Nathaniel Butterworth

TL;DR: Rifted margins feature an initial, slow rift phase and that an abrupt increase of plate divergence introduces a fast rift phase, and it is demonstrated that abrupt plate acceleration during continental rifting is controlled by the nonlinear decay of the resistive rift strength force.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use geodynamic models with imposed plate velocities to test the forward-modeled history of subduction based on a particular plate motion model against alternative seismic tomography models.

TL;DR: In this article, a relative plate motion model is proposed for the last 130 Myr for a range of alternative reference frames, and quantitatively compare the results for times older than 70 Ma.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the geochemical characteristics of lava samples collected from the Musicians Ridges, lines of volcanic seamounts formed close to the Hawaiian-Emperor bend, and found that the signature of these lavas is unlike typical ocean island basalts and instead resembles mid-ocean ridge basalts.

TL;DR: In this article, a Stokes flow solver based on the Boundary Element Method (BEM) with a Fast-Multipole (FM) implementation was used to study the evolution of the entire lithosphere-mantle system without imposing additional constraints in a whole-Earth spherical setting.