This is the summary reading list for Option 2, taught by Nicky White. Please refer to each set of lecture notes for more focused reading suggestions.
Option 2 - Probing Lithospheric Dynamics through Space and Time (Nicky White)
Lecture 1 - advanced stretching
Barton, Penny, and Rosy Wood. 2008. 'Tectonic Evolution of the North Sea Basin: Crustal Stretching and Subsidence'. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society79 (3): 987–1022. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1984.tb02880.x.
Bellingham, P, and N White. 2000. 'A General Inverse Method for Modelling Extensional Sedimentary Basins'. Basin Research, 8.
Le Pichon, Xavier, and Jean-Claude Sibuet. 1981. 'Passive Margins: A Model of Formation'. Journal of Geophysical Research86 (B5): 3708. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB086iB05p03708.
White, Nicky, Mark Thompson, and Tony Barwise. 2003. 'Understanding the Thermal Evolution of Deep-Water Continental Margins'. Nature426 (6964): 334–43. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02133.
Rowley, Eleanor, and Nicky White. 1998. 'Inverse Modelling of Extension and Denudation in the East Irish Sea and Surrounding Areas'. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 161 (1): 57–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00137-X.
White, Nicky, and Bryan Lovell. 1997. 'Measuring the Pulse of a Plume with the Sedimentary Record'. Nature 387 (6636): 888–91. https://doi.org/10.1038/43151.
Lecture 3 - carbon sequestration
Bickle, Mike, Andy Chadwick, Herbert E. Huppert, Mark Hallworth, and Sarah Lyle. 2007. 'Modelling Carbon Dioxide Accumulation at Sleipner: Implications for Underground Carbon Storage'. Earth and Planetary Science Letters255 (1–2): 164–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.013.
Boait, F. C., N. J. White, M. J. Bickle, R. A. Chadwick, J. A. Neufeld, and H. E. Huppert. 2012. 'Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Injected CO 2 at the Sleipner Field, North Sea'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth117 (B3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JB008603.
Cowton, L. R., J. A. Neufeld, N. J. White, M. J. Bickle, J. C. White, and R. A. Chadwick. 2016. 'An Inverse Method for Estimating Thickness and Volume with Time of a Thin CO 2 -Filled Layer at the Sleipner Field, North Sea: ESTIMATING CO 2 -LAYER THICKNESS'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth121 (7): 5068–85. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB012895.
Huppert, Herbert E., and Jerome A. Neufeld. 2014. 'The Fluid Mechanics of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration'. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics46 (1): 255–72. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-011212-140627.
Lecture 4 - seismic oceanography
Gunn, K. L., N. J. White, R. D. Larter, and C. P. Caulfield. 2018. 'Calibrated Seismic Imaging of Eddy-Dominated Warm-Water Transport Across the Bellingshausen Sea, Southern Ocean'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans123 (4): 3072–99. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC013833.
Holbrook, W. S. 2003. 'Thermohaline Fine Structure in an Oceanographic Front from Seismic Reflection Profiling'. Science301 (5634): 821–24. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1085116.
Papenberg, C., D. Klaeschen, G. Krahmann, and R. W. Hobbs. 2010. 'Ocean Temperature and Salinity Inverted from Combined Hydrographic and Seismic Data'. Geophysical Research Letters37 (4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL042115.
Sheen, K. L., N. J. White, C. P. Caulfield, and R. W. Hobbs. 2012. 'Seismic Imaging of a Large Horizontal Vortex at Abyssal Depths beneath the Sub-Antarctic Front'. Nature Geoscience5 (8): 542–46. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1502.
Sheen, K. L., N. J. White, and R. W. Hobbs. 2009. 'Estimating Mixing Rates from Seismic Images of Oceanic Structure'. Geophysical Research Letters36 (24). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040106.
Yilmaz, Öz. 2001. Seismic Data Analysis: Processing, Inversion, and Interpretation of Seismic Data. Society of Exploration Geophysicists. https://doi.org/10.1190/1.9781560801580.
Lecture 5 - dynamic topography 1
Al-Hajri, Yasir, Nicky White, and Stewart Fishwick. 2009. 'Scales of Transient Convective Support beneath Africa'. Geology37 (10): 883–86. https://doi.org/10.1130/G25703A.1.
Czarnota, K., M. J. Hoggard, N. White, and J. Winterbourne. 2013. 'Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Cenozoic Dynamic Topography around Australia: DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY AROUND AUSTRALIA'. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems14 (3): 634–58. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GC004392.
Hoggard, M. J., N. White, and D. Al-Attar. 2016. 'Global Dynamic Topography Observations Reveal Limited Influence of Large-Scale Mantle Flow'. Nature Geoscience9 (6): 456–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2709.
Menard, H. W. 1973. 'Depth Anomalies and the Bobbing Motion of Drifting Islands'. Journal of Geophysical Research78 (23): 5128–37. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB078i023p05128.
Winterbourne, Jeffrey, Alistair Crosby, and Nicky White. 2009. 'Depth, Age and Dynamic Topography of Oceanic Lithosphere beneath Heavily Sedimented Atlantic Margins'. Earth and Planetary Science Letters287 (1–2): 137–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.019.
Lecture 6 - dynamic topography 2 (models)
Braun, Jean. 2010. 'The Many Surface Expressions of Mantle Dynamics'. Nature Geoscience3 (November): 825.
Flament, Nicolas, Michael Gurnis, and R. Dietmar Müller. 2013. 'A Review of Observations and Models of Dynamic Topography'. Lithosphere5 (2): 189–210. https://doi.org/10.1130/L245.1.
Hager, B. H., and M. A. Richards. 1989. 'Long-Wavelength Variations in Earth's Geoid: Physical Models and Dynamical Implications'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences328 (1599): 309–27. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1989.0038.
Hager, Bradford H., Robert W. Clayton, Mark A. Richards, Robert P. Comer, and Adam M. Dziewonski. 1985. 'Lower Mantle Heterogeneity, Dynamic Topography and the Geoid'. Nature313 (6003): 541–45. https://doi.org/10.1038/313541a0.
Lecture 7 - modern and ancient landscapes
Hartley, Ross A., Gareth G. Roberts, Nicky White, and Chris Richardson. 2011. 'Transient Convective Uplift of an Ancient Buried Landscape'. Nature Geoscience4 (8): 562–65. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1191.
Howard, Alan D., William E. Dietrich, and Michele A. Seidl. 1994. 'Modeling Fluvial Erosion on Regional to Continental Scales'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth99 (B7): 13971–86. https://doi.org/10.1029/94JB00744.
Paul, Jonathan D., Gareth G. Roberts, and Nicky White. 2014. 'The African Landscape through Space and Time'. Tectonics33 (6): 898–935. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013TC003479.
Roberts, Gareth G., and Nicky White. 2010. 'Estimating Uplift Rate Histories from River Profiles Using African Examples'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth115 (B2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JB006692.
Rudge, John F., Gareth G. Roberts, Nicky J. White, and Christopher N. Richardson. 2015. 'Uplift Histories of Africa and Australia from Linear Inverse Modeling of Drainage Inventories'. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface120 (5): 894–914. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003297.
Lecture 8 - surface manifestations of mantle convection
Jones, Stephen M., Nicky White, and John Maclennan. 2002. 'V-Shaped Ridges around Iceland: Implications for Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Mantle Convection'. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems3 (10): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1029/2002GC000361.
Parnell-Turner, R. E., N. J. White, J. Maclennan, T. J. Henstock, B. J. Murton, and S. M. Jones. 2013. 'Crustal Manifestations of a Hot Transient Pulse at 60°N beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge'. Earth and Planetary Science Letters363 (February): 109–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.030.
Parnell-Turner, Ross, Nicky White, Tim Henstock, Bramley Murton, John Maclennan, and Stephen M. Jones. 2014. 'A Continuous 55-Million-Year Record of Transient Mantle Plume Activity beneath Iceland'. Nature Geoscience7 (November): 914.
Poore, Heather, Nicky White, and John Maclennan. 2011. 'Ocean Circulation and Mantle Melting Controlled by Radial Flow of Hot Pulses in the Iceland Plume'. Nature Geoscience4 (8): 558–61. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1161.
Vogt, P.R. 1971. 'Asthenosphere Motion Recorded by the Ocean Floor South of Iceland'. Earth and Planetary Science Letters13 (1): 153–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(71)90118-X.
