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Brandon Schmandt

University of New Mexico
Verified email at unm.edu
Cited by 5228

Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle

B Schmandt, SD Jacobsen, TW Becker, Z Liu… - Science, 2014 - science.org
… (B) The background color shows the vertical flow velocity predicted using the S40RTS
tomography model. In both models, velocity decreases near the top of the lower mantle are absent …

Continuing Colorado plateau uplift by delamination-style convective lithospheric downwelling

A Levander, B Schmandt, MS Miller, K Liu… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The Colorado plateau is a large, tectonically intact, physiographic province in the southwestern
North American Cordillera that stands at ∼1,800–2,000 m elevation and has long been …

Complex subduction and small-scale convection revealed by body-wave tomography of the western United States upper mantle

B Schmandt, E Humphreys - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
New high-resolution P- and S-wave tomography of the United States upper mantle from the
Pacific Coast to the Great Plains reveals strong multi-scale heterogeneity closely correlated …

The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust

HH Huang, FC Lin, B Schmandt, J Farrell, RB Smith… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The Yellowstone supervolcano is one of the largest active continental silicic volcanic fields in
the world. An understanding of its properties is key to enhancing our knowledge of volcanic …

P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

B Schmandt, FC Lin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… The tomography models we present are a major expansion of the P and S tomography
presented by Schmandt and Humphreys [2010]. The only methodological difference is that we …

[BOOK][B] Strömungsmechanik

H Herwig, B Schmandt - 2006 - Springer
Dieses Buch soll der Entwicklung Rechnung tragen, daß strömungsmechanische Probleme
in Forschung und Entwicklung zunehmend durch den Einsatz leistungsstarker Rechner und …

[HTML][HTML] Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis

…, W Ouimet, E Kirby, J Van Wijk, B Schmandt… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The correspondence between seismic velocity anomalies in the crust and mantle and the
differential incision of the continental-scale Colorado River system suggests that significant …

Seismically imaged relict slab from the 55 Ma Siletzia accretion to the northwest United States

B Schmandt, E Humphreys - Geology, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
… In this paper we discuss the Pacific Northwest portion of our recent tomographic models (Schmandt
and Humphreys, 2010a) to focus on a prominent but previously unresolved “curtain” …

Seismic heterogeneity and small‐scale convection in the southern California upper mantle

B Schmandt, E Humphreys - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… The scalar b is used to control the relative weight of the P and S data sets. In the model …
weighted by choosing the value of b such that ∥d P ∥ = b*∥d S ∥, b = 1.52. Damping the …

Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry

FC Lin, VC Tsai, B Schmandt… - Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… Figure 2b also shows a number of weaker phases arriving between ScS and PKIKP 2 , but
are less consistent with the synthetics (Figure 1b). These phases may represent phases that …