Publications
13. Thorne, M.S., Meyers, S.C., Harris, D.B., Rodgers, A.J., Finite difference simulation of seismic scattering in random media generated with the Karhunen-Loève Transform, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, in prep.
12. Ford, S.R., Garnero, E.J., Thorne, M.S., Rost, S., and Fouch, M.J., Lower mantle shear attenuation heterogeneity beneath western Central America from ScS-S differential t* measurements via instantaneous frequency matching, Geophysical Journal International, in prep.
11. Jahnke, G., Thorne, M.S., Cochard, A., Igel, H., Global SH-wave propagation using a parallel axi-symmetric spherical finite-difference scheme: application to whole mantle scattering, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03744.x, 2008. (pdf - 747 kb)
10. Yang, X., Lay, T., Xie, X.-B., Thorne, M.S., Geometric Spreading of Pn and Sn in a Spherical Earth Model, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (97), pp. 2053-2065, doi: 10.1785/0120070031, 2007. (pdf - 700 kb)
9. Garnero, E.J., and Thorne, M.S., Earth's ULVZ: Ultra-Low Velocity Zone, In: Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism (David Gubbins and Emilio Herrero-Bervera, Editors), Kluwer Publishing, The Netherlands, available May 2007. (pdf preprint- 1.2 Mb)
8. Thorne, M.S., Lay, T., Garnero, E.J., Jahnke, G., Igel, H., Seismic imaging of the laterally varying D" region beneath the Cocos Plate, Geophysical Journal International (170), pp. 635-648, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03279.x, 2007. (pdf - 9.8 Mb)
7. Garnero, E.J, Thorne, M.S., McNamara, A., Rost, S., Fine scale ultra-low velocity zone layering at the core-mantle boundary and superplumes, In: D. Yuen et al. (eds.), Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics, Springer, New York, pp. 139-158, 2007. (pdf - 16.3 Mb)
6. Lay, T., Hernlund, J., Garnero, E.J., Thorne, M.S., A lens of post-perovskite and CMB heat flux in an iron-rich pile in D" beneath the Central Pacific, Science (314), 1272-1276, 2006. (pdf - 323 kb) (online supplemental material - 1.6 Mb)
5. Rost, S., Thorne, M.S., Garnero, E.J., Imaging global seismic phase arrivals by stacking array processed short-period data, Seismological Research Letters, 77 (6), 2006. (pdf -5.6 Mb) (supplemental online material)
4. Thorne, M.S., Broadband waveform modeling of deep mantle structure, Ph.D. Dissertation, Arizona State University, 2005. (pdf - 7.5 Mb)
3. Thorne, M.S., and E.J. Garnero, Inferences on ultralow-velocity zone structure from a global analysis of SPdKS waves, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 109, B08301, doi:10.1029/2004JB003010, 2004. (pdf - 4 Mb) (online supplemental materials)
2. Thorne, M.S., Garnero, E.J., and S. Grand, Geographic correlation between hot spots and deep mantle lateral shear-wave velocity gradients, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 146, 47-63, 2004. (pdf -778 kb)
1. Ashbridge, D.A., Thorne, M.S., Rivers, M.L., Muccino, J.C., and O'Day, P.A., Image optimization and analysis of synchrotron X-ray computed microtomography (CμT) data, Computers & Geosciences 29 (7), 823-836, Aug, 2003. (pdf - 700 kb)