Gurnis, Michael

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• Li, Yida and Gurnis, Michael C. (2024) Rapid shear zone weakening during subduction initiation; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Vol. 121; No. 44; e2404939121; 10.1073/pnas.2404939121
• Liu, Shaofeng and Zhang, Bo, et el. (2024) Craton deformation from flat-slab subduction and rollback; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 17; No. 9; 936-943; 10.1038/s41561-024-01513-2
• Hu, Jiashun and Rudi, Johann, et el. (2024) Constraining Earth's nonlinear mantle viscosity using plate-boundary resolving global inversions; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Vol. 121; No. 28; e2318706121; 10.1073/pnas.2318706121
• Hightower, Erin and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2024) Influence of Farallon Slab Loading on Intraplate Stress and Seismicity in Eastern North America in the Presence of Pre‐Existing Weak Zones; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 25; No. 6; e2024GC011493; 10.1029/2024gc011493
• Yuan, Qian and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2024) A Giant Impact Origin for the First Subduction on Earth; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 51; No. 9; e2023GL106723; 10.1029/2023gl106723
• Holbach, Lukas and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2023) A Bayesian level set method for identifying subsurface geometries and rheological properties in Stokes flow; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 235; No. 1; 260-272; 10.1093/gji/ggad220
• Zhang, Shengxing and Li, Yiliang, et el. (2023) Photoferrotrophic Bacteria Initiated Plate Tectonics in the Neoarchean; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 50; No. 13; Art. No. e2023GL103553; 10.1029/2023gl103553
• Li, Yida and Gurnis, Michael (2023) Strike slip motion and the triggering of subduction initiation; Frontiers in Earth Science; Vol. 11; Art. No. 1156034; 10.3389/feart.2023.1156034
• Li, Yida and Gurnis, Michael (2023) A simple force balance model of subduction initiation; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 232; No. 1; 128-146; 10.1093/gji/ggac332
• Mao, Wei and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2022) On the Origin of Small-Scale Seismic Scatters at 660-km Depth; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 23; No. 12; Art. No. e2022GC010560; 10.1029/2022gc010560
• Rudi, Johann and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2022) Simultaneous inference of plate boundary stresses and mantle rheology using adjoints: large-scale 2-D models; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 231; No. 1; 597-614; 10.1093/gji/ggac207
• Stratford, W. R. and Sutherland, R., et el. (2022) Timing of Eocene compressional plate failure during subduction initiation, northern Zealandia, southwestern Pacific; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 229; No. 3; 1567-1585; 10.1093/gji/ggac016
• Shuck, Brandon and Gulick, Sean P. S., et el. (2022) Stress transition from horizontal to vertical forces during subduction initiation; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 15; No. 2; 149-155; 10.1038/s41561-021-00880-4
• Lai, Voon Hui and Helmberger, Don V., et el. (2022) Strong ULVZ and Slab Interaction at the Northeastern Edge of the Pacific LLSVP Favors Plume Generation; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 23; No. 2; Art. No. e2021GC010020; 10.1029/2021gc010020
• Hu, Jiashun and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2022) Dynamics of the abrupt change in Pacific Plate motion around 50 million years ago; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 15; No. 1; 74-78; 10.1038/s41561-021-00862-6
• Hu, Jiashun and Liu, Lijun, et el. (2021) Southward expanding plate coupling due to variation in sediment subduction as a cause of Andean growth; Nature Communications; Vol. 12; Art. No. 7271; PMCID PMC8671423; 10.1038/s41467-021-27518-8
• Johnson, Kyle and Marsaglia, Kathleen M., et el. (2021) Intra-oceanic submarine arc evolution recorded in an ~1-km-thick rear-arc succession of distal volcaniclastic lobe deposits; Geosphere; Vol. 17; No. 4; 957-980; 10.1130/ges02321.1
• Liu, Hao and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2021) Constraints on Mantle Viscosity From Slab Dynamics; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 126; No. 8; Art. No. e2021JB022329; 10.1029/2021jb022329
• Waldman, Ryan J. and Marsaglia, Kathleen M., et el. (2021) Sedimentary and volcanic record of the nascent Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc from IODP Site U1438; Geological Society of America Bulletin; Vol. 133; No. 7-8; 1421-1440; 10.1130/B35612.1
• Shuck, Brandon and Van Avendonk, Harm, et el. (2021) Strike-Slip Enables Subduction Initiation Beneath a Failed Rift: New Seismic Constraints From Puysegur Margin, New Zealand; Tectonics; Vol. 40; No. 5; Art. No. e2020TC006436; 10.1029/2020TC006436
• Liu, Hao and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2021) Tonga Slab Morphology and Stress Variations Controlled by a Relic Slab: Implications for Deep Earthquakes in the Tonga‐Fiji Region; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 48; No. 7; Art. No. e2020GL091331; 10.1029/2020gl091331
• Liu, Shaofeng and Ma, Pengfei, et el. (2021) The Horizontal Slab Beneath East Asia and Its Subdued Surface Dynamic Response; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 126; No. 3; Art. No. e2020JB021156; 10.1029/2020jb021156
• Zhu, Yinbing and Liu, Shaofeng, et el. (2021) Reconstruction of the Cenozoic deformation of the Bohai Bay Basin, North China; Basin Research; Vol. 33; No. 1; 364-381; 10.1111/bre.12470
• Patel, Jiten and Sutherland, Rupert, et el. (2021) Stratigraphic architecture of Solander Basin records Southern Ocean currents and subduction initiation beneath southwest New Zealand; Basin Research; Vol. 33; No. 1; 403-426; 10.1111/bre.12473
• Hightower, Erin and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2020) A Bayesian 3-D linear gravity inversion for complex density distributions: application to the Puysegur subduction system; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 223; No. 3; 1899-1918; 10.1093/gji/ggaa425
• Hassan, Rakib and Williams, Simon E., et el. (2020) East African topography and volcanism explained by a single, migrating plume; Geoscience Frontiers; Vol. 11; No. 5; 1669-1680; 10.1016/j.gsf.2020.01.003
• Sutherland, R. and Gurnis, M. (2020) Continental-scale geographic change across Zealandia during Paleogene subduction initiation; Geology; Vol. 48; No. 5; 419-424; 10.1130/G47008.1
• Hu, Jiashun and Gurnis, Michael (2020) Subduction Duration and Slab Dip; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 21; No. 4; Art. No. e2019GC008862; 10.1029/2019gc008862
• Gurnis, Michael and Kominz, Michelle, et el. (2020) Reversible subsidence on the North West Shelf of Australia; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 534; Art. No. 116070; 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116070
• Jia, Zhe and Shen, Zhichao, et el. (2020) The 2018 Fiji M_w 8.2 and 7.9 deep earthquakes: One doublet in two slabs; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 531; Art. No. 115997; 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115997
• Wang, Huilin and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2020) Continent-wide drainage reorganization in North America driven by mantle flow; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 530; Art. No. 115910; 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115910
• Gurnis, Michael and Van Avendonk, Harm, et el. (2019) Incipient subduction at the contact with stretched continental crust: The Puysegur Trench; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 520; 212-219; 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.044
• Yang, Ting and Moresi, Louis, et el. (2019) Contrasted East Asia and South America tectonics driven by deep mantle flow; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 517; 106-116; 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.025
• Tetley, Michael G. and Williams, Simon E., et el. (2019) Constraining Absolute Plate Motions Since the Triassic; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 124; No. 7; 7231-7258; 10.1029/2019jb017442
• Müller, R. Dietmar and Zahirovic, Sabin, et el. (2019) A global plate model including lithospheric deformation along major rifts and orogens since the Triassic; Tectonics; Vol. 38; No. 6; 1884-1907; 10.1029/2018tc005462
• Ma, Pengfei and Liu, Shaofeng, et el. (2019) Slab horizontal subduction and slab tearing beneath East Asia; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 46; No. 10; 5161-5169; 10.1029/2018gl081703
• Sun, D. and Helmberger, D., et el. (2019) Slab Control on the Northeastern Edge of the Mid-Pacific LLSVP near Hawaii; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 46; No. 6; 3142-3152; 10.1029/2018GL081130
• Arculus, Richard J. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2019) How to Create New Subduction Zones: A Global Perspective; Oceanography; Vol. 32; No. 1; 160-174; 10.5670/oceanog.2019.140
• Yang, Ting and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2018) Slab avalanche-induced tectonics in self-consistent dynamic models; Tectonophysics; Vol. 746; 251-265; 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.12.007
• McKay, Robert and Exon, Neville, et el. (2018) Developing community-based scientific priorities and new drilling proposals in the southern Indian and southwestern Pacific oceans; Scientific Drilling; Vol. 24; 61-70; 10.5194/sd-24-61-2018
• Wang, Huilin and Wang, Yaoyi, et el. (2018) A long-lived Indian Ocean slab: Deep dip reversal induced by the African LLSVP; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 497; 1-11; 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.050
• Gurnis, Michael and Yang, Ting, et el. (2018) Global tectonic reconstructions with continuously deforming and evolving rigid plates; Computers and Geosciences; Vol. 116; 32-41; 10.1016/j.cageo.2018.04.007
• Müller, R. Dietmar and Cannon, John, et el. (2018) GPlates – Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 19; No. 7; 2243-2261; 10.1029/2018GC007584
• Pall, Jodie and Zahirovic, Sabin, et el. (2018) The influence of carbonate platform interactions with subduction zone volcanism on palaeo-atmospheric CO_2 since the Devonian; Climate of the Past; Vol. 14; No. 6; 857-870; 10.5194/cp-14-857-2018
• Müller, R. D. and Hassan, R., et el. (2018) Dynamic topography of passive continental margins and their hinterlands since the Cretaceous; Gondwana Research; Vol. 53; 225-251; 10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.028
• Liu, Shaofeng and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2017) Reconstruction of northeast Asian deformation integrated with western Pacific plate subduction since 200 Ma; Earth-Science Reviews; Vol. 175; 114-142; 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.10.012
• Mao, Xiaolin and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2017) Subduction initiation with vertical lithospheric heterogeneities and new fault formation; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 44; No. 22; 11349-11356; 10.1002/2017GL075389
• Yang, Ting and Moresi, Louis, et el. (2017) Oceanic residual topography agrees with mantle flow predictions at long wavelengths; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 44; No. 21; 10896-10906; 10.1002/2017GL074800
• Wang, Huilin and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2017) Rapid Cenozoic Subsidence in the Gulf of Mexico Resulting From Hess Rise Conjugate Subduction; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 44; No. 21; 10930-10938; 10.1002/2017GL074959
• Flament, N. and Williams, S., et el. (2017) Correspondence: Reply to 'Numerical modelling of the PERM anomaly and the Emeishan large igneous province'; Nature Communications; Vol. 8; Art. No. 822; PMCID PMC5635014; 10.1038/s41467-017-00130-5
• Christensen, Beth A. and Renema, Willem, et el. (2017) Indonesian Throughflow drove Australian climate from humid Pliocene to arid Pleistocene; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 44; No. 13; 6914-6925; 10.1002/2017GL072977
• Yang, Ting and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2017) Trench motion-controlled slab morphology and stress variations: Implications for the isolated 2015 Bonin Islands deep earthquake; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 44; No. 13; 6641-6650; 10.1002/2017GL073989
• Sutherland, R. and Collot, J., et el. (2017) Widespread compression associated with Eocene Tonga-Kermadec subduction initiation; Geology; Vol. 45; No. 4; 355-358; 10.1130/G38617.1
• Sun, Daoyuan and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2017) A dipping, thick segment of the Farallon Slab beneath Central US; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 122; No. 4; 2911-2928; 10.1002/2016JB013915
• Li, Dunzhu and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2017) Towards adjoint-based inversion of time-dependent mantle convection with non-linear viscosity; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 209; No. 1; 86-105; 10.1093/gji/ggw493
• De Vleeschouwer, David and Dunlea, Ann G., et el. (2017) Quantifying K, U, and Th contents of marine sediments using shipboard natural gamma radiation spectra measured on DV JOIDES Resolution; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 18; No. 3; 1053-1064; 10.1002/2016GC006715
• Flament, N. and Williams, S., et el. (2017) Origin and evolution of the deep thermochemical structure beneath Eurasia; Nature Communications; Vol. 8; Art. No. 14164; PMCID PMC5253668; 10.1038/ncomms14164
• Zahirovic, Sabin and Matthews, Kara J., et el. (2016) Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic; Earth-Science Reviews; Vol. 162; 293-337; 10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.09.005
• Yang, Ting and Gurnis, Michael (2016) Dynamic topography, gravity and the role of lateral viscosity variations from inversion of global mantle flow; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 207; No. 2; 1186-1202; 10.1093/gji/ggw335
• Zahirovic, Sabin and Flament, Nicolas, et el. (2016) Large fluctuations of shallow seas in low-lying Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 17; No. 9; 3589-3607; 10.1002/2016GC006434
• von Hagke, Christoph and Philippon, Mélody, et el. (2016) Origin and time evolution of subduction polarity reversal from plate kinematics of Southeast Asia; Geology; Vol. 44; No. 8; 659-662; 10.1130/G37821.1
• Hassan, Rakib and Müller, R. Dietmar, et el. (2016) A rapid burst in hotspot motion through the interaction of tectonics and deep mantle flow; Nature; Vol. 533; No. 7602; 239-242; 10.1038/nature17422
• Müller, R. Dietmar and Flament, Nicolas, et el. (2016) Formation of Australian continental margin highlands driven by plate–mantle interaction; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 441; 60-70; 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.025
• Arculus, Richard J. and Gurnis, Michael (2016) Reply to 'Unclear causes for subduction'; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 9; No. 5; 338-339; 10.1038/ngeo2704
• Yang, Ting and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2016) Mantle-induced subsidence and compression in SE Asia since the early Miocene; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 43; No. 5; 1901-1909; 10.1002/2016GL068050
• Flament, Nicolas and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2015) Influence of subduction history on South American topography; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 430; 9-18; 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.08.006
• Rudi, Johann and Malossi, A. Cristiano I., et el. (2015) An extreme-scale implicit solver for complex PDEs: highly heterogeneous flow in earth's mantle; ISBN 978-1-4503-3723-6; Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis; Art. No. 5; 10.1145/2807591.2807675
• Leng, Wei and Gurnis, Michael (2015) Subduction initiation at relic arcs; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 42; No. 17; 7014-7021; 10.1002/2015GL064985
• Arculus, Richard J. and Ishizuka, Osamu, et el. (2015) A record of spontaneous subduction initiation in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 8; No. 9; 728-733; 10.1038/ngeo2515
• Ratnaswamy, V. and Stadler, G., et el. (2015) Adjoint-based estimation of plate coupling in a non-linear mantle flow model: theory and examples; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 202; No. 2; 768-786; 10.1093/gji/ggv166
• Hassan, Rakib and Flament, Nicolas, et el. (2015) Provenance of plumes in global convection models; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 16; No. 5; 1465-1489; 10.1002/2015GC005751
• Seton, Maria and Flament, Nicolas, et el. (2015) Ridge subduction sparked reorganization of the Pacific plate-mantle system 60-50 million years ago; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 42; No. 6; 1732-1740; 10.1002/2015GL063057
• Bower, Dan J. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2015) Assimilating lithosphere and slab history in 4-D Earth models; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Vol. 238; 8-22; 10.1016/j.pepi.2014.10.013
• Shephard, G. E. and Flament, N., et el. (2014) Circum-Arctic mantle structure and long-wavelength topography since the Jurassic; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 119; No. 10; 7889-7908; 10.1002/2014JB011078
• Chu, Risheng and Helmberger, Don, et el. (2014) Upper mantle surprises derived from the recent Virginia earthquake waveform data; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 402; 167-175; 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.023
• Worthen, Jennifer and Stadler, Georg, et el. (2014) Towards adjoint-based inversion for rheological parameters in nonlinear viscous mantle flow; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Vol. 234; 23-34; 10.1016/j.pepi.2014.06.006
• Gallagher, S. J. and Exon, N., et el. (2014) Exploring new drilling prospects in the southwest Pacific; Scientific Drilling; Vol. 17; 45-50; 10.5194/sd-17-45-2014
• Liu, Shaofeng and Nummedal, Dag, et el. (2014) Dynamic versus flexural controls of Late Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, USA; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 389; 221-229; 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.006
• Flament, Nicolas and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2014) Topographic asymmetry of the South Atlantic from global models of mantle flow and lithospheric stretching; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 387; 107-119; 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.017
• Chu, Risheng and Leng, Wei, et el. (2013) Hidden hotspot track beneath the eastern United States; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 6; No. 11; 963-966; 10.1038/NGEO1949
• Flament, Nicolas and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2013) A review of observations and models of dynamic topography; Lithosphere; Vol. 5; No. 2; 189-210; 10.1130/L245.1
• Burstedde, Carsten and Stadler, Georg, et el. (2013) Large-scale adaptive mantle convection simulation; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 192; No. 3; 889-906; 10.1093/gji/ggs070
• Burkett, Erin and Gurnis, Michael (2013) Stalled slab dynamics; Lithosphere; Vol. 5; No. 1; 92-97; 10.1130/L249.1
• Bower, Dan J. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2013) Lower mantle structure from paleogeographically constrained dynamic Earth models; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 14; No. 1; 44-63; 10.1029/2012GC004267
• Bower, Dan J. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2013) Dynamic origins of seismic wavespeed variation in D"; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Vol. 214; No. 1; 74-86; 10.1016/j.pepi.2012.10.004
• Leng, Wei and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2012) From basalts to boninites: The geodynamics of volcanic expression during induced subduction initiation; Lithosphere; Vol. 4; No. 6; 511-523; 10.1130/L215.1
• Saleeby, J. and Le Pourhiet, L., et el. (2012) Epeirogenic transients related to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, California, part I: Implications of thermomechanical modeling; Geosphere; Vol. 8; No. 6; 1286-1309; 10.1130/GES00746.1
• Spasojevic, Sonja and Gurnis, Michael (2012) Sea level and vertical motion of continents from dynamic earth models since the Late Cretaceous; AAPG Bulletin; Vol. 96; No. 11; 2037-2064; 10.1306/03261211121
• Alisic, Laura and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2012) Multi-scale dynamics and rheology of mantle flow with plates; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 117; Art. No. B10402; 10.1029/2012JB009234
• Shepard, G. E. and Liu, L., et el. (2012) Dynamic topography and anomalously negative residual depth of the Argentine Basin; Gondwana Research; Vol. 22; No. 2; 658-663; 10.1016/j.gr.2011.12.005
• Seton, M. and Müller, R. D., et el. (2012) Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma; Earth-Science Reviews; Vol. 113; No. 3-4; 212-270; 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.03.002
• Zahirovic, Sabin and Müller, R. Dietmar, et el. (2012) Insights on the kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 13; Art. No. Q04W11; 10.1029/2011GC003883
• Leng, Wei and Gurnis, Michael (2012) Shape of thermal plumes in a compressible mantle with depth-dependent viscosity; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 39; L05310; 10.1029/2012GL050959
• Gurnis, Michael and Turner, Mark, et el. (2012) Plate tectonic reconstructions with continuously closing plates; Computers and Geosciences; Vol. 38; No. 1; 35-42; 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.04.014
• Leng, Wei and Gurnis, Michael (2011) Dynamics of subduction initiation with different evolutionary pathways; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 12; Q12018; 10.1029/2011GC003877
• DiCaprio, Lydia and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2011) Mantle dynamics of continentwide Cenozoic subsidence and tilting of Australia; Lithosphere; Vol. 3; No. 5; 311-316; 10.1130/L140.1
• Tan, Eh and Leng, Wei, et el. (2011) On the location of plumes and lateral movement of thermochemical structures with high bulk modulus in the 3-D compressible mantle; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 12; No. 7; Art. No. Q07005; 10.1029/2011GC003665
• Stadler, Georg and Burstedde, Carsten, et el. (2011) Plattentektonik im Supercomputer; Spektrum der Wissenschaft; 12-14
• Bower, Dan J. and Wicks, June K., et el. (2011) A geodynamic and mineral physics model of a solid-state ultralow-velocity zone; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 303; No. 3-4; 193-202; 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.035
• Matthews, Kara J. and Hale, Alina J., et el. (2011) Dynamic subsidence of Eastern Australia during the Cretaceous; Gondwana Research; Vol. 19; No. 2; 372-383; 10.1016/j.gr.2010.06.006
• Boyden, James A. and Müller, R. Dietmar, et el. (2011) Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates; ISBN 9780521897150; Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences; 95-113
• Gurnis, Michael and Landry, Walter, et el. (2011) Development, verification, and maintenance of computational software in geodynamics; ISBN 9780521897150; Geoinformatics: cyberinfrastructure for the solid Earth sciences; 49-67
• Shephard, G. E. and Müller, R. D., et el. (2010) Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 3; No. 12; 870-875; 10.1038/NGEO1017
• Alisic, Laura and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2010) Slab stress and strain rate as constraints on global mantle flow; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 37; Art. No. L22308; 10.1029/2010GL045312
• Whittaker, Joanne M. and Müller, R. Dietmar, et el. (2010) Development of the Australian-Antarctic depth anomaly; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 11; Art. No. Q11006; 10.1029/2010GC003276
• Burstedde, Carsten and Ghattas, Omar, et el. (2010) Extreme-Scale AMR; ISBN 978-1-4244-7557-5; 2010 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis; 1-12; 10.1109/SC.2010.25
• Stadler, Georg and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2010) The Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Flow: From Local to Global Scales; Science; Vol. 329; No. 5995; 1033-1038; 10.1126/science.1191223
• Liu, Lijun and Gurnis, Michael (2010) Dynamic subsidence and uplift of the Colorado Plateau; Geology; Vol. 38; No. 7; 663-666; 10.1130/G30624.1
• Spasojevic, Sonja and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2010) Mantle upwellings above slab graveyards linked to the global geoid lows; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 3; No. 6; 435-438; 10.1038/NGEO855
• Spasojevic, Sonja and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2010) Inferring mantle properties with an evolving dynamic model of the Antarctica-New Zealand region from the Late Cretaceous; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 115; No. B5; B05402; 10.1029/2009JB006612
• Sun, Daoyuan and Helmberger, Don, et el. (2010) A narrow, mid-mantle plume below southern Africa; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 37; L09302; 10.1029/2009GL042339
• Liu, Lijun and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2010) The role of oceanic plateau subduction in the Laramide orogeny; Nature Geoscience; Vol. 3; No. 5; 353-357; 10.1038/NGEO829
• Liu, Lijun and Gurnis, Michael (2010) Adjoint method and its application in mantle convection; Earth Science Frontiers; Vol. 17; No. 3; 139-148
• Torsvik, Trond H. and Steinberger, Bernhard, et el. (2010) Plate tectonics and net lithosphere rotation over the past 150 My; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 291; No. 1-4; 106-112; 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.055
• Hebert, Laura B. and Gurnis, Michael (2010) Geophysical implications of Izu–Bonin mantle wedge hydration from chemical geodynamic modeling; Island Arc; Vol. 19; No. 1; 134-150; 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2009.00688.x
• Sutherland, Rupert and Spasojevic, Sonja, et el. (2010) Mantle upwelling after Gondwana subduction death explains anomalous topography and subsidence histories of eastern New Zealand and West Antarctica; Geology; Vol. 38; No. 2; 155-158; 10.1130/G30613.1
• DiCaprio, Lydia and Müller, R. Dietmar, et el. (2010) A dynamic process for drowning carbonate reefs on the northeastern Australian margin; Geology; Vol. 38; No. 1; 11-14; 10.1130/G30217.1
• Liu, Lijun and Gurnis, M., et el. (2009) Oceanic plateau subduction beneath North America and its geological and geophysical implications; Eos; Vol. 90; No. 52; DI21A-1643
• Sutherland, Rupert and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2009) Regional exhumation history of brittle crust during subduction initiation, Fiordland, southwest New Zealand, and implications for thermochronologic sampling and analysis strategies; Geosphere; Vol. 5; No. 5; 409-425; 10.1130/GES00225.1
• Downey, Nathan J. and Gurnis, Michael (2009) Instantaneous dynamics of the cratonic Congo basin; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 114; No. B6; B06401; 10.1029/2008JB006066
• Bower, Dan J. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2009) Enhanced convection and fast plumes in the lower mantle induced by the spin transition in ferropericlase; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 36; L10306; 10.1029/2009GL037706
• Spasojevic, Sonja and Liu, Lijun, et el. (2009) Adjoint models of mantle convection with seismic, plate motion, and stratigraphic constraints: North America since the Late Cretaceous; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 10; Q05W02; 10.1029/2008GC002345
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• DiCaprio, Lydia and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2009) Long-wavelength tilting of the Australian continent since the Late Cretaceous; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 278; No. 3-4; 175-185; 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.030
• DiCaprio, Lydia and Müller, R. Dietmar, et el. (2009) Linking active margin dynamics to overriding plate deformation: Synthesizing geophysical images with geological data from the Norfolk Basin; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 10; No. 1; 1-14; 10.1029/2008GC002222
• Choi, Eun-seo and Lavier, Luc, et el. (2008) Thermomechanics of mid-ocean ridge segmentation; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Vol. 171; No. 1-4, S; 374-386; 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.08.010
• Liu, Lijun and Spasojevic, Sonja, et el. (2008) Reconstructing Farallon plate subduction beneath North America back to the Late Cretaceous; Science; Vol. 322; No. 5903; 934-938; 10.1126/science.1162921
• Burstedde, Carsten and Ghattas, Omar, et el. (2008) Scalable Adaptive Mantle Convection Simulation on Petascale Supercomputers; ISBN 978-1-4244-2834-2; 2008 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis; 53-67; 10.1109/SC.2008.5214248
• Zhong, Shijie and McNamara, Allen, et el. (2008) A benchmark study on mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell using CitcomS; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 9; No. 10; Q10017; 10.1029/2008GC002048
• Pérez-Campos, Xyoli and Kim, YoungHee, et el. (2008) Horizontal subduction and truncation of the Cocos Plate beneath central Mexico; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 35; No. 18; L18303; 10.1029/2008GL035127
• Liu, Lijun and Gurnis, Michael (2008) Simultaneous inversion of mantle properties and initial conditions using an adjoint of mantle convection; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 113; No. B8; Art. No. B08405; 10.1029/2008JB005594
• Choi, Eun-seo and Gurnis, Michael (2008) Thermally induced brittle deformation in oceanic lithosphere and the spacing of fracture zones; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 269; No. 1-2; 259-270; 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.025
• Spasojević, Sonja and Liu, Lijun, et el. (2008) The case for dynamic subsidence of the U.S. east coast since the Eocene; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 35; No. 8; Art. No. L08305; 10.1029/2008GL033511
• Manea, Vlad and Gurnis, Michael (2007) Subduction zone evolution and low viscosity wedges and channels; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 264; No. 1-2; 22-45; 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.030
• Tan, Eh and Gurnis, Michael (2007) Compressible thermochemical convection and application to lower mantle structures; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 112; No. B6; Art. No. B06304; 10.1029/2006JB004505
• Sun, Daoyuan and Helmberger, Don, et el. (2007) Seismological support for the metastable superplume model, sharp features, and phase changes within the lower mantle; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Vol. 104; No. 22; 9151-9155; PMCID PMC1890462; 10.1073/pnas.0608160104
• Le Pourhiet, Laetitia and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2006) Mantle instability beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California and Death Valley extension; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 251; No. 1-2; 104-119; 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.08.028
• Tan, E. and Choi, E., et el. (2006) GeoFramework: Coupling multiple models of mantle convection within a computational framework; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 7; No. 6; Q06001; 10.1029/2005GC001155
• Helmberger, D. and Lay, T., et el. (2005) Deep mantle structure and the postperovskite phase transition; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Vol. 102; No. 48; 17257-17263; PMCID PMC1297654; 10.1073/pnas.0502504102
• Tan, Eh and Gurnis, Michael (2005) Metastable superplumes and mantle compressibility; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 32; No. 20; Art. No. L20307; 10.1029/2005GL024190
• Quenette, S. M. and Appelbe, B. F., et el. (2005) An investigation into design for performance and code maintainability in high performance computing; ANZIAM Journal; Vol. 46; No. E; C1001-C1016
• House, M. A. and Gurnis, M., et el. (2005) Patterns of Late Cenozoic exhumation deduced from apatite and zircon U-He ages from Fiordland, New Zealand; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 6; No. 9; Art. No. 2005GC000968
• Billen, Magali I. and Gurnis, Michael (2005) Constraints on subducting plate strength within the Kermadec trench; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 110; Art. No. B05407; 10.1029/2004JB003308
• Hall, Chad E. and Gurnis, Michael (2005) Strength of fracture zones from their bathymetric and gravitational evolution; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 110; No. B1; Art. No. B01402; 10.1029/2004JB003312
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• Hall, Chad E. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2003) Catastrophic initiation of subduction following forced convergence across fracture zones; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 212; No. 1-2; 15-30; 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00242-5
• Billen, Magali I. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2003) Multiscale dynamics of the Tonga–Kermadec subduction zone; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 153; No. 2; 359-388; 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01915.x
• Billen, Magali I. and Gurnis, Michael (2003) Comparison of dynamic flow models for the Central Aleutian and Tonga-Kermadec subduction zones; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 4; No. 4; 2001GC000295; 10.1029/2001GC000295
• Conrad, Clinton P. and Gurnis, Michael (2003) Seismic tomography, surface uplift, and the breakup of Gondwanaland: Integrating mantle convection backwards in time; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 4; No. 3; 2001GC000299; 10.1029/2001GC000299
• Choi, Eun-seo and Gurnis, Michael (2003) Deformation in transcurrent and extensional environments with widely spaced weak zones; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 30; No. 2; Art. No. 1076; 10.1029/2002GL016129
• Gurnis, M. and Müller, R. D. (2003) Origin of the Australian–Antarctic Discordance from an ancient slab and mantle wedge; ISBN 9780813723723; Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate; 417-429; 10.1130/0-8137-2372-8.417
• Tan, Eh and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2002) Slabs in the lower mantle and their modulation of plume formation; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 3; No. 11; 2001GC000238; 10.1029/2001GC000238
• House, M. A. and Gurnis, M., et el. (2002) Uplift in the Fiordland Region, New Zealand: Implications for Incipient Subduction; Science; Vol. 297; No. 5589; 2038-2041; 10.1126/science.1075328
• Ni, Sidao and Tan, Eh, et el. (2002) Sharp Sides to the African Superplume; Science; Vol. 296; No. 5574; 1850-1852; 10.1126/science.1070698
• Gurnis, Michael (2002) African superplume; McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology; 1-3
• Billen, Magali I. and Gurnis, Michael (2001) A low viscosity wedge in subduction zones; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 193; No. 1-2; 227-236; 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00482-4
• Gurnis, Michael (2001) Sculpting the earth from inside out; Scientific American; Vol. 284; No. 3; 40-47; 10.1038/scientificamerican0301-40
• Gurnis, Michael and Ritsema, Jeroen, et el. (2000) Tonga slab deformation: The influence of a lower mantle upwelling on a slab in a young subduction zone; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 27; No. 16; 2373-2376; 10.1029/2000GL011420
• Gurnis, Michael and Mitrovica, Jerry X., et el. (2000) Constraining mantle density structure using geological evidence of surface uplift rates: The case of the African Superplume; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Vol. 1; No. 7; 1999GC000035; 10.1029/1999GC000035
• Zhong, Shijie and Zuber, Maria T., et el. (2000) Role of temperature-dependent viscosity and surface plates in spherical shell models of mantle convection; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 105; No. B5; 11063-11082; 10.1029/2000JB900003
• Moresi, Louis and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (2000) Plate tectonics and convection in the Earth's mantle: toward a numerical simulation; Computing in Science & Engineering; Vol. 2; No. 3; 22-33; 10.1109/5992.841793
• Gurnis, Michael and Zhong, Shijie, et el. (2000) On the Competing Roles of Fault Reactivation and Brittle Failure in Generating Plate Tectonics from Mantle Convection; ISBN 9780875909790; The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions; 73-94; 10.1029/GM121p0073
• Gurnis, Michael and Moresi, Louis, et el. (2000) Models of mantle convection incorporating plate tectonics: The Australian region since the Cretaceous; ISBN 9780875909790; The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions; 211-238; 10.1029/GM121p0211
• Sidorin, Igor and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1999) Evidence for a Ubiquitous Seismic Discontinuity at the Base of the Mantle; Science; Vol. 286; No. 5443; 1326-1331; 10.1126/science.286.5443.1326
• Deng, Jishu and Hudnut, Kenneth, et el. (1999) Stress loading from viscous flow in the lower crust and triggering of aftershocks following the 1994 Northridge California, earthquake; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 26; No. 21; 3209-3212; 10.1029/1999GL010496
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• Ni, Sidao and Ding, Xiaoming, et el. (1999) Low-velocity structure beneath Africa from forward modeling; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 170; No. 4; 497-507; 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00121-1
• Sidorin, Igor and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1999) Dynamics of a phase change at the base of the mantle consistent with seismological observations; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 104; No. B4; 15005-15023; 10.1029/1999JB900065
• Han, Lijie and Gurnis, Michael (1999) How valid are dynamic models of subduction and convection when plate motions are prescribed?; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Vol. 110; No. 3-4; 235-246; 10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00156-3
• Deng, Jishu and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1998) Viscoelastic Flow in the Lower Crust after the 1992 Landers, California, Earthquake; Science; Vol. 282; No. 5394; 1689-1692; 10.1126/science.282.5394.1689
• Sidorin, Igor and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1998) Interpreting D" seismic structure using synthetic waveforms computed from dynamic models; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 163; No. 1-4; 31-41; 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00172-1
• Toth, John and Gurnis, Michael (1998) Dynamics of subduction initiation at preexisting fault zones; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 103; No. B8; 18053-18067; 10.1029/98JB01076
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1998) Role of faults, nonlinear rheology, and viscosity structure in generating plates from instantaneous mantle flow models; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 103; No. B7; 15255-15268; 10.1029/98JB00605
• Gurnis, Michael and Müller, R. Dietmar, et el. (1998) Cretaceous Vertical Motion of Australia and the Australian-Antarctic Discordance; Science; Vol. 279; No. 5356; 1499-1504; 10.1126/science.279.5356.1499
• Sidorin, I. and Gurnis, M. (1998) Geodynamically Consistent Seismic Velocity Predictions at the Base of the Mantle; ISBN 9780875905303; The Core Mantle Boundary Region; 209-230; 10.1029/GD028p0209
• Burgess, Peter M. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1997) Formation of sequences in the cratonic interior of North America by interaction between mantle, eustatic, and stratigraphic processes; Geological Society of America Bulletin; Vol. 109; No. 12; 1515-1535; 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<1515:FOSITC>2.3.CO;2
• Lithgow-Bertelloni, C. and Gurnis, Michael (1997) Cenozoic subsidence and uplift of continents from time-varying dynamic topography; Geology; Vol. 25; No. 8; 735-738
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael (1997) Dynamic interaction between tectonic plates, subducting slabs, and the mantle; Earth Interactions; Vol. 1; No. 3; 1-18; 10.1175/1087-3562(1997)001<0001:DIBTPS>2.3.CO;2
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1996) Free-surface formulation of mantle convection—I. Basic theory and application to plumes; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 127; No. 3; 708-718; 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb04049.x
• Gurnis, Michael and Eloy, Christophe, et el. (1996) Free-surface formulation of mantle convection—II. Implication for subduction-zone observables; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 127; No. 3; 719-727; 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb04050.x
• Moresi, Louis and Zhong, Shijie, et el. (1996) The accuracy of finite element solutions of Stokes's flow with strongly varying viscosity; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Vol. 97; No. 1-4; 83-94; 10.1016/0031-9201(96)03163-9
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael (1996) Interaction of weak faults and non-newtonian rheology produces plate tectonics in a 3D model of mantle flow; Nature; Vol. 383; No. 6597; 245-247; 10.1038/383245a0
• Moresi, Louis and Gurnis, Michael (1996) Constraints on the lateral strength of slabs from three-dimensional dynamic flow models; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 138; No. 1-4; 15-28; 10.1016/0012-821X(95)00221-W
• Burgess, Peter M. and Gurnis, Michael (1995) Mechanisms for the formation of cratonic stratigraphic sequences; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 136; No. 3-4; 647-663; 10.1016/0012-821X(95)00204-P
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael (1995) Towards a realistic simulation of plate margins in mantle convection; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 22; No. 8; 981-984; 10.1029/95GL00782
• Coakley, Bernard and Gurnis, Michael (1995) Far-field tilting of Laurentia during the Ordovician and constraints on the evolution of a slab under an ancient continent; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 100; No. B4; 6313-6327; 10.1029/94JB02916
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael (1995) Mantle Convection with Plates and Mobile, Faulted Plate Margins; Science; Vol. 267; No. 5199; 838-843; 10.1126/science.267.5199.838
• Gurnis, Michael and Torsvik, Trend H. (1994) Rapid drift of large continents during the late Precambrian and Paleozoic: Paleomagnetic constraints and dynamic models; Geology; Vol. 22; No. 11; 1023-1026; 10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022%3C1023:RDOLCD%3E2.3.CO;2
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael (1994) Role of plates and temperature-dependent viscosity in phase change dynamics; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 99; No. B8; 15903-15917; 10.1029/94JB00545
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael (1994) Controls on trench topography from dynamic models of subducted slabs; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 99; No. B8; 15683-15695; 10.1029/94JB00809
• Russell, Mark and Gurnis, Michael (1994) The planform of epeirogeny: vertical motions of Australia during the Cretaceous; Basin Research; Vol. 6; No. 2-3; 63-76; 10.1111/j.1365-2117.1994.tb00076.x
• Gurnis, Michael (1994) Vertical motion of Australia in the Cretaceous: A mantle dynamics perspective; Geophysics Down Under; Vol. 19; 3-7
• Gurnis, Michael (1993) Phanerozoic marine inundation of continents driven by dynamic topography above subducting slabs; Nature; Vol. 364; No. 6438; 589-593; 10.1038/364589a0
• Gurnis, Michael (1993) Comment on "Dynamic surface topography: A new interpretation based upon mantle flow models derived from seismic tomography" by A. M. Forte, W. R. Peltier, A. M. Dziewonski and R. L. Woodward; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 20; No. 15; 1663-1664; 10.1029/93GL01489
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael (1993) Dynamic feedback between a continentlike raft and thermal convection; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 98; No. B7; 12219-12232; 10.1029/93JB00193
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1993) Accurate determination of surface normal stress in viscous flow from a consistent boundary flux method; Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors; Vol. 78; No. 1-2; 1-8; 10.1016/0031-9201(93)90078-N
• Gurnis, Michael (1993) Depressed continental hypsometry behind oceanic trenches: A clue to subduction controls on sea-level change; Geology; Vol. 21; No. 1; 29-32; 10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<0029:DCHBOT>2.3.CO;2
• Zhong, Shijie and Gurnis, Michael (1992) Viscous flow model of a subduction zone with a faulted lithosphere: Long and short wavelength topography, gravity and geoid; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 19; No. 18; 1891-1894; 10.1029/92GL02142
• Gurnis, Michael (1992) Long-term controls on eustatic and epeirogenic motions by mantle convection; GSA Today; Vol. 2; No. 7; 141-157
• Gurnis, Michael (1992) Rapid Continental Subsidence Following the Initiation and Evolution of Subduction; Science; Vol. 255; No. 5051; 1556-1558; 10.1126/science.255.5051.1556
• Gurnis, Michael (1992) Dynamic Topography; ISBN 9780122267222; Encyclopedia of earth system science; 105-109
• Gurnis, Michael and Zhong, Shijie (1991) Generation of long wavelength heterogeneity in the mantle by the dynamic interaction between plates and convection; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 18; No. 4; 581-584; 10.1029/91GL00823
• Gurnis, Michael (1991) Continental flooding and mantle-lithosphere dynamics; ISBN 9780792311676; Glacial Isostasy, Sea-Level, and Mantle Rheology; 445-492
• Gurnis, Michael (1990) Ridge Spreading, Subduction, and Sea Level Fluctuations; Science; Vol. 250; No. 4983; 970-972; 10.1126/science.250.4983.970
• Gurnis, Michael (1990) Bounds on global dynamic topography from Phanerozoic flooding of continental platforms; Nature; Vol. 344; No. 6268; 754-756; 10.1038/344754a0
• Gurnis, Michael (1990) Plate-mantle coupling and continental flooding; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 17; No. 5; 623-626; 10.1029/GL017i005p00623
• Griffiths, R. W. and Gurnis, Michael, et el. (1989) Holographic measurements of surface topography in laboratory models of mantle hotspots; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 96; No. 3; 477-495; 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1989.tb06009.x
• Gurnis, Michael (1989) A reassessment of the heat transport by variable viscosity convection with plates and lids; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 16; No. 2; 179-182; 10.1029/GL016i002p00179
• Gurnis, Michael and Hager, Bradford H. (1988) Controls of the structure of subducted slabs; Nature; Vol. 335; No. 6188; 317-321; 10.1038/335317a0
• Gurnis, Michael (1988) Large-scale mantle convection and the aggregation and dispersal of supercontinents; Nature; Vol. 332; No. 6166; 695-699; 10.1038/332695a0
• Gurnis, Michael and Raefsky, Arthur, et el. (1988) Finite Element Solution of Thermal Convection On A Hypercube Concurrent Computer; ISBN 9780897912785; Proceedings of the Third Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications; 1176-1179; 10.1145/63047.63070
• Hager, Bradford H. and Gurnis, Michael (1987) Mantle convection and the state of the Earth's interior; Reviews of Geophysics; Vol. 25; No. 6; 1277-1285; 10.1029/RG025i006p01277
• Gurnis, Michael (1986) Stirring and mixing in the mantle by plate-scale flow: Large persistent blobs and long tendrils coexist; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 13; No. 13; 1474-1477; 10.1029/GL013i013p01474
• Davies, Geoffrey F. and Gurnis, Michael (1986) Interaction of mantle dregs with convection: Lateral heterogeneity at the core-mantle boundary; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 13; No. 13; 1517-1520; 10.1029/GL013i013p01517
• Gurnis, Michael (1986) The effects of chemical density differences on convective mixing in the Earth's mantle; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 91; No. B11; 11407-11419; 10.1029/JB091iB11p11407
• Gurnis, Michael (1986) Quantitative bounds on the size spectrum of isotopic heterogeneity within the mantle; Nature; Vol. 323; No. 6086; 317-320; 10.1038/323317a0
• Gurnis, Michael and Davies, Geoffrey F. (1986) Numerical study of high Rayleigh number convection in a medium with depth-dependent viscosity; Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 85; No. 3; 523-541; 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1986.tb04530.x
• Gurnis, Michael and Davies, Geoffrey F. (1986) The effect of depth-dependent viscosity on convective mixing in the mantle and the possible survival of primitive mantle; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 13; No. 6; 541-544; 10.1029/GL013i006p00541
• Gurnis, Michael and Davies, Geoffrey F. (1986) Mixing in numerical models of mantle convection incorporating plate kinematics; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 91; No. B6; 6375-6395; 10.1029/JB091iB06p06375
• Gurnis, Michael and Davies, Geoffrey F. (1986) Apparent episodic crustal growth arising from a smoothly evolving mantle; Geology; Vol. 14; No. 5; 396-399; 10.1130/0091-7613(1986)14<396:AECGAF>2.0.CO;2
• Gurnis, Michael and Davies, Geoffrey F. (1985) Simple parametric models of crustal growth; Journal of Geodynamics; Vol. 3; No. 1-2; 105-135; 10.1016/0264-3707(85)90024-9
• Woronow, Alex and Strom, Robert G., et el. (1982) Interpreting the cratering record: Mercury to Ganymede and Callisto; ISBN 9780816507627; Satellites of Jupiter; 237-276
• Gurnis, Michael (1981) Martian cratering revisited: Implications for early geologic evolution; Icarus; Vol. 48; No. 1; 62-75; 10.1016/0019-1035(81)90154-8
• Strom, Robert G. and Woronow, Alex, et el. (1981) Crater populations on Ganymede and Callisto; Journal of Geophysical Research A; Vol. 86; No. A10; 8659-8674; 10.1029/JA086iA10p08659