Dr Laura Cobden

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News

01/11/2020
A study published in Nature uses surface waves to identify partial melting inside the Earth's upper mantle. Click here to read my News & Views article on the subject.


18/07/2019
We have three papers about mantle plumes recently accepted for publication!

• "Investigating the seismic structure and visibility of dynamic plume models"
  F. Stockmann, L. Cobden, F. Deschamps, A. Fichtner & C. Thomas, Geophysical Journal International (accepted publication)

• "Seismic imaging of deep mantle plumes"
  J. Ritsema, R. Maguire, L. Cobden & S. Goes, chapter for the AGU Monograph: Mantle Convection and Surface Expressions (in press)
  

• "Radial thermo-chemical structure beneath Western and Northern Pacific from seismic waveform inversion" 
  F. Deschamps, K. Konishi, N. Fuji & L. Cobden, 2019, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 520, 153-163.

          

01/06/2017
Do thermochemical plumes exist in the Earth's mantle? - Solving the Enigma
Please click here to read about my Vidi research project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).