Nakagawa, T. and P. J. Tackley, On the origin of long-wavelength structure in compressible mantle convection simulations with plate-like behavior in a 3-D spherical shell, submitted to Phys. Earth Planet. Inter.
Nakagawa, T. and P. J. Tackley, Influence of initial CMB temperature and other parameters on the thermal evolution of Earth's core resulting from thermo-chemical spherical mantle convection, submitted to Gcubed.
Nakagawa, T., P. J. Tackley, F. Deschamps and J. A. D. Connolly, The Influence of MORB and Harzburgite Composition on Thermo-Chemical Mantle Convection in a 3-D Spherical Shell With Self-Consistently Calculated Mineral Physics, submitted to Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.
Deschamps, F., P. J. Tackley and T. Nakagawa, Temperature and heat flux scalings for isoviscous thermal convection in spherical geometry, submitted to Geophys. J. Int.
Perry, H. K. C., C. Jaupart and P. J. Tackley, The thermal boundary layer beneath continents, submitted to Phys. Earth Planet. Inter.
Morra, G., D. A. Yuen, L. Boschi, P. Chatelain, P. Koumoutsakos and P. J. Tackley, The fate of slabs interacting with a viscosity hill in mid-mantle, submitted to Phys. Earth Planet. Inter.
Morishige, M., S. Honda and P. J. Tackley, A new subduction zone model in three-dimensional spherical geometry, submitted to Phys. Earth Planet. Inter.
Reudas, T., P. J. Tackley and S. C. Solomon, Thermal and compositional evolution of the martian mantle: Effects of phase transitions and melting, submitted to Icarus.
Cammarano, F., H. Marquardt, S. Speziale and P. J. Tackley, Role of iron-spin transition for the thermochemical interpretation of the lower mantle: A broad thermochemical transition in the mid mantle?, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett.
Samuel, H. and P. J. Tackley, Heat Partitioning in Terrestrial Planets During Core Formation by Negative Diapirism, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.
Zhu, G., Y. Shi and P. Tackley, Subduction of the western Pacific plate underneath northeast China: Implications of numerical studies, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. 178, 92-99.
Ballmer, M. D., G. Ito, J. van Hunen and P. J. Tackley, Small-scale sublithospheric convection reconciles geochemistry and geochronology of 'superplume' volcanism in the western and south Pacific, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.05
Golabek, G., T. V. Gerya, R. Ziethe, B. J. P. Kaus, and P. J. Tackley. Rheological controls on the terrestrial core formation mechanism, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q11007, doi:10.1029/2009GC002552. PDF.
Lin, J.-R., T. V. Gerya, P. J. Tackley, D. A. Yuen and G. Golabek, Protocore destabilization during planetary accretion: Influence of a deforming planetary surface, Icarus 204, 732-748, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.035. PDF
Ballmer, M. D., J. van Hunen, G. Ito, T. A. Bianco and P. J. Tackley, Intraplate volcanism with complex age-distance patterns - a case for small-scale sublithospheric convection, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q06015, doi:10.1029/2009GC002386. PDF.
Keller, T. and P. J. Tackley, Towards self-consistent modelling of the Martian dichotomy: The influence of low-degree convection on crustal thickness distribution, Icarus 202 (2), 429-443. PDF.
Deschamps, F. and P. J. Tackley, Searching for models of thermo-chemical convection that explain probabilistic tomography II - Influence of physical and compositional parameters, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. 176, 1-18, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.03.012. PDF.
Nakagawa, T., P. J. Tackley, F. Deschamps and J. A. D. Connolly, Incorporating self-consistently calculate mineral physics into thermo-chemical mantle convection simulations in a 3D spherical shell and its influence on seismic anomalies in Earth's mantle, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 10, Q03004, doi:10.1029/2008GC002280. PDF.
Tackley, P. J., Layer cake or plume pudding?, Nature Geoscience, Vol 1 No 3, 157-158, 2008. PDF
Hernlund, J. W., P. J. Tackley and D. J. Stevenson, Buoyant melting instabilities beneath extending lithosphere, 1. Numerical models, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B04405, doi:10.1029/2006JB004862. PDF
Hernlund, J. W., D. J. Stevenson and P. J. Tackley, Buoyant melting instabilities beneath extending lithosphere, 2. Linear analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B04406, doi:10.1029/2006JB004863. PDF
Samuel, H., and P. J. Tackley, Dynamics of core formation and equilibrium by negative diapirism, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q06011, doi:10.1029/2007GC001896. PDF
Golabek, G., H. Schmeling and P. J. Tackley, Earth's core formation aided by flow channelling instabilities induced by iron diapirs, Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 271, 24-33. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.033. PDF.
Nakagawa, T., and P. J. Tackley, Lateral variations in CMB heat flux and deep mantle seismic velocity caused by a thermal-chemical-phase boundary layer in 3D spherical convection, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 271, 348-358. PDF.
Morra, G., P. Chatelain, P. Tackley and P. Koumoutsakos, Earth curvature effects on subduction morphology: Modeling subduction in a spherical setting with the Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method, Acta Geotechnica, doi:10.1007/s11440-008-0060-5.
van Heck, H. and P. J. Tackley, Planforms of self-consistently generated plate tectonics in 3-D spherical geometry, Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L19312, doi:10.1029/2008GL035190. PDF.
Tackley, P. J., Modellng compressible mantle convection with large viscosity contrasts in a three-dimensional spherical shell using the yin-yang grid, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter, 171 (1-4), 7-18, doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.08.005. PDF
Hernlund, J. W. and P. J. Tackley, Modeling mantle convection in the spherical annulus, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 171 (1-4), 48-54. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.07.037. PDF
Deschamps, F. and P. J. Tackley, Searching for models of thermo-chemical convection that explain probabilistic tomography I. Principles and influence of rheological parameters, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 171, 357-373. PDF
Tackley, P. J., Mantle Geochemical Geodynamics, in Treatise on Geophysics Volume 7: Mantle Dynamics, ed. D. Bercovici and G. Schubert, Elsevier, pp437-505. PDF preprint.
Ballmer, M. D., J. van Hunen, G. Ito, P. J. Tackley and T. A. Bianco, Non-hotspot volcanic chains originating from small-scale sublithospheric convection, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L23310, doi:10.1029/2007GL031636. Link to article at AGU.
Morra, G., P. Chatelain, P. Tackley, P. Koumoutsakos, Large scale three-dimensional boundary element simulation of subduction, International Conference on Computational Science 2007, Part III, LNCS 4489, pp. 1122-1129, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007. PDF.
Deschamps, F., J. Trampert and P. J. Tackley, Thermo-chemical structure of the lower mantle: seismological evidence and consequences for geodynamics, in Superplume: Beyond Plate Tectonics, ed. D. A. Yuen et al., Springer, pp293-320, 2007. PDF
Tackley, P. J., T. Nakagawa and J. W. Hernlund, Influence of the post-perovskite transition on thermal and thermo-chemical mantle convection, in AGU Geophysical Monograph on "The Last Phase Transition", ed. K. Hirose, J. Brodholt, T. Lay, D. A. Yuen. PDF.
Hernlund, J. W. and P. J. Tackley, Some dynamical consequences of partial melting in Earth's deep mantle, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 162, 149-163. PDF
Grigne, C., S. Labrosse and P. J. Tackley, Convection under a lid of finite conductivity in wide aspect ratio models: effect of continents on the wavelength of mantle flow, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B08403, doi:10.1029/2006JB004297. PDF
Grigne, C., S. Labrosse and P. J. Tackley, Convection under a lid of finite conductivity: Heat flux scaling and application to continents, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B08402, doi:10.1029/2005JB004192. PDF
Nakagawa, T., and P. J. Tackley, Three-dimensional numerical simulations of thermo-chemical multiphase convection in Earth's mantle, Third MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. PDF
Hernlund, J., C. Thomas and P. J. Tackley, Phase boundary double-crossing and partial melting in Earth's deepest mantle, Nature, 434, 882-886. PDF
Mittlestaedt, E., and P. J. Tackley, Plume heat flow is much less
than CMB heat flow, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 241, 202-210. PDF
Nakagawa, T., and P. J. Tackley, The interaction between the
post-perovskite phase change and a thermo-chemical boundary layer near
the core-mantle boundary, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 238, 204-216. PDF
Nakagawa, T., and P. J. Tackley, Deep mantle heat flow and thermal
evolution of the Earth's core based on thermo-chemical multiphase
mantle convection, Geophys. Geochem. Geosys, 6, Q08003,
doi:10.1029/2005JB003751. PDF
Jurine, D., C. Jaupart, G. Brandeis and P. J. Tackley, Penetration
of plumes through depleted lithosphere, J.Geophys. Res., 110, B10104,
doi:10.1029/2005JB003751. PDF
Tackley, P. J., S. Xie, T. Nakagawa and J. W. Hernlund, Numerical and laboratory studies of mantle convection: Philosophy, accomplishments and thermo-chemical structure and evolution, in Earth's Deep Mantle: Structure, Composition, and Evolution, Geophysical Monograph Series 160, AGU doi:10.1029/160GM07, 83-99 PDF
Nakagawa, T. and P.J. Tackley, Effects of thermo-chemical mantle convection on the thermal evolution of the Earth's core, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 220, 107-119, 2004. PDF
Xie, S and P.J. Tackley, Evolution of helium and argon isotopes in a convecting mantle, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 146, 417-439. PDF.
Nakagawa, T., and P.J. Tackley, Thermo-chemical structure in the mantle arising from a three-component convective system and implications for geochemistry, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter.,146, 125-138. PDF
Schubert, G., P. Olson, G. Masters and P.J. Tackley, Superplumes or plume clusters?, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 146, 147-162. PDF
Xie, S. and P. J. Tackley, Evolution of U-Pb and Sm-Nd systems in numerical models of mantle convection, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B11204, doi:10.1029/2004JB003176. PDF.
Nakagawa, T. and P. J. Tackley, Effects of a perovskite-post perovskite phase change near the core-mantle boundary in compressible mantle convection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L16611, doi:10.1029/2004GL020648. PDF
2003
Tackley, P.J., S. D. King, Testing the tracer ratio method for modeling active compositional fields in mantle convection simulations, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 4, doi:10.1029/2001GC000214. PDF
Hernlund, J.W., P.J. Tackley, Three-dimensional spherical shell convection at infinite Prandtl number using the 'cubed sphere' method, proceedings of the Second MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. PDF
Tackley, P.J., S. Xie, Stag3D: A code for modeling thermo-chemical multiphase convection in Earth's mantle, proceedings of the Second MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Strong heterogeneity caused by deep mantle layering, Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems, 3, 10.1029/2001GC000167, 2002. PDF
Farnetani, C.G., B. Legras, P.J. Tackley, Mixing and deformations in mantle plumes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 196, 1-15, 2002. PDF
Tackley, P.J., S. Xie, The thermo-chemical structure and evolution of Earth's mantle: Constraints and numerical models, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A., 360, 2593-2609, 2002 PDF
Tackley, P.J., G. Schubert, G.A. Glatzmaier, P. Schenk, J.T. Ratcliffe and J.-P. Matas, Three-dimensional spherical simulations of mantle convection in Io, Icarus 149, 79-93, 2001. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Convection in Io's asthenosphere: Redistribution of Non-uniform tidal heating by mean flows, J. Geophys. Res. 106, 32971-32981, 2001. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Mantle convection and plate tectonics: Towards an integrated physical and chemical theory, Science, 288, 2002-2007, 2000. PDF
Tackley, P.J., The quest for self-consistent incorporation of plate tectonics in mantle convection, in History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, edited by M.A. Richards, R. Gordon, R. van der Hilst,AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 121, 2000. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Self-consistent generation of tectonic plates in time-dependent, three-dimensional mantle convection simulations, part 1: Pseudoplastic yielding, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 1, 2000. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Self-consistent generation of tectonic plates in time-dependent, three-dimensional mantle convection simulations, part 2: Strain weakening and asthenosphere, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 1, 2000. PDF
Tackley, P.J., J.R. Baumgardner, G.A. Glatzmaier, P. Olson, and T. Clune, Three-dimensional spherical simulations of convection in Earth's mantle and core using massively-parallel computers, in Proceedings of HPC99, ed. A. Tentner, p95-100, 1999. PDF1, PDF2-6
Moore, W.B., G. Schubert, and P.J. Tackley, The role of rheology in lithospheric thinning by mantle plumes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1073-1076, 1999. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Self-consistent generation of tectonic plates in three-dimensional mantle convection, Earth Planet. Sci Lett., 157, 9-22, 1998. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Three-dimensional simulations of mantle convection with a thermochemical CMB boundary layer: D"?, in The Core-Mantle Boundary Region, edited by Gurnis.et. al., pp. 231-253, American Geophysical Union, 1998c.PDF
Moore, W.B., G. Schubert, and P.J. Tackley, Three-Dimensional Simulations of Plume-Lithosphere Interaction at the Hawaiian Swell, Science, 279, 1008-1011, 1998. PDF
Thompson, P.F., and P.J. Tackley, Generation of mega-plumes from the core-mantle boundary in a compressible mantle with temperature-dependent viscosity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25 (11), 1999-2002, 1998. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Effects of phase transitions on three-dimensional mantle convection, in The Fluid Mechanics of Astrophysics and Geophysics Volume 5: The Doornbos Volume, edited by D. Crossley, pp. 273-336, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1997a.
Ratcliff, J.T., P.J. Tackley, G. Schubert, and A. Zebib, Transitions in thermal convection with strongly variable viscosity, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 102, 201-212, 1997. PDF
Schubert, G., D.L. Turcotte, V. Solomatov, and P.J. Tackley, Mantle convection and the thermal evolution of Venus, in Venus II - Geology, Geophysics, Atmosphere, and Solar Wind Environments, edited by S.W. Bougher, D.M. Hunter, and R.J. Phillips, pp. 1245-1289, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1997.
Shiokawa, R., Y. Iwase, T. Nakakuki, S. Honda, P.J. Tackley, and T. Eguchi, Video of mantle convection simulations (in Japanese), Zisin, 50, 349-352, 1997.
Tackley, P.J., Effects of strongly variable viscosity on three-dimensional compressible convection in planetary mantles, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 3311-3332, 1996a. PDF
Tackley, P.J., On the ability of phase transitions and viscosity layering to induce long-wavelength heterogeneity in the mantle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1985-1988, 1996b. PDF
Tackley, P.J., Slow motion in the mantle, Physics World, 9 (5), 33-37, 1996c.
Tackley, P.J., Mantle dynamics: Influence of the transition zone, US
National Report to the IUGG, 1991-1994,
275-282, 1995a. Link
to article at AGU.
Tackley, P.J., On the penetration of an endothermic phase transition by upwellings and downwellings, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 15477-15488, 1995b. PDF
Schubert, G., and P.J. Tackley, Mantle dynamics: The strong control of the spinel-perovskite transition at a depth of 660 km, J. Geodynamics, 20 (4), 417-428, 1995.
Tackley, P.J., Three-dimensional models of mantle convection: Influence of phase transitions and temperature-dependent viscosity, Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1994. PDF.
Tackley, P.J., D.J. Stevenson, G.A. Glatzmaier, and G. Schubert, Effects of multiple phase transitions in a 3-dimensional spherical model of convection in Earth's mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 99 (B8), 15877-15901, 1994. PDF (108MB)
Tackley, P.J., and D.J. Stevenson, A mechanism for spontaneous
self-perpetuating volcanism on the terrestrial planets, in Flow
and Creep in the Solar System: Observations,
Modeling and Theory, edited by D.B. Stone, and S.K.
Runcorn, pp. 307-322, Kluwer, 1993. PDF.
Tackley, P.J., D.J. Stevenson, G.A. Glatzmaier, and G. Schubert,
Effects of an endothermic phase transition at 670 km depth in
a spherical model of convection in the Earth's mantle, Nature,
361 (6414), 699-704, 1993. PDF
Bercovici, D., G. Schubert, and P.J. Tackley, On the Penetration Of the 660 Km Phase-Change By Mantle Downflows, Geophysical Research Letters, 20 (23), 2599-2602, 1993.
Jordan, T.H., P. Puster, G.A. Glatzmaier, and P.J. Tackley, Comparisons between seismic Earth structures and mantle flow models based on radial correlation functions, Science, 261 (5127), 1427-1431, 1993.
Tackley, P.J., Effects of strongly temperature-dependent viscosity on time-dependent, 3-dimensional models of mantle convection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20 (20), 2187-2190, 1993.