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Allen K. McNamara is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a focus on subspecialties such as Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Graphene research and applications
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Advancements in Battery Materials

McNamara has contributed to several publications, with research appearing frequently in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • ACS Nano
  • Nature

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by McNamara are:

  • "Mobile mantle could explain volcanic hotspot locations," 2022, Nature
  • "Evolving morphology of crustal accumulations in Earth's lowermost mantle," 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "How increased intrinsic viscosity of lower mantle compositional reservoirs affects their spatial and morphological stability," 2025, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Quantifying the Influence of Nanosheet Aspect Ratio on Network Morphology and Junction Resistance in Solution-Processed Nanosheet Networks," 2025, ACS Nano
  • "SUPERPILES: A LOW DENSITY EXPLANATION FOR LLSVPS," 2024, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Frequent collaborators across these works include:

  • Edward J. Garnero
  • J. A. Tyburczy
  • Heidi Krauss
  • Mingming Li
  • William M. White

Best Publications

  • Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Lower Mantle

    Edward J. Garnero;Allen K. McNamara

  • Thermochemical structures beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean

    Allen K. McNamara;Allen K. McNamara;Shijie Zhong

  • Continent-sized anomalous zones with low seismic velocity at the base of Earth's mantle

    Edward J. Garnero;Allen K. McNamara;Sang Heon Shim

  • A benchmark study on mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell using CitcomS

    Shijie Zhong;Allen McNamara;Eh Tan;Louis Moresi

  • Thermochemical structures within a spherical mantle: Superplumes or piles?

    Allen K. McNamara;Shijie Zhong

  • Tracking deep mantle reservoirs with ultra-low velocity zones

    Allen K. McNamara;Edward J. Garnero;Sebastian Rost

  • A review of large low shear velocity provinces and ultra low velocity zones

    Allen K. McNamara

  • Development of anisotropic structure in the Earth's lower mantle by solid-state convection

    Allen K. McNamara;Peter E. Van Keken;Shun Ichiro Karato

  • Chemical complexity of hotspots caused by cycling oceanic crust through mantle reservoirs

    Mingming Li;Allen K. McNamara;Edward J. Garnero

  • Deformation of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 post-perovskite and D'' anisotropy.

    Sébastien Merkel;Allen K. McNamara;Atsushi Kubo;Atsushi Kubo;Sergio Speziale;Sergio Speziale

  • Synthetic tomography of plume clusters and thermochemical piles

    A.L. Bull;A.K. McNamara;J. Ritsema

  • Mega ultra low velocity zone and mantle flow

    Michael S. Thorne;Edward J. Garnero;Gunnar Jahnke;Heiner Igel

  • Localization of dislocation creep in the lower mantle: Implications for the origin of seismic anisotropy

    Allen K. McNamara;Shun Ichiro Karato;Peter E. Van Keken

  • Tomographic filtering of geodynamic models: Implications for model interpretation and large‐scale mantle structure

    Jeroen Ritsema;Allen K. McNamara;Abigail L. Bull

  • The difficulty for subducted oceanic crust to accumulate at the Earth's core‐mantle boundary

    Mingming Li;Allen K. McNamara

  • Implications of lower-mantle structural heterogeneity for the existence and nature of whole-mantle plumes

    Edward J. Garnero;Thorne Lay;Allen McNamara

  • Modeling lower mantle anisotropy development in a subducting slab

    H. R. Wenk;S. Speziale;A. K. McNamara;Edward Garnero

  • Compositionally-distinct ultra-low velocity zones on Earth’s core-mantle boundary

    Mingming Li;Allen K. McNamara;Edward J. Garnero;Shule Yu

  • West African proximity of the Avalon terrane in the latest Precambrian

    Allen K. McNamara;Conall Mac Niocaill;Ben A. van der Pluijm;Rob Van der Voo

  • Development of finite strain in the convecting lower mantle and its implications for seismic anisotropy

    Allen K. McNamara;Peter E. van Keken;Shun Ichiro Karato

  • Degree‐one mantle convection: Dependence on internal heating and temperature‐dependent rheology

    Allen K. McNamara;Allen K. McNamara;Shijie Zhong

  • Core–mantle boundary topography as a possible constraint on lower mantle chemistry and dynamics

    Teresa Mae Lassak;Allen K. McNamara;Edward J. Garnero;Shijie Zhong

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Garnero
Edward J. Garnero Arizona State University
Shijie Zhong
Shijie Zhong University of Colorado Boulder
Jeroen Ritsema
Jeroen Ritsema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Hans-Rudolf Wenk University of California, Berkeley
Shun-ichiro Karato
Shun-ichiro Karato Yale University
Peter E. van Keken
Peter E. van Keken Carnegie Institution for Science
Quentin Williams
Quentin Williams University of California, Santa Cruz
Barbara Romanowicz
Barbara Romanowicz University of California, Berkeley
Yue Meng
Yue Meng Argonne National Laboratory
Heiner Igel
Heiner Igel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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