The Mediterranean offers a unique opportunity to study the driving forces of tectonic
deformation within a complex mobile belt. Lithospheric dynamics are affected by slab …

Seismic anisotropy is caused mainly by the lattice-preferred orientation of anisotropic
minerals. Major breakthroughs have occurred in the study of lattice-preferred orientation in …

Observations of seismic anisotropy yield some of the most direct constraints available on
both past and present-day deformation in the Earth's mantle. Insight into the character of …

Computations have helped elucidate the dynamics of Earth's mantle for several decades
already. The numerical methods that underlie these simulations have greatly evolved within …

We present a 3-D radially anisotropic S velocity model of the whole mantle (SAW642AN),
obtained using a large three component surface and body waveform data set and an …

Measurements of the splitting or birefringence of seismic shear waves that have passed
through the Earth's mantle yield constraints on the strength and geometry of elastic …

A large number of fundamental-mode Love and Rayleigh wave dispersion curves were
determined from seismograms for 3330 earthquakes recorded on 258 globally distributed …

We use normal-mode splitting functions in addition to surface wave phase anomalies, body
wave traveltimes and long-period waveforms to construct a 3-D model of anisotropic shear …

We performed triaxial compressive creep experiments on aggregates of San Carlos olivine
to develop a flow law and to examine microstructural development in the dislocation …

Modelling the geoid has been a widely used and successful approach in constraining flow
and viscosity in the Earth's mantle. However, details of the viscosity structure cannot be …