Clinton P. Conrad

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• The dynamic life of an oceanic plate
• The importance of slab pull and a global asthenosphere to plate motions
• Modification of the lithospheric stress field by lateral variations in plate-mantle coupling
• Reconciling strong slab pull and weak plate bending: The plate motion constraint on the strength of mantle slabs
• Faster seafloor spreading and lithosphere production during the mid-Cenozoic
• Global reconstructions of Cenozoic seafloor ages: Implications for bathymetry and sea level
• Influence of continental roots and asthenosphere on plate-mantle coupling
• A plate tectonic mechanism for methane hydrate release along subduction zones
• Slab pull, slab weakening, and their relation to deep intra-slab seismicity
• Great earthquakes and slab pull: interaction between seismic coupling and plate-slab coupling
• Iceland, the Farallon slab, and dynamic topography of the North Atlantic
• 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