Maxim Ballmer

Research interests

Publications

• Plausible Constraints on the Range of Bulk Terrestrial Exoplanet Compositions in the Solar Neighborhood

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2023 · 10.3847/1538-4357/acac7d

• A poorly mixed mantle transition zone and its thermal state inferred from seismic waves

  Nature Geoscience · 2021 · 10.1038/s41561-021-00850-w

• The Thermo‐Chemical Evolution of Mars With a Strongly Stratified Mantle

  Journal of Geophysical Research Planets · 2021 · 10.1029/2020je006613

• Coupled dynamics and evolution of primordial and recycled heterogeneity in Earth's lower mantle

  Solid Earth · 2021 · 10.5194/se-12-2087-2021

• Plutonic‐Squishy Lid: A New Global Tectonic Regime Generated by Intrusive Magmatism on Earth‐Like Planets

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2020 · 10.1029/2019gc008756

• The influence of bulk composition on the long-term interior-atmosphere evolution of terrestrial exoplanets

  Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) · 2020 · 10.1051/0004-6361/202037632/pdf

• Variable dynamic styles of primordial heterogeneity preservation in the Earth's lower mantle

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2020 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116160

• The evolution and distribution of recycled oceanic crust in the Earth's mantle: Insight from geodynamic models

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2020 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116171

• Melt–crystal density crossover in a deep magma ocean

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2019 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.031

• Global observations of reflectors in the mid-mantle with implications for mantle structure and dynamics

  Nature Communications · 2018 · 10.1038/s41467-017-02709-4

• Reconciling magma-ocean crystallization models with the present-day structure of the Earth's mantle

  UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2017

• Modeling Craton Destruction by Hydration‐Induced Weakening of the Upper Mantle

  Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · 2017 · 10.1002/2017jb014157

• Persistence of strong silica-enriched domains in the Earth’s lower mantle

  Nature Geoscience · 2017 · 10.1038/ngeo2898

• Compositional layering within the large low shear‐wave velocity provinces in the lower mantle

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2016 · 10.1002/2016gc006605

• Intraplate volcanism at the edges of the C olorado P lateau sustained by a combination of triggered edge‐driven convection and shear‐driven upwelling

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2015 · 10.1002/2014gc005641

• Intraplate volcanism due to convective instability of stagnant slabs in the mantle transition zone

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2015 · 10.1002/2014gc005608

• Compositional mantle layering revealed by slab stagnation at ~1000-km depth

  Science Advances · 2015 · 10.1126/sciadv.1500815

• Non-hotspot volcano chains produced by migration of shear-driven upwelling toward the East Pacific Rise

  Geology · 2013 · 10.1130/g33804.1

• Ponded melt at the boundary between the lithosphere and asthenosphere

  Nature Geoscience · 2013 · 10.1038/ngeo1982

• Double layering of a thermochemical plume in the upper mantle beneath Hawaii

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2013 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.06.022

• Spatial and temporal variability in Hawaiian hotspot volcanism induced by small-scale convection

  Nature Geoscience · 2011 · 10.1038/ngeo1187

• Small-scale sublithospheric convection reconciles geochemistry and geochronology of ‘Superplume’ volcanism in the western and south Pacific

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2010 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.025

• Intraplate volcanism with complex age‐distance patterns: A case for small‐scale sublithospheric convection

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2009 · 10.1029/2009gc002386

• Geochemical variation at the Hawaiian hot spot caused by upper mantle dynamics and melting of a heterogeneous plume

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2008 · 10.1029/2008gc002111

• Non‐hotspot volcano chains originating from small‐scale sublithospheric convection

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2007 · 10.1029/2007gl031636

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