Professor Dr. Christine Thomas

Professor Dr. Christine Thomas

Corrensstr. 24, Raum 310
48149 Münster

T: +49 251 83 33591

Forschungsschwerpunkt
  • Globale Seismologie, Array Seismology, Prozesse und Strukturen im Erdinneren, unterster Erdmantel und D" Region, Anisotropieuntersuchungen in Mantel und Kern, Minderung von Windturbinen Rauschen; Wellenfeldvorhersage für Gravitationswellendetektion
Vita

Akademische Ausbildung

Promotion (Univ. Göttingen)
Studium (Univ. Marburg (Vordiplom), Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Diplom))

Beruflicher Werdegang

adjunct Professor, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, DK
Professor
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Univ. Liverpool)
Postdoc (Univ. Leeds)
Gastwissenschaftler Univ. Cambridge und British Antarctic Survey, UK
Projekte
Publikationen
  • , und . . „On the Importance of Using Directional Information in the Search for Lower Mantle Reflectors.“ The Seismic Record 3 (2): 96–104. doi: 10.1785/0320220038.
  • , , und . „Geodynamic predictions of seismic structure and discontinuity topography of the mantle transition zone.“ Geophysical Journal International 234 (1): 355–378. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggac478.
  • , , , und . „Studying inner core and lower mantle structure with a combination of PKP and converted SKP and PKS waves.“ Geophysical Journal International 235 (3): 2078–2093. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggad357.
  • , , , , und . „The seismic attenuation signature of collisional orogens and sedimentary basins within the Carpathian Orogen.“ Global and Planetary Change 223. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104093.
  • , und . „Mapping the edge of subducted slabs in the lower mantle beneath India.“ Geophysical Journal International 2022.
  • , und . „Generation of reflections and PKP precursors from a scattering layer in D".“ Geophysical Research Letters 2022.
  • , , und . „Detection and modelling of strong topography of mid-mantle structures beneath the North Atlantic.“ Geophysical Journal International 2022.
  • , , und . . „Reduction of wind-turbine-generated seismic noise with structural measures.“ Wind Energy Science 2022/7: 1227–1239. doi: 10.5194/wes-7-1227-2022.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , und . . „Textures induced by the coesite-stishovite transition and implications for the visibility of the X-discontinuity.“ Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23 (10): e2022GC010544. doi: 10.1029/2022GC010544.
  • , , , , und . „Kinetic effects on the 660-km-phase transition in mantle upstreams and seismological implications.“ Geophysical Journal International 231 (2): 877–893. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggac196.
  • , , , , , , , , und . „UNIBRA/DSEBRA: The German Seismological Broadband Array and Its Contribution to AlpArray—Deployment and Performance.“ Seismological Research Letters 93 (4): 2077–2095. doi: 10.1785/0220210287.
  • , , , , , , und . . „Modeling of seismic anisotropy observations reveals plausible lowermost mantle flow directions beneath Siberia.“ Geochemistry, Geohysics, Geosystems 2021.
  • , , , , und . „Sensor Validation and Diagnostic Potential of Smartwatches in Movement Disorders.“ Sensors 2021. doi: 10.3390/s21093139.
  • , und . Seismic and mineral physics constraints on the D" layer
  • , und . „Small-scale scattering heterogeneities in the lowermost mantle from a global analysis of PKP precursors.“ Journal of Geophysical Research 125.
  • , , , , und . . „Dehydration Melting Below the Undersaturated Transition Zone.“ Gcubed 21.
  • , , , und . „Mapping Lithological Boundaries in Mines with Array Seismology and In-situ AE monitoring.“ Geophysical Journal International 220: 59–70.
  • , , , , und . „Location and Characteristics of the X-Discontinuity beneath SW Morocco and the adjacent shelf area using P-wave Receiver Functions.“ Geophysical Journal International 2020. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaa379.
  • , , , und . „The signal of outermost-core stratification in body-wave and normal-mode data.“ Geophysical Journal International 223.
  • , , , und . . „Location and characteristics of the X-discontinuity beneath SW Morocco and the adjacent shelf area using P-wave receiver functions.“ Geophysical Journal International 223 (3). doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaa379.
  • , , und . „New constraints on D’ beneath the North Atlantic region from P and S travel times and amplitudes.“ Geophysical Journal International 216: 1132–1144.
  • , , und . „Localized ultra-low velocity zones at the eastern boundary of Pacific LLSVP.“ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 507: 40–49.
  • , , , , und . „Investigating the cause for polarity reversals of PP precursors beneath the Atlantic.“ Physics of teh Earth and Planetary Interior 286: 1132–1144.
  • , , , , und . . „Constraining lowermost mantle anisotropy with body waves: A synthetic modeling study.“ Geophysical Journal International 2017: 766–783..
  • , , und . „Constraining D" anisotropy with reflections and splitting.“ Journal of Geophysical Research 2019.
  • , , , , und . „An investigation of seismic anisotropy in the lowermost mantle beneath Iceland.“ Geophysical Journal International 219: S152–S166..
  • , , , , und . . „Investigating the seismic structure and visibility of dynamic plume models with seismic array methods.“ Geophysical Journal International 2019: S167-S194.
  • , , , , , , und . „Kinetics and detectability of the bridgmanite to post-perovskite transformation in the Earth's D" layer.“ Nature Communications 10. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13482-x.
  • , , und . „SeisTomoPy: Fast visualization, comparison and calculations in global tomographic models.“ Seismological Reasearch Letters 300. doi: 10.1785/0220170142.
  • , , und . . „Effect of observed micropolar motions on wave propagation in deep Earth minerals.“ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 276: 215–225. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2017.04.006.
  • , , , und . „Detecting seismic anisotropy above the 410 km discontinuity using reflection coefficients of underside reflections.“ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 274 (null): 170–183. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2017.12.001.
  • , , und . . „Out-of-Plane Seismic Reflections Beneath the Pacific and Their Geophysical Implications.“ Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123 (3): 2286–2302. doi: 10.1002/2017JB014728.
  • , , , , , , und . . „The AlpArray Seismic Network - a large-scale European experiment to image the Alpine orogeny.“ Surveys in Geophysics 39: 1–25.
  • , , , , und . . „Resolution Improvement and Reconstruction of Global Seismic Data using fk-Methods.“ Geophysical Journal International 212: 1288–1301.
  • , , , , und . „Constraints on the structure of the crust and lithosphere beneath the Azores Islands from teleseismic receiver functions.“ Geophysical Journal International 213: 824–835.
  • , und . „Out-of-Plane Seismic Reflections Beneath the Pacific and Their Geophysical Implications.“ Journal of Geophysical Research 123: 2286–2302.
  • , , und . „The asymmetric seismic moment tensor in micropolar media.“ Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 108: 1160–1170.
  • , , , , und . „Irregular Transition Layer Beneath the Earth's Inner Core Boundary from Observations of Antipodal PKIKP and PKIIKP Waves.“ Gcubed 19. doi: 10.1029/2018GC007562.
  • , , und . . „Using SP precursor waves to detect upper mantle discontinuities.“ Geophys. Journal International 215: 1914-1929.
  • , , , , und . „Seismic scattering and absorption mapping from intermediate-depth earthquakes reveals complex tectonic interactions acting in the Vrancea region and surroundings (Romania).“ Tectonophysics null (null): 129–142. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.04.013.
  • , , , , , , , , , und . „Emergence and evolution of Santa Maria Island (azores)- The conundrum of uplifted islands revisited.“ Geological Society of America Bulletin 129 (null): 372–391. doi: 10.1130/B31538.1.
  • , , , und . „A hot midmantle anomaly in the area of the Indian Ocean Geoid Low.“ Geophysical Research Letters 44 (13): 6702–6711. doi: 10.1002/2017GL073440.
  • , , , , und . „Compositional layering within the large low shear-wave velocity provinces in the lower mantle.“ Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 17 (12): 5056–5077. doi: 10.1002/2016GC006605.
  • , , , , und . „Seismic scattering and absorption mapping of debris flows, feeding paths, and tectonic units at Mount St. Helens volcano.“ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 442 (null): 21–31. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.026.
  • , , und . „On the frequency dependence and spatial coherence of PKP precursor amplitudes.“ Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 121 (3): 1873–1889. doi: 10.1002/2015JB012768.
  • , , , und . „Investigation of core-mantle boundary topography and lowermost mantle with P4KP waves.“ Geophysical Journal International 204 (2): 1060–1071. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv496.
  • , und . „Detecting lower-mantle slabs beneath Asia and the Aleutians.“ Geophysical Journal International 205 (3): 1512–1524. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw098.
  • , und . . „Detecting Lower-Mantle Slabs beneath Asia and the Aleutians.“ Geophysical Journal International 205 (3): 1512–1524. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw098.
  • , und . . „D" observations in the Pacific from PLUME Ocean Bottom Seismometer recordings.“ Geophysical Journal International 200: 851–862. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu441.
  • , , , , und . „On the difficulties of detecting PP precursors.“ Geophysical Journal International 201 (3): 1666–1681. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv105.
  • , , , und . „Topography of upper mantle seismic discontinuities beneath the North Atlantic: The Azores, Canary and Cape Verde plumes.“ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 409 (null): 193–202. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.10.052.
  • , , und . „Seismic detection of post-perovskite inside the earth.“ In The Earth's Heterogeneous Mantle: A Geophysical, Geodynamical, and Geochemical Perspective, Bd. null , herausgegeben von Springer. Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15627-9_13.
  • , , , und . „Probing the core-mantle boundary beneath Europe and Western Eurasia: A detailed study using PcP.“ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 246 (null): 9–24. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2015.06.007.
  • , , und . „PKP precursors: Implications for global scatterers.“ Geophysical Research Letters 42 (10): 3829–3838. doi: 10.1002/2015GL063869.
  • , , , und . „Imaging the D″ reflector with noise correlations.“ Geophysical Research Letters 42 (1): 60–65. doi: 10.1002/2014GL062198.
  • , , , und . „Imaging Canary Island hotspot material beneath the lithosphere of Morocco and southern Spain.“ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 431 (null): 186–194. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.026.
  • , , und . „Multi-scale reasonable attenuation tomography analysis (MuRAT): An imaging algorithm designed for volcanic regions.“ Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 277: 35. doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.03.009.
  • , , , , und . „Mantle transition zone structure beneath India and Western China from migration of PP and SS precursors.“ Geophysical Journal International 197 (1): 413. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt511.
  • , , , , und . . „Attenuation and scattering tomography of the deep plumbing system of Mount St. Helens.“ Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 119: 8223–8238. doi: 10.1002/2014JB011372.
  • , , , , und . „Multiple-frequency tomography of the upper mantle beneath the African/Iberian collision zone.“ Geophysical Journal International 198 (3): 1473. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu214.
  • , , , , und . „Crustal and upper-mantle structure beneath the western Atlas Mountains in SW Morocco derived from receiver functions.“ Geophysical Journal International 198 (3): 1485. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu216.
  • , , und . . „Influence of station topography and Moho depth on the mislocation vectors for the Kyrgyz Broadband Seismic Network (KNET).“ Geophysical Journal International 193 (2): 949–959. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt014.
  • , und . „The origin of D" reflections: A systematic study of seismic array data sets.“ Geophysical Journal International 194 (2): 1091–1118. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt152.
  • , , , , und . „Seismic energy envelopes in volcanic media: In need of boundary conditions.“ Geophysical Journal International 195 (2): 1102–1119. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt273.
  • , , , und . . „Scattered P′ P′ waves observed at short distances.“ Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 101 (6): 2843–2854. doi: 10.1785/0120110157.
  • , und . . „Subducted lithosphere beneath the Kuriles from migration of PP precursors.“ Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.002.
  • , , , und . . „Anisotropy as cause for polarity reversals of D′ reflections.“ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 307 (3-4): 369–376. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.011.
  • , und . . „High resolution CMB imaging from migration of short-period core reflected phases.“ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 183 (1-2): 143–150. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.04.005.
  • , , und . . „Is the spin transition in Fe2+-bearing perovskite visible in seismology?“ Geophysical Research Letters 37.
  • , , und . . „P- and S-wave reflectors in D ' beneath southeast Asia.“ Geophysical Journal International 179 (2): 1080–1092. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04328.x.
  • , und . . „Improving Seismic Resolution Through Array Processing Techniques.“ Surveys in Geophysics 30 (4-5): 271–299. doi: 10.1007/s10712-009-9070-6.
  • , , und . . „Probing two low-velocity regions with PKP b-caustic amplitudes and scattering.“ Geophysical Journal International 178 (1): 503–512. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04189.x.
  • , und . . „Mantle transition zone structure along a profile in the SW Pacific: thermal and compositional variations.“ Geophysical Journal International 176 (1): 113–125. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03934.x.
  • , , , , , und . . „Seismic evidence for a sharp lithospheric base persisting to the lowermost mantle beneath the Caribbean.“ Geophysical Journal International 174 (3): 1019–1028. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03880.x.
  • . „Array Signal Processing.“ In Handbook of Signal Processing, herausgegeben von Havelock, D., Kuwano, Vorländer S. und M.. Springer VDI Verlag.
  • , , und . . „Slowness-backazimuth weighted migration: A new array approach to a high-resolution image.“ Geophysical Journal International 169 (3): 1201–1209. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03379.x.
  • , , , und . . „New insights into the P- and S-wave velocity structure of the D '' discontinuity beneath the Cocos plate.“ Geophysical Journal International 169 (2): 631–645. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03350.x.
  • , , und . . „D '' anisotropy beneath Southeast Asia.“ Geophysical Research Letters 34 (4).
  • , und . . „Investigating D '' structure beneath the North Atlantic.“ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 151 (1-2): 115–127.
  • , , und . . „A doubling of the post-perovskite phase boundary and structure of the Earth's lowermost mantle.“ Nature 434 (7035): 882–886. doi: 10.1038/nature03472.
  • , , und . . „Lower-mantle seismic discontinuities and the thermal morphology of subducted slabs.“ Earth and Planetary Science Letters 225 (1-2): 105–113. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.038.
  • , , und . . „High-resolution imaging of lowermost mantle structure under the Cocos plate.“ Journal of Geophysical Research 109 (B8).
  • , , und . . „Motion of the Scotia Sea plates.“ Geophysical Journal International 155 (3): 789–804. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2003.02069.x.
  • , und . . „Array seismology: Methods and applications.“ Reviews of Geophysics 40 (3).
  • , , und . . „Investigating the heterogeneity of the D '' region beneath the northern Pacific using a seismic array.“ Journal of Geophysical Research 107 (B11).
  • , , und . . „The lowermost mantle beneath northern Asia - I. Multi-azimuth studies of a D '' heterogeneity.“ Geophysical Journal International 151 (1): 279–295. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2002.01759.x.
  • , und . . „The lowermost mantle beneath northern Asia - II. Evidence for lower-mantle anisotropy.“ Geophysical Journal International 151 (1): 296–308. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2002.01760.x.
  • , , , und . . „Acoustic simulation of P-wave propagation in a heterogeneous spherical earth: numerical method and application to precursor waves to PKPdf.“ Geophysical Journal International 141 (2): 307–320. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00079.x.
  • , , , und . . „Small scatterers in the lower mantle observed at German broadband arrays.“ Journal of Geophysical Research 104 (B7): 15073–15088. doi: 10.1029/1999JB900128.
  • , und . . „P velocity heterogeneities in the lower mantle determined with the German Regional Seismic Network: Improvement of previous models and results of 2D modelling.“ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 101 (1-2): 105–117. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03245-1.
  • , , , und . . „The structure of the lowermost mantle as determined from using seismic arrays.“ In Seismic Modelling of the Earth's structure, herausgegeben von E. Boschi, G. Ekström und A Morelli. Roma: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.