Publications of Michael Gurnis
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- 1. Strom, R.G., A. Woronow, and M. Gurnis,
Crater populations on Ganymede
and Callisto, Journal of Geophysical Research 86, 8659-8674,
1981.
- 2. Gurnis, M., Martian cratering revisited: Implications for early
geological evolution, Icarus 48, 62-75, 1981.
- 3. Woronow, A., R. G. Strom, and M. Gurnis, Interpreting the cratering
record: Mercury to Ganymede and Callisto, in Satellites of Jupiter
(edited by D. Morrison) University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 237-276, 1982.
- 4. Gurnis, M., and G. F. Davies, Simple parametric models of crustal
growth, Journal of Geodynamics 3, 105-135, 1985.
- 5. Gurnis, M., and G. F. Davies,
The effect of depth-dependent viscosity
on convective mixing in the mantle and the possible survival of primitive
mantle,
Geophysical Research Letters 13, 541-544, 1986.
- 6. Gurnis, M., and G. F. Davies,
Apparent episodic crustal growth arising
from a smoothly evolving mantle, Geology 14, 396-399, 1986.
- 7. Gurnis, M., and G. F. Davies, Numerical study of high Rayleigh number
convection in a medium with depth-dependent viscosity, Geophysical Journal
85, 523-542, 1986.
- 8. Gurnis, M., and G. F. Davies,
Mixing in numerical models of the
Earth's mantle incorporating plate kinematics, Journal of Geophysical
Research 91, 6375- 6395, 1986.
- 9. Gurnis, M.,
Stirring and mixing in the mantle by plate-scale flow:
Large persistent blobs and long tendrils coexist, Geophysical Research
Letters 13, 1474-1477, 1986.
- 10. Gurnis, M.,
Quantitative bounds on the size-spectrum of isotopic
heterogeneity within the mantle, Nature 323, 317-320, 1986.
- 11. Gurnis, M.,
The effects of chemical density differences on convective
mixing in the Earth's mantle, Journal of Geophysical Research 91,
11407-11419, 1986.
- 12. Gurnis, M., Convective Mixing in the Earth's Mantle,
Ph.D. Thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, 1986.
- 13. Davies, G. F. and M. Gurnis,
Interaction of mantle dregs with convection:
Lateral heterogeneity at the core-mantle boundary, Geophysical Research
Letters 13, 1517-1520, 1986.
- 14. Hager, B. H., and M. Gurnis,
Mantle convection and the state of
the Earth's interior, Reviews of Geophysics 25, 1277-1285, 1987.
- 15. Gurnis, M.
Large-scale mantle convection and the aggregation and
dispersal of supercontinents, Nature 332, 695-699, 1988.
- 16. Gurnis, M., A. Raefsky, G. A. Lyzenga, and B. H. Hager, Finite
element solution of thermal convection on a hypercube concurrent computer,
in Proc. Third Conf. Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications,
edited by G. C. Fox, Assoc. Comp. Mach., New York, 1176-1179, 1988.
- 17. Gurnis, M., and B. H. Hager,
Controls on the structure of subducted
slabs, Nature 335, 317-321, 1988.
- 18. Griffiths, R. W., M. Gurnis, and G. Eitelberg, Holographic measurements
of surface topography in laboratory models of mantle hotspots, Geophysical
Journal 96, 477-495, 1989.
- 19. Gurnis, M.,
A reassessment of the heat transport by variable viscosity
convection with plates and lids, Geophysical Research Letters 16,
179-182,1989.
- 20. Gurnis, M.,
Bounds on global dynamic topography from Phanerozoic
flooding of continental platforms, Nature 344, 754-756, 1990.
- 21. Gurnis, M.,
Plate-mantle coupling and continental flooding, Geophysical
Research Letters 17, 623-626, 1990.
- 22. Gurnis, M., Ridge spreading, subduction and sea level fluctuations,
Science 250, 970-972, 1990.
- 23. Gurnis, M. and S. Zhong,
Generation of long wavelength heterogeneity
in the mantle by the dynamic interaction between plates and convection,
Geophysical Research Letters 18, 581-584, 1991.
- 24. Gurnis, M., Continental flooding and mantle-lithosphere dynamics,
in R. Sabadini, K. Lambeck, and E. Boschi (eds), Glacial Isostasy, Sea-Level,
and Mantle Rheology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrect, 445-492,
1991.
- 25. Gurnis, M., Dynamic topography, in Nierenberg, W. A. (ed.) Encyclopedia
of Earth System Science, Vol. 2, Academic Press, San Diego, 105-109,
1992.
- 26. Gurnis, M., Rapid continental subsidence following the initiation
and evolution of subduction, Science 255, 1556-1558, 1992.
- 27. Gurnis, M., Long-term controls on eustatic and epeirogenic motions
by mantle convection, GSA Today 2, 141-157 1992.
- 28. Zhong, S., and M. Gurnis,
Viscous flow model of a subduction zone
with a faulted lithosphere: Long and short wavelength topography, gravity,
and geoid, Geophysical Research Letters 19, 1891-1894, 1992.
- 29. Gurnis, M.,
Depressed continental hypsometry behind oceanic trenches:
A clue to subduction controls on sea level change, Geology 21, 29-32,
1993.
- 30. Zhong, S., and M. Gurnis,
Dynamic feedback between a continentlike
raft and thermal convection, Journal of Geophysical Research 98,
12,219-12,232, 1993.
- 31. Zhong, S., Gurnis, M., and Hulbert, G., Accurate determination
of surface normal stress in viscous flow from a consistent boundary flux
method, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors 78, 1-8, 1993.
- 32. Gurnis, M.,
Phanerozoic marine inundation of continents driven
by dynamic topography above subducting slabs, Nature 364, 589-593,
1993.
- 33. Gurnis, M.,
Comment on 'Dynamic Surface Topography' by A. M. Forte,
et al., Geophysical Research Letters 20, 1663-1664, 1993.
- 34. Zhong, S., and Gurnis, M.,
Controls on trench topography from dynamic
models of subducted slabs, Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 15,683-15,695,
1994.
- 35. Zhong, S., and Gurnis, M.,
Role of plates and temperature-dependent
viscosity in phase change dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research
99, 15,903- 15,917, 1994.
- 36. Russell, M., and Gurnis, M., The planform of epeirogeny: Vertical
motions of Australia during the Cretaceous, Basin Research 6, 63-76,
1994.
- 37. Gurnis, M., and Torsvik, T.,
Rapid
drift of large continents during the Late Precambrian and Paleozoic: Paleomagnetic
constraints and dynamics models, Geology 22, 1023-1026 1994.
- 38. Gurnis, M., Vertical motion of Australia in the Cretaceous: A mantle dynamics perspective, Geophysics Down Under (Geological Society of Australia), 19, 3-7, 1994.
- 39.Zhong, S., and Gurnis, M., Mantle
convection with plates and mobile, faulted plate margins, Science
267, 838-843,1995
- 40. Coakley, B., and Gurnis, M.,
Far
field tilting of Laurentia during the Ordovician and constraints on the
evolution of a slab under an ancient continent, Journal of Geophysical
Research 100, 6313-6327, 1995.
- 41. Zhong, S., and Gurnis, M.,
Towards
a realistic simulation of plate margins in models of mantle convection,
Geophysical Research Letters 22, 981-984, 1995.
- 42. Moresi, L., and Gurnis, M.,
Constraints on the lateral strength
of slabs from three-dimensional dynamic flow models, Earth and Planetary
Science Letters 138, 15-28, 1996.
- 43. Burgess, P. M., and Gurnis, M.,
Mechanisms for the formation of
cratonic stratigraphic sequences, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
136, 647-663, 1995.
- 44. Moresi, L., Zhong, S., and Gurnis, M.,
The accuracy of finite element
solutions of Stokes' flow with strongly varying viscosity, Physics of
the Earth and Planetary Interiors 97, 83-94, 1996.
- 45. Zhong, S., Gurnis, M., and Moresi, L., Free-surface formulation
of mantle convection, part 1: Basic theory and application to mantle plumes,
Geophysical Journal International 127, 708-718, 1996.
- 46. Gurnis, M., Eloy, C., and Zhong, S., Free-surface formulation of
mantle convection, part 2: Implication for subduction zone observables,
Geophysical Journal International 127, 719-727, 1996.
- 47. Zhong, S., and Gurnis, M.,
Interaction of weak faults and non-Newtonian
rheology produces plate tectonics in a 3D model of mantle flow, Nature
383, 245-247, 1996.
- 48. Burgess, P. M., Gurnis, M., and Moresi, L.,
Formation of sequences in the cratonic interior of North America by interaction between mantle,
eustatic and stratigraphic processes,
Bulletin of the Geological Society
of America 108, 1515-1535, 1997.
- 49. Zhong, S., and Gurnis, M.,
Dynamic interaction between tectonics plates, subducting slabs, and the mantle,
Earth Interactions 1, 1997.
- 50. Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., and Gurnis, M.,
Cenozoic subsidence and
uplift of continents from time-varying dynamic topography, Geology 25, 735-738, 1997.
- 51. Zhong, S., Gurnis, M., and Moresi, L.,
The role of faults, nonlinear rheology, and viscosity structure in generating plates from instantaneous mantle flow models, Journal of Geophysical Research 103, 15,255-15,268, 1998.
- 52. Gurnis, M., Wysession, M., Knittle, E., and Buffett, B., Editors, The Core Mantle Boundary Region, Geodynamics Series, Volume 28, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 1998.
- 53. Sidorin, I., and Gurnis, M.,
Geodynamically consistent seismic velocity predictions at the base of the
mantle, in Gurnis, M., Wysession, M., Knittle, E., and Buffett, B., eds., The Core Mantle Boundary Region, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 209-230, 1998.
- 54. Toth, J., and Gurnis, M.,
Dynamics of subduction initiation at pre-existing fault zones,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 18,053-18,067, 1998.
- 55. Gurnis, M., Mueller, R. D., and Moresi,. L.,
Dynamics of Cretaceous vertical motion of Australia and the Australian-Antarctic discordance,
Science 279, 1499-1504, 1998.
- 56. Sidorin, I., Gurnis, M., Helmberger, D.V., and Ding, X.,
Interpreting D" seismic structure using synthetic waveforms computed from dynamic models, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 163, 31-41, 1998.
- 57. Han, L., and Gurnis, M.,
How valid are dynamic models of subduction and convection when plate motions are prescribed ? Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, 110, 235-246, 1999.
- 58. Deng, J., Gurnis, M., Kanamori, H., and Hauksson, E.,
Viscoelastic flow following the 1992 Landers, California, earthquake,
Science, 282, 1689-1692, 1998.
- 59. Sidorin, I., Gurnis, M., and Helmberger, D. V.,
Dynamics of a phase change at the base of the mantle consistent with seismological observations,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 15005-15023, 1999.
- 60. Gurnis, M., Moresi, L., and Mueller, R. D., Models of mantle convection incorporating plate tectonics: The Australian region since the Cretaceous, in Richards, M. A.,
Gordon, R., and van der Hilst, R., (editors),The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions,American Geophysical Union, Washongton D.C., 211-238, 2000.
- 61. Gurnis, M., Zhong, S., and Toth, J., On the competing roles of fault reactivation and brittle failure in generating plate tectonics from mantle convection, in Richards, M. A.,
Gordon, R., and van der Hilst, R., (editors),The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions,American Geophysical Union, Washongton D.C., 73-94, 2000.
- 62. Ni, S., Ding, X., Helmberger, D. V., and Gurnis, M., Low-velocity structure beneath Africa from forward modeling, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 170, 497-507, 1999.
- 63. Deng, J., Hudnut, K., Gurnis, M., and Hauksson, E., Stress loading from viscous flow in the
lower crust and triggering of aftershocks following the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake,
Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 3209-3212, 1999.
- 64. Zhong, S., Zuber, M. T., Moresi, L., and Gurnis, M.,
The role of temperature-dependent
viscosity and surface plates in spherical shell models of mantle convection,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 11,063--11,082, 2000.
- 65. Sidorin, I., Gurnis, M., and Helmberger, D. V.,
Evidence for a ubiquitous seismic discontinuity at the base of the mantle,
Science, 286, 1326-1331, 1999.
- 66. Meltzer, A., Rudnick, R., Zeitler, P., Levander, A., Humphreys, G., Karlstrom, K., Ekstrom, G., Carlson, R., Dixon, T., Gurnis, M., Shearer, P., and van der Hilst, R., The USArray Initiative, GSA Today, 9 (11), 8-10, 1999.
- 67. Moresi, L., Gurnis, M., and Zhong, S.,
Convection in the Earth's mantle with plate tectonics: Towards a numerical simulation, Computers in Science and Engineering, 2, No. 3, 22-33, 2000.
- 68. Gurnis, M., Mitrovica, J. X., Ritsema, J., and van Heijst, H.-J., Constraining mantle density structure using geological evidence of surface uplift rates: The case of the African superplume,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 1, Paper number 1999GC000035 [26,963 words,
14 figures, 2 tables, 2000.
- 69. Gurnis, M., Ritsema, J., van Heijst, H.-J., and Zhong, S.,
Tonga slab deformation: The influence of a lower mantle upwelling on a slab in a young subduction zone,
Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 2373-2376, 2000.
- 70. Gurnis, M.,
Sculpting the earth from inside out,
Scientific American, 284, No. 3, 40-47, 2001. [Updated and reprinted in Our Ever Changing Earth, Scientific American, 56-63, 2005.]
- 71. Billen, M. I., and Gurnis, M.,
A low viscosity wedge in subduction zones,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 193, 227-236, 2001.
- 72. Gurnis, M., African superplume,
McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1-3, 2002.
- 73. Gurnis, M., and Mueller, R. D.,
The Origin of the
Australian Antarctic Discordance from an ancient slab and mantle wedge,
in Hillis, R. R., and Mueller, R. D.,The Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate,
Geological Societies of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 2003.
- 74. Tan, E., Gurnis, M., and Han, L.,
Slabs in the lower mantle and their modulation of plume formation,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 3,
no. 11, 1067, doi:10.1029/2001GC000238, 2002
- 75. Billen, M. I., Gurnis, M., and Simons, M.,
Multiscale dynamics of the Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone,
Geophysical Journal International, 153, 359-388, 2003.
- 76. Billen, M. I., and Gurnis, M.,
Comparison of dynamic flow models for the Central Aleutian and Tonga-Kermadec subduction zones,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 4(4), 1035, doi:10.1029/2001GC000295, 2003.
- 77. Conrad, C. P., and Gurnis, M.,
Seismic tomography, surface uplift, and the
breakup of Gondwanaland: Integrating mantle convection backwards in time,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 4(3), 1031, doi:10.1029/2001GC000299, 2003.
- 78. Ni, S., Tan, E., Gurnis, M., and Helmberger, D.,
Sharp sides to the African superplume,
Science, 296, 1850-1852, 2002.
- 79. House, M. A., Gurnis, M., Kamp, P. J. J., and Sutherland, R.,
Uplift in the Fiordland region, New Zealand: Implications for incipient subduction,
Science, 297, 2038-2041, 2002.
- 80. Choi, E.-s., and Gurnis, M.,
Deformation in transcurrent and
extensional
environments with widely spaced weak zones, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(2),
1076, doi:10.1029/2002GL016129, 2003.i
- 81. Hall, C., Gurnis, M., Sdrolias, M., Lavier, L. L., and Mueler, R. D.,
Catastrophic initiation of subduction following forced convergence across fracture zones,
Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, 212, 15-30, 2003.
- 82. Gurnis, M., Hall, C., Lavier, L.,
Evolving force balance during inipient subduction, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 5, Q07001, doi:10.1029/2003GC000681, 31 pp., 2004.
- 83. Billen, M. I., and Gurnis, M.,
Constraints on subducting plate strength within the Kermadec Trench, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05407, doi:10.1029/2004JB003308, 18 pp., 2005
- 84. Hall, C. E., and Gurnis, M.,
The strength of fracture zones from their bathymetric and gravitational evolution, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B01402, doi:10.1029/2004JB003312, 17 pp., 2005.
- 85. Hemberger, D., T. Lay, S. Ni, and M. Gurnis,
Deep mantle structure and the post perovskite phase transition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.0502504102, 7 pp., 2005.
- 86. House, M. A., M. Gurnis, R. Sutherland, and P. J. J. Kamp,
Patterns of Late Cenozoic exhumation deduced from apatite and zircon U-He ages from Fiordland, New Zealand,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 6, Number 9, Q09013, doi:10.1029/2005GC000968, 13 pp., 2005.
- 87. Tan, E., and M. Gurnis,
Metastable superplumes and mantle compressibility,
Geophysical Research Letters, 32, Number 20, L20307 10.1029/2005GL024190, 4 pp., 2005.
- 88. Quenette, S. M., B. F. Appelbe, M. Gurnis, L. J. Hodkinson, L. Moresi, and P. D. Sunter, An investigation into design for performance and code maintainability in high performance computing, Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal, 46(E), C101-C116, 2005.
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- 89. Tan, E., E. Choi, P. Thoutireddy, M. Gurnis, and M. Aivazis,
GeoFramework: Coupling multiple models of mantle convection within a computational framework, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7, Q06001, doi:10.1029/2005GC001155, 14 pp., 2006.
- 90. Le Pourhiet, L., M. Gurnis, and J. Saleeby,
Mantle instability beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California and Death Valley extension, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 251, 104-119, 2006.
- 91. Sun, D., E. Tan, D. Helmberger, and M. Gurnis,
Seismological support for the metastable superplume model, sharp features, and phase changes within the lower mantle, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.0608160104, 5 pp, 2007.
- 92. Tan, E., and M. Gurnis,
Compressible thermochemical convection and application to lower mantle structures, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B06304, doi:10.1029/2006JB004505, 19 pp, 2007.
- 93. Choi, E.-s., L. Lavier, and M. Gurnis, Thermomechanics of mid-ocean ridge segmentation, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, submitted, 2007.
- 94. Manea, V., and M. Gurnis,
Subduction zone evolution and low viscosity wedges and channels,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 264, 22-45, 2007.
- 95. L. B. Hebert, P. Antoshechkina, P. Asimow, and M. Gurnis, Emergence of a low-viscosity channel in subduction zones through the coupling of mantle flow and thermodynamics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, submitted, 2007.
- 96. Choi, E.-s., and M. Gurnis,
Thermally induced brittle deformation in oceanic lithosphere and the spacing of fracture zones, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 269, 259-270, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.025, 2008.
- 97. DiCaprio, L., M. Gurnis, and R. D. Mueller, Long-wavelength tilting of the Australian continent since the Late Cretaceous, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, submitted, 2007.
- 98. Spasojevi, S., L. Liu, M. Gurnis, and R. D. Mueller,
The case for dynamic subsidence of the United States east coast since the Eocene,
Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L08305, doi:10.1029/2008GL033511, 6 pp., 2008.
- 99. Liu, L., and M. Gurnis, Simultaneous inversion of mantle properties and initial conditions using an adjoint of mantle convection, Journal of Geophysical Research, in press, 2008.
- 100. Sutherland, R., M. Gurnis, P. J. J. Kamp, and M. A. House, Regional exhumation history of brittle crust during subduction initiation, Fiordland, southwest New Zealand, and implications for thermochronologic sampling and analysis strategies, Journal of Geophysical Research, submitted, 2008.
- 101. Zhong, S., A. McNamara, E. Tan, L. Moresi, and M. Gurnis, A Benchmark study on mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell using CitcomS,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, submitted, 2008.
- 102. DiCaprio, L., R. D. Mueller, M. Gurnis, and A. Goncharov, Crustal structure of the Norfolk Basin,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, submitted, 2008.
- 103. Burstedde, C., O. Ghattas, M. Gurnis, G. Stadler, E. Tan, T. Tu, L. C. Wilcox, and S. Zhong, Scalable adaptive mantle convection simulation on petascale supercomputers,
Proceedings of The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2008),
submitted, 2008.
- 104. Perez-Campos, X., Y.-H. Kim, A. Husker, P. M. Davis, R. W. Clayton, A. Iglesias, J. F. Pacheco, S. K. Singh, V. Manea, and M. Gurnis,
Flat slab subduction in the vicinity of Mexico City,
Nature Geoscience, submitted, 2008.
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