Also see Earthquakes and Volcanoes and History of the Earth biblios.
Core takes a page from the sea floor [re: "sediments" at top of Earth's core], Science, 290, 1274, 2000.
Daedalus: Drifting continents, Nature, 415, 278, 2002.
Geodynamics: a lava lamp model for the deep Earth, Science, 283, 1826-1827, 1999.
Geophysics: The great African plume emerges as a tectonic player, Science, 285, 187-188, 1999.
Iceland's fires tap the heart of the planet, Science, 284, 1095-1096, 1999.
News Feature: Deep Thoughts [re: earthquakes and prediction in U.S.], Nature, 405, 390-392, 2000.
News notes: Unraveling Earth's inner core, Geotimes, 46 (11), 10, 2001.
Seismology: Deep quakes slow but very steady, Science, 295, 2344, 2002.
Seismology: Whole lotta shakin' in Alaska, as predicted, Science, 298, 1316, 2002.
Tectonics: a deep look beneath tall mountains, Science, 284, 24-25, 1999.
Abercrombie, Earthquake slip on oceanic transform faults, Nature, 410, 74, 2001.
Abers, Mantle compensation of active metamorphic core complexes at Woodlark rift in Papua New Guinea, Nature, 418, 862, 2002.
Abers, Mantle compensation of active metamorphic core complexes at Woodlark rift in Papua New Guinea, Nature, 418, 862, 2002.
Akaogi, Mantle geophysics: Clues from a shocked meteorite, Science, 287, 1602, 2000.
Aksu, Anatomy of the North Anatolian Fault Zone in the Marmara Sea, Western Turkey: Extensional basins above a continental transform, GSA Today, 16:6, 3, 2000.
Alfe, D., et al., Constraints on the composition of the Earth's core from ab intitio calculations, Nature, 405, 172-, 2000.
Anderson, D.L., How many plates? [re: are tectonic plates on Earth a simple surface mosaic; "sphere covering problem"], Geology, 30, 411, 2002.
Arndt, Geochemistry: Hot heads and cold tails [re: mantle plumes], Nature, 407, 458, 2000.
Asimow, Earth science: A slice of history [re: slice of a midocean ridge], Nature, 423, 491, 2003.
Asimow, The importance of water to oceanic mantle melting regimes, Nature, 421, 815, 2003.
Bahr, Electrical anisotropy below slow-and fast-moving plates: Paleoflow in the upper mantle?, Science, 295, 1270, 2002.
Banerjee, S.K., Geophysics: When the compass stopped reversing its poles, Science, 291, 1714, 2001.
Bartolini, A., and R.L. Larson, Pacific microplate and the Pangea supercontinent in the Early to Middle Jurassic, Geology, 29, 735, 2001.
Beaumont, Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation, Nature, 414, 738, 2001.
Bennett, [re: source of Hawaiian hotspot - Os not nec. from crustal source as recently suggested], EPSL, 183, 513, 2000.
Bercovici, Whole-mantle convection and the transition-zone water filter, Nature, 425, 39, 2003.
Blichert-Toft, e.a., Hf isotope evidence for pelagic sediments in the source of Hawaiian basalts, Science, 285, 879-, 1999.
Bokelmann, Which forces drive North America?, Geology, 30, 1027, 2002.
Bonatti, Mantle thermal pulses below the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and temporal variations in the formation of oceanic litosphere, Nature, 423, 499, 2003.
Bostock, An inverted continental Moho and serpentinization of the forearc mantle, Nature, 417, 536, 2002.
Bourdon, e.a., Melting dynamics beneath the Tonga-Kermadec island arc inferred from 231Pa - 235U systematics, Science, 286, 2491-, 1999.
Bozhilov, K.N., H.W. Green II, and L. Dobrzhinetskaya, Clinoenstatite in Alpe Arami peridotite: additional evidence of very high pressure, Science, 284, 128-132, 1999.
Brodholt, Earth Science: Core values [re: estimates of the age of solidification of the inner core], Nature, 418, 489, 2002.
Bruhn, An interconnected network of core-forming melts produced by shear deformation, Natue, 403, 883, 2000.
Buck, R., Geophysics: mapping mantle melting, Science, 286, 692-, 1999.
Buffett, B.A., Earth's core and the geodynamo, Science, 288, 2007-, 2000.
Buffett, B.A., E.J. Garnero, and R. Jeanloz, Sediments at the top of Earth's core, Science, 2000, 1338, 2000.
Bunge, H.-P., and S.P. Grand, Mesozoic plate-motion history below the northeast Pacific Ocean from seismic images of the subducted Farallon slab, Nature, 405, 337-, 2000.
Burbank, Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas, Nature, 426, 652, 2003.
Carlson, R.W., et al., Continental growth, preservation, and modification in southern Africa, GSA Today, 10:2 (Feb), 1-, 2000.
Cazenave, Geophysics: Redistributing Earth's mass, Science, 297, 783, 2002.
Chinnery, e.a., In situ observation of the formation of 10 Å phase from talc + H20 at mantle pressures and temperatures, Science, 286, 940-, 1999.
Chung, Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau starting 40 Myr ago, Nature, 394, 769, 1998.
Clouard, How many Pacific hotspots are fed by deep mantle plumes?, Geology, 29, 695, 2001.
Collins, Hot orogens, tectonic switching, and creation of continental crust, Geology, 30, 535, 2002.
Coltice, N., et al., 40K-40Ar constraints on recycling continental crust into the mantle, Science, 288, 845-, 2000.
Conrad, and Lithgow-Bertelloni, How mantle slabs drive plate tectonics, Science, 298, 207, 2002.
Cox, Detection of a large-scale mass redistribution in the terrestrial system since 1998, Science, 297, 831, 2002.
Crowley, Laramide exhumation of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: An apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology study, Geology, 30, 27, 2002.
Dalton, Marine seismology: A window on the inner Earth, Nature, 421, 10, 2003.
Davies, Earth science: Breaking plates [re: detachment of subducting slabs], Nature, 418, 736, 2002.
Davis, E., Earth science: Volcanic action at Axial Seamount, Nature, 403, 379-, 2000.
Detrick, R.S., Seafloor spreading: Portrait of a magma chamber, Natureq, 406, 578-, 2000.
Dixon, Recycled dehydrated lithosphere oberved in plume-influenced mid-ocean-ridge basalt, Nature, 420, 385, 2002.
Dobson, Simulation of subduction zone seismicity by dehydration of serpentine, Science, 298, 1407, 2002.
Drake, Determining the composition of the Earth, Nature, 416, 39, 2002.
Ducea, Late Cenozoic denudation and uplift rates in the Santa Lucia Mountains, California, Geology, 31, 139, 2003.
Duggen, Deep roots of the Messinian salinity crisis [re: when the Mediterranean dried up], Nature, 422, 602, 2003.
Dupont-Nivet, and Butler, Paleomagnetism indicates no Neogen rotation of the Qaidam Basin in northern Tibet during Indo-Asian collision, Geology, 30, 263, 2002.
Edmonds, Discovery of abundant hydrothermal venting on the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge in the Arctic Ocean, Nature, 421, 252, 2003.
Ernst, W.G., Hornblende, the continent maker-evolution of H20 during circum-Pacific subduction versus continental collision, Geology, 27, 675-678, 1999.
Evans, e.a., Asymmetric electrical structure in the mantle beneath the East Pacific Rise at 17°S, Science, 286, 752-, 1999.
Fischer, Subduction and recycling of nitrogen along the Central American margin, Science, 297, 1154, 2002.
Fischer, Waning buoyancy in the crustal roots of old mountains, Nature, 417, 933, 2002.
Fisher, Hydrothermal recharce and dishcharge across 50 km guided by seamounts on a young ridge flank, Nature, 421, 618, 2003.
Flesch, L.M., et al., Dynamics of the Pacific-North Anmerican plate boundary in the western United States, Science, 287, 834-, 2000.
Foley, Evolution of the Archaean crust by delamination and shallow subduction, Nature, 421, 249, 2003.
Foley, Growth of early continental crust controlled by melting of amphibolite in subduction zones, Nature, 417, 837, 2002.
Forte, Deep-mantle high-viscosity flow and thermochemical structure inferred from seismic and geodynamic data, Nature, 410, 1049, 2001.
Garnero, E.J., and R. Jeanloz, Geophysics: Earth's enigmatic interface [re: core-mantle boundary], Science, 289, 70, 2000.
Goes, e.a., A lower mantle source for central European volcanism, Science, 286, 1928-, 1999.
Gordon, R.G., The Antarctic connection, Nature, 404, 139-140, 2000.
Greff-Lefftz, M., and H. Legros, Core rotational dynamics and geological events, Science, 286, 1707, 1999.
Gung, Global anisotropy and the thickness of continents, Nature, 422, 707, 2003.
Haggerty, Review: Earth and Planetary Sciences: A diamond trilogy: superplumes, supercontinents, and supernovae, Science, 285, 851-, 1999.
Hames, W.E., et al., New evidence for geologically instantaneous emplacement of earliest Jurassic Central Atlantic magmatic province basalts on the North American margin, Geology, 28, 859-862, 2000.
Hartz, E.H., and T.H. Torsvik, Baltica upside down: A new plate tectonic model for Rodinia and the Iapetus Ocean, Geology, 30, 155, 2002.
Heinz, Iron-silicon alloy in Earth's core?, Science, 295, 313, 2002.
Helffrich, Review Article: The Earth's mantle, Nature, 412, 501, 2001.
Hilst, F.a.v.d., Geophysics: A seismic look under the continents, Science, 285, 1365-, 1999.
Hilst, v.d., Seismic evidence for olivine phase changes at the 410- and 660-kilometer discontinuities, Science, 296, 1300, 2002.
Hofmann, Earth science: Just add water [re: mantle chemistry], Nature, 425, 24, 2003.
Holzheid, A., et al., Evidence for a late chondritic veneer in the Earth's mantle from hig-pressure partitioning of palladium and platinum, Nature, 406, 396-, 2000.
Houseman, G.A., Geophysics: The strength of a continent, Science, 287, 814-, 2000.
Housen, B.A., and M.E. Beck, Jr., Testing terrane transport: An inclusive approach to the Baja B.C. controversy, Geology, 27, 1143-, 1999.
Humler, A correlation between mid-ocean-ridge basalt chemistry and distance to continents, Nature, 419, 607, 2002.
Jackson, Intense equatorial flux spots on the surface of the Earth's core, Nature, 424, 760, 2003.
Jackson, I., Geophysics: Taking the Earth's temperature, Nature, 406, 470-471, 2000.
Jacob, D.E., et al., Remobilization in the cratonic lithosphere recorded in polycrystalline diamond, Science, 289, 1182-, 2000.
Jacobsen, Geochemistry: Lost terrains of early Earth, Nature, 421, 901, 2003.
James, Earth science: How old roots lose their bounce, Nature, 417, 911, 2002.
Jephcoat, Core beliefs [re: conditions in the core], Nature, 413, 27, 2001.
Johnson, Hydrothermal systems: Stirring the oceanic incubator, Science, 296 (552), 1406, 2002.
Jones, Earth science: How do your mountains grow?, Nature, 425, 781, 2003.
Julian, Plate tectonics: Seismological detection of slab metamorphism, Science, 296 (5573), 1625, 2002.
Kaneshima, S., and G. Helffrich, Dipping low-velocity layer in the mid-lower mantle: evidence for geochemical heterogeneity, Science, 283, 1888-1891, 1999.
Karson, Ocean crust when Earth was young, Science, 292, 1076, 2001.
Keller, R.A., et al., Isotopic evidence for Late Cretaceous plume-ridge interaction at the Hawaiian hotspot, Nature, 405, 673-, 2000.
Kellogg, L.H., B.H. Hager, and R.D. van der Hilst, Compositional stratification in the deep mantle, Science, 283, 1881-1884, 1999.
Kennett, Earth science: Roots of the matter [re: thickness of continental lithosphere], Nature, 422, 674, 2003.
Kent, G.M., et al., Evidence from three-dimensional seismic reflectivity images for enhance melt supply beneath mid-ocean-ridge discontinuities, Nature, 406, 614-, 2000.
Keppler, Carbon solubility in olivine and the mode of carbon storage in the Earth's mantle, Nature, 424, 414, 2003.
Kerrich, Geochemistry: Nature's gold factory, Science, 284, 2101, 1999.
Kerrick, Geology: Serpentinite subuction, Science, 298, 1344, 2002.
Kerrick, and Connolly, Metamorphic devolatilization of subducted marine sediments and the transport of volatiles into the Earth's mantle, Nature, 411, 293, 2001.
Kincaid, Laboratory models of the thermal evolution of the mantle during rollback subduction, Nature, 425, 58, 2003.
Kind, Seismic images of crust and upper mantle beneath Tibet: Evidence for Eurasian plate subduction, Science, 298, 1219, 2002.
Kind, Seismic images of crust and upper mantle beneath Tibet: Evidence for Eurasion plate subduction, Science, 298, 1219, 2002.
King, African hot spot volcanism: Small-scale convection in the upper mantle beneath cratons, Science, 290, 1137, 2000.
Kirby, S.H., Earth science: Taking the temperature of slabs, Nature, 403, 31-, 2000.
Klein, Earth science: Spread thin in the Arctic [re: Gakkel Ridge], Nature, 423, 932, 2003.
Kusky, The Archean Dongwanzi ophiolite complex, North China craton: 2.505-billion-year-old oceanic crust and mantle, Science, 292, 1142, 2001.
Lamb, Cenozoic climate change as a possible cause for the rise of the Andies, Nature, 425, 792, 2003.
Lamb, Earth science: Is it all in the crust? [re: earthquakes all in the crust], Nature, 420, 130, 2002.
Lassiter, Geophysics: Hawaiian plume dynamics, Science, 285, 846, 1999.
Lavier, L.L., W.R. Buck, and A.N.B. Poliakov, Self-consistent rolling-hinge model for the evolution of large-offset low-angle normal faults, Geology, 27, 1127-, 1999.
Lee, Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the soutwestern United States, Nature, 411, 69, 2001.
Levin, Seismic evidence for catastrophic slab loss beneath Kamchatka, Nature, 418, 763, 2002.
Li, Mapping the Hawaiian plume conduit with converted seismic waves, Nature, 405, 938, 2000.
Lilley, Magmatic events can produce rapid changes in hydrothermal vent chemistry, Nature, 422, 878, 2003.
Liou, Geophysics: Into the forbidden zone [re: ultrahigh pressure metamorphism], Science, 287, 1215, 2000.
Manga, Earth science: Shaken, not stirred [re: mantle structure and convection], Nature, 410, 1041, 2001.
Martinez, Mantle wedge control on back-arc crustal accretion, Nature, 416, 417, 2002.
Mavrogenes, L.a., Gold solubility in supercritical hydrothermal brines measured in synthetic fluid inclusions, Science, 284, 2159, 1999.
McMillan, Postedepositional tilt of the Miocene-Pliocene Ogallala Group on the western Great Plains: Evidence of late Cenozoic uplift of the Rocky Mountains, Geology, 30, 63, 2002.
McNamara, Development of anisotrophic structure in the Earth's lower mantle by solid-state convection, Nature, 416, 310, 2002.
McQuarrie, Raising the Colorado Plateau, Geology, 28, 91, 2000.
Michael, Lava without fizz [re: measurement of volatile content in lava], Nature, 419, 445, 2002.
Michael, Magmatic and amagmatic seafloor generation at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean, Nature, 423, 956, 2003.
Miller, Periodic slow earthquakes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, Science, 295, 2423, 2002.
Modisi, Rift kinematics during the incipient stages of continental exension: Evidence from the nascent Okaqvango rift basin, northwest Botswana, Geology, 28, 939, 2000.
Molnar, Geomorphology: Nature, nurture, and landscape [re: tectonics, climate, and erosion of mountains], Nature, 426, 612, 2003.
Mungall, Roasting the mantle: Slab melting and the genesis of major Au and Au-rich Cu deposits, Geology, 30, 915, 2002.
Murphy, Do supercontinents introvert or extrovert?: Sm-Nd isotope evidence, Geology, 31, 873, 2003.
Nataf, H.-C., Seismology: Inner core takes another turn, Nature, 405, 411-, 2000.
Ni, Sharp sides to the African superplume, Science, 296 (5574), 1850, 2002.
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Nyblade, Hard-cored continents [re: continental lithosphere], Nature, 411, 38, 2001.
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Olson, Geophysics: The disappearing dipole, Nature, 416, 591, 2002.
Ortega-Gutierrez, Late Ordovician-Early Silurian continental collisional orogeny in southern Mexico and its bearing on Gondwana-Laurentia connections (connects to SWEAT hypothesis), Geology, 27, 719-722, 1999.
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Ritsema, e.a., Complex shear wave velocity structure imaged beneath Africa and Iceland, Science, 286, 1925-, 1999.
Ritter, Geophysics: rising through Earth's mantle, Science, 286, 1865-, 1999.
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Ruddiman, Geology: early uplift in Tibet?, Nature, 394, 723, 1998.
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Schaefer, Evidence for recycled Archaean oceanic mantle lithosphere in the Azores plume, Nature, 420, 304, 2002.
Schaefer, Evidence for recycled Archaean oceanic mantle lithosphere in the Azores plume, Nature, 420, 304, 2002.
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