techniques to examine the pattern of oceanic upper mantle anisotropy. To …

A variety of geophysical data indicates that long wavelength temperature variations of the
asthenosphere depart from the mean by±200° C, not the±20° C adopted by plume …

Thermal models based on the geometry of axial segmentation, and mechanical models of
axial valley formation, suggest that the axial lithosphere of slow spreading ridges can be …