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2025
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Ebbing, J., J.R. Hopper, C.P. Conrad, G. Milne, R. Steffen, J.C. Afonso, V.R. Barletta, A.M.G. Ferreira, J. Freienstein, S.E. Hansen, B.H. Heincke, G. Jones, S. Lebedev, M. Moorkamp, D.L. Schutt, and A. Wansing (2025), Importance of solid earth structure for understanding the evolution of the Greenland ice sheet,
Journal of the Geological Society, 182,
jgs2024-2291, doi:10.1144/jgs2024-2291.
[online]
[reprint]
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Wang†, H. , V. Magni, C.P. Conrad,
and M. Domeier (2025), Hydrous regions of the mantle transition zone lie beneath areas of continental intraplate volcanism,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26,
e2024GC011901, doi:10.1029/2024GC011901.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Results (see Fig. 3):
[Gridded water maps]
[Intraplate Volcanism Locations]
Press:
[PHAB News]
[Eos Spotlight]
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Mohn, C.E., R. Caracas, and C.P. Conrad (2025), Lower mantle water distribution from ab initio proton diffusivity in bridgmanite,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 649,
119095, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119095.
[online]
[reprint]
2024
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Weerdesteijn†, M.F.M., and C.P. Conrad (2024), Recent ice melt above a mantle plume track is accelerating the uplift of Southeast Greenland,
Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 791, doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01968-6.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
[review]
Press:
[PHAB News]
[Titan (Norwegian)]
[Science Norway]
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Heyn, B.H., G.E. Shephard, and C.P. Conrad (2024), Prolonged multi-phase magmatism due to plume-lithosphere interaction as applied to the High Arctic Large Igneous Province,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25,
e2023GC011380, doi:10.1029/2023GC011380.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Press:
[EGU Geodynamics Blog]
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Wang†, Y. , Á. Király,
C.P. Conrad, L.N. Hansen, and M. Fraters (2024), The importance of anisotropic viscosity in
numerical models, for olivine textures in shear and subduction
deformations,
τeκτoniκa, 2, 157-173, doi:10.55575/tektonika2024.2.1.67.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
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Ramirez†, F.D.C., K. Selway,
C.P. Conrad, V. Maupin, and M. Smirnov (2024), Lateral and radial viscosity structure of Fennoscandia inferred from seismic and magnetotelluric observations,
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 351, 107178, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2024.107178.
[online]
[reprint]
2023
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Ramirez†, F.D.C.,
C.P. Conrad, and K. Selway (2023), Grain size reduction by plug flow in the wet oceanic upper mantle explains the asthenosphere's low seismic Q zone,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 616,118232, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118232.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
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Weerdesteijn†, M.F.M., J.B. Naliboff,
C.P. Conrad, J.M. Reusen, R. Steffen, T. Heister, and
J. Zhang (2023), Modeling viscoelastic
solid earth deformation due to ice age and contemporary
glacial mass changes in ASPECT, Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2022GC010813, doi:10.1029/2022GC010813.
[online]
[reprint]
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Paul, J., C.P. Conrad, T.W. Becker, and A. Ghosh (2023), Convective self-compression of cratons and the
stabilization of old lithosphere, Geophysical
Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101842, doi:10.1029/2022GL101842.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
2022
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Weerdesteijn†, M.F.M.,
C.P. Conrad, and J.B. Naliboff (2022), Solid earth uplift due to contemporary ice melt above low-viscosity regions of the upper mantle,
Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099731, doi:10.1029/2022GL099731.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
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Ramirez†, F.D.C., K. Selway,
C.P. Conrad, and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2022), Constraining upper mantle viscosity using temperature and water content inferred from seismic and magnetotelluric data,
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023824, doi:10.1029/2021JB023824.
[online]
[reprint]
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Marcilly, C.M, T.H Torsvik, and C.P. Conrad (2022), Global Phanerozoic sea levels from paleogeographic flooding maps,
Gondwana Research, 110, 128-142, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2022.05.011.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
[erratum]
[erratum pdf]
Press:
[CEED Blog]
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Heyn‡, B.H., and C.P. Conrad (2022), On the relation between basal erosion of the lithosphere and surface heat flux for continental plume tracks,
Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098003, doi:10.1029/2022GL098003.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Press:
[CEED Blog]
2021
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Karlsen†, K.S., C.P. Conrad, M. Domeier, and R.G. Trønnes (2021), Spatiotemporal variations in surface heat loss imply a heterogeneous mantle cooling history,
Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL092119, doi:10.1029/2020GL092119.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Results:
[Seafloor Age Grids]
Press:
[forskning.no]
[New Scientist]
[Popular Mechanics]
[Phys.org]
[Daily Mail]
[Yahoo]
[IFL Science]
2020
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Király‡, Á., C.P. Conrad, and L.N. Hansen (2020) Evolving viscous anisotropy in the upper mantle and its geodynamic implications,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009159, doi:10.1029/2020GC009159.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Repository:
[https://doi.org/10.11582/2020.00039]
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Heyn†, B.H., C.P. Conrad, and R.G. Trønnes (2020), Core-mantle boundary topography and its relation to the viscosity structure of the lowermost mantle,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 543, 16358, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116358.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
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Heyn†, B.H., C.P. Conrad, and R.G. Trønnes (2020), How thermochemical piles can (periodically) generate plumes at their edges,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 125, e2019JB018726, doi:10.1029/2019JB018726.
[online]
[reprint]
Press:
[Highlight in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment]
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Karlsen†, K.S., M. Domeier, C. Gaina, and C.P. Conrad (2020), A tracer-based algorithm for automatic generation of seafloor age grids from plate tectonic reconstructions,
Computers and Geosciences, 140, 104508, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104508.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Results and code:
[TrakTec code]
[Seafloor Age Grids]
Press:
[CEED Blog]
[forskning.no]
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Sames, B., M. Wagreich, C.P. Conrad, and S. Iqbal (2020) Aquifer-eustasy as the main driver of
short-term sea-level fluctuations during Cretaceous hothouse
climate phases,
Geological Society, London, Special Publications,
498, 9-38, doi:10.1144/SP498-2019-105.
[online]
[reprint]
[Special Cretaceous Climate Issue]
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Hartmann†, R., J. Ebbing, and C.P. Conrad (2020), A Multiple 1D Earth Approach (M1DEA) to account for lateral viscosity variations in solutions of the sea level equation: An application for glacial isostatic adjustment by Antarctic deglaciation,
Journal of Geodynamics, 135, 101695, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2020.101695.
[online]
[reprint]
Code:
[GitHub: Rotational Feedback for Selen]
2019
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Wessel, P., and C.P. Conrad (2019) Assessing models for Pacific absolute plate
and plume motions,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 6016-6032, doi:10.1029/2019GC008647.
[online]
[reprint]
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Torsvik, T.H., B. Steinberger, G.E. Shephard, P.V. Doubrovine, C. Gaina, M Domeier, C.P. Conrad, and W.W. Sager
(2019) Pacific-Panthalassic reconstructions: Overview, errata and the way forward,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 3659-3689, doi:10.1029/2019GC008402.
[online]
[reprint]
Supplemental Files: [PACIFIC.ZIP]
[Pacific_EARTHBYTE_Model_R.ZIP]
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Karlsen†, K.S., C.P. Conrad,
and V. Magni (2019), Deep water cycling and sea level change since the breakup of Pangea,
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 2919-2935, doi:10.1029/2019GC008232.
[online]
[reprint]
Press:
[NRK (Norwegian)]
[Glåmdalen (Norwegian)]
[Live Science]
[New Scientist]
[Futurism]
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Crameri‡, F., C.P. Conrad, L. Montési, and C.R. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2019) The dynamic life of an oceanic plate,
Tectonophysics, 760, 107-135, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.03.016.
[online]
[reprint]
[Special Issue]
Press:
[EGU Blog]
[EOS]
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Steinberger, B., C.P. Conrad, A. Osei Tutu, and M.J. Hoggard (2019) On the amplitude of dynamic topography at spherical harmonic degree two,
Tectonophysics, 760, 221-228, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.11.032.
[online]
[reprint]
[Special Issue]
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Paul, J., A. Ghosh, and C.P. Conrad (2019) Traction and strain-rate at the base of the
lithosphere: An insight into cratonic survival,
Geophysical Journal International, 217, 1024-1033, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz079.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
[erratum]
2018
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Heyn†, B.H., C.P. Conrad,
and R.G. Trønnes (2018), Stabilizing effect of compositional viscosity
contrasts on thermochemical piles,
Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 7523-7532, doi:10.1029/2018GL078799.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
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Watkins†, C.E., and C.P. Conrad (2018), Constraints on dynamic topography from
asymmetric subsidence of the mid-ocean ridges,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 484,
264-275, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.12.028.
[online]
[reprint]
2017
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Conrad, C.P., K. Selway, M.M. Hirschmann, M.D. Ballmer, and P. Wessel (2017), Constraints on volumes and patterns of
asthenospheric melt from the space-time distribution of
seamounts, Geophysical Research Letters, 44,
7203-7210, doi:10.1002/2017GL074098.
[online]
[reprint]
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Dangendorf, S., M. Marcos, G. Wöppelmann, C.P. Conrad, T. Frederikse, and R. Riva (2017), Reassessment of 20th century global mean sea
level rise, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 114, 5946-5951, doi: 10.1073/pnas.161007114.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Press:
[UiO's Titan]
[Washington Post]
[The Independent]
[Deutsche Welle]
[phys.org]
[E&E News]
[The Telegraph]
Blogs: [Union of Concerned Scientists]
Norwegian Press:
[CEED Press Release]
[UiO's Titan]
[geoforskning.no]
2016
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Hansen, L.N., C.P. Conrad, Y. Boneh, P. Skemer, J.M. Warren, and D.L. Kohlstedt (2016), Viscous anisotropy of textured olivine
aggregates, Part 2: Micromechanical model, Journal
of Geophysical Research, 121, 7137-7160, doi: 10.1002/2016JB013240.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
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Plyusnina, E.E., D.A. Ruban, C.P. Conrad, G.d.S. dos Anjos Zerfass, and H. Zerfass (2016), Long-term eustatic cyclicity in the Paleogene: a critical assessment, Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 127, 425-434, doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.03.006.
[online]
[reprint]
- Veit†, E., and C.P. Conrad (2016), The impact of groundwater depletion on spatial variations in sea level change during the past century,
Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 3351-3359, doi:10.1029/2012GL068118.
[online]
[reprint]
Results:
[sea level response model]
- Sames, B., M. Wagreich, J.E. Wendler,
B.U. Haq, C.P. Conrad, M.C. Melinte-Dobrinescu,
X. Hu, I. Wendler, E. Wolfgring, I.Ö. Yilmaz, and
S.O. Zorina (2016), Review: Short-term sea-level changes in
a greenhouse world - a view from the Cretaceous,
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
441, Part 3, 393-411, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.10.045.
[online]
[reprint]
[Cretaceous Volume]
2015
- Becker, T.W., A.J.
Schaeffer, S. Lebedev, and C.P. Conrad (2015), Toward a generalized plate motion reference
frame, Geophysical Research Letters, 42,
3188-3196, doi:10.1002/2015GL063695.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
- Ballmer‡, M.D.,
C.P. Conrad, E.I. Smith, and R. Johnsen (2015), Intraplate volcanism at the edges of the
Colorado Plateau sustained by a combination of triggered
edge-driven convection and shear-driven upwelling, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
16, 366-379, doi:10.1002/2014GC005641.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
2014
- Becker, T.W., C.P. Conrad, A.J.
Schaeffer, and S. Lebedev (2014), Origin of azimuthal seismic anisotropy in
ocean plates and mantle, Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 401, 236-250, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.014.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
2013
- Ruban, D.A., and C.P. Conrad (2013), Late Silurian-Middle Devonian long-term
shoreline shifts on the northern Gondwanan margin: Eustatic
versus tectonic controls, Proceedings of the
Geologists' Association, 124, 883-892, doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.12.004.
[online]
[reprint]
- Conrad, C.P., B. Steinberger, and T.H. Torsvik
(2013), Conrad et al. reply,
Nature, 503, E4-E4, doi:10.1038/nature12793.
[online version]
[reprint]
Associated: Comment to Original Article
- Conrad, C.P. (2013), The solid earth's influence on sea
level, Geological Society of America Bulletin,
125, 1027-1052, doi:10.1130/B30764.1.
[online]
[reprint]
Press:
[cover image]
[NCYT Amazings]
- Conrad, C.P., B. Steinberger, and T.H.
Torsvik (2013), Stability of active mantle upwelling revealed
by net characteristics of plate tectonics, Nature,
498, 479-482, doi:10.1038/nature12203.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
[auxiliary material]
Associated Content: Comment and Reply [reprint]
Press:
[NBC News]
[phys.org]
[Science Daily]
[Science News for Kids]
Foreign Press:
[scinexx (in German)]
[futura-sciences (in French)]
Hawaiian Media:
[UH Manoa]
[Star-Advertiser Reprint]
[Star-Advertiser Local Section]
- van Summeren‡, J.,
E. Gaidos, and C.P. Conrad (2013), Magnetodynamo lifetimes for rocky, Earth-mass
exoplanets with contrasting mantle convection
regimes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets,
118, 938-951, doi:10.1002/jgre.20077.
[online]
[reprint]
- Ballmer‡, M.D.,
C.P. Conrad, E.I. Smith, and N. Harmon (2013), Non-hotspot volcano chains
produced by migration of shear-driven upwelling toward the
East Pacific Rise, Geology, 41, 479-482, doi:10.1130/G33804.1.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Press: [News note in Earth]
- Faccenna, C., T.W. Becker,
C.P. Conrad, and L. Husson (2013), Mountain building and mantle dynamics,
Tectonics, 32, 80-93, doi:10.1029/2012TC003176.
[online]
[reprint]
2012
- Husson, L., and C.P. Conrad (2012), On the location of hotspots in the framework
of mantle convection, Geophysical Research
Letters, 39, L17304, doi:10.1029/2012GL052866.
[online]
[reprint]
[table]
- Natarov†, S.I., and
C.P. Conrad (2012),
The role of Poiseuille flow in creating
depth-variation of asthenospheric shear,
Geophysical Journal International, 190 , 1297-1310, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05562.x.
[online]
[reprint]
- Combes, M., C. Grigné, L. Husson, C.P. Conrad,
S. Le Yaouanq, M. Parenthoën, C. Tisseau, and J. Tisseau (2012),
Multiagent simulation of evolutive plate
tectonics applied to the thermal evolution of the
Earth, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
13, Q05006, doi:10.1029/2011GC004014.
[online]
[reprint]
- Heuret, A., C.P. Conrad,
F. Funiciello, S. Lallemand, and
L. Sandri (2012), Relation between subduction
megathrust earthquakes, trench sediment thickness and upper
plate strain, Geophysical Research Letters,
39, L05304, doi:10.1029/2011GL050712.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
- van Summeren‡, J., C.P. Conrad, and
C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2012), The importance of
slab pull and a global asthenosphere to plate
motions, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
13, Q0AK03, doi:10.1029/2011GC003873.
[online]
[reprint]
[theme issue]
- Husson, L., C.P. Conrad, and C. Faccenna (2012), Plate motions, Andean orogeny, and volcanism
above the South Atlantic convection cell, Earth
and Planetary Science Letters, 317-318, 126-135, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.040.
[online]
[reprint]
- Ruban, D.A., S.O. Zorina, C.P. Conrad, and
N.I. Afanasieva (2012), In quest of Paleocene
global-scale transgressions and regressions: constraints
from a synthesis of regional trends, Proceedings
of the Geologists' Association, 123, 7-18, doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.08.003.
[online]
[reprint]
2011
- Bianco‡, T.A., C.P. Conrad,
and E.I. Smith (2011), Time-dependence of
intraplate volcanism caused by shear-driven upwelling of
low-viscosity regions within the asthenosphere,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B11103,
doi:10.1029/2011JB008270.
[online]
[reprint]
- van Summeren‡, J.,
C.P. Conrad, and E. Gaidos (2011), Mantle convection, plate tectonics, and
volcanism on hot exo-Earths, The Astrophysical
Journal Letters, 736, L15, doi:10.1088/2041-8205/736/1/L15.
[online]
[reprint]
Press: [abstract in
ExoPlanet News]
- Conrad, C.P., T.A. Bianco‡,
E.I. Smith, and P. Wessel (2011), Patterns of intraplate volcanism controlled by
asthenospheric shear, Nature Geoscience, 4,
317-321, doi:10.1038/ngeo1111.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Data: Basaltic volcanism locations [intraplate] [other]
Press: [news & views]
[news note in Earth]
[article in New Scientist]
2010
- Ruban, D., C.P. Conrad, and A.J. van Loon
(2010), The challenge of reconstructing
the Phanerozoic sea level and the Pacific Basin
tectonics, Geologos, 16, 237-245, doi:10.2478/v10118-010-0007-9.
[online version]
[reprint]
- Ruban, D., S. Zorina, and C.P. Conrad (2010),
No global-scale transgressive-regressive
cycles in the Thanetian (Paleocene): evidence from
interregional correlation, Palaeogeography
Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 295, 226-235, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.040.
[online]
[reprint]
- Gaidos, E., C.P. Conrad, M. Manga, and
J. Hernlund (2010), Thermodynamic limits
on magnetodynamos in rocky exoplanets,
Astrophysical Journal, 718, 596-609, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/718/2/596.
[online]
[reprint]
- Fiedler§, J.W., and
C.P. Conrad (2010), Spatial variability
of sea level rise due to water impoundment behind
dams, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L12603, doi:10.1029/2010GL043462.
[online]
[reprint]
Results: [sea level response model]
Press: [highlight in Nature]
- Conrad, C.P., and M.D. Behn (2010), Constraints on lithosphere net rotation and asthenospheric viscosity from global mantle flow models and seismic anisotropy, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11, Q05W05, doi:10.1029/2009GC002970.
[online]
[reprint]
[theme issue]
Results: [mantle flow model and anisotropy code]
- Conrad, C.P.,
B. Wu†, E.I. Smith,
T.A. Bianco‡, and A. Tibbetts (2010), Shear-driven upwelling induced by lateral viscosity
variations and asthenospheric shear: A mechanism for intraplate
volcanism, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors,
178, 162-175, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.10.001.
[online]
[reprint]
Press: [highlight in Nature Geoscience]
[summary on MantlePlumes.org]
2009
- Naliboff, J.B., C.P. Conrad, and
C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2009), Modification of the Lithospheric Stress Field by Lateral Variations in Plate-Mantle Coupling, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L22307, doi:10.1029/2009GL040484.
[online]
[reprint]
Press: [Highlight in EOS]
- Conrad, C.P., and L. Husson (2009), Influence of dynamic topography on sea level
and its rate of change, Lithosphere, 1,
110-120, doi:10.1130/L32.1.
[online]
[reprint]
Results: [dynamic topography model]
- Cooper, C.M., and C.P. Conrad (2009), Does the mantle control the maximum thickness
of cratons?, Lithosphere, 1, 67-72, doi:10.1130/L40.1.
[online]
[reprint]
[erratum]
- Métivier‡, L., O. de
Viron, C.P. Conrad, S. Renault, M. Diament, and
G. Patau (2009), Evidence of earthquake
triggering by the solid earth tides, Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, 278, 370-375, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.024.
[online]
[reprint]
Press: [New Scientist Article]
[Geo.de Article (in German)]
[Johns Hopkins News-Letter]
- Becker, T.W., C.P. Conrad, B. Buffett, and
R.D. Müller (2009), Past and present seafloor age
distributions and the temporal evolution of plate tectonic heat
transport, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278,
233-242, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.007.
[online]
[reprint]
2008
- Métivier‡, L., and
C.P. Conrad (2008), Body tides of a convecting, laterally heterogeneous, and aspherical Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B11405, doi:10.1029/2007JB005448.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
- Meade, B.J., and C.P. Conrad (2008), Andean growth and the deceleration of South
American subduction: Time evolution of a coupled
orogen-subduction system, Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 275, 93-101, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.007.
[online]
[reprint]
Press:
[highlight in Nature Geoscience]
- Wu†, B., C.P. Conrad,
and A. Heuret, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and S. Lallemand
(2008), Reconciling strong slab pull and
weak plate bending: The plate motion constraint on the
strength of mantle slabs, Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 272, 412-421, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.009
[online]
[reprint]
[table 1]
- Husson, L., C.P. Conrad, and C. Faccenna (2008),
Tethyan closure, Andean orogeny, and westward
drift of the Pacific basin, Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, 271, 303-310, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.022.
[online]
[reprint]
Press: [highlight in Nature Geoscience]
2007
- Loyd, S.J., T.W. Becker, C.P. Conrad,
C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and F.A. Corsetti (2007), Time variability in Cenozoic reconstructions
of mantle heat flow: Plate tectonic cycles and implications
for Earth's thermal evolution, Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 104, 14266-14271, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706667104.
[online]
[reprint]
Press: [Science Daily]
[Synopsis at PNAS]
- Conrad, C.P., M.D. Behn, and P.G. Silver (2007), Global mantle flow and the development of seismic anisotropy: Differences between the oceanic and continental upper mantle, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B07317, doi:10.1029/2006JB004608.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Results: [mantle flow model and anisotropy code]
- Steiner†, S.A., and
C.P. Conrad (2007), Does active
mantle upwelling help drive plate motions?,
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 161,
103-114, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2007.01.005.
[online]
[reprint]
- Conrad, C.P., and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2007),
Faster seafloor spreading and
lithosphere production during the mid-Cenozoic,
Geology, 35, 29-32, doi:10.1130/G22759A.1.
[online]
[reprint] [spreading rate data]
Press: [highlight in Nature]
2006
- Husson, L., and C.P. Conrad (2006), Tectonic velocities, dynamic topography, and relative sea level, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L18303, doi:10.1029/2006GL026834.
[online]
[reprint]
- Conrad, C.P., and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2006), Influence of continental roots and asthenosphere on plate-mantle coupling, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L05312, doi:10.1029/2005GL025621.
[online]
[reprint] [lithosphere thickness model]
Press: [xkcd cartoon]
[s-Ink figure]
- Xu, X., C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and C.P. Conrad
(2006), Global reconstructions of Cenozoic
seafloor ages: Implications for bathymetry and sea level,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 243, 552-564, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.010.
[online]
[reprint]
2005
- Jahren, A.H., C.P. Conrad, N.C. Arens, G. Mora,
and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2005), A plate
tectonic mechanism for methane hydrate release along subduction
zones, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236,
691-704, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.009.
[online]
[reprint]
- Bilek, S.L., C.P. Conrad, and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2005), Slab pull, slab weakening, and their relation to deep intra-slab seismicity, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L14305, doi:10.1029/2005GL022922.
[online]
[reprint]
2004
- Conrad, C.P., S. Bilek, and
C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2004), Great earthquakes
and slab pull: interaction between seismic coupling and plate-slab
coupling, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218,
109-122, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00643-5
[online]
[reprint]
- Conrad, C.P., C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and
K.E. Louden (2004), Iceland, the Farallon slab,
and dynamic topography of the North Atlantic, Geology,
32, 177-180, doi:10.1130/G20137.1.
[online]
[reprint]
- Conrad, C.P., and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2004), The temporal evolution of plate driving forces: Importance of "slab suction" versus "slab pull" during the Cenozoic, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B10407, doi:10.1029/2004JB002991.
[online]
[reprint]
- Behn, M.D., C.P. Conrad, and P.G. Silver (2004),
Detection of upper mantle flow associated with
the African superplume, Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, 224, 259-274, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.026.
[online]
[reprint]
2003
- Conrad, C.P., and M. Gurnis (2003), Mantle flow, seismic tomography and the breakup of Gondwanaland: Integrating mantle convection backwards in time, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 4, 1031, doi:10.1029/2001GC000299.
[online]
[reprint]
2002
- Conrad, C.P., and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (2002),
How mantle slabs drive plate tectonics,
Science, 298, 207-209, doi:10.1126/science.1074161.
[online]
[reprint]
[supplement]
Press: [U. Michigan press release]
[Geotimes article]
2001
- Conrad, C.P., and B.H. Hager (2001), Mantle convection with strong subduction zones,
Geophysical Journal International, 144, 271-288, doi:10.1046/j.1365-246x.2001.00321.x.
[online]
[reprint]
- Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., M.A. Richards,
C.P. Conrad, and R.W. Griffiths (2001), Plume generation in natural and thermal convection at
high Rayleigh and Prandtl numbers, Journal of Fluid
Mechanics, 434, 1-21, doi:10.1017/S0022112001003706.
[online]
[reprint]
2000
- Conrad, C.P. (2000), Convective instability of thickening mantle
lithosphere, Geophysical Journal International, 143,
52-70, doi:10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00214.x.
[online]
[reprint]
1999
- Conrad, C.P., and B.H. Hager (1999), Effects of plate bending and fault strength at
subduction zones on plate dynamics, Journal of Geophysical
Research, 104, 17551-17571, doi:10.1029/1999JB900149.
[online]
[reprint]
- Conrad, C.P., and B.H. Hager (1999), The thermal evolution of an earth with strong
subduction zones, Geophysical Research Letters, 26,
3041-3044, doi:10.1029/1999GL005397.
[online]
[reprint]
- Conrad, C.P., and P. Molnar (1999), Convective instability of a boundary layer with
temperature- and strain-rate-dependent viscosity in terms of
"available buoyancy", Geophysical Journal International,
139, 51-68, doi:10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00896.x.
[online]
[reprint]
1998
- Molnar, P., G.A. Houseman, and C.P. Conrad
(1998), Rayleigh-Taylor instability and
convective thinning of mechanically thickened lithosphere: Effects
of non-linear viscosity decreasing exponentially with depth and of
horizontal shortening of the layer, Geophysical Journal
International, 133, 568-584, doi:10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00510.x.
[online]
[reprint]
1997
- Conrad, C.P., and B.H. Hager (1997), Spatial variations in the rate of sea level rise
caused by the present-day melting of glaciers and ice sheets,
Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 1503-1506, doi:10.1029/97GL01338.
[online]
[reprint]
- Conrad, C.P., and P. Molnar (1997), The growth of Rayleigh-Taylor-type instabilities in
the lithosphere for various rheological and density
structures, Geophysical Journal International, 129,
95-112, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb00939.x.
[online]
[reprint]
1996
1995
- Conrad, C.P., and B.H. Hager (1995), The elastic response of the earth to interannual
variations in Antarctic precipitation, Geophysical
Research Letters, 22, 3183-3186, doi:10.1029/95GL03176.
[online]
[reprint]
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