Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

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• Oceanic plateau of the Hawaiian mantle plume head subducted to the uppermost lower mantle
• Orphaning Regimes: The Missing Link Between Flattened and Penetrating Slab Morphologies
• The coupled effects of mantle mixing and a water-dependent viscosity on the surface ocean
• Extrinsic Elastic Anisotropy in a Compositionally Heterogeneous Earth's Mantle
• The dynamic life of an oceanic plate
• Abrupt upper-plate tilting during slab-transition-zone collision
• Mantle Influence on Andean and Pre-Andean Topography
• The dynamical control of subduction parameters on surface topography
• Constraining the source of mantle plumes
• Dynamics and excess temperature of a plume throughout its life cycle
• Why is Africa rifting?
• Dynamic uplift during slab flattening
• Temperature and velocity measurements of a rising thermal plume
• Viscosity jump in Earth's mid-mantle
• Influence of Peruvian flat-subduction dynamics on the evolution of western Amazonia
• Reply to comment on "dynamic topography in South America" by Hechenleitnera, Fiore lli, Larrovere, Grellet-Tinnera, and Carignano
• Thrust initiation and its control on tectonic wedge geometry: An insight from physical and numerical models
• Dynamic topography in South America
• Numerical calculations of two-dimensional large Prandtl number convection in a box
• Petrological interpretation of deep crustal intrusive bodies beneath oceanic hotspot provinces
• Energetics, equation of state, and elasticity of NAL phase: Potential host for alkali and aluminum in the lower mantle
• Geophysics of Chemical Heterogeneity in the Mantle
• The effects of lithospheric thickness and density structure on Earth's stress field
• The importance of slab pull and a global asthenosphere to plate motions
• Thermodynamics of mantle minerals - II. Phase equilibria
• Tectonic and dynamic controls on the topography and subsidence of the Argentine Pampas: The role of the flat slab
• Thermodynamics of the Earth's Mantle
• Estimates of the transition zone temperature in a mechanically mixed upper mantle
• Inferring the thermochemical structure of the upper mantle from seismic data
• Joint mineral physics and seismic wave traveltime analysis of upper mantle temperature
• Modification of the lithospheric stress field by lateral variations in plate-mantle coupling
• Triggered seismicity associated with the 1990 Nicoya, Costa Rica, M-w=7.0 earthquake
• Reconciling strong slab pull and weak plate bending: The plate motion constraint on the strength of mantle slabs
• The effect of bulk composition and temperature on mantle seismic structure
• Correlation of seismic and petrologic thermometers suggests deep thermal anomalies beneath hotspots
• Faster seafloor spreading and lithosphere production during the mid-Cenozoic
• Influence of phase transformations on lateral heterogeneity and dynamics in Earth's mantle
• Phase stability and shear softening in CaSiO3 perovskite at high pressure
• Time variability in Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: Plate tectonic cycles and implications for Earth's thermal evolution
• Global reconstructions of Cenozoic seafloor ages: Implications for bathymetry and sea level
• Gravity observations and 3D structure of the Earth
• Influence of continental roots and asthenosphere on plate-mantle coupling
• A plate tectonic mechanism for methane hydrate release along subduction zones
• Mineralogy and elasticity of the oceanic upper mantle: Origin of the low-velocity zone
• Slab pull, slab weakening, and their relation to deep intra-slab seismicity
• Stress changes in the Costa Rica subduction zone due to the 1999 M-w=6.9 Quepos earthquake
• Thermodynamics of mantle minerals - I. Physical properties
• Exhumation of a collisional orogen: A perspective from the North American Grenville Province
• Great earthquakes and slab pull: interaction between seismic coupling and plate-slab coupling
• Iceland, the Farallon slab, and dynamic topography of the North Atlantic
• Origin of the lithospheric stress field
• The temporal evolution of plate driving forces: Importance of "slab suction" versus "slab pull" during the Cenozoic
• How mantle slabs drive plate tectonics
• Plume generation in natural thermal convection at high Rayleigh and Prandtl numbers
• Coupling of South American and African Plate motion and Plate deformation
• Dynamic topography, plate driving forces and the African superswell
• The dynamics of Cenozoic and Mesozoic plate motions
• Time scales and heterogeneous structure in geodynamic earth models
• An explanation for Earth's long-term rotational stability
• Cenozoic subsidence and uplift of continents from time-varying dynamic topography
• Cenozoic plate driving forces
• A geodynamic model of mantle density heterogeneity
• Toroidal-poloidal partitioning of plate motions since 120 ma