Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

Reader in Geophysics, University College London

*Visiting Associate Professor of Geophysics
Department of Geological Sciences

* On sabbatical leave from Department of Earth Sciences, University College London until July 2008

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Surface Deformation

 

 

    • Origin, and evolution of the lithospheric stress field [Lithgow-Bertelloni and Guynn, 2004]
    • Mantle-Lithosphere coupling [Streepey et al., 2004; Conrad and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2006]
    • Origin of back-arc basins [Conrad et al., 2004a]
    • Stresses in subduction zones [Bilek and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2005; Bilek et al., 2005]
    • Stresses and great earthquakes [Conrad et al., 2004a; Bilek and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2005; Bilek et al., 2005]

 

    • Structure of the lithosphere [de Koker and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2007]

Plate Tectonics and Mantle Dynamics

    • Plate driving forces [Lithgow-Bertelloni and Richards, 1995; 1998; Conrad and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2002; 2004]

 

 

    • Plate motions and mantle structure [Ricard et al., 1993; Lithgow-Bertelloni and Richards, 1998]
    • Causes of plate rearrangements [Richards and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 1996]
    • Plate kinematics and correlated plate motions [Silver et al., 1998; Conrad and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2007]

 

The origin of three-dimensional mantle structure

    • The nature of lateral heterogeneity and viscosity structure [Lithgow-Bertelloni et al., to be submitted]
    • The origin of the low velocity zone [Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2005a]

 

 

    • Elasticity of mantle minerals [Stixrude et al., 2007; Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2005b]
    • Scaling seismic anomalies to temperature and density [Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2007]
    • The effect of phase transitions on mantle dynamics
      • Dynamic topography over upwellings and downwellings [Lithgow-Bertelloni and Gurnis, 1997; Lithgow-Bertelloni and Silver, 1998; Conrad et al., 2004b]
      • Changes in plate speed
    • Relative importance of composition, temperature, and phase transitions [Stixrude and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2007]

Experimental Fluid Dynamics

 

 

 

Tectonic Influence on Climate

    • Lithospheric production and sea-level change [Conrad and Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2007]
    • Subduction history and CO2 budgets
    • Models of seafloor ages and paleobathymetry and in the Cenozoic [Xu et al., 2006]
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    • Tectonic mechanism for methane hydrate release [Jahren et al., 2005]
    • Dynamic topography and impact on glaciation, oceanic circulation and climate

 

Students
Kathryn Clark (MS)

John Naliboff (PhD)

Hank Newsome (PhD)

Xin Wang (PhD)

Xu Wenbo (PhD)

Jen Lamp (B.Sc. Eng. 2006)

Nico de Koker (M. Sc. 2005)

Xu Xiqiao (M. Sc. 2005)

Hans Hiser (B.Sc. 2002)

Jeff Paine (B.Sc. 2002)

Vienna Lit (B.A. 2002)

Jerome Guynn (M. Sc. 2002)
Mark Wenzel (M. Sc. 2002)

Postdocs

Sue Bilek - Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech

Clint Conrad – Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Meg Streepey - Assistant Professor, Earlham College