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Member Since 1971
Don W. Forsyth
Professor Emeritus, Brown University
Professional Experience
Brown University
Professor Emeritus
2017 - Present
Brown University
Professor, Geological Sciences
2012 - Present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD
1974 - Present
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Education
Doctorate
1973
Honors & Awards
Publications
A Mid‐Lithospheric Discontinuity Detected Beneath 155 Ma Western Pacific Seafloor Using Sp Receiver ...
This study probes the lithosphere‐asthenosphere system beneath 155 Ma Pacific seafloor using teleseismic S‐to‐p receiver fun...
March 10, 2024
Sub‐Lithospheric Small‐Scale Convection Tomographically Imag...
September 26, 2022
Ridge asymmetry and deep aqueous alteration at the trench ob...
October 15, 2016
AGU Abstracts
Teleseismic Shear-wave Splitting with Data from the Old ORCA Experiment in the Southwest Pacific
SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS II ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Joshua Finch, Joseph S. Byrnes, Joseph Phillips, J...
Results from SKS splitting provide constraints on seismic anisotropy in the upper mantle, which helps constrain the dynamics of the lithosphere-asthen...
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Spatial Variation in Anisotropic Shear Velocity of Old Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere in the Southwest Pacific
SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS II ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Joseph Phillips, James B. Gaherty, Joshua B. Russe...
Regional anisotropic structure of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system provides important constraints on the formation, evolution, and dynamic...
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A Dynamic Oceanic Asthenosphere Revealed by High Shear Attenuation in the Pacific
EXPLORING COMPLEX MANTLE DYNAMICS WITH OBSERVATIONS, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, AND COMPUTER MODELS III POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 11 december 2023
Joshua B. Russell, Colleen A. Dalton, Christopher ...
The cooling and thickening of oceanic lithosphere as it spreads from the mid-ocean ridge is fundamental to plate tectonics, and the base of this therm...
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Volunteer History
1999 - 2013
Associate Editor
JGR Solid Earth Section
2002 - 2004
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
2004 - 2004
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Honors and Recognition Committee
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