Biblio
Plate Tectonics and Earth Dynamics


(abbreviated reference style)

Author(s), article title, journal, volume:page, year.
Author(s), article title, journal, volume:number:page, year.

symbols denote papers on common topics


Articles in Nature

•Lay et al., The core-mantle boundary layer and deep Earth dynamics, 392:461, 1998.

Carlson, A conduit to the core, 394:11, 1998.

¶McNutt et al., Failure of plume theory to explain midplate volcanism in the southern Austral islands, 389:479, 1997.

¶Sleep, The puzzle of the South Pacific, 389:439, 1997.

Lithgow et al., Dynamic topography, plate driving forces and the African superswell, 6699:269, 1998.

Gordon et al., Evidence for long-term diffuse deformation of the lithosphere of the equatorial Indian Ocean, 395:370, 1998.

*Cann, Subtle minds and mid-ocean ridges, 393:625, 1998.

Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation, 393:673, 1998.

ýMorris, Hot stuff under southern Chile, 394:523, 1998.

ýSigmarsson et al., Melting of a subducting oceanic crust from U-Th disequilibria in austral Andean lavas, 394:566, 1998.

ýSisson and Bronto, Evidence for pressure-release melting beneath magmatic arcs from basalt at Galunggung, Indonesia, 391:883, 1998.

•Vinnik, et al., Anisotropic structures at the base of the Earth’s mantle, 393:564, 1998.

•Vidale and Hedlin, Evidence for partial melt at the core-mantle boundary north of Tonga from the strong scattering of seismic waves, 391:682, 1998.

Buck and Poliakov, Abyssal hills formed by stretching oceanic lithosphere, 392:272, 1998.

Haines, Earth science: Continental mechanics, 391:634, 1998.

_German et al., Hydrothermal activity along the southwest Indian ridge, 391:490, 1998.


Articles in Science

ÝCourtillot and Besse, Magnetic field reversals, polar wander and core-mantle coupling, 237:1140, 1987.

¤Tromp and Dziewonski, Two views of the deep mantle, 281:655, 1998.

*MELT Seismic Team, Imaging the deep seismic structure beneath a mid-ocean ridge: the MELT experiment, 280:1215, 1998.

ÆHoffman, Did the breakout of Laurentia turn Gondwanaland inside-out?, 252:1409, 1991.


Articles in Scientific American (most are old but are good reviews of what was known)

Pratson and Haxby, Panoramas of the Seafloor, 276:6:82, 1997. (www.sciam.com/0697issue/0697pratson.html)

Pinter and Brandon, How erosion builds mountains, 276:4:74, 1997.

Macdonald and Fox, The mid-ocean ridge, 262:6:72, 1990.

Howell, Terranes, 253:5:116, 1985.

Cook et al., The southern Appalachians and the growth of the continents, 243:4:156, 1980.

ÝHoffman, Ancient magnetic reversals: clues to the geodynamo, 258:5:76, 1988.

¤Anderson and Dziewonski, seismic tomography, 251:4:60, 1984.

_Hekinian, Undersea volcanoes, 251:1:46, 1984.

Vink and Courtillot, How continents break up, 249:43, 1983.

_Edmond and Von Damm, Hot springs on the ocean floor, 248:4:78, 1983.

_Rona, Mineral deposits from sea-floor hot springs, 254:1:84, 1986.

Siever, The dynamic earth, 249:3:46, 1983.

ÝJeanloz, The Earth’s core, 249:3:56, 1983.

¤McKenzie, The Earth’s mantle, 249:3:66, 1983.

Francheteau, The oceanic crust, 249:3:114, 1983.

Burchfiel, The continental crust, 249:3:130, 1983.


articles in Geology

ÃLarson, Latest pulse of Earth: evidence for a mid-Cretaceous superplume: 19:547, 1991.

ÃAnderson, Superplumes or supercontinents? 22:39, 1994.

ÃLarson, Superplumes and ridge interactions between Ontong Java and Manihiki Plateaus and the Nova-Canton Trough, 25:779, 1997.

ÆDalziel, Pacific margins of Laurentia and East Antarctica-Australia as a conjugate rift pair: evidence and implications for an Eocambrian supercontinent, 19:598, 1991.

ÆMoores, Southwest U.S.-East Antarctic (SWEAT) connection: a hypothesis, 19:425, 1991.

ÆBorg and DePaolo, Laurentia, Australia, And Antarctica as a Late Proterozoic supercontinent: constraints from isotopic mapping, 22:307, 1994.

Lieberman, Early Cambrian paleogeography and tectonic history: a biogeographic approach, 25:1039, 1997.

Minshull and Hall, Geometry of a mid-ocean-ridge normal fault, 25:835, 1997.

Buck et al., Controls on extrusion at mid-ocean ridges, 25:935, 1997.


articles in Reviews of Geophysics (not in C.W.P library)

McNutt, Superswells, 36:2:211, 1998.

Clague, Evidence for large earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone, 35:4:439, 1997.

Lithgow-Bertelloni and Richards, The dynamics of Cenozoic and Mesozoic plate motions, 36:1:27, 1998.

Walcott, Modes of oblique compression: Late Cenozoic tectonics of the South Island of New Zealand, 36:1:1, 1998.

ݤDuncan and Richards, Hotspots, mantle plumes, flood basalts, and true polar wander, 29:1, 1991.

Song, Anisotropy of the Earth’s inner core, 35:3:297, 1997.

¤Ritzwoller and Lavely, three-dimensional seismic models of the Earth’s mantle, 33:1:1, 1996.

¤Anderson, Lithosphere, asthenosphere, and perisphere, 33:1:125, 1995.

Rudnick and Fountain, Nature and composition of the continental crust: a lower crustal perspective, 33:3:267, 1995.


An Interesting Controversy

Molnar and England, Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change: chicken or egg?, Nature, 346:29, 1990.

Ruddiman et al., Late Ceonzoic uplift in southern Asia and the American west: rationale for general circulation modeling experiments, Journal of Geophysical Research, 94:18379, 1989.

Comments and Replies on "Surface uplift, uplift of rocks, and exhumation of rocks, " Geology, 19:1051, 1991. Hatfield, Comment England and Molnar, Reply Pinter and Keller, Comment England and Molnar, Reply

The papers above started this argument. See these recent papers:

Ruddiman, Geology: Early uplift in Tibet?, Nature, 394:723, 1998.
Chung, et al., Nature 394:769, 1998.