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Thorsten W. Becker
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Opinion pieces, commentary, and contributed material
- Lee, H.:
Plate
tectonics runs deeper than we though., ars TECHNICA, 2019.
- nice general audience piece with some commentary.
- Becker, T. W. and Faccenna, F.: The scientist who connected
it all. Eos, 100,
doi:10.1029/2019EO132583,
2019.
- Becker, T. W.: G-Cubed: Building on 15 years of publishing process-level science, Eos, 96, doi:10.1029/2015EO031977, 2015.
- Lee, H.:
Plate
tectonics runs deeper than we though., ars TECHNICA, 2019.
- nice general audience piece with some commentary.
Selected media coverage of our work
- NSF FRES Megathrust modeling effort (08/2021):
UT
News release,
HPC
Wire,
KXAN
story and TV interview
- 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.
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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.
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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
- NSF FRES Megathrust modeling effort (08/2021):
UT
News release,
HPC
Wire,
KXAN
story and TV interview
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