Becker, Thorsten W. - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California

• MYRES-I: Behind the Scenes of an Ongoing Program to Unite Young Solid Earth Researchers
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• Mantle flow under the western United States from shear wave splitting
• Mantle structure and dynamic topography in the Mediterranean L. Boschi,1
• Generation of plate-like behavior and mantle heterogeneity from a spherical, viscoplastic convection model
• Intriguingly, they find that flow beneath the Mediterranean region is significantly affected
• GEOL534: Mechanics of Lithospheric Deformation Course organiser: Profs. J. P. Platt and T. W. Becker
• Statistical properties of seismic anisotropy predicted by upper mantle geodynamic models
• Geophys. J. Int. (2009) 177, 10151036 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04090.x GJISeismology
• Past and present seafloor age distributions and the temporal evolution of plate tectonic heat transport
• Volume 11, Number 12 15 December 2010
• Heat, Helium, Hotspots, and Whole Mantle Convection
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• Constraints on the mechanics of the southern San Andreas fault system from GPS velocity and stress inversions
• Lithospheric stress-states predicted from long-term tectonic models: Influence of rheology and possible application to Taiwan
• On the relevance of Born theory in global seismic tomography Lapo Boschi,1
• GEOL425: Data Analysis in the Earth & Environmental Sciences GEOL425 : Data Analysis in the Earth & Environmental Sciences -Fall 2009 1
• Eos, Vol. 90, No. 12, 24 March 2009 Solid Earth Teaching and Research
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• GeoMod2008 Firenze, 22-24 September 2008 112, 1091-1105.
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• Shaping mobile belts by small-scale convection Claudio Faccenna1,2
• Numerical simulations of texture development and associated rheological anisotropy in regions of complex mantle flow
• Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 171 (2008) 235251 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
• Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 167 (2008) 230238 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
• Radial seismic anisotropy as a constraint for upper mantle rheology Thorsten W. Becker a,, Bogdan Kustowski b
• Mantle plumes: Dynamic models and seismic images Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Honggerberg, Institute of Geophysics, Schafmattstr. 30, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
• Geophys. J. Int. (2007) 171, 451462 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03536.x GJITectonicsandgeodynamics
• Predicting trench and plate motion from the dynamics of a strong slab Claudio Faccenna a,, Arnauld Heuret b
• Eos, Vol. 87, No. 44, 31 October 2006 Young researchers face a wide choice of
• Geophys. J. Int. (2006) 167, 943957 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03172.x GJITectonicsandgeodynamics
• A comparison of tomographic and geodynamic mantle models
• History of subduction and back-arc extension in the Central Mediterranean
• Numerical Geodynamics An introduction to computational methods
• The Undergraduate Program at USC's Department of Earth Sciences
• Numerical Geodynamics An introduction to computational methods with focus on
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• Global spectral flow code development and benchmark plan Thorsten Becker
• Global azimuthal anisotropy from Rayleigh waves and
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• Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences-I Heat, Helium, Hotspots, and Whole
• In early January 2004,one of us attended a workshop on"science priorities and educational
• Thorsten W. Becker Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA
• Effects of Viscosity Stratification and 3-D Flow on Slab Dynamics, Morphology, and Trench
• Azimuthal seismic anisotropy constrains net rotation of the lithosphere T. W. Becker1
• Trench migration, net rotation and slabmantle coupling F. Funiciello a,
• Stochastic analysis of shear-wave splitting length scales Thorsten W. Becker , Jules T. Browaeys 1
• Three-dimensional instantaneous mantle flow induced by subduction C. Piromallo,1
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• Geophys. J. Int. (2009) 177, 125144 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04032.x GJISeismology
• Workshop announcement for MYRES-I: Heat, Helium, Hotspots, and Whole Mantle Convection
• Time variability in Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: Plate tectonic cycles and implications for
• submitted to Geophys. J. Int. Heterogeneity spectrum inversion from a stochastic
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• Lithosphere Mantle Interactions A thesis presented by
• Volume 11, Number 6 25 June 2010
• Metadata of the chapter that will be visualized online Chapter Title Seismic, Anisotropy
• Recent extension driven by mantle upwelling beneath the Admiralty Mountains (East Antarctica)
• Effects of lateral viscosity variations on the geoid T. W. Becker,1
• Mantle dynamics and seismic anisotropy Maureen D. Long a,
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• Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 182 (2010) 129138 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
• The mechanics of continental transforms: An alternative approach with applications to the San Andreas system and the tectonics of California
• S. Lallemand and F. Funiciello (eds.), Subduction Zone Geodynamics, 3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-87974-9, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
• Geophys. J. Int. (2010) 183, 433450 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04745.x GJISeismology
• Author's personal copy Subduction-triggered magmatic pulses: A new class of plumes?
• Predicting plate velocities with mantle circulation models
• Geophys. J. Int. (2006) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03201.x GJITectonicsandgeodynamics
• GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/, Bending Stress and Dissipation in Subducted
• GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/, Vertical coherence in mantle heterogeneity from1
• JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/, On the the relationship between azimuthal anisotropy from
• On the role of anisotropic viscosity for platescale flow T. W. Becker1
• Mantle conveyor beneath the Tethyan collisional belt Thorsten W. Becker
• JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/, Identifying fault heterogeneity through mapping
• GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/, The Role of Slabs and Oceanic Plate Geometry for1
• CONTINENTAL DELAMINATION:1 INSIGHTS FROM LABORATORY MODELS2
• Radial anisotropy in the European mantle: Tomographic studies explored in terms of mantle flow
• GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/, On recent seismic tomography for the western
• On the role of slab pull in the Cenozoic motion of the Pacific2 Claudio Faccenna1
• Submitted to Geochem., Geophys., Geosys., October 2011 Shallow lithospheric contribution to mantle plumes revealed by1
• GEOL557: Numerical Modeling of Earth Systems Instructor Prof. Thorsten Becker (ZHS269; (213)740-8365; twb@usc.edu)
• GEOL540: The Mantle System Instructor Prof. Thorsten Becker (ZHS269; (213)740-8365; twb@usc.edu)
• JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/, Co-seismic deformation of deep slabs based on summed CMT
• Deflection of mantle flow controlled by slab-cratonic keel interactions Meghan S. Miller and Thorsten W. Becker, University of Southern California
• GEOL599: Subduction Instructor Profs. Thorsten Becker (ZHS269; (213)740-8365; twb@usc.edu) and Meghan Miller
• JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/, Stress-driven variations in b-values during stick-slip
• Kinematics of rotating panels of E-W faults in the San1 Andreas system: what can we tell from geodesy?2
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