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Origin of Long‐Wavelength Variations in Crustal Thickness on Rocky Planets

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 16, 28 August 2026.
Abstract Long‐wavelength crustal thickness variations are observed on telluric planets, particularly on Mars and the Moon whereas Mercury appears to lack such variations. They may stem from two early‐stage positive feedback mechanisms that can emerge in stagnant‐lid planets.
Valentin Bonnet Gibet, Chloé Michaut
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High Melt Fraction Induced by the Dehydration Melting Near the 410‐km Discontinuity

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 16, 28 August 2026.
Abstract The water‐rich mantle transition zone, coupled with the low water storage capacity of the upper mantle, suggests that dehydration melting occurs just above the mantle transition zone near the 410‐km discontinuity. However, the melt fraction produced by the dehydration melting process remains poorly constrained.
Juan Chen, Hongyu Yu, Suyu Fu, Fang Xu, Baohua Zhang, Hongzhan Fei   +5 more
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The Buoyancy of Cratonic Lithospheric Mantle

Geophysical Research Letters
Abstract Cratons are generally thought to be characterized by stable, long‐lived mantle roots. However, recent studies have suggested that the lithospheric mantle may be prone to removal, implying that it may be denser than the asthenosphere.
Z. J. Sudholz, A. Copley, K. Priestley
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Seismic Radial Anisotropy of the Southern Tibetan Rifts From Ambient Noise Adjoint Tomography: Basal Shear and Localized Crustal Weak Zones Promote Rifting

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 16, 28 August 2026.
Abstract North–south‐trending rifts in southern Tibet record E–W extension within the Tibetan Plateau, closely linked to high gravitational potential energy from collisional thickening and northward underthrusting of the Indian lower crust. To reveal how basal shear is transmitted upward and controls rifting, we use ambient noise adjoint tomography ...
Taozhi Wang, Zhen Guo, Yanbin Wang, Lipeng He, Xiaobo Tian   +4 more
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A Rare Glimpse of Paleoproterozoic Sub‐Arc Mantle: The Ussuit Peridotite, West Greenland

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Mantle residues beneath Archean cratonic nuclei have been extensively studied, whereas less attention has been given to the mantle lithosphere beneath Proterozoic mobile belts that link these nuclei.
T. McIntyre, P. Waterton, L. Li, B. Gong, X. Zha, K. Szilas, D. G. Pearson   +6 more
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High water content in Mesozoic primitive basalts of the North China Craton and implications on the destruction of cratonic mantle lithosphere

, 2013
It has been suggested that the longevity of cratons (i.e. ancient and stable cores of continents) is related in part to the low water content of their deep mantle roots; this gives them a higher viscosity than the underlying asthenosphere.
Q. Xia, Jia Liu, Shao-chen Liu, I. Kovács, Min Feng, Li Dang   +5 more
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Competing Effects of Elastic Heterogeneity and Viscous Flow on Interseismic Coupling at Cascadia

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 16, 28 August 2026.
Abstract Interseismic coupling maps are important tools for estimating future earthquake hazard at subduction zones. Often interseismic coupling is estimated from surface velocities using a homogeneous elastic Earth model. However, inversions that incorporate viscoelastic mantle flow or elastic heterogeneity show that each can change the spatial ...
E. M. Sherrill, K. M. Johnson, F. F. Pollitz   +2 more
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Global Evidence for Off‐Axis Flexural Modification of Abyssal Hill Faults at Mid‐Ocean Ridges

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 16, 28 August 2026.
Abstract Young oceanic lithosphere flexes as axial topography decays across mid‐ocean ridge shoulders, yet this deformation has been quantified at only a few segments, leaving its global expression poorly constrained. We analyzed 50 across‐axis bathymetric profiles from 21 regions spanning slow to fast spreading rates, identified 1,201 abyssal‐hill ...
Ran Li, Zhonglan Liu, Shuming Feng, Teng Peng, Yuan Wang   +4 more
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Hydrogen‐Enhanced Grain Boundary Conductivity Explains High‐Conductivity Anomalies in Trans‐Lithospheric Shear Zones

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 15, 16 August 2026.
Abstract Magnetotelluric (MT) surveys reveal high electrical conductivity anomalies along major trans‐lithospheric shear zones. Given that trans‐lithospheric shear zones are proposed conduits for deep‐Earth volatiles, we employ molecular dynamics simulations to quantify H+ diffusivity and electrical conductivity at olivine grain boundaries.
Haoqing Wang, Kui Han, Chuanyu Zhang, Xiaofeng Tian, Xuben Wang, Simon Martin Clark   +5 more
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Late Cretaceous Construction of the Mantle Lithosphere Beneath the Central California Coast Revealed by Crystal Knob Xenoliths

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2018
The Pleistocene (1.65 Ma) Crystal Knob volcanic neck in the California Coast Ranges is an olivine‐plagioclase phyric basalt containing dunite and spinel peridotite xenoliths.
D. P. Quinn, J. B. Saleeby, M. N. Ducea, P. Luffi, P. D. Asimow   +4 more
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