Preliminary upper mantle seismic properties/temperature/viscosity reading list
Experimental studies – attenuation/temperature/melt
Jackson I, FitzGerald JD, Faul UH, Tan BH. 2002. Grain-size-sensitive seismic wave
attenuation in polycrystaline olivine. J. Geophys. Res. 107:B122360
Cooper, R.F., 2003. Seismic wave attenuation: energy dissipation in viscoelastic crystalline
solids. In: Karato, S., Wenk, H. (Eds.), Reviews in Minerology and Geo- chemistry: Plastic
Deformation in Minerals and Rocks. Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, pp.
253–290.
Faul UH, Fitz Gerald JD, Jackson I. 2004. Shear wave attenuation and dispersion in meltbearing olivine crystals: 2. Microstructural interpretation and seismological implications. J.
Geophys. Res. 109:B06202
McCarthy, C., Takei, Y., Hiraga, T., 2011, Experimental study of attenuation and
dispersion over a broad frequency range:
2. The universal scaling of polycrystalline
materials, J. Geophys. Res, 116, B09207
McCarthy, C., Takei, Y, 2011, Anelasticity and viscosity of partially molten rock
analogue: Toward seismic detection of small quantities of melt, Geophys Res. Lett., 38,
L18306,
Aizawa, Y., Barnhoorn, A., Faul, U.H., Fitz Gerald, J.D., Jackson, I., Kovács, I., 2008.
Seismic properties of Anita Bay dunite: an exploratory study of the influence of water. J.
Petrol. 49, 841–855, doi:10.1093/petrology/egn007.
Farla RJ, Jackson I, Fitz Gerald JD, Faul UH, Zimmerman ME. 2012. Dislocation
damping and anisotropic seismic wave attenuation in Earth's upper mantle, Science, 336,
332-335.
Fits to data/computational methods - attenuation
Hammond, WC, Humphries, ED. 2000. Upper mantle seismic wave attenuation: effects
of realistic partial melt distribution. J. Geophys. Res. 105: 10987-11000.
Faul UH, Jackson I. 2005. The seismological signature of temperature and grain size
variations in the upper mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 234:119—34
Jackson I., Faul HU, 2010, Grainsize-sensitive viscoelastic relaxation in olivine: Towards a
robust laboratory-based model for seismological application, Phys. Earth Planet Int., 183,
151-163.
Seismic observables, viscosity, and ice sheets
Ivins, E. R., and C. G. Sammis (1995), On lateral viscosity contrast in the mantle and the
rheology of low frequency geodynamics, Geophys. J. Int. 123, 305-322.
Kauffmann, G., P. Wu and E. R. Ivins (2005), Lateral viscosity variations beneath
Antarctica and their implications on regional rebound motions and seismotectonics,
Journal of Geodynamics, 38, 165-181.
Latychev, K., Mitrovica, J., Tamisiea, M., Tromp, J., and Moucha, R. 2005. Influence of
lithospheric thickness variations on 3-D crustal velocities due to glacial isostatic
adjustment. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L01304, doi:10.1029/2004GL021454.
Wang, H., Wu, P., van der Wal, W., 2008. Using postglacial sea level, crustal velocities
and gravity-rate-of-change to constrain the influence of thermal effects on mantle lateral
heterogeneities, J. Geodynamics, 46, 104-117.
Romanowicz, B., and B. J. Mitchell (2007), Deep Earth Structure – Q of the Earth from
Crust to Core, in Seismology and Structure of the Earth, edited by B. Romanowicz
and A. Dziewonski, pp. 731-774, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Karato, S. and H. Spetzler, 1990. Defect Microdynamics in minerals and solid-state
mechanisms of seismic wave attenuation and velocity dispersion in the mantle, Reviews of
Geophysics, 28, 4.
Gribb, T. and R. Cooper, 1998. Low-frequency shear attenuation in polycrystalline olivine;
grain boundary diffusion and the physical significance of the Andrade model for
viscoelastic rheology, JGR 103.B11
Sundberg, M. and R. Cooper, 2008. Crystallographic preffed orientation produced by
diffusional creep of harzburgite: effects of chemical interactions among phases during
plastic flow, JGR 113.B12
Freed, A. et al, 2010. Steady-state laboratory flow laws alone fail to explain postseismic
observations, EPSL 300, 1-2.