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List of works by David Bercovici

A Theoretical Model of Pattern Formation in Coral Reefs

article published in 2003

A continuous kinematic model of plate-tectonic motions

A continuous plate-tectonic model using geophysical data to estimate plate-margin widths, with a seismicity-based example

article

A continuum theory of grain size evolution and damage

scholarly article

A mechanism for mode selection in melt band instabilities

scholarly article by David Bercovici & John F. Rudge published January 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

A model for the spreading and compaction of two-phase viscous gravity currents

scholarly article by CHLOÉ MICHAUT & David Bercovici published 24 June 2009 in Journal of Fluid Mechanics

A simple model of plate generation from mantle flow

article by David Bercovici published September 1993 in Geophysical Journal International

A simple toy model for coupled retreat and detachment of subducting slabs

A source-sink model of the generation of plate tectonics from non-Newtonian mantle flow

scientific article

A theoretical model of cooling viscous gravity currents with temperature-dependent viscosity

scholarly article by David Bercovici published 15 June 1994 in Geophysical Research Letters

A thermodynamically self-consistent damage equation for grain size evolution during dynamic recrystallization

Abrupt tectonics and rapid slab detachment with grain damage

scientific article

Ascent and compaction of gas rich magma and the effects of hysteretic permeability

scholarly article

Asymmetric shallow mantle structure beneath the Hawaiian Swell-evidence from Rayleigh waves recorded by the PLUME network

article

Collapse of passive margins by lithospheric damage and plunging grain size

scholarly article

Contraction or expansion of the Moon's crust during magma ocean freezing?

scientific article published on September 2014

Core solidification and dynamo evolution in a mantle-stripped planetesimal

Discrete alternating hotspot islands formed by interaction of magma transport and lithospheric flexure

scientific article published in Nature

Disequilibrium melting of a two phase multicomponent mantle

article

Divergent evolution of Earth and Venus: Influence of degassing, tectonics, and magnetic fields

Double flood basalts and plume head separation at the 660-kilometer discontinuity

scientific article published in Science

Drip instabilities of continental lithosphere: acceleration and entrainment by damage

scientific article

Dynamic weakening with grain-damage and implications for slab detachment

Energetics of a two-phase model of lithospheric damage, shear localization and plate-boundary formation

Eruption cyclicity at silicic volcanoes potentially caused by magmatic gas waves

Focusing of eruptions by fracture wall erosion

scholarly article

Formation and structure of lithospheric shear zones with damage

Formation of lithospheric shear zones: Effect of temperature on two-phase grain damage

Generation of plate tectonics with two-phase grain-damage and pinning: Source–sink model and toroidal flow

scholarly article by David Bercovici & Yanick Ricard published March 2013 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Geoid and topography for infinite Prandtl number convection in a spherical shell

scientific article published in 1988

Grain damage, phase mixing and plate-boundary formation

article published in 2017

Grain-damage hysteresis and plate tectonic states

Influence of heating mode on three-dimensional mantle convection

scholarly article

Initiation of plate tectonics from post-magma ocean thermochemical convection

scholarly article by Bradford J. Foley et al published November 2014 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Interpolation with Splines in Tension: A Green's Function Approach

scientific article published in 1998

Jovian seismology

Magma wagging and whirling in volcanic conduits

Mantle P-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot

article

Mantle shear-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hot spot

scientific article published in December 2009

Mechanisms for the generation of plate tectonics by two-phase grain-damage and pinning

scholarly article by David Bercovici & Yanick Ricard published August 2012 in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Melt migration in rubble-pile planetesimals: Implications for the formation of primitive achondrites

scientific article published in March 2023

Melt-band instabilities with two-phase damage

article

Mineral carbon sequestration and induced seismicity

scholarly article by Viktoriya M. Yarushina & David Bercovici published 14 March 2013 in Geophysical Research Letters

Modal growth and coupling in three-dimensional spherical convection

Non-hotspot formation of volcanic chains: control of tectonic and flexural stresses on magma transport

scholarly article

On the dynamics of a hydrous melt layer above the transition zone

scholarly article

On the equipartition of kinetic energy in plate tectonics

scholarly article by Peter Olson & David Bercovici published September 1991 in Geophysical Research Letters

On the penetration of the 660 km phase change by mantle downflows

scholarly article

On the purpose of toroidal motion in a convecting mantle

scholarly article

On the thermal and magnetic histories of Earth and Venus: Influences of melting, radioactivity, and conductivity

Oscillating and stagnating plumes in the Earth's lower mantle

Pacific Plate motion and undulations in geoid and bathymetry

Pattern formation on the interface of a two-layer fluid: bi-viscous lower layer

article published in 2001

Phase transitions and convection in Icy satellites

scholarly article

Plate generation and two-phase damage theory in a model of mantle convection

Plate tectonics, damage and inheritance

scientific article published in Nature

Reactive infiltration of hydrous melt above the mantle transition zone

scientific article published in 2010

Rock deformation models and fluid leak-off in hydraulic fracturing

Scaling laws for convection with temperature-dependent viscosity and grain-damage

Seismic tremors and magma wagging during explosive volcanism

scientific article

Simultaneous melting and compaction in deformable two-phase media

article published in 2007

Slab dehydration in the Earth's mantle transition zone

Slab rollback instability and supercontinent dispersal

scholarly article

Tectonic plate generation and two-phase damage: Void growth versus grain size reduction

scholarly article

The Relation between mantle dynamics and plate tectonics: A Primer

article

The Transition-Zone Water Filter Model for Global Material Circulation: Where Do We Stand?

article by Shun-Ichiro Karato et al published 19 March 2013 in Geophysical Monograph

The clustering of rising diapirs and plume heads

scholarly article

The conditions for plate tectonics on super-Earths: Inferences from convection models with damage

article

The generation of plate tectonics from mantle convection

scholarly article

The influence of the transition zone water filter on convective circulation in the mantle

scholarly article

The non-linear initiation of diapirs and plume heads

The possible reflection of mantle discontinuities in Pacific geoid and bathymetry

article

Thermal evolution of planetesimals during accretion

scientific article

Three-Dimensional Spherical Models of Convection in the Earth's Mantle.

scientific article published in May 1989

Three-dimensional convection of an infinite-Prandtl-number compressible fluid in a basally heated spherical shell

Three-dimensional thermal convection in a spherical shell

Two-dimensional convection with a self-lubricating, simple-damage rheology

article by Christian Auth et al published September 2003 in Geophysical Journal International

Two-dimensional magmons with damage and the transition to magma-fracturing

Two-phase damage models of magma-fracturing

Two-phase damage theory and crustal rock failure: the theoretical ‘void’ limit, and the prediction of experimental data

Two-phase dynamics of volcanic eruptions: Particle size distribution and the conditions for choking

scholarly article

Two-phase dynamics of volcanic eruptions: compaction, compression and the conditions for choking

Two-phase viscoelastic damage theory, with applications to subsurface fluid injection

Variations in planetary convection via the effect of climate on damage

Volcanic tremors and magma wagging: gas flux interactions and forcing mechanism

Water-induced convection in the Earth's mantle transition zone

scholarly article

Wave dynamics in mantle plume heads and hotspot swells

article

Whole-mantle convection and the transition-zone water filter

scientific article