WINTERC-G: mapping the upper mantle thermochemical heterogeneity from coupled geophysical–petrological inversion of seismic waveforms, heat flow, surface …

J Fullea, S Lebedev, Z Martinec… - Geophysical Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a new global thermochemical model of the lithosphere and underlying upper
mantle constrained by state of the art seismic waveform inversion, satellite gravity (geoid …

Tesseroids: Forward-modeling gravitational fields in spherical coordinates

L Uieda, VCF Barbosa, C Braitenberg - Geophysics, 2016 - library.seg.org
We have developed the open-source software Tesseroids, a set of command-line programs
to perform forward modeling of gravitational fields in spherical coordinates. The software is …

A global reference model of the lithosphere and upper mantle from joint inversion and analysis of multiple data sets

JC Afonso, F Salajegheh, W Szwillus… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a new global model for the Earth's lithosphere and upper mantle (LithoRef18)
obtained through a formal joint inversion of 3-D gravity anomalies, geoid height, satellite …

Imaging the lithosphere and upper mantle: Where we are at and where we are going

JC Afonso, M Moorkamp, J Fullea - Integrated imaging of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, advances on computational power, inversion methods, and laboratory
experimental techniques, as well as the dramatic increase on both quality and quantity of …

Mantle and sub-lithosphere mantle gravity maps from the LITHO1. 0 global lithospheric model

R Tenzer, W Chen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Methods for a spherical harmonic analysis and synthesis of global gravitational and
lithospheric structure models are applied to compile the mantle and sub-lithospheric mantle …

3‐D multiobservable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle: III. Thermochemical tomography in the …

JC Afonso, N Rawlinson, Y Yang… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We apply a novel 3‐D multiobservable probabilistic tomography method that we have
recently developed and benchmarked, to directly image the thermochemical structure of the …

Earth tectonics as seen by GOCE-Enhanced satellite gravity gradient imaging

J Ebbing, P Haas, F Ferraccioli, F Pappa, W Szwillus… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Curvature components derived from satellite gravity gradients provide new global views of
Earth's structure. The satellite gravity gradients are based on the GOCE satellite mission and …

Modeling satellite gravity gradient data to derive density, temperature, and viscosity structure of the Antarctic lithosphere

F Pappa, J Ebbing, F Ferraccioli… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this study we combine seismological and petrological models with satellite gravity
gradient data to obtain the thermal and compositional structure of the Antarctic lithosphere …

The Canary Islands hot spot: New insights from 3D coupled geophysical–petrological modelling of the lithosphere and uppermost mantle

J Fullea, AG Camacho, AM Negredo… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Canary archipelago (NW Atlantic African margin) is one of the best studied
volcanic chains in the world yet its structure and geodynamic evolution are still under …

Mantle compositional structure and dynamics of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: Insights from integrated thermochemical modelling

N Mousavi, J Fullea, HS Moghadam, WL Griffin - Gondwana Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The tectonic evolution of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone is enigmatic due to our poor
knowledge of the compositional structure of the Zagros keel and the sub-lithospheric mantle …