Updates! (7.6.2010) Project: Circum-Artic Mapping project is added.
The Geodynamics group at the Geological Survey of Norway aims to develop robust and unifying models that can explain the coupling between mantle and plate evolution through Earth history.
Plate reconstructions provide critical constraints for the modeling of geodynamic processes acting between the lithosphere and the mantle. Combining data from the rock record with laboratory experiments and numerical models will enhance our understanding of specific mantle–lithosphere processes and features, including enigmatic topics such as LIPs, mantle plumes, and their surficial expressions as hotspots, particularly with respect to plume and hotspot stability with time. Central to the Team is a commitment to continue developing new modeling and visualisation software that will permit researchers to generate 2D and 3D outputs from models that link the fields of plate motions with lithospheric dynamics and convective processes in the mantle. Visual outputs serve as a common base for researchers to discuss and modify the models employed in the calculation, and allow data providers to check model results against the observed.
To be announced
Torsvik, T.H., Burke, K., Steinberger, B., Webb, S.J. and Ashwal, L.D. , Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary, accepted for publication in Nature doi:10.1038/nature09216
Labails, C., Olivet, J.L., Aslanian, D. and Roest W.R., accepted , An alternative early opening scenario for the Central Atlantic Ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Ganerød, M., Smethurst, M.A., Prestvik, T., Rousse, S., McKenna, C., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J. & Hendriks, B.W.H. , The North Atlantic Igneous Province reconstructed and its relation to the Plume Generation Zone: the Antrim Lava Group revisited, published in Geophysical Journal International, v. 182, issue 1, p. 183-202doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04620.x
Torsvik, T.H., Steinberger, B., Gurnis, M. & Gaina, C. , Plate tectonics and net lithosphere rotation over the past 150 My, accepted for publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.055
Buiter, S.J.H., O.A. Pfiffner and C. Beaumont, Inversion of extensional sedimentary basins: A numerical evaluation of the localisation of shortening, accepted for publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.011
Tim Redfield has gone to Chile.