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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
4784
World Ranking
7595
National Ranking
480

Best Publications

  • Changbaishan volcanism in northeast China linked to subduction-induced mantle upwelling

    Youcai Tang;Youcai Tang;Masayuki Obayashi;Fenglin Niu;Fenglin Niu;Stephen P. Grand

  • A nonlinear rheology model for mid-ocean ridge axis topography

    Yongshun Chen;W. Jason Morgan

  • Dependence of ridge-axis morphology on magma supply and spreading rate

    Jason Phipps Morgan;Y. John Ghen

  • First active hydrothermal vents on an ultraslow-spreading center: Southwest Indian Ridge

    Chunhui Tao;Jian Lin;Shiqin Guo;Yongshun John Chen

  • Rift valley/no rift valley transition at mid‐ocean ridges

    Yongshun Chen;W. Jason Morgan

  • Oceanic crustal thickness versus spreading rate

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  • 3D imaging of subducting and fragmenting Indian continental lithosphere beneath southern and central Tibet using body-wave finite-frequency tomography

    Xiaofeng Liang;Yun Chen;Xiaobo Tian;Xiaobo Tian;Yongshun John Chen

  • A complex Tibetan upper mantle: A fragmented Indian slab and no south-verging subduction of Eurasian lithosphere

    Xiaofeng Liang;Eric Sandvol;Y. John Chen;Thomas Hearn

  • Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Han Yue;Y. John Chen;Eric Sandvol;James Ni

  • Three-dimensional conductivity model of crust and uppermost mantle at the northern Trans North China Orogen: Evidence for a mantle source of Datong volcanoes

    Huiqian Zhang;Qinghua Huang;Guoze Zhao;Zhen Guo;Zhen Guo

  • Seismic anisotropy beneath the southern Ordos block and the Qinling-Dabie orogen, China: Eastward Tibetan asthenospheric flow around the southern Ordos

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  • Seismic observation of an extremely magmatic accretion at the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge

    Jiabiao Li;Hanchao Jian;Hanchao Jian;Yongshun John Chen;Satish C. Singh

  • Crustal thickness anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean basin from gravity analysis

    Tingting Wang;Jian Lin;Brian Tucholke;Yongshun John Chen

  • Mountain building at northeastern boundary of Tibetan Plateau and craton reworking at Ordos block from joint inversion of ambient noise tomography and receiver functions

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  • Rayleigh wave tomography of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Qie Zhang;Eric Sandvol;James Ni;Yingjie Yang

  • Receiver function images of the mantle transition zone beneath NE China: New constraints on intraplate volcanism, deep subduction and their potential link

    Zheng Liu;Zheng Liu;Fenglin Niu;Fenglin Niu;Yongshun John Chen;Steve Grand

  • The effects of spreading rate, the magma budget, and the geometry of magma emplacement on the axial heat flux at mid‐ocean ridges

    Yongshun John Chen;Jason Phipps Morgan

  • High resolution regional seismic attenuation tomography in eastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions

    Xueyang Bao;Eric Sandvol;James Ni;Thomas Hearn

  • Thermochemical structure of the North China Craton from multi-observable probabilistic inversion: Extent and causes of cratonic lithosphere modification

    Zhen Guo;Zhen Guo;Juan Carlos Afonso;Mehdi Tork Qashqai;Yingjie Yang

  • The Origin and Mantle Dynamics of Quaternary Intraplate Volcanism in Northeast China From Joint Inversion of Surface Wave and Body Wave

    Zhen Guo;Kai Wang;Yingjie Yang;Youcai Tang

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