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Research project

Volatile recycling at the Lesser Antilles arc

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Catherine Rychert

Associate Professor
Connect with Catherine

Email: C.Rychert@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Nicholas Harmon

Associate Professor
Connect with Nicholas

Email: N.Harmon@soton.ac.uk

Professor Tim Henstock

Professor of Geophysics
Research interests
  • Applying Physics to understand processes within the Earth system
  • Imaging Earth structure on scales of 0.1m to 1000km
  • Active tectonic processes
Connect with Tim

Email: T.J.Henstock@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Estimating excess bound water content due to serpentinisation in mature slow-spreading oceanic crust using Vp/Vs
Lianjun Li, Jenny Collier, Tim Henstock & Saskia Goes, 2025, Nature Communications, 16(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62052-x
Type: article
Downward continued ocean bottom seismometer data show continued hydrothermal evolution of mature oceanic upper crust
Lianjun Li, Jenny S. Collier, Tim Henstock & Saskia Goes, 2024, Geology, 52(9), 717-722
DOI: 10.1130/G52329.1
Type: article
Slab to back-arc to arc: fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles
Stephen Hicks, Lidong Bie, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon, Saskia Goes, Andreas Rietbrock, Songqiao Wei, J.S. Collier, Timothy Henstock, Lloyd Lynch, Julie Prytulak, C.J. McPherson, David Schlaphorst, Jamie J. Wilkinson, J.D. Blundy, George F. Cooper, R.G. Davy & J.M. Kendall, 2023, Science Advances, 9(5)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add2143
Type: article
Bayesian regional moment tensor from ocean bottom seismograms recorded in the Lesser Antilles: implications for regional stress field
Mike Lindner, Andreas Rietbrock, Lidong Bie, Saskia Goes, Jenny Collier, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon, Stephen P. Hicks & Tim Henstock, 2023, Geophysical Journal International, 233(2), 1036-1054
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac494
Type: article
Variations in melt emplacement beneath the northern East African Rift from radial anisotropy
Emma L. Chambers, Nicholas Harmon, Catherine Rychert & Derek Keir, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 573
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117150
Type: article
Seismic discontinuities across the North American Caribbean plate boundary from S-to-P receiver functions
Daniel Possee, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon & Derek Keir, 2021, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(7)
DOI: 10.1029/2021GC009723
Type: article
Widespread hydration of the back arc and the link to variable hydration of the incoming plate in the lesser antilles from rayleigh wave imaging
Nicholas Harmon, Catherine A. Rychert, Saskia Goes, Benjamin Maunder, Jenny Collier, Timothy Henstock, Lloyd Lynch, Andreas Rietbrock & the VoiLA Working Group, 2021, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(7)
DOI: 10.1029/2021GC009707
Type: article