Links to:

topical news releases
Global velocity
moho
upper mantle
transition zone
Deep Mantle
Core mantle boundary and D''
inner and outer core
plumes
slabs
mantle convection
seismic java learning
regional lithospheric imaging
wavefront healing
topography/geoid/stress
seismic imaging courses
surface waves
seismic software
on-line journals
earthquakes

topical articles and new releases

 Science News Online
 ScienceDaily Magazine

 A Stirring Tale from inside Earth
 A slurpy layer deep inside  planet
 Scientists eye whirlpool in Earth's core
 Cambrian True Polar Wander: Earth axis flipping
 Plate Tectonics . . . on Mars
 core simulations
 Popsicle Planet -  ice age and animal evolution
 Triggering Of Volcanic Eruptions
 Seismic Imaging Unearths Details Of Earth's Core
 SA: why is core so hot ?
 USArray

Current Seismic State of Earth

Global velocity models
 New 3-D Reference Earth
 Make 3-d visualizations/movies
 5-D visualization code: isosurfaces, slices
 Surface polarization and GSN sensor misorientations
 Jeroen Ritsema: Global S20TS model
 CRUST5.1: Global crustal thickness
 Harvard: Group velocity models
 Long-short wavelength images: Boschi
 Joint tomography for bulk and shear wavespeed

Moho
 Canadian Moho
 AG48
  S. California Reciever function study
 CCP_stacks of moho in western
 bank/research.html
 

Upper Mantle
  Africa surface wave model: Ritsema
  Tanzania mantle: Ritsema
  Ken Dueker Home Page
 DeepProbeTomo

Transition zone: 410 and 660 km
  Mantle Transition Zone Triplicated Waveforms
  Topography on the Transition Zone Discontinuities
  Megan Flanagan
  John Castle Publications
  4 and 6 discontinuities in western US
 castle/GRLpaper/grl.html

Deep mantle
  Geophysics Group: ASU
  Xian-feng Liu
  Normal-Mode imaging
  Deep Mantle anisotropy beneath Alaska
 castle/ScP/ScP_EPSL.pdf
 castle/cmb/cmb.pdf

Core mantle boundary and D''
  S-SKS Travel Times and D"
  central pacific D'' anisotropy: Ritsema
  indian ocean D'' anisotropy: Ritsema
  Paul Earle Publications
  Finite Diff modeling of ULVZ: Wen
   A slurpy layer lurks deep inside the planet

Core
  Core Convection and the Geodynamo
  David Lowe @ UCSD
  Core Structure
  Anisotropy and Discontinuities: Inner Core
  Lapo Boschi: core/mantle boundary topography

Plumes

 overview articles
  Inner working of the Earth: Wysession
  Plumes and Mountains
  Mantle Plumes
  Earth's Interior: Xenoliths & Diamonds
 modeling
  Mantle Plumes underneath moving plates
  Plumes - Louise Kellogg
  plume.html
 imaging
  hawaii
  Project SWELL: Hawaii
  Models around Hawaii
  iceland
  Thin hot plume beneath iceland
  Whole mantle plume beneath Iceland
  Difficulties in imaging iceland hotspot
  ICELAND plume image: wolfe
  Eifel Plume
  Great African Plume
  Great African Plume
  Great african plume density/Geoid
  Strong velocity gradients
    yellowstone
    Bob Smith: Research
   Crustal deformationfrom GPS
   Vp in the wake of the Yellowstone
   KEN DUEKER

Fate of slabs: models and imaging

  Farallon slab: comparison of model and seismics
  3-d shear velocity: few slab penetrate 660
  Slab break-off modeling    animation1
  Subducting Lithosphere

Convection modeling

 Continental root stability
 3-D mantle mixing simulations
 HANS-PETER BUNGE
 BUNGE Papers
 Utrecht
 Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
 NASA Insights
 Center for Imaging and Dynamics of the Earth

Seismic java applets

 Intro waves class: Stanford
 Ray vs. Wavefield Modeling

Group velocity   GV1   GV3

diffraction/migration  diffraction/migration

rays and wavefronts
Ray vs. Wavefield Modeling
Rayleigh wave
P/S body/depth phases versus focal mech
Listen to a wave of your design
time/frequency versus real/imaginary

3-D Java: crystals, fractrals, artifical life
 ParallelGraphics: 3-d plug-in
 Java Arts   3D crystals   3D Lab    Manderlbrot

Topography/Geoid/Stress

US Shaded Relief Maps
Geoid, Gravity, Elevation
NASA Geopotential Model
world stress project
PACIFIC GEOID AND BATHYMETRY
Global seafloor topography

Regional Seismics/Geophysics

Regional surface wave models
 Suzan van der Lee

Canada
 LITHOPROBE
 accrete: Morozov

western North America
 origin of heterogeneity
 Animation: kinematics from 220 to 60 ma
   Thermal models of migrating medocino triple jct
 Crust/mantle evolution of western North America
 North American Stress map

Africa
 Kaapvaal Craton Project

Europe
 shallow mantle tempeaures from P/S waves

Tibet
 INDEPTH Home Page
 Mantle Fabrication Beneath Tibet

Australia
 Simons, Zielhuis and van der Hilst, Lithos (1999)

Russia
 Deep Seismic Sounding at UWYO

Wavefront Healing

 Nolet: wavefront healing
 Li Zhao's Research

Seismic Imaging courses

 Seismic Imaging: J.  Louie
 Seismic Processing System
 3-D GEO  kirchoffimaging3d

Surface wave techniques

 Asymptotic/non-asymptotic surface wave tomo
 Jascha Polet's TERRAscope paper
 Harvard: GSN Station Misorientation
 3-D lateral heterogeneous progagation

Seismic Software

 PLOTSEC: UBC refraction
 ORFEUS: software links
 ORFEUS: software links: matlab
 Elastic Orthorhombic Finite Difference
 SIA-seismic processing and data analysis

papers/books

Seismic Imaging Papers
 Louie et al: Imaging Steeply Dipping Structure
 3-d discontinuity imaging using java
 Seismic Papers: Berkely
 Utrecht papers on convection

On-line journals

 Science
 Bulletin of the seismological Society
 Journal of Geophysical Research
 Geophysical Research Letters
 Geophysical Journal International
 Geology
 Nature
 Blackwell
 Elsevier Science
 EPSL
 Scientific American

Earthquakes

physics
 dynamic fault models for strike slip

maps
 CNSS Catalog : maps and dbase queries
 CNSS Maps
 Wyoming >Mb 5 Eqs: fifth most active state

links

 Seismo-surfing
 The IRIS Consortium
 Utrecht Tectonophysics
 Deep Reflection Links
 Geophysics on the net