ROMA TRE
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI
DIPARTIMENTO SCIENZE
EARTH SCIENCES PhD at ROMATRE
Prof. Alessandro Forte
Univ. Florida (USA)
Day #1
Introduction and overview
Why the deep mantle is important
Tomography-based mantle flow modelling
Spectral models of the viscous flow in the mantle
Resolution of fluid mechanical equations using spherical harmonics
Green Functions – response of the mantle to a spatial impulse
Boundary conditioons: tectonic plates
Geodynamic kernels (functions) for convection-related data
Day #2
Joint seismic and geodynamic in versions
Global seismic data
Global geodynamic data
Joint inversions for perturbations of ρ, seismic shear and compressional speeds
Constraints on global energy balance in the mantle
Quantifying thermal anomalies through the mantle
Convective heat transport
Implications for heat flow across the core-mantle discontinuity
Day #3
Present-day convective flow patterns under continental plates
North American and African plates
Dynamic topography
What is it?
Finding DT in present-day continental elevations and oceanic bathymetry
Present-day DT induced by mantle convective flow
Modelling time-dependent topography in the geological past
Where
Università Roma TRE
Dipartimento di Scienze Sezione di Geologia Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1
00146 Roma
When
May 24-26, 2017
10-12:00 and 14.00-16.00
Aula D (blocco aule)
Registration
Send an email to Francesca Funiciello (francesca.funiciello @uniroma3.it)
before May 18th (max number of partecipants: 50)