An Integrated Geoscientific Study of the Thermodynamics and Composition of the Core-Mantle interface

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Research output per year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016

• 26 Article (Academic Journal)

Research output per year

Research output per year

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• 2016

  The limits of ray theory when measuring shear wave splitting in the lowermost mantle with ScS waves

  Nowacki, A. & Wookey, J., Dec 2016, In: Geophysical Journal International. 207, 3, p. 1573-1583 11 p.

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  • Mantle 100%
  • Shear-Wave Splitting 100%
  • Observation 83%
  • Anisotropy 83%
  • Frequencies 66%
  18 Citations (Scopus)

  270 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  Mid-mantle anisotropy in subduction zones and deep water transport

  Nowacki, A., Kendall, J-M., Wookey, J. & Pemberton, A., 15 Apr 2015, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 16, 3, p. 764-784 21 p.

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  • Anisotropy 73%
  • Water 52%
  • slab 50%
  • Earth (planet) 22%
  • earthquakes 17%
  41 Citations (Scopus)

  362 Downloads (Pure)
• 2014

  A uniformly processed dataset of SKS shear wave splitting measurements: A global investigation of upper mantle anisotropy beneath seismic stations

  Walpole, J., Wookey, J. M., Masters, TG. & Kendall, J. M., 2014, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.

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  19 Citations (Scopus)

• Development of texture and seismic anisotropy during the onset of subduction

  Di Leo, J. F., Walker, A. M., Li, Z-H., Wookey, J., Ribe, N. M., Kendall, J-M. & Tommasi, A., 1 Jan 2014, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 15, 1, p. 192-212 21 p.

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  • Anisotropy 67%
  • texture 63%
  • slab 10%
  • compression 8%
  • physics 7%
  36 Citations (Scopus)

  376 Downloads (Pure)

• Differentiating flow, melt, or fossil seismic anisotropy beneath Ethiopia

  Hammond, J. O. S., Kendall, J. -M., Wookey, J., Stuart, G. W., Keir, D. & Ayele, A., May 2014, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 15, 5, p. 1878-1894 17 p.

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  • Anisotropy 100%
  • Melt 85%
  • Mantle 71%
  • Ethiopia 71%
  • Afar 71%
  54 Citations (Scopus)

  710 Downloads (Pure)

• Variation of thermal conductivity and heat flux at the Earth’s core mantle boundary

  Ammann, M. W., Walker, A. M., Stackhouse, S., Forte, A. M., Wookey, J. M., Brodholt, J. P. & Dobson, D. P., 15 May 2014, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 390, p. 175-185

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  • Perovskites 100%
  • Mantle 20%
  • Thermal Conductivity 20%
  • Probe 15%
  • Heat Conduction 15%
  43 Citations (Scopus)

  449 Downloads (Pure)
• 2013

  Constraints on the tectonic evolution of the westernmost Mediterranean and northwestern Africa from shear wave splitting analysis

  Miller, M. S., Allam, A. A., Becker, T. W., Di Leo, J. F. & Wookey, J. M., 2013, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 375, p. 234 243 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Lithosphere 100%
  • Shear-Wave Splitting 100%
  • Flow 100%
  • Mantle 75%
  • Atlas 75%
  49 Citations (Scopus)

• Evaluating post-perovskite as a cause of D" anisotropy in regions of palaeosubduction

  Nowacki, A. J., Walker, A. M., Wookey, J. M. & Kendall, J. M., Mar 2013, In: Geophysical Journal International. 192, 3, p. 1085-1090 6 p.

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  • plastic 13%
  30 Citations (Scopus)

• From data to analysis: linking NWChem and Avogadro with the syntax and semantics of Chemical Markup Language

  de Jong, W. A., Walker, A. M. & Hanwell, M. D., 24 May 2013, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Cheminformatics. 5

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  • Markup Language 100%
  • Language 100%
  • Computational Chemistry 55%
  • Application Software 44%
  • Software 44%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Strong textural inheritance between perovskite and post-perovskite in the D" layer

  Dobson, D. P., Miyajima, N., Nestola, F., Alvaro, M., Casati, N., Liebske, C., Wood, I. & Walker, A. M., 2013, In: Nature Geoscience. 6, p. 575–578

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  • Perovskites 100%
  • Anisotropy 6%
  • Texture 5%
  • Seismic Anisotropy 5%
  • Region 3%
  38 Citations (Scopus)

  507 Downloads (Pure)
• 2012

  Deformation and mantle flow beneath the Sangihe subduction zone from seismic anisotropy

  Di Leo, JF., Wookey, J., Hammond, JOS., Kendall, J-M., Kaneshima, S., Inoue, H., Yamashina, T. & Harjadi, P., Feb 2012, In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 194-195, p. 38 - 54 16 p.

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  47 Citations (Scopus)

• Direct probabilistic inversion of shear wave data for seismic anisotropy

  Wookey, J., May 2012, In: Geophysical Journal International. 189, p. 1025 - 1037 13 p.

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  14 Citations (Scopus)

• Mantle anisotropy beneath the Earth's mid-ocean ridges

  Nowacki, A., Kendall, J-M. & Wookey, J., Feb 2012, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 317-318, p. 56 - 67 11 p.

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  • Mid-Ocean Ridge 100%
  • S Wave 66%
  • Observation 50%
  • Splitting 33%
  • Anisotropy 33%
  24 Citations (Scopus)

• Mantle flow in regions of complex tectonics: Insights from Indonesia

  Di Leo, J. F., Wookey, J., Hammond, J. O. S., Kendall, J. -M., Kaneshima, S., Inoue, H., Yamashina, T. & Harjadi, P., 22 Dec 2012, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 13, 20 p., 12008.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Measurer 100%
  • Anisotropic 100%
  • Couplings 100%
  • Subsurface 100%
  • Spatial Resolution 100%
  35 Citations (Scopus)

• MSAT - a new toolkit for the analysis of elastic and seismic anisotropy

  Walker, A. M. & Wookey, J. M., 7 Jul 2012, In: COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES. 49, p. 81-90 9 p.

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  • diopside 29%
  • mineral 14%
  115 Citations (Scopus)

  899 Downloads (Pure)

• Numerical modelling of the upper-mantle anisotropy beneath a migrating strike-slip plate boundary: the San Andreas Fault system

  Bonnin, M., Tommasi, A., Hassani, R., Chevrot, S., Wookey, J. & Barruol, G., 1 Sep 2012, In: Geophysical Journal International. 191, 2, p. 436-458 23 p.

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  16 Citations (Scopus)

• The effect of pressure on the elastic properties and seismic anisotropy of diopside and jadeite from atomic scale simulation

  Walker, AM., 2012, In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 192-193, p. 81 - 89 9 p.

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  • Anisotropy 100%
  • Diopside 100%
  • Elasticity 75%
  • Jadeite 75%
  • Pressure 75%
  27 Citations (Scopus)

  556 Downloads (Pure)
• 2011

  Anisotropy as cause for polarity reversals of D" reflections

  Thomas, C., Wookey, J., Brodholt, JP. & Fieseler, T., Jul 2011, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 307, p. 369 - 376 8 p.

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  30 Citations (Scopus)

• Elastic anisotropy of D″ predicted from global models of mantle flow

  Walker, AM., Forte, AM., Wookey, J., Nowacki, A. & Kendall, J-M., 14 Oct 2011, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 12, 10, 22 p., Q10006.

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  • Perovskites 100%
  • Anisotropy 29%
  • Mantle 25%
  • Model 20%
  • Inversion 20%
  51 Citations (Scopus)

  388 Downloads (Pure)

• Implications of a simple mantle transition zone beneath cratonic North America

  Thompson, DA., Helffrich, GR., Bastow, ID., Kendall, J-M., Wookey, J., Eaton, D. W. & Snyder, D. W., 2011, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 312, p. 28 - 36 9 p.

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  • Roots 100%
  • Mantle 66%
  • Olivine 50%
  • Gravity Anomaly 33%
  • Transition Zone 33%
  35 Citations (Scopus)

• New advances in using seismic anisotropy, mineral physics and geodynamics to understand deformation in the lowermost mantle

  Nowacki, A., Wookey, J. & Kendall, J-M., Oct 2011, In: Journal of Geodynamics. 52, p. 205 - 228 24 p.

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  67 Citations (Scopus)

• Precambrian Plate Tectonics: Seismic Evidence from Northern, Hudson Bay

  Bastow, ID., Thompson, D. A., Wookey, J., Kendall, J-M., Helffrich, GR., Snyder, D., Eaton, D. & Darbyshire, F. A., Jan 2011, In: Geology. 39, p. 91 - 94 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Procedure 100%
  • Constraints 50%
  • Networks 50%
  • Supports 50%
  • Deformation 50%
  45 Citations (Scopus)

• Seismic detection of meteorite impacts on Mars

  Teanby, NA. & Wookey, J., 2011, In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 186, p. 70 - 80 11 p.

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  52 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  Deformation of the lowermost mantle from seismic anisotropy

  Nowacki, A. J., Wookey, J. & Kendall, J-M., Oct 2010, In: Nature. 467, p. 1091 - 1094 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Perovskites 100%
  • Mantle 18%
  • Region 12%
  • Speed 12%
  • Variations 12%
  70 Citations (Scopus)

• First-principles constraints on diffusion in lower-mantle minerals and a weak D'' layer

  Ammann, M. W., Brodholt, J. P., Wookey, J. & Dobson, D. P., May 2010, In: Nature. 465, p. 462 - 465 4 p.

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  185 Citations (Scopus)

• Precambrian Crustal Evolution: Seismic Constraints from the Canadian Shield

  Thompson, D. A., Bastow, ID., Helffrich, GR., Kendall, J-M., Wookey, J., Snyder, DB. & Eaton, DW., 2010, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 297, 3-4, p. 655 - 666 11 p.

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  • Vp 100%
  • Ratios 66%
  • Domains 66%
  • Collisions 66%
  • Atolls 66%
  92 Citations (Scopus)