Publications

• Campbell, I & Davies, R 2017, 'Raising the continental crust', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 460, pp. 112-122pp.
• Jones, T, Davies, R, Campbell, I et al. 2017, 'The concurrent emergence and causes of double volcanic hotspot tracks on the Pacific plate', Nature, vol. 545, no. 7655, pp. 472-476pp.
• Hedjazian, N, Garel, F, Davies, R et al 2017, 'Age-independent seismic anisotropy under oceanic plates explained by strain history in the asthenosphere', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 460, pp. 135-142.
• Davies, R, Le Voci, G, Goes, S et al. 2016, 'The mantle wedge's transient 3-D flow regime and thermal structure', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 78-100.
• Perrin, A, Goes, S, Prytulak, J et al. 2016, 'Reconciling mantle wedge thermal structure with arc lava thermobarometric determinations in oceanic subduction zones', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 4105-4127.
• Jones, T, Davies, R, Campbell, I et al 2016, 'Do mantle plumes preserve the heterogeneous structure of their deep-mantle source?', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 434, pp. 10-17.
• Sossi, P.A., Eggins, S.M., Nesbitt, R.W., Nebel, O., Hergt, J.M., Campbell, I.H., O’Neill, H.S.C., Van Kranendonk, M. and Davies, D.R., 2016. Petrogenesis and geochemistry of Archean komatiites. Journal of Petrology, 57, 147-184.
• Davies, R, Goes, S & Lau, H 2015, 'Thermally Dominated Deep Mantle LLSVPs: A Review', in Khan, Amir, Deschamps, Frédéric (ed.), The Earth's Heterogeneous Mantle, Springer, online, pp. 441-477.
• Tosi, N, Stein, C, Noack, L et al. 2015, 'A community benchmark for viscoplastic thermal convection in a 2-D square box', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 2175-2196.
• Davies, R, Goes, S & Sambridge, M 2015, 'On the relationship between volcanic hotspot locations, the reconstructed eruption sites of large igneous provinces and deep mantle seismic structure', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 411, pp. 121-130.
• Davies, R, Rawlinson, N, Iaffaldano, G et al. 2015, 'Lithospheric controls on magma composition along Earth's longest continental hotspot track', Nature, vol. 525, no. 7570, pp. 511-514.
• Tkalčić, H, Young, M, Muir, J et al 2015, 'Strong, Multi-Scale Heterogeneity in Earth's Lowermost Mantle', Scientific Reports, vol. 5, p. 18416.
• Le Voci, G, Davies, R, Goes, S et al. 2014, 'A systematic 2-D investigation into the mantle wedge's transient flow regime and thermal structure: Complexities arising from a hydrated rheology and thermal buoyancy', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 28-51.
• Garel, F, Goes, S, Davies, R et al. 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, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1739-1765.
• Davies, R & Rawlinson, N 2014, 'On the origin of recent intraplate volcanism in Australia', Geology, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 1031-1034.
• Davies, R, Davies, J, Bollada, P et al 2013, 'A hierarchical mesh refinement technique for global 3-D spherical mantle convection modelling', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1095-1107.
• Hunt, S, Davies, R, Walker, A et al 2012, 'On the increase in thermal diffusivity caused by the perovskite to post-perovskite phase transition and its implications for mantle dynamics', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 319, pp. 96-103.
• Davies, R, Goes, S, Davies, J et al 2012, 'Reconciling dynamic and seismic models of Earth's lower mantle: The dominant role of thermal heterogeneity', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 353, pp. 253-269.
• Kramer, S, Wilson, C & Davies, R 2012, 'An implicit free surface algorithm for geodynamical simulations', Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 194, pp. 25-37.
• Davies, R, Wilson, C & Kramer, S 2011, 'Fluidity: A fully unstructured anisotropic adaptive mesh computational modeling framework for geodynamics', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1-20.
• Styles, E, Davies, R & Goes, S 2011, 'Mapping spherical seismic into physical structure: Biases from 3-D phase-transition and thermal boundary-layer heterogeneity', Geophysical Journal International, vol. 184, no. 3, pp. 1371-1378.
• Davies, J & Davies, R 2010, 'Earth's surface heat flux', Solid Earth, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5-24.
• Wolstencroft, M, Davies, J & Davies, R 2009, 'Nusselt-Rayleigh number scaling for spherical shell Earth mantle simulation up to a Rayleigh number of 10 9', Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 176, no. 1-2, pp. 132-141.
• Davies, R & Davies, J 2009, 'Thermally-driven mantle plumes reconcile multiple hot-spot observations', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 278, no. 1-2, pp. 50-54.
• Davies, R, Davies, J, Hassan, O et al 2008, 'Adaptive finite element methods in geodynamics: Convection dominated mid-ocean ridge and subduction zone simulations', International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, vol. 18, no. 7-8, pp. 1015-1035.
• Davies, R, Davies, J, Hassan, O et al. 2007, 'Investigations into the applicability of adaptive finite element methods for infinite Prandtl number thermal and thermo-chemical convection', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 1-25.

Projects and Grants

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• Earth's Intra-Plate Volcanic Engine (Primary Investigator)
• From plume source to hotspot: quantifying mixing in mantle plumes and its implications for the nature of deep-mantle heterogeneity (Primary Investigator)

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