Sean C. Solomon

TL;DR: Angular distributions of the electrons about the magnetic field suggest that they do not execute complete drift paths around the planet, demonstrating that Mercury’s weak magnetic field does not support Van Allen–type radiation belts, unlike all other planets in the solar system with internal magnetic fields.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply proton-reflection magnetometry to sense Mercury's surface magnetic field intensity in the planet's northern and southern hemispheres and show that the technique may be used to resolve regional-scale fields at the surface.

TL;DR: In this article, the splitting of teleseismic shear waves (SKS, SKKS, and PKS) recorded by the ICEMELT broadband seismometer network in Iceland was investigated.

TL;DR: The top of the olivine-spinel phase change in subducted oceanic lithosphere can be located by the travel times of seismic waves which have propagated through the slab P-wave travel time residuals from deep earthquakes in the Tonga island are observed at Australian seismic stations are grouped according to the depth of the earthquake as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the magnitude of shear stress in the lithosphere is bounded from below by the apparent stress and stress drop during intra-plate earthquakes and there is no systematic difference in either apparent stress or stress drop between these intraplate events and typical plate boundary earthquakes, consistent with the inference from current models of plate tectonic driving forces that regional stress differences in the plates are typically on the order of 100 bars.