Suzan van der Lee

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Publications on North American upper mantle

Van der Lee, S., The Earth's upper mantle: its structure beneath North America and the 660-km discontinuity beneath northern Europe, Dissertation, Princeton Univ., 186 pp, January 1996.

Van der Lee, S. and G. Nolet, Upper mantle S-velocity structure of North America, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 22815-22838, 1997.

Van der Lee, S., Deep below North America, Science, 294, 1297-1298, 2001.

Li, A., K. Fischer, S. van der Lee, and M. Wysession, Crust and upper mantle discontinuity structure beneath eastern North America, J. Geophys. Res., 107, DOI 10.1029/2002JB001891, 2002.

Van der Lee, S., High-resolution estimates of lithospheric thickness from Missouri to Massachusetts, USA, Earth and Planet. Sc. Lett., 203, 15–23, 2002.

Goes, S. and S. van der Lee, Thermal structure of the North American uppermost mantle inferred from seismic tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 10:1029/2000JB000049, 2002.

Li, A., K. Fischer, S. van der Lee, and M. Wysession, Crust and upper mantle discontinuity structure beneath eastern North America, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 10:1029/2001JB000190, 2002.

Van der Lee, S., High-resolution estimates of lithospheric thickness from Missouri to Massachusetts, USA, Earth and Planet. Sc. Lett., 203, 15–23, 2002.

Van der Lee, S., and A. Frederiksen, Surface Wave tomography applied to the North American upper mantle, in AGU Monograph "Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms", Eds: Levander A., and G. Nolet, 67-80, 2005.

Bedle, H. and S. van der Lee, Seismic velocity structure suggests fossil flat subduction beneath the Illinois Basin, USA, Tectonophysics, 424, 53-68, 2006.

Publications on Subducted Farallon fragments

Van der Lee, S. and G. Nolet, Seismic image of the subducted trailing fragments of the Farallon plate, Nature, 386, 266-269, 1997.

Schmid, C., S. Goes, S. van der Lee and D. Giardini, Fate of the Cenozoic Farallon slab from a comparison of kinematic thermal modeling with tomographic images, 2002.