Upper mantle anisotropy: A preliminary model

Preliminary reference Earth model

1981 • 9,821 citations

Composition and Petrology of the Earth's Mantle

1975 • 2,021 citations

Limits on lithospheric stress imposed by laboratory experiments

1980 • 1,763 citations

Creep of Crystals

1985 • 1,052 citations

Stress and temperature in the bending lithosphere as constrained by experimental rock mechanics

1979 • 880 citations

A review of wave motion in anisotropic and cracked elastic-media

1981 • 842 citations

Rheology of the lithosphere

1983 • 790 citations

Seismic Anisotropy of the Uppermost Mantle under Oceans

1964 • 755 citations

Textures and Fabrics of Upper-Mantle Peridotites as Illustrated by Xenoliths from Basalts

1975 • 732 citations

Elastic moduli, pressure derivatives, and temperature derivatives of single-crystal olivine and single-crystal forsterite

1969 • 721 citations

Crystalline plasticity and solid state flow in metamorphic rocks

1978 • 701 citations

Crystallography and crystal defects

2012 • 684 citations

Crystalline plasticity and solid state flow in metamorphic rocks

1977 • 600 citations

High Temperature Flow of Dunite and Peridotite

1970 • 589 citations

Crystallography and crystal defects

1970 • 505 citations

The Early Structural Evolution and Anisotropy of the Oceanic Upper Mantle

1975 • 472 citations

The magnitude, symmetry and origin of upper mantle anisotropy based on fabric analyses of ultramafic tectonites

1984 • 366 citations

Elastic wave propagation in layered anisotropic media

1961 • 356 citations

Recovery and Recrystallization during High Temperature Deformation

1975 • 353 citations

The temperature variation of hardness of olivine and its implication for polycrystalline yield stress

1979 • 350 citations

A thermal model of the earth

1977 • 333 citations

Mechanisms of flow in naturally and experimentally deformed peridotites

1973 • 332 citations

Composition of the upper mantle: Geophysical tests of two petrological models

1984 • 309 citations

Chapter 4: Deformation of Rocks at 500° to 800° C.

1960 • 296 citations

Measurement of single-crystal elastic constants of bronzite as a function of pressure and temperature

1972 • 295 citations

Plastic flow of oriented single crystals of olivine: 1. Mechanical data

1977 • 293 citations

Mechanisms of plastic deformation of olivine

1968 • 272 citations

The simulation of fabric development in plastic deformation and its application to quartzite: The model

1978 • 272 citations

Observations of flexure and the state of stress in the oceanic lithosphere

1980 • 264 citations

Tectonic stresses in the lithosphere: Constraints provided by the experimental deformation of rocks

1980 • 256 citations

Mineralogy and composition of the upper mantle

1984 • 248 citations

Measurements of mantle wave velocities and inversion for lateral heterogeneities and anisotropy: 3. Inversion

1986 • 246 citations

Plastic flow of oriented single crystals of olivine: 2. Observations and interpretations of the dislocation structures

1977 • 214 citations

Lateral heterogeneity and azimuthal anisotropy of the upper mantle: Love and Rayleigh waves 100–250 s

1985 • 212 citations

Elasticity of diopside

1979 • 206 citations

A model of dislocation-controlled rheology for the mantle

1981 • 199 citations

Seismic anisotropy -- the state of the art: II

1984 • 188 citations

The deep structure of continents

1979 • 185 citations

Elastic properties from acoustic and volume compression experiments

1981 • 183 citations

Transmission Electron Microscopy of Experimentally Deformed Olivine Crystals

2011 • 182 citations

Evidence from core-reflected shear waves for anisotropy in the Earth's mantle

1984 • 176 citations

The Earth as a Planet: Paradigms and Paradoxes

1984 • 172 citations

Chemical stratification of the mantle

1979 • 167 citations

Slip and the clinoenstatite transformation as competing rate processes in enstatite

1971 • 154 citations

Deformation of clinopyroxenite: Evidence for a transition in flow mechanisms and semibrittle behavior

1984 • 153 citations

The upper mantle transition region: Eclogite?

1979 • 152 citations

Experimental deformation of diopside and websterite

1978 • 150 citations

Large strain deformation studies using polycrystalline magnesium as a rock analogue. Part II: dynamic recrystallisation mechanisms at high temperatures

1985 • 138 citations

Dependence of the thickness of the elastic oceanic lithosphere on age

1979 • 136 citations

The pressure and temperature dependence of the elastic constants of pyrope garnet

1977 • 132 citations

Pyroxene orientation within the upper mantle

1982 • 126 citations

Change of shape due to dislocation climb

1969 • 122 citations

Hotspots, Basalts, and the Evolution of the Mantle

1981 • 117 citations

Velocity anisotropy in a mantle peridotite from the Ivrea Zone: Application to upper mantle anisotropy

1974 • 115 citations

Glide Mechanisms in Experimentally Deformed Minerals

1965 • 114 citations

ScS polarization anisotropy around the Pacific Ocean.

1984 • 111 citations

Anisotropic models of the upper mantle

1984 • 106 citations

Deformation Processes in the Upper Mantle

2011 • 105 citations

Surface wave dispersion, regionalized velocity models, and anisotropy of the Pacific crust and upper mantle

1980 • 97 citations

High-temperature flow of wet polycrystalline enstatite

1978 • 88 citations

Mechanical twinning in naturally and experimentally deformed diopside

1967 • 84 citations

Seismic Velocity Anisotropy Calculated for Ultramafic Minerals and Aggregates

2011 • 83 citations

Chemical Composition and Evolution of the Mantle

1982 • 82 citations

The Propagation of Surface Waves in Anisotropic Media

1971 • 78 citations

Mechanical twinning in diopside Ca(Mg,Fe)Si2O6: Structural mechanism and associated crystal defects

1977 • 66 citations

Dislocations in the deformation of olivine

1969 • 64 citations

Deformation of single‐crystal clinopyroxenes: 1. Mechanical twinning in diopside and hedenbergite

1982 • 63 citations

Dislocations and nonelastic processes in the mantle

1980 • 58 citations

Dislocations in mantle peeidotite nodules

1977 • 49 citations

Deformation of single‐crystal clinopyroxenes: 2. Dislocation‐controlled flow processes in Hedenbergite

1983 • 48 citations

Plastic anisotropy and texture development in calcite polycrystals

1986 • 47 citations

Dislocations in olivine indented at low temperatures

1981 • 45 citations

Mechanisms of preferred orientations of olivine in tectonite peridotite

1975 • 45 citations

On the inter-relationship between grain size sensitive creep and dynamic recrystallization of olivine

1983 • 45 citations

Flexure and thickening of the lithosphere at the East Pacific Rise

1986 • 43 citations

Seismic anisotropy - the state of the art

1984 • 43 citations

Experimental deformation of a synthetic dunite at high temperature and pressure. I. Mechanical behavior, optical microstructure and deformation mechanism

1984 • 42 citations

Surface wave tomography

1984 • 40 citations

Decorated dislocations in forsterite

1979 • 37 citations

High attenuation and the low-velocity zone

1973 • 37 citations

Azimuthally anisotropic model of the oceanic upper mantle

1986 • 37 citations

Transmission electron microscope study of dislocations in orthopyroxene (Mg, Fe)2Si2O6

1985 • 36 citations

Azimuthal anisotropy of surface waves and the possible type of the seismic anisotropy due to preferred orientation of olivine in the uppermost mantle beneath the Pacific Ocean.

1984 • 36 citations

Ueber Translationen und verwandte Erscheinungen in Krystallen

1897 • 33 citations

Development of Textures by Slip and Twinning

1985 • 28 citations

Preferred Orientation Development of Dynamically Recrystallized Olivine during High Temperature Creep

1985 • 23 citations

A vorticity equation for lattice reorientation during plastic deformation

1982 • 18 citations

Electrical conductivity of olivine during high‐temperature creep

1986 • 18 citations

Plastic flow of single-crystal olivine.

1975 • 16 citations

Upper mantle plasticity from laboratory experiments

1982 • 13 citations

On the origin of the seismic anisotropy of the lithosphere

1984 • 9 citations

Seismic cross sections of the upper mantle

1984 • 1 citations