Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean

PJ Mumby, AJ Edwards, J Ernesto Arias-González… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Mangrove forests are one of the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems with global
loss exceeding 35%(ref.). Juvenile coral reef fish often inhabit mangroves,,,, but the …

Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California

G Zandt, H Gilbert, TJ Owens, M Ducea, J Saleeby… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Seismic data provide images of crust–mantle interactions during ongoing removal of the
dense batholithic root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada mountains in California. The …

Low-velocity zone atop the 410-km seismic discontinuity in the northwestern United States

TR Alex Song, DV Helmberger, SP Grand - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
The seismic discontinuity at 410 km depth in the Earth's mantle is generally attributed to the
phase transition of (Mg, Fe) 2SiO4 (refs,) from the olivine to wadsleyite structure. Variation in …

A global study of transition zone thickness using receiver functions

JF Lawrence, PM Shearer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Systematic stacks of P wave receiver functions (Pds) for 118 global seismic stations yield
new transition zone thickness (WTZ) estimates, as measured by the difference in depths …

Hot mantle upwelling across the 660 beneath Yellowstone

B Schmandt, K Dueker, E Humphreys… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
P-to-s receiver functions mapped to depth through P and S body-wave tomography models
image continuous 410 and 660km discontinuities beneath the area covered by USArray …

Nominally anhydrous minerals and Earth's deep water cycle

JR Smyth, SD Jacobsen - Earth's deep water cycle, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Earth is unique among the Terrestrial planets in having liquid water on its surface. Water
controls the entire character of the biology and geology of the planet. Without liquid water …

Hydrodynamic mechanism for the Laramide orogeny

CH Jones, GL Farmer, B Sageman… - Geosphere, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The widespread presumption that the Farallon plate subducted along the base of North
American lithosphere under most of the western United States and∼ 1000 km inboard from …

Scoring hotspots: The plume and plate paradigms

DL Anderson - Special Papers-Geological Society of America, 2005 - books.google.com
The origin of midplate and along-ridge melting anomalies is controversial. Hypotheses
involve, at one extreme, concentrated hot mantle upwellings from the deepest mantle and, at …

An uplift history of the Colorado Plateau and its surroundings from inverse modeling of longitudinal river profiles

GG Roberts, NJ White, GL Martin‐Brandis… - Tectonics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
It is generally agreed that a region encompassing the Colorado Plateau has been uplifted by
sub‐crustal processes. Admittance calculations, tomographic studies and receiver function …

Receiver function images of the mantle transition zone beneath NE China: New constraints on intraplate volcanism, deep subduction and their potential link

Z Liu, F Niu, YJ Chen, S Grand, H Kawakatsu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
In order to better understand the deep subduction geometry of the Pacific plate and genesis
of intraplate volcanism in northeast China (NE China), we computed a total of 45,505 …