Geological and tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains, from ancient craton to recent enigma

JW Goodge - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) are one of Earth's great mountain belts and
are a fundamental physiographic feature of Antarctica. They are continental-scale, traverse a …

SIMBIO-SYS: scientific cameras and spectrometer for the BepiColombo mission

G Cremonese, F Capaccioni, MT Capria… - Space science …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The SIMBIO-SYS (Spectrometer and Imaging for MPO BepiColombo Integrated
Observatory SYStem) is a complex instrument suite part of the scientific payload of the …

The crust and upper mantle structure of central and West Antarctica from Bayesian inversion of Rayleigh wave and receiver functions

W Shen, DA Wiens, S Anandakrishnan… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We construct a new seismic model for central and West Antarctica by jointly inverting
Rayleigh wave phase and group velocities along with P wave receiver functions. Ambient …

Seismic structure of the Antarctic upper mantle imaged with adjoint tomography

AJ Lloyd, DA Wiens, H Zhu, J Tromp… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The upper mantle and transition zone beneath Antarctica and the surrounding oceans are
among the poorest‐imaged regions of the Earth's interior. Over the last 15 years, several …

Trans-crustal structural control of CO2-rich extensional magmatic systems revealed at Mount Erebus Antarctica

GJ Hill, PE Wannamaker, V Maris, JA Stodt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Erebus volcano, Antarctica, with its persistent phonolite lava lake, is a classic example of an
evolved, CO2-rich rift volcano. Seismic studies provide limited images of the magmatic …

The mantle source of basalts from Reunion Island is not more oxidized than the MORB source mantle

M Brounce, E Stolper, J Eiler - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2022 - Springer
Glasses quenched from relatively undegassed ocean island magmas erupted from
volcanoes at Iceland, Hawaii, the Canary Islands, and Erebus have elevated Fe 3+/∑ Fe …

b Erebus Volcanic Province: petrology

AP Martin, AF Cooper, RC Price, PR Kyle, JA Gamble - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Igneous rocks of the Erebus Volcanic Province have been investigated for more than a
century but many aspects of petrogenesis remain problematic. Current interpretations are …

a Erebus Volcanic Province: volcanology

JL Smellie, AP Martin - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Erebus Volcanic Province is the largest Neogene volcanic province in
Antarctica, extending c. 450 km north–south and 170 km wide east–west. It is dominated by …

The seismic structure of the Antarctic upper mantle

DA Wiens, W Shen, AJ Lloyd - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The deployment of seismic stations and the development of ambient noise tomography as
well as new analysis methods provide an opportunity for higher-resolution imaging of …

Widespread two-layered melt structure in the asthenosphere

JB Zhang, YS Liu, SF Foley, F Moynier, L Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Partial melts in the Earth's convecting mantle influence its physical and chemical state,
particularly the plasticity of the asthenosphere and the dynamics of plate tectonics. Melt …