Einat Lev

PhD Thesis
Thesis committee:
Brad Hager (MIT, thesis advisor)
Rob van der Hilst (MIT, committee chair)
Lindy Elkins-Tanton (MIT)
Stephane Rondenay (MIT)
Greg Hirth (Brown University)

Chapters:

Cover material - cover pages, abstract, acknowledgements, table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Seismic Anisotropy in Eastern Tibet from Shear-Wave Splitting

3. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities with anisotropic lithospheric viscosity

4. Anisotropic viscosity changes the thermal structure of the mantle wedge at subduction zones

5. Influence of grain size and anisotropic viscosity on the development of an anisotropic layer in the upper mantle

6. Prediction of anisotropy from flow models – a comparison of three methods

Bibliography

Full thesis