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LIST OF
PUBLICATIONS
A possible mechanism for active
tectonics in the massive super-Earths, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
24,
e2022GC010678. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022GC010678
transition of postperovskite at ∼0.9 TPa in massive rocky super-Earths, Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems,
22,
e2021GC009910. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009910
Estimations From Mean Field Deep
Learning,
Earth and Space Science, 7, e2019EA000881.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000881
of MgSiO3 Postperovskite
Dissociation Transition and Implications for Super‐Earth GJ 876 d, Journal of Geophysical
Research:
Planets, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JE005633.
Journal of
Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, DOI: 10.1002/2017JB014846.
implications for mid-mantle
partial layering, Geophys. J. Int.,
210, 765–773, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggx198.
mantle:
Implications for mid-mantle slab stagnation, EPSL,
458, 293-304, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.10.052.
transitions in the mantle,
Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems, 17,
10.1002/2016GC006509.
on convective mixing—is the
evidence for compositional convection definitive? New results from a Yin-Yang
overset grid-based
control volume model, Journal of
Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 10.1002/2015JB012064.
Asthenosphere: Implications for Short-Range Surface
Topography and Heat Flow, ICARUS, 225,
15-27.
Potential Impacts upon Mantle Mixing, Journal of
Geophysical Research, Vol. 116, B08205, doi:10.1029/2010JB007965.
Potential Impacts upon Mantle Mixing, Research
Highlights, Nature Geoscience, Vol. 4.
transition on mantle dynamics under isochemical conditions,
Journal
of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, B11408,
doi:10.1029/2009JB007199,
2010.
and Internal Sources:
Implications for the Thermal State of Planetary Mantle,
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
168, 6–15.
Planetary Scales, Canadian Society for Exploration
Geophysics, Vol. 32, No. 5, 25-30.
on upper mantle flow and implications for seismic
anisotropy in the regions surrounding subducted slabs, Geochem. Geophys.
Geosyst., Vol. 8, No. 8, doi:10.1029/2007GC001627.
in
Controlling the Sinking Rates of Detached Slab Remnants, GRL Vol. 34, L11302,
doi:10.1029/2007GL029463.
JGR Planets Vol. 112, E02009,
doi:10.1029/2005JE002424.
GRL, Vol 31 L18611.
Geophys.
J. Int. 154, 278-288.
MANUSCRIPTS IN
PROGRESS
·
Chen Yang (Bobby), Shahnas, M.H., Cecilia Cordero-Oviedo, R. N. Pysklywec & Sarah A.
Finkelstein, Identifying Wetland
Type from Pollen Assemblages by Supervised Classification
of Biomes Using a Collection of Published Modern Pollen
·
Alilie Owens, Shahnas, M.H.
& R.N. Pysklywec, The Application of
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) in Electrical
Resistivity Inversion.
·
Santimano, Taska, Shahnas, M.H.
, Fannie Yiu & R.N. Pysklywec, Fault Detection in Analogue
Accretionary Wedges: Results
from Deep Convolutional Models
·
Shahnas, M.H. & R.N. Pysklywec, Thermal State of a Planetary Mantle -
Estimations from Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)
·
Shahnas, M.H. & R.N. Pysklywec, Towards Earthquake Forecasting – Estimations from
Mean Field Recurrent Neural Networks.
·
Shahnas, M.H. & R.N. Pysklywec, P-wave Arrival Time and Phase
Determination - Estimations from Convolutional Neural
Networks.
·
Shahnas, M.H. & R.N. Pysklywec, The impacts of the crustal strength
variations on the dynamics of the Tibetan plateau.
CONFRENCE
CONTRIBUTIONS
· Shahnas, M. H., & R..N.
Pysklywec, Plate Tectonics in the Massive Rocky Super-Earth Planets: A
Consequence of
Dissociation Transition of Post-Perovskite at ~0.9, (AGU Fall , 2022).
· Shahnas, M. H., & R..N.
Pysklywec, Focused Penetrative Super-Plumes in the mantle of Super-Earths,
(CGU, June
22, 2021).
· Shahnas, M. H., & R..N.
Pysklywec, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Predictor Models in Estimation of
the Thermal State
of a Planetary Mantle, AGU Fall, 2020; P004-0011).
· Shahnas, M. H., R.N.
Pysklywec & D.A. Yuen, Thermal Evolution of the Planetary Interior –
Impacts from Big Data, (AGU Fall, 2019;
P53A-05,
Invited).
· Shahnas, M. H., R.N.
Pysklywec & D.A. Yuen, Estimations for the Thermal State of the Planetary
Mantle from Mean Field Deep
Learning, (AGU Fall,
2019, DI33C-0045).
· Pysklywec, R.N. & Shahnas, M.H., Earthquake Forecasting from Mean Field Recurrent Neural
Networks, (AGU Fall, 2019, S52A-03).
· Tasca Santimano, Shahnas, M.H., R.N. Pysklywec & D.A. Yuen, Spin Transition at
Mid-mantle and Spawning Superplumes, (AGU Fall,
2019, DI33C-0056).
· Shahnas, M. H., Machine
Learning and Deep Learning in Geodynamics and Earth Sciences, ((Applications
of Big Data and
High-Performance
Computing in Earth Sciences - AGU Fall, 2019, SCIWS3 - Workshop).
· Janbakhsh, Payman Russell Pysklywec, & Shahnas, M.H., Earthquake Magnitude, Distance, First Motion Polarity, and
Noise/Event
Determination Using AE, CNN1D, RNN Networks, (AGU Fall,
2019, S43E-0696).
· Janbakhsh, Payman Russell Pysklywec, & Shahnas, M. H., Final magnitude and source-distance estimation using Autoencoders
and
Recurrent Neural
Networks, (Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 21, EGU2019-4486-2, 2019 EGU
General Assembly 2019).
· Shahnas, M. H., R.N. Pysklywec & D.A. Yuen &, Elaborating Inverse
Problems in Geodynamics using Machine Learning Algorithms,
(CGU, 2018).
· Chen, Bo, Russell N. Pysklywec.,
Shahnas,
M.H. Ebru S. Uluocak, Jianxin Liu, Dynamics of
lithospheric extension and anomalous
topography
in southern Tibet: A case for mantle flow driving crustal tectonics (CGU, 2018).
· Shahnas, M. H., D.A. Yuen & R.N. Pysklywec, Machine Learning and
Applications in Geodynamics and Inverse Problems,
(Big Data Workshop, Wuhan, China, December
2017).
· Shahnas, M.H., D.A. Yuen and R.N. Pysklywec,
Machine Learning and Inverse Problem in Geodynamics, (242503, AGU
Fall
meeting, 2017).
· Pysklywec, R.N., Shahnas, M.H. and
D.A. Yuen and, Deep Mantle Layering by post-Perovskite Dissociation at ~0.9 TPa
in GJ876d
Super Earth,
(240941,
AGU Fall meeting, 2017).
· E.Sengul Uluocak, Shahnas, M.H., R.N. Pysklywec, O. Gogus and
Tuna Eken, Multidimensional Mantle Convection Models in Eastern
Anatolia, the North Arabian Platform, and Caucasus
Region (257366,
AGU Fall meeting, 2017).
· Chen, B., Shahnas, M.H., and R.N. Pysklywec, Dynamics of Lithospheric
Extension and Residual Topography in Southern Tibet,
(248237, AGU Fall meeting, 2017).
· Shahnas, M.H., R.N. Pysklywec and D.A. Yuen,
The Impact of the Iron Spin transition on Seismic Signatures in Bullen's
C-Layer,
(JpGU May, 2017).
· Shahnas, M.H., D.A. Yuen, R.N. Pysklywec and
Maarten. V. De Hoop, Spin Transition in the Lower Mantle: Deep Learning and
Pattern Recognition of Superplumes from the
Mid-mantle and Mid-mantle Slab Stagnation, (GP12A-02, AGU Fall meeting, 2016).
Shahnas, M.H., R.N. Pysklywec and D.A. Yuen,
Spin Transition in the Lower Mantle Minerals: A Single Solution for Two
Enigmatic
Problems-Superplumes and Mid-mantle Slab
Stagnation, (DI41B-2628,
AGU Fall meeting, 2016).
· Shahnas, M.H., D.A. Yuen, R.N. Pysklywec and W.R. Peltier, The impacts of
mantle phase transitions and the iron spin crossover in
ferropericlase on convective mixing-is the evidence
for compositional convection definitive?: New results from a Yin-Yang overset
grid-based
control volume model, Central Asian Tectonics and Western Pacific Geodynamics
International Conference, (Wuhan, June, 2015).
· Shahnas, M. H. and William R. Peltier, The Impact of Superplasticity on
Mantle Layering and Plate Velocities,
(AGU Fall, 2012).
· Cai Durbin, M. H. Shahnas, and William R. Peltier, The Time Dependence of Dynamic
Topography: Mantle Dynamic Contributions
to Local
and Global Sea-Level Histories, (AGU Fall, 2012).
· Cai Durbin, M. H. Shahnas, William R. Peltier, and John H. Woodhouse, Mantle
Convection Models Constrained by
Seismic
Tomography, EGU2011-8312
(2011).
· Shahnas, M.H. and W.R. Peltier, Z. Wu, and R.Wentzcovitch, The High Pressure Electronic
Spin Transition in Iron: Impacts
upon
Mantle Mixing (AGU, Fall 2010).
· Shahnas, M.H. and W.R. Peltier, The Impact of Superplasticity and the Iron Spin Transition on Mantle
Dynamics (GRC, June 2009).
· Shahnas, M.H. and W.R. Peltier, The Influence of the Perovskite-post Perovskite Phase Transition and the
Spin Transition in Iron on
Layered
Mantle Convection (AGU,
Fall 2008).
· W.R. Peltier and M.H. Shahnas, Layered Convection in Earth's Mantle: Results from New
Control Volume Based Analyses (AGU, Fall 2007).
· Jarvis, Gary, Julian P.
Lowman, and M.H. Shahnas, Numerical Models of the Fate of Detached Slabs
(IUGG, XXIV,
July, 2007).
· Shahnas, M.H., J. Lowman, and H.P. Bunge, The Effect of Mechanical
Boundary Conditions on the Secular Cooling of Planetary Mantles
(AGU Fall 2006).
· Shahnas, M.H. and J. Arkani-Hamed, Demagnetization of the Martian Crust (CGU Spring
2005).
· Pysklywec, R. and M.H.
Shahnas, Anomalous
Topography and Heat Flow in the Western Atlantic Caused by Small-Scale
Convection
at the Passive Plate Margin (AGU Fall 2004).
· Ghods, A, M.H. Shahnas, and J. Arkani-Hamed,
The formation of the lunar and Martian mascons (AGU Fall 2004).
· Shahnas, M.H. and Gary T. Jarvis, Multiphase Modeling in the Fate of
Detached Slabs in the India-Asia Collision (CGU, May 2004).
· Gary T. Jarvis and M.
H. Shahnas ,Thermal Signatures and Deformation of Detached Slabs in the
Asia-India Collision (AGU, Fall 2003).
· Shahnas, M.H. and R. Pysklywec, Dynamic Topography on the Edge Driven
Mantle Convection (AGU Fall 2003).
· Cruden, A.R., R,M, Pysklywec, M. H. Shahnas and L. Thopson, Mantle downwellings and surface topography:
A comparison of simple
laboratory
and numerical model experiments (CGU, May 2003).
· Shahnas, M.H. and Gary T. Jarvis, Unconstrained Mantle Convection in a
Complete Cylindrical Shell (CGU, May 2003).
· Gary T. Jarvis and M. H. Shahnas ,Thermal Signatures of
Detached Slabs in a Cylindrical Model of Mantle Convection (CGU, May
2003).
· Cruden, A.R. , R,M, Pysklywec, M. H. Shahnas and L.
Thopson, Surface topography response due to mantle gravity instabilities:
A
comparison of simple laboratory and numerical model experiments (EGS, April
2003).
·
Shahnas, M.H. and R. Pysklywec,
Time-dependent surface topography in a free surface crust-mantle convection
model, (AGU Fall 2001).
·
G.F. West and M.H. Shahnas, Time Evolution of Low Viscous Heterogeneous Medium, (AGU Fall
2000).