Professor Huw Davies

2022

• Panton, J., Davies, J. H., Elliott, T., Andersen, M., Porcelli, D. and Price, M. G. 2022. Investigating influences on the Pb Pseudo‐Isochron using three‐dimensional mantle convection models with a continental reservoir. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23(8), article number: e2021GC010309. (10.1029/2021gc010309)

2019

• Price, M., Davies, J. and Panton, J. 2019. Controls on the deep water cycle within three-dimensional mantle convection models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20(5) (10.1029/2018GC008158)
• Phillips, T. N., Oldham, D. and Davies, J. H. 2019. Towards global SEM mantle convection simulations on Polyhedral-based grids. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 348, pp. 48-57. (10.1016/j.cam.2018.08.042)

2018

• Mitchell, N. C. and Davies, J. H. 2018. Equatorial Pacific gravity lineaments: interpretations with basement topography along seismic reflection lines. Marine Geophysical Research 39(4), pp. 551-565. (10.1007/s11001-018-9351-x)
• Price, M., Davies, J. and Panton, J. 2018. Constraining the global water budget: Understanding the deep-water cycle using 3-D mantle convection models. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 10-14 December 2018. pp. -.
• Davies, J. and Price, M. 2018. Examining the role of chemical heterogeneity on the deep mantle seismic signature using 3D thermo-chemical mantle modelling. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 10-14 December 2018.
• Price, M. and Davies, J. 2018. Profiling the robustness, efficiency and limits of the forward-adjoint method for 3D mantle convection modelling. Geophysical Journal International 212(2), pp. 1450-1462. (10.1093/gji/ggx489)

2017

• Price, M., Davies, J. and Panton, J. 2017. Investigating melting induced mantle heterogeneities in plate driven mantle convection models. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 11-15 December, 2015.
• Wolstencroft, M. and Davies, J. H. 2017. Breaking supercontinents; no need to choose between passive or active. Solid Earth 8, pp. 817-825. (10.5194/se-8-817-2017)
• Barry, T. L. et al. 2017. Whole-mantle convection with tectonic plates preserves long-term global patterns of upper mantle geochemistry. Scientific Reports 7, article number: 1870. (10.1038/s41598-017-01816-y)

2016

• Van Heck, H. J., Davies, J. H., Elliott, T. and Porcelli, D. 2016. Global-scale modeling of melting and isotopic evolution of Earth's mantle: melting modules for TERRA. Geoscientific Model Development 9, pp. 1399–1411. (10.5194/gmd-9-1399-2016)
• Price, M. and Davies, J. 2016. Investigating past mantle structures with assimilation techniques in mantle convection models. Presented at: China-UK Workshop on Deep Volatiles, Mineral Deposits and Geodynamics, State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Nanjing, China, 9-15 September 2016.

2015

• Davies, J. H., Garel, F., Davies, R. and Goes, S. 2015. Overriding plate deformation during subduction evolution [invited paper]. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-18 December 2015.
• Van Heck, H., Davies, J. H., Nowacki, A. and Wookey, J. 2015. Probing seismically melting induced mantle heterogeneities in the thermo-chemical convection models. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-18 December 2015.
• Price, M. and Davies, J. H. 2015. Testing the stability of LLSVPs using the full adjoint method for mantle circulation models. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-18 December, 2015.
• Price, M. and Davies, J. H. 2015. Testing the limit of predicitability of mantle circulation models. Presented at: British Geophysical Association Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting 2015, National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton, UK, 10-11 September 2015.
• Walker, A., Davies, J., Davies, D. R. and Wookey, J. 2015. Linking TERRA and DRex to relate mantle convection and seismic anisotropy. Presented at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.
• Davies, J. H., Van Heck, H., Nowacki, A., Wookey, J., Elliott, T. and Porcelli, D. 2015. Dynamic coupling of bulk chemistry, trace elements and mantle flow. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-18 December, 2015.
• Nowacki, A., Van Heck, H., Davies, R., Davies, J. H. and Wookey, J. 2015. Plumes, piles or puddings? Testing hypotheses of lowermost mantle dynamics with geodynamic and seismic calculations. Presented at: GeoBerlin - Annual Meeting DGGV DMG, Berlin, Germany, 4-7 October 2015.

2014

• Garel, F., Goes, S., Davies, R., Davies, J. H., Kramer, S. and Wilson, C. 2014. Interaction of subducted slabs with the mantle transition-zone: A regime diagram from 2-D thermo-mechanical models with a mobile trench and an overriding plate. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15(5), pp. 1739-1765. (10.1002/2014GC005257)

2013

• Davies, J. H. 2013. Global map of solid earth surface heat flow. Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems 14(10), pp. 4608-4622. (10.1002/ggge.20271)
• Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Bollada, P. C., Hassan, O., Morgan, K. and Nithiarasu, A. 2013. A hierarchical mesh refinement technique for global 3-D spherical mantle convection modelling. Geoscientific Model Development 6, pp. 1095-1107. (10.5194/gmd-6-1095-2013)
• Davies, J. H. and Van Heck, H. 2013. Improving hydrocarbon exploration through mantle circulation modeling. Presented at: 75th EAGE Conference and Exhibition, London, UK, 10-13 June 2013. European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, (10.3997/2214-4609.20130101)

2012

• Davies, D. R., Goes, S., Davies, J. H., Schuberth, B. S. A., Bunge, H. and Ritsema, J. 2012. Reconciling dynamic and seismic models of Earth's lower mantle: the dominant role of thermal heterogeneity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 353-54, pp. 253-269. (10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.016)
• Oldham, D. N., Davies, J. H. and Phillips, T. N. 2012. Generic polyhedron grid generation for solving partial differential equations on spherical surfaces. Computers & Geosciences 39, pp. 11-17. (10.1016/j.cageo.2011.06.004)

2011

• Wolstencroft, M. and Davies, J. H. 2011. Influence of the Ringwoodite-Perovskite transition on mantle convection in spherical geometry as a function of Clapeyron slope and Rayleigh number. Solid Earth 2, pp. 315-326. (10.5194/se-2-315-2011)
• Wolstencroft, M. and Davies, J. H. 2011. Influence of the Ringwoodite-Perovskite transition on mantle convection in spherical geometry as a function of Clapeyron slope and Rayleigh number. Solid Earth 3, pp. 713-741. (10.5194/sed-3-713-2011)

2010

• Davies, J. H. and Davies, D. R. 2010. Earth's surface heat flux. Solid Earth 1(1), pp. 5-24. (10.5194/se-1-5-2010)

2009

• Davies, D. R. and Davies, J. H. 2009. Thermally-driven mantle plumes reconcile multiple hot-spot observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 278(1-2), pp. 50-54. (10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.027)
• Wolstencroft, M., Davies, J. H. and Davies, D. R. 2009. Nusselt-Rayleigh number scaling for spherical shell Earth mantle simulation up to a Rayleigh number of 109109. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 176(1-2), pp. 132-141. (10.1016/j.pepi.2009.05.002)

2008

• Davies, J. H. 2008. Did a mega-collision dry Venus' interior?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 268(3-4), pp. 376-383. (10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.031)
• Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Hassan, O., Morgan, K. and Nithiarasu, P. 2008. Adaptive finite element methods in geodynamics: convection dominated mid-ocean ridge and subduction zone simulations. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow 18(7/8), pp. 1015-1035. (10.1108/09615530810899079)

2007

• Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Hassan, O., Morgan, K. and Nithiarasu, P. 2007. Investigations into the applicability of adaptive finite element methods to two-dimensional infinite Prandtl number thermal and thermochemical convection. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 8(5), article number: Q05010. (10.1029/2006GC001470)

2006

• Davies, J. H. and Bunge, B. H. 2006. Are splash plumes the origin of minor hotspots?. Geology 34(5), pp. 349-352. (10.1130/G22193.1)
• Wolstencroft, M., Rana, O. F. and Davies, J. H. 2006. Distributed storage of high-volume environmental simulation data: mantle modelling. Presented at: 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006), Hong Kong, 18-22 December 20062006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006 main conference proceedings) : (WI ’06) : proceedings : 18-22 December, 2006, Hong Kong, China. Los Alamitos, Calif: IEEE Computer Society pp. 991-996., (10.1109/WI.2006.63)

2005

• Davies, J. H. 2005. Steady plumes produced by downwellings in Earth-like vigor spherical whole mantle convection models. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 6(12), pp. 1-25. (10.1029/2005GC001042)
• Davies, J. H. 2005. Steady plumes produced by downwellings in Earth-like vigor spherical whole mantle convection models. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 6(12), article number: Q12001. (10.1029/2005GC001042)

2004

• Oldham, D. N. and Davies, J. H. 2004. Numerical investigation of layered convection in a three-dimensional shell with application to planetary mantles. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 5(12), pp. 1-25. (10.1029/2003GC000603)
• Rhodes, M. and Davies, J. H. 2004. Constructing a Geodynamic A Priori Seismic (GAPS) velocity model of upper mantle heterogeneity. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 5(3) (10.1029/2003GC000622)

2002

• Davies, J. H., Brodholt, J. P. and Wood, B. J. 2002. Introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 360(1800), pp. 2361-2369. (10.1098/rsta.2002.1086)
• Davies, J. H. 2002. Earth science: breaking plates. Nature 418(6899), pp. 736-738. (10.1038/418736a)
• Davies, J. H., Brodholt, J. P. and Wood, B. J. eds. 2002. Chemical reservoirs and convection in the Earth's mantle. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society London A Vol. 1800. London: Royal Society.

2001

• Rhodes, M. and Davies, J. H. 2001. Tomographic imaging of multiple mantle plumes in the uppermost lower mantle. Geophysical Journal International 147(1), pp. 88-92. (10.1046/j.0956-540x.2001.01512.x)
• Davies, J. H. and Bunge, H. 2001. Seismically ”fast” geodynamic mantle models. Geophysical Research Letters 28(1), pp. 73-76. (10.1029/2000GL011805)
• Rhodes, M. and Davies, J. H. 2001. Tomographic imaging of multiple mantle plumes in the uppermost lower mantle. Geophysical Journal International 147(1), pp. 88-92. (10.1046/j.0956-540x.2001.01512.x)
• Bunge, H. and Davies, J. H. 2001. Tomographic images of a mantle circulation model. Geophysical Research Letters 28(1), pp. 77-80. (10.1029/2000GL011804)

2000

• Leng, J., Brooke, J., Hewitt, T. and Davies, J. H. 2000. Visualization of seismic data in geophysics and astrophysics. Presented at: SGI 2000 Users' Conference Proceedings, Krakow, Poland, 11-14th October 2000. pp. 112-123.

1999

• Davies, J. 1999. Simple analytic model for subduction zone thermal structure. Geophysical Journal International 139(3), pp. 823-828. (10.1046/j.1365-246x.1999.00991.x)
• Rowland, A. and Davies, J. H. 1999. Buoyancy rather than rheology controls the thickness of the overriding mechanical lithosphere at subduction zones. Geophysical Research Letters 26(19), pp. 3037-3040. (10.1029/1999GL005347)
• Davies, J. H. 1999. The role of hydraulic fractures and intermediate-depth earthquakes in subduction-zone magmatism. Nature 398(6723), pp. 142-145. (10.1038/18202)

1998

• Davies, J. H. and von Blanckenburg, F. 1998. Thermal controls on slab breakoff and the rise of high-pressure rocks during continental collisions. In: Hacker, B. and Liou, J. G. eds. When continents collide : Geodynamics and geochemistry of ultrahigh-pressure rocks. Petrology and Structural Geology Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 97-115.

1996

• von Blanckenburg, F. and Davies, J. H. 1996. Feasibility of double slab breakoff (Cretaceous and Tertiary) during the Alpine convergence. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 89(1), pp. 111-127.

1995

• Davies, J. H. and von Blanckenburg, F. 1995. Slab breakoff: A model of lithosphere detachment and its test in the magmatism and deformation of collisional orogens. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 129(1-4), pp. 85-102. (10.1016/0012-821X(94)00237-S)
• von Blanckenburg, F. and Davies, J. H. 1995. Slab breakoff: A model for syncollisional magmatism and tectonics in the Alps. Tectonics 14(1), pp. 120-131. (10.1029/94TC02051)

1994

• Davies, J. H. 1994. Lateral water transport across a dynamic mantle wedge: a model for subduction zone magmatism. In: Ryan, M. P. ed. Magmatic Systems. International Geophysics series Vol. 57. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 197-221.

1992

• Davies, J. H. and Stevenson, D. J. 1992. Physical model of source region of subduction zone volcanics. Journal of Geophysical Research 97(B2), pp. 2037-2070. (10.1029/91JB02571)
• Davies, J. H. 1992. Lower bound estimate of average earthquake mislocation from variance of travel-time residuals. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 75(1-3), pp. 89-101. (10.1016/0031-9201(92)90120-K)
• Davies, J. H., Gudmundsson, O. and Clayton, R. W. 1992. Spectra of mantle shear wave velocity structure. Geophysical Journal International 108(3), pp. 865-882. (10.1111/j.1365-246X.1992.tb03476.x)

1991

• Davies, J. H. and Bickle, M. J. 1991. A physical model for the volume and composition of melt produced by hydrous fluxing above subduction zones. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 335(1638), pp. 355-364. (10.1098/rsta.1991.0051)

1990

• Gudmundsson, O., Davies, J. H. and Clayton, R. W. 1990. Stochastic analysis of global travel time data: Mantle heterogeneity and random errors in the ISC data. Geophysical Journal International 102(1), pp. 25-43. (10.1111/j.1365-246X.1990.tb00528.x)