Recent Publications 

Walker, K., A. Nyblade, G. Bokelmann, S. Klemperer, and T. Owens, On the relationship between extension and anisotropy: Constraints from shear-wave splitting across the East African Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B080302, doi:10.1029/2003JB002866, 2004.

Mareschal, J.C., A. Nyblade, H.K.C. Perry, C. Jaupart, and G.Bienfait, Heat flow and deep lithospheric thermal structure at Lac de Gras, Slave Province, Canada, Geophysical Research Letter,31, L12611, doi:10.1029/2004GL020133, 2004.

Venkataraman, A., A. Nyblade, and J. Ritsema, Upper mantle Q and thermal structure beneath eastern Tanzania , East Africa , from teleseismic P wave spectra, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L15611, doi:10.1029/2004GL020351, 2004.

Brazier, R.A., and A.A. Nyblade, Upper mantle P velocity structure beneath the Baikal Rift from modeling regional seismic data, Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 1531, doi:10.1029/2002GL016116, 2003.

Benoit, M., A.A. Nyblade, J. Vandecar, and H. Gurrola, Upper mantle P velocity structure and mantle transition zone thickness beneath the Arabian Shield, Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 1153, doi:10.1029/2002GL016436, 2003.

Weeraratne, D.S., D.W. Forsyth, K.M. Fisher, and A.A. Nyblade, Evidence for an upper mantle plume beneath the Tanzanian Craton from Rayleigh wave tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research,   108 ,  doi: 10.1029/2002JB002273 , 2003.

Nyblade, A.A ., and N.H. Sleep, Long lasting epeirogenic uplift from mantle plumes and the origin of the Southern African Plateau, Geophysics, Geochemisitry and Geosystems, 4, 1105 DOI 10.1029/2003GC000573, 2003.

Nyblade, A.A., and C. A. Langston, Broadband seismic experiments probe the East African rift, EOS Trans. AGU, 83, 405-408, 2002.

Nyblade, A.A ., and R.A. Brazier, Precambrian lithospheric controls on the development of the East African rift system, Geology, 30, 755-758, 2002.

Nyblade, A.A., Crust and upper mantle structure in East Africa: Implications for the origin of Cenozoic rifting and volcanism and the formation of magmatic rifted margins, in Volcanic Rifted Margins, edited by M.A. Menzies, S.L. Klemperer, C.J. Ebinger, and J. Baker, Geol. Soc. Am, Spec. Pap. 362, 15-26, 2002.

Nyblade, A.A., T.J. Owens, H. Gurrola, J. Ritsema, and C. Langston, Seismic evidence for a deep upper mantle thermal anomaly beneath East Africa, Geology,28, 599-602, 2000.

Langston, C.A., A.A. Nyblade and T.J. Owens, Regional wave propagation in Tanzania, East Africa, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, 10.1029/2001JB000176, ESE 1-1 – 1-18, 2002.

Owens, T.J., A.A. Nyblade, H. Gurrola, and C.A. Langston, Mantle transition zone structure beneath Tanzania, East Africa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 827-830, 2000.

Nyblade, A.A .,R.P. Knox, and H. Gurrola, Mantle transition zone thickness beneath Afar: Implications for the origin of the Afar hotspot, Geophysical Journal International,142, 615-619, 2000.

Brazier, R.A., A.A. Nyblade, C.A. Langston, and T.J. Owens, Pn wave velocities beneath the Tanzania Craton and adjacent rifted mobile belts, East Africa, Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 2365-2368, 2000.

Nyblade,A.A., Heat flow and the structure of Precambrian lithosphere, Lithos, 28, 81-91, 1999.