Search Results - "King, Scott D."

Composition and structure of the shallow subsurface of Ceres revealed by crater morphology by Bland, Michael T., Raymond, Carol A., Schenk, Paul M., Fu, Roger R., Kneissl, Thomas, Pasckert, Jan Hendrik, Hiesinger, Harry, Preusker, Frank, Park, Ryan S., Marchi, Simone, King, Scott D., Castillo-Rogez, Julie C., Russell, Christopher T.

“…Before NASA’s Dawn mission, the dwarf planet Ceres was widely believed to contain a substantial ice-rich layer below its rocky surface. The existence of such a…”
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Dynamics of the North American Plate: Large‐Scale Driving Mechanism From Far‐Field Slabs and the Interpretation of Shallow Negative Seismic Anomalies by Liu, Shangxin, King, Scott D.

“…With a small fraction of marginal subduction zones, the driving mechanism for the North American plate motion is in debate. We construct global mantle flow…”
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Dynamic buckling of subducting slabs reconciles geological and geophysical observations by Lee, Changyeol, King, Scott D.

“…Ever since the early days of the development of plate tectonic theory, subduction zones have been engrained in geological thinking as the place where steady,…”
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A benchmark study of incompressible Stokes flow in a 3-D spherical shell using ASPECT by Liu, Shangxin, King, Scott D

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Receiver Function Analysis Reveals Lateral Variations in Temperature and Water Content in the Mantle Transition Zone Beneath Eastern North America by Liu, Shangxin, King, Scott D., Long, Maureen D., Benoit, Margaret H., Aragon, John C.

“…Using recently collected high‐resolution seismic data along a dense linear transect across Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia (called Mid‐Atlantic Geophysical…”
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3D spherical models of Martian mantle convection constrained by melting history by Sekhar, Pavithra, King, Scott D.

“…While most of Tharsis rise was in place by end of the Noachian period, at least one volcano on Tharsis swell (Arsia Mons) has been active within the last 2 Ma…”
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Pattern of lobate scarps on Mercury's surface reproduced by a model of mantle convection by King, Scott D

“…Mercury is the smallest and least tectonically active of the terrestrial planets. Although Mercury's ancient, cratered surface resembles the Moon, it has the…”
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Ceres internal structure from geophysical constraints by King, Scott D., Castillo‐Rogez, Julie C., Toplis, M. J., Bland, Michael T., Raymond, Carol A., Russell, Christopher T.

“…Thermal evolution modeling has yielded a variety of interior structures for Ceres, ranging from a modestly differentiated interior to more advanced evolution…”
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A community benchmark for 2-D Cartesian compressible convection in the Earth's mantle by King, Scott D., Lee, Changyeol, Van Keken, Peter E., Leng, Wei, Zhong, Shijie, Tan, Eh, Tosi, Nicola, Kameyama, Masanori C.

“…Benchmark comparisons are an essential tool to verify the accuracy and validity of computational approaches to mantle convection. Six 2-D Cartesian…”
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African Hot Spot Volcanism: Small-Scale Convection in the Upper Mantle beneath Cratons by King, Scott D., Ritsema, Jeroen

“…Numerical models demonstrate that small-scale convection develops in the upper mantle beneath the transition of thick cratonic lithosphere and thin oceanic…”
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Anomalously thin transition zone and apparently isotropic upper mantle beneath Bermuda: Evidence for upwelling by Margaret H. Benoit, Maureen D. Long, Scott D. King

“…The origin of the Bermuda swell and volcanism remains enigmatic. The lack of an associated time‐progressive hotspot track and absence of present‐day volcanic…”
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Ceres’ Broad‐Scale Surface Geomorphology Largely Due To Asymmetric Internal Convection by King, Scott D., Bland, Michael T., Marchi, Simone, Raymond, Carol A., Russell, Christopher T., Scully, Jennifer E. C., Sizemore, Hanna G.

“…While we now know much about the volatile‐rich world of Ceres from the Dawn mission, the deep interior remains something of an enigma, shrouded by a crust…”
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Volcanic Activity on Venus: How Long Must We Look to Find a Smoking Gun? by King, Scott D.

“…While volcanic landforms attest to the numerous and varied volcanic processes on Venus, estimates of the frequency of volcanic eruptions are lacking…”
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Venus Resurfacing Constrained by Geoid and Topography by King, Scott D.

“…The primary explanations for the young crater age of the surface of Venus are progressive volcanic resurfacing and a period of mobile‐lid tectonics. The role…”
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The interior structure of Ceres as revealed by surface topography by Fu, Roger R., Ermakov, Anton I., Marchi, Simone, Castillo-Rogez, Julie C., Raymond, Carol A., Hager, Bradford H., Zuber, Maria T., King, Scott D., Bland, Michael T., Cristina De Sanctis, Maria, Preusker, Frank, Park, Ryan S., Russell, Christopher T.

“…Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt (940 km diameter), provides a unique opportunity to study the interior structure of a volatile-rich dwarf planet…”
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First observations of core-transiting seismic phases on Mars by Irving, Jessica C E, Lekić, Vedran, Durán, Cecilia, Drilleau, Mélanie, Kim, Doyeon, Rivoldini, Attilio, Khan, Amir, Samuel, Henri, Antonangeli, Daniele, Banerdt, William Bruce, Beghein, Caroline, Bozdağ, Ebru, Ceylan, Savas, Charalambous, Constantinos, Clinton, John, Davis, Paul, Garcia, Raphaël, Domenico Giardini, Horleston, Anna Catherine, Huang, Quancheng, Hurst, Kenneth J, Kawamura, Taichi, King, Scott D, Knapmeyer, Martin, Li, Jiaqi, Lognonné, Philippe, Maguire, Ross, Panning, Mark P, Plesa, Ana-Catalina, Schimmel, Martin, Schmerr, Nicholas C, Stähler, Simon C, Stutzmann, Eleonore, Xu, Zongbo

“…We present the first observations of seismic waves propagating through the core of Mars. These observations, made using seismic data collected by the InSight…”
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Pyroxenite causes fat plumes and stagnant slabs by Adam, Claudia, Caddick, Mark J., King, Scott D.

“…Conventional wisdom holds that there is a change in the pattern of mantle convection between 410 and at 660 km, where structural transformations convert…”
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Mixing at mid-ocean ridges controlled by small-scale convection and plate motion by Samuel, Henri, King, Scott D.

“…The geochemical variability of lavas erupted at mid-ocean ridges is lowest where plate spreading rates are high, implying that large-scale plate motions mix…”
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Seismic detection of a deep mantle discontinuity within Mars by InSight by Huang, Quancheng, Schmerr, Nicholas C., King, Scott D., Kim, Doyeon, Rivoldini, Attilio, Plesa, Ana-Catalina, Samuel, Henri, Maguire, Ross R., Karakostas, Foivos, Lekić, Vedran, Charalambous, Constantinos, Collinet, Max, Myhill, Robert, Antonangeli, Daniele, Drilleau, Mélanie, Bystricky, Misha, Bollinger, Caroline, Michaut, Chloé, Gudkova, Tamara, Irving, Jessica C. E., Horleston, Anna, Fernando, Benjamin, Leng, Kuangdai, Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, Bejina, Frederic, Bozdağ, Ebru, Beghein, Caroline, Waszek, Lauren, Siersch, Nicki C., Scholz, John-Robert, Davis, Paul M., Lognonné, Philippe, Pinot, Baptiste, Widmer-Schnidrig, Rudolf, Panning, Mark P., Smrekar, Suzanne E., Spohn, Tilman, Pike, William T., Giardini, Domenico, Banerdt, W. Bruce

“…Constraining the thermal and compositional state of the mantle is crucial for deciphering the formation and evolution of Mars. Mineral physics predicts that…”
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A numerical study of a mantle plume beneath the Tharsis Rise: Reconciling dynamic uplift and lithospheric support models by Redmond, Hannah L., King, Scott D.

“…The Tharsis Rise is an area of extensive volcanism containing the most significant long‐wavelength topographic and areoid anomalies on Mars. The mechanism for…”
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