Unlike in the ocean basins where the shallow mantle eventually contributes to the
destruction of the overlying crust, the shallow mantle beneath continents serves as a stiff …

Thermal structure of the lithosphere exerts a primary control on its strength and density and
thereby its dynamic evolution as the outer thermal and mechanic boundary layer of the …

We present a new analysis of the lithospheric architecture of Africa, and its evolution from ca.
3.6 Ga to the present. Upper-lithosphere domains, generated or reworked in different time …

The composition of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) is broadly related to the
tectonothermal age of the overlying crust, suggesting a secular change in SCLM-forming …

Presenting a coherent synthesis of lithosphere studies, this book covers a range of
geophysical methods (seismic reflection, refraction, and receiver function methods; elastic …

Cratons, the ancient cores of continents, contain the oldest crust and mantle on the Earth (>
2 Gyr old). They extend laterally for hundreds of kilometres, and are underlain to depths of …

We examine the effects of melt depletion on density and anharmonic VP and VS on the
basis of the melting relations of fertile peridotite between 1 and 7 GPa. We incorporate the …

A detailed petrological and geochemical study of low-temperature peridotite xenoliths from
Kimberley and northern Lesotho is presented to constrain the processes that led to the …

The goal of the present study is to extract non-thermal signal from seismic tomography
models in order to distinguish compositional variations in the continental lithosphere and to …

Traditional inversion techniques applied to the problem of characterizing the thermal and
compositional structure of the upper mantle are not well suited to deal with the nonlinearity …