Publications Related to the VBR Calculator

The following publications have contributed directly towards writing or formulation of the VBRc:

  • Havlin, Holtzman and Hopper, 2021. Inference of thermodynamic state in the asthenosphere from anelastic properties, with applications to North American upper mantle. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 314, p.106639, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2020.106639.
  • Holtzman, B.K., 2016. Questions on the existence, persistence, and mechanical effects of a very small melt fraction in the asthenosphere. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 17, 470–484.
  • Bellis, C., Holtzman, B., 2014. Sensitivity of seismic measurements to frequency-dependent attenuation and upper mantle structure: an initial approach. Journal of Geophysical Research doi:10.1002/2013JB010831.

The following papers have used the VBRc in some capacity:

  • Bezada, M. J., Byrnes, J. S., Zhu, Z., & Lee, H. (2023). Lateral variations in teleseismic attenuation of the conterminous U.S. and new insights derived from its relationship to Mantle seismic velocity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB027299. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027299
  • Byrnes, J. S., J. Gaherty, & E. Hopper (2023). Seismic Architecture of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System in the Western United States from a Joint Inversion of Body- and Surface-wave Observations: Distribution of Partial Melt in the Upper Mantle, Seismica, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v2i2.272
  • Lau, H.C., Holtzman, B.K. & Havlin, C. (2020). Toward a Self‐Consistent Characterization of Lithospheric Plates Using Full‐Spectrum Viscoelasticity. AGU Advances 1 (4), e2020AV000205, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000205
  • Lau, H. C. P., Austermann, J., Holtzman, B. K., Havlin, C., Lloyd, A. J., Book, C., & Hopper, E. (2021). Frequency dependent mantle viscoelasticity via the complex viscosity: Cases from Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB022622. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022622
  • Byrnes, J.S., Bezada, M., Long, M.D., & Benoit, M.H. (2019). Thin lithosphere beneath the central appalachian mountains: constraints from seismic attenuation beneath the magic array. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 519, 297–307.
  • Hopper, E., Gaherty, J.B., Shillington, D.J., Accardo, N.J., Nyblade, A.A., Holtzman, B.K., Havlin, C., Scholz, C.A., Chindandali, P.R., Ferdinand, R.W., et al., (2020). Preferential localized thinning of lithospheric mantle in the melt-poor malawi rift. Nature Geoscience 13, 584–589.
  • Harmon, N., Wang, S., Rychert, C. A., Constable, S., & Kendall, J. M. (2021). Shear velocity inversion guided by resistivity structure from the PI-LAB experiment for integrated estimates of partial melt in the mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB022202. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022202
  • Russell, J. B., Gaherty, J. B., Mark, H. F., Hirth, G., Hansen, L. N., Lizarralde, D., et al. (2022). Seismological evidence for girdled olivine lattice-preferred orientation in oceanic lithosphere and implications for mantle deformation processes during seafloor spreading. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, e2022GC010542. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010542
  • Saikia, U., Rychert, C. A., Harmon, N., & Michael Kendall, J. (2021). Seismic attenuation at the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge constrained by local Rayleigh wave analysis from the PI-LAB experiment. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2021GC010085. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010085

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