Research

Mantle convection and planetary interior dynamics.

Selected Publications

- Heron, P.J., and J.P. Lowman, The effects of supercontinent size and thermal insulation on the formation of mantle plumes, Tectonophysics, Vol. 510, 28-38, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.07.002, 2011.

- Lowman, J.P., Mantle convection models featuring plate tectonic behaviour: an overview of methods and progress, Tectonophysics, Vol. 510, 1-16, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.04.015, 2011.

- Stein, C., and J.P. Lowman, Response of mantle heat flux to plate evolution, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 37, L24201, doi:10.1029/2010GL045283, 2010.

- Heron, P.J., and J.P. Lowman, Thermal response of the mantle following the formation of a `super-plate', Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 37, L22302, doi:10.1029/2010GL045136, 2010.

- O'Farrell, K.A., and J.P. Lowman, Emulating the thermal structure of spherical shell convection in plane-layer geometry mantle convection models, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., Vol. 182, 73-84, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2010.06.010, 2010.

- Lowman, J.P., Gait, A.D., Gable, C.W., and H. Kukreja, Plumes anchored by a high viscosity lower mantle in a 3D mantle convection model featuring dynamically evolving plates , Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 35, doi:10.1029/2008GL035342, 2008.

- Gait, A.D., Lowman, J.P., and C.W. Gable, Time-dependence in 3D mantle convection models featuring evolving plates: the effect of lower mantle viscosity , J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 113, B08409, doi:10.1029/2007JB005538, 2008.

- Shahnas, M.H., Lowman, J.P., Jarvis, G.T., and H-.P. Bunge, Convection in a spherical shell heated by an isothermal core and internal sources: implications for the thermal state of planetary mantles, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., Vol. 168, 6-15, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2008.04.007, 2008.

- Gait, A.D., and J.P. Lowman, Effect of lower mantle viscosity on the time-dependence of plate velocities in three-dimensional mantle convection models , Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, L21304, doi:10.1029/2007GL031396, 2007.