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Selected media coverage of our work
- Gerya, T.V., Bercovici, D., and Becker, T.W.: Dynamic slab segmentation
due to brittle-ductile damage in the outer rise. Nature, 599,
245-250, 2021. (PDF)
Convered in:
UT,
UTIG,
Yale, and
ETH
(in German)
press
Releases,NSF
News Release,
Daily Texan,
Live Science,
Phys
Org,
Science Times,
Science
Daily,
Space Ref,
Noti
merica (Spanish),
Europa
Press (Spanish),
Scine
XX (German),
Innovations
Report (German),
UK
Today News,
and others.
- NSF FRES Megathrust modeling effort (08/2021):
UT
News release,
HPC
Wire,
KXAN
story and TV interview,
Alcade
(no, we not not want to predict earthquakes, for now - the
article is better than the title).
- Faccenna, C., Glisovic, P., Forte, A., Becker, T. W.,
Garzanti, E., Sembroni, A. and Gvirtzman, C.: Role of dynamic
topography in sustaining the Nile River over 30 million years.
Nat. Geosc., doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0472-x, 2019.
(PDF)
Convered in:
UT
News Release,
The
Times,
Physics Today,
nature
asia, Le
Monde,
Il
Messagero,
Eos,
Gizmodo, Daily
Mail,
Daily Texan,
New
York Post,
Wissenschaft
Aktuell,
Welt
der Physik,
Der
Standard,
International
Business Times,
Fox News,
Phys
Org,
Discover Magazine,
Live Science,
Cosmos
Magazine, Geographical,
BrainBored, and others.
- Behr, W. M. and Becker, T. W.: Sediment control on subduction
plate speeds.
Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 502, 166-173,
2018. (PDF)
Convered in:
JSG
press release,
Phys
Org,
Earth.com,
Science Daily,
Tunisie Soir,
Tendencia
Cientificas, and others.
- Jackson, M. G., Konter, J. G., and Becker, T. W.: Primordial
helium entrained by the hottest mantle plumes. Nature,
doi:10.1038/nature21023, 2017. (PDF)
Convered in:
New Scientist,
JSG
news release, EurekAlert,
Science
Daily,
Heritage
Daily,
Live
Science,
Astrobiology
Magazine, Futurity.
- Uhl, J. T. et al.: Universal quake statistics: From compressed
nanocrystals to earthquakes. Sci. Rep., 5, 16493, doi:
10.1038/srep16493, 2015. (PDF)
Covered in
U
Illinois press release,
PhysOrg,
EurkAlert!,
Space
Daily.
- Becker, T. W., Lowry, A. R., Faccenna, C., Schmandt, B., Borsa, A.,
and Yu, C.: Western U.S. intermountain seismicity caused by
changes in upper mantle flow. Nature, 524, 458-461, 2015.
(PDF)
Feastured in
USC
News release,
Science,
KPCC,
ABC
Science Australia,
Daily
Mail,
Spiegel
Online,
Der Tagesspiegel,
Welt
der Physik,
Science
Daily, EurekAlert!,
Phys
Org,
redOrbit,
and elsewhere.
- Jagoutz, O., Royden, L., Holt, A. F., and Becker, T. W.:
Anomalously fast convergence between India and Eurasia caused by
double subduction. Nature Geosc., doi:10.1038/ngeo2418, 2015.
(PDF)
Covered in
News
and View piece by Billen (2015), The
New York Times,
Yahoo
News,
Le Scienze,
Phys
Org,
Daily Mail,
Live
Science,
International
Business Times,
Spektrum
der Wissenschaft,
Suedeutsche
Zeitung, and elsewhere.
-
Schmandt, B., Jacobsen, S. D., Becker, T. W., Liu, Z., and Dueker,
K. G.: Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle.
Science, 334, 1265-1268, 2014.
(PDF).
Covered in
The
Guardian, FAZ,
Al
Jazeera America,
The
Washington
Post, Reuters,
Forbes,
New
York Times,
PBS
News Hour,
Spektrum,
NBC,
TIME,
USA
Today,
KQED
Science (NPR),
Daily
Mail,
The
Independent,
The
Huffington Post,
Spiegel
Online,
Bild
der Wissenschaft,
The
Weather Channel (with video),
New
Scientist, and elsewhere.
- Miller, M. S. and Becker, T. W.: Reactivated lithospheric-scale
discontinuities localize dynamic uplift of the Moroccan Atlas
Mountains. Geology, 42, 35-38, 2014.
(PDF)
Covered in a Nature Geoscience
highlight by Whitchuch,
Nature
World News,
Nature
Blogs,
RedOrbit,
UPI,
USC
News, and elsewhere.
- Miller, M. S. and Becker, T. W.: Mantle flow deflected by
interactions between subducted slabs and cratonic keels. Nature
Geosc., 5, 726-730, 2012.
(PDF)
Covered in the
Huffington
Post,
MSNBC,
Discovery
News,
International
Business Times,
Yahoo
news, and elsewhere.
-
Faccenna, C. and Becker, T. W. : Shaping mobile belts by small-scale
convection. Nature, 465, 2010. (PDF)
Covered in the
Christian
Science Monitor,
Pour
La Science,
Spiegel
Online,
Focus
Online, and
Bild
der Wissenschaft,
USC
News Terra Daily, got a Cool
on FARK, Futurity, Science Daily, LiveScience, PhysOrg,
ScienceCodex, Eureka Science News, Lab Spaces, E Science News, News
Blaze, Sify News, ABC Espana, and elsewhere.
- Loyd, S. J., Becker, T. W., Conrad, C. P.,
Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., and Corsetti, F.A.: Time-variability in
Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: plate tectonic cycles
and implications for Earth's thermal evolution
Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104, 14266-14271, 2007. (PDF)
Covered in
UPI
(picked up by EarthTimes, Science Daily, First Science, Eureka Alert,
PhysOrg, Terra Daily, NewsWise, Geology Times etc.), USC, USC
College
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