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Researchers examine how mantle upwelling under oceanic transform faults stabilizes these boundaries.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Widespread Mantle Upwelling Beneath Oceanic Transform Faults

by Terri Cook 13 March 20186 October 2021

A global characterization of mantle flow patterns beneath active oceanic transforms suggests pervasive upwelling stabilizes divergent plate boundaries by warming and weakening these enigmatic features.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Tracking Deep-Earth Processes from Rapid Topographic Changes

by T. Schildgen 23 February 201818 April 2022

Rapid elevation-rise in Turkey, tracked by marine sediments that now sit at 1.5 km in elevation, is linked to deep-Earth processes that can explain short-lived, extreme rates of topographic change.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Thermodynamic Model for Computing Mantle Mineralogy

by M. Walter 16 January 201826 April 2022

A newly developed open-access software package called MMA-EoS can calculate whole mantle mineralogy in multicomponent systems by Gibbs energy minimization.

Secondary electron microscope images showing microstructures of stressed grains.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Probing the Grain-Scale Processes That Drive Plate Tectonics

by Terri Cook 8 December 201722 September 2022

New experimental data suggest that rock composition may play a critical role in forming and perpetuating shear zones.

Posted inNews

Richard J. O’Connell (1941–2015)

by M. Manga and T. W. Becker 17 November 201716 November 2021

This son of a Montana sheriff discovered the fundamental rules underlying complex geophysical phenomena, and he taught others to do the same.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Competing Models of Mountain Formation Reconciled

by A. Parsons 8 May 201730 September 2021

The author of a prize-winning paper published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems describes new insights into crustal mechanics and the formation of the Himalaya.

How Earth precesses and nutates gives clues to interior processes.
Posted inScience Updates

Earth's Wobbly Path Gives Clues to Its Core

by V. Dehant and R. Gross 11 April 20178 April 2022

Understanding the Earth Core and Nutation; Brussels, Belgium, 19–21 September 2016

Aerial view of the Udachnaya pipe deposit diamond mine in Sakha Republic, Russia
Posted inScience Updates

Synthesizing Our Understanding of Earth's Deep Carbon

by Marie Edmonds and C. Manning 21 February 20179 November 2021

The Deep Carbon Observatory is entering a new phase, in which it will integrate 10 years of discoveries into an overarching model to benefit the scientific community and a wider public.

Studying volcanic eruptions in Iceland lends insight into the mantle temperature below.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Significantly Hotter Mantle Beneath Iceland

by Terri Cook 18 November 201622 December 2021

Estimates of crystallization temperatures from four eruptions in northern Iceland offer improved constraints on the mantle's temperature beneath this anomalous divergent plate boundary.

Posted inAGU News

Canil and Elliott Receive 2016 N. L. Bowen Award

by AGU 2 November 201622 September 2022

Dante Canil and Tim Elliott will receive the 2016 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, to be held 12–16 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes "outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology."

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