Juan C. Afonso

1. Salajeghegh, F., Afonso, J.C., Minakov, A., Ajourlou, P., Gaina, C. (2024), The lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath the North Atlantic and surroundings: results from multi-observable probabilistic inversions (in review).

2. Fomin, I. Afonso, J.C., Gorbatov, A., Salajegheh, F., Dave, R., Darbyshire, F., Hansen, S., Hejrani, B., Haynes, M., Czarnota, K. (2024), Multi-observable Thermochemical Tomography: new advances and applications to the Superior and North Australian cratons (in review). 

3. Ball, P., Banks, G., Montgomery, M., Afonso, J.C., Rogers, T. (2024), Global screening for superhot rock geothermal energy: geodynamic settings, prospective heat endowments and extraction techniques. In: Livescu, S. and Dindoruk, B. (eds.). Geothermal Energy Engineering, Elsevier (in press) 

4. Akinremi, S., et al., (2024) Waveform fitting of receiver functions for enhanced retrieval of crustal structure in the presence of sediments. J. Geophys. Res., 129, doi:10.1029/2023JB02839.

5. Dave, R., Darbyshire, F., Afonso, J.C., Fomin, I. (2024) Thermochemical structure of the Superior craton and environs: Implications for the evolution and preservation of cratonic lithosphere, G-cubed, 25, doi:10.1029/2024GC011454.

6. Manassero, M.C., Ozaydin, S., Afonso, J.C., Shea, J., Thiel, S., Kikby, A., Fomin, I., Czarnota, K. (2024) Lithospheric structure and melting processes in southeast Australia: new constraints from joint probabilistic inversions of 3D magnetotelluric and seismic data. J. Geophys. Res., 129, e2023JB028257. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028257.

7. Burcet, M., Oliveira, B., Afonso, J.C., Zlotnik, S. (2023), A Face-Centred Finite Volume approach for coupled transport phenomena and fluid flow. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 125, 293-312, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2023.08.031.

8. Ball, P. and Afonso, J.C. (2023), Superhot rock for sustainable power generation. Geoscientist magazine. PDF

9. Zhang, A., Guo, Z., Afonso, J.C., Shellnutt, G., Yang, Y. (2024), Mantle plume-lithosphere interactions beneath the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106973. 

10. Zhang, Y., Lü, Q., Shi, D., Yang, Y., Afonso, J.C., Xu, Y., Yan, J., Gong, X., Xu, T. (2023) The crustal and uppermost mantle Vs structure of the Middle and Lower reaches of the Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt: implications for metallogenic processes. J. Geophys. Res., 128, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026817.

11. Haynes, M., Afonso , J.C. (2023). Thermo-chemical inversion of the Australian lithospheric mantle (KY22). Geoscience Australia, Canberra. https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147926 (downloadable model)

12. Haynes, M., Afonso , J.C. (2023). Thermo-chemical inversion of the Australian lithospheric mantle (FR23). Geoscience Australia, Canberra. https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147926 (downloadable model)

13. Sellars, J., Ball, P., Gould, K., Afonso, J.C. (2023) Mapping the 450 oC isotherm: Exploring the potential of deep, superhot, geothermal in Canada. Reservoir, 4, 50,  16-20. PDF

14. Salajeghegh, F., Afonso, J.C. (2023), The upper mantle geoid for lithospheric structure and dynamics. J. Geophys. Res. 128, e2023JB026397. https://doi.org/

15. Tauzin, B., Waszek, L., Ballmer, M., Afonso, J.C., Bodin, T. (2022), Basaltic reservoirs in the Earth's mantle transition zone. PNAS, 119, 48, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209399119. PDF

16. Wu, S., Yang, Y., Xu, X., Afonso, J.C., Zhang, A. (2022), A Fossil Oceanic Lithosphere Preserved in the Middle of a Continent, Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G50656.1.

17. Afonso, J. C., Ben-Mansour, W., O'Reilly, S., Griffin, W., Salajeghegh, F., Foley, S., Begg, G., Selway, K., Macdonald, A., Jenuszczak, N., Fomin, I., Nyblade, A. (2022), Thermochemical structure and evolution of cratonic lithosphere in Central and South Africa, Nature Geoscience, 15, 405–410. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00929-y (also in in https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/2937/).

18. Waszek, L., Tauzin, B., Schmerr, N., Ballmer, M., Afonso, J.C. (2021), A poorly mixed mantle and its thermal state inferred from seismic waves, Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00850-w.

19. Zhang, A., Guo, Z., Afonso, J.C., Handley, H., Dai, H., Yang., Y., Chen, Y. (2021), Lithosphere-asthenosphere interactions beneath Northeast China and the origin of intraplate volcanism, Geology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G49375.1.

20. Oliveira, B., Afonso, J.C., Klöcking, M. (2021) Melting conditions and mantle source composition from probabilistic joint inversion of major and rare earth element concentrations,  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 315, doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.09.008. (also in Eartharxiv)

21. Manassero, M.C., Afonso, J.C., Zyserman, F., Zlotnik, S., Fomin, I. (2021) A Reduced Order Approach for Probabilistic Inversions of 3D Magnetotelluric Data II: Joint inversion of MT and surface wave data, JGR, 126, e2021JB021962. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB021962 (also in Eartharxiv).

22. Fullea J., Negredo, A., Charco, M., Palomeras, I., Villaseñor, A., Afonso, J.C. (2021) The topography of the Iberian Peninsula from integrated geophysical-petrological multi-data inversion, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 314, doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106691.

23. Dai, H., Oliveira, B., Zheng, J., Griffi, W.L., Afonso, J.C., Xiong, Q., O'Reilly, S.Y. (2021) Melting dynamics of Late Cretaceous lamprophyres in central Asia suggest a mechanism to explain many continental intraplate basaltic suite magmatic provinces, J. Geophys. Res. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB021663.

24. Yang, X., Li, Y., Afonso, J.C., Yingjie, Y., Zhang, A. (2021) Thermochemical State of the Upper Mantle beneath South China from Multi-observable Probabilistic Inversion, JGR,126, e2020JB021114. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021114.

25. Oliveira, B. Griffin, L.,Gain, S., Saunders, M., Shaw, J., Toledo, V., Afonso, J.C., O’Reilly, S.Y. (2021) Ti3+ in corundum: Tracer of crystal growth in a highly reduced magma, Scientific Reports, 11, 2439, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79739-4.

26. M.G. Pamato, D. Novella, D.E. Jacob, B. Oliveira, D.G. Pearson, S. Greene, J.C. Afonso, M. Favero, T. Stachel, M. Alvaro, F. Nestola (2021) Protogenetic sulphide inclusions in diamonds can still yield a diamond formation age, Geology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G48651.1.

27. Manassero, M.C., Afonso, J.C., Zyserman, F., Zlotnik, S., Fomin, I. (2020) A Reduced Order Approach for Probabilistic Inversions of 3D Magnetotelluric Data I: General Formulation, GJI, ggaa415, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa415.

28. Kumar, A., Fernandez, M., Jimenez-Munt, I., Torne, M., Verges, J., Afonso, J.C., (2020) LitMod2D_2.0: An
    improved tool for the interpretation of upper mantle anomalies, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2019GC008777. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008777

29. Haynes, M., Fomin, I., Afonso, J.C., Gorbatov, A., Salajegheh, F. (2020) Developing Thermochemical Models of Australia's Lithosphere. Geoscience Australia, http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/134193. 

30. Zhang, A., Guo, Z., Afonso, J.C. , Yang., Y., Yang, B., Xu, Y., (2020) The deep thermochemical structure of the Dabie Orogenic Belt from multi-observable probabilistic inversion. Tectonophysics, 787, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228478.

31. Oliveira, B., Afonso, J.C., Tilhac, R (2020), A disequilibrium reactive transport model for mantle magmatism, J. Petrol., egaa067, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa067.

32. Tilhac, R, Oliveira, B., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Schaefer, B.S., Alard, O., Ceuleneer, G., Afonso, J.C., Grégoire, M. (2020), Reworking of old continental lithosphere: unradiogenic Os and decoupled Hf-Nd isotopes in sub-arc mantle pyroxenites. Lithos, 354–355, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105346.

33. Galabert,, O., Zlotnik, S.  Afonso, J.C., Diez, P., (2020), Fast Stokes flow solvers for geophysical-geodynamic inverse problems and sensitivity analyses based on reduced order modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018314. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018314.

34. Zhang, A., Afonso, J.C., et al. (2019) The deep lithospheric structure of the Junggar terrane, NW China: Implications for its origin and tectonic evolution. J. Geophys. Res. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018302

35. Grose, C.J. and  Afonso, J.C. (2019), Chemical disequilibria, lithospheric thickness and the source of ocean island basalts. J. Petrol. 60, 755–790, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egz012.

36. Grose, C.J. and  Afonso, J.C. (2019), New Constraints on the Thermal Conductivity of the Upper Mantle from Numerical Models of Radiation Transport. Geochem., Geophys.,Geosys., 20, 2378-2394, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008187.

37. Afonso, J.C., Salajeghegh, F., Szwillus, W., Ebbing, J., Gaina, C. (2019), A global reference model of the lithosphere and upper mantle from joint inversion and analysis of multiple data sets, Geophys. J. Int.  ggz094, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz094.

38. Szwillus, W., Afonso, J.C., Ebbing, J., Mooney, W. (2019), Global crustal thickness and velocity structure from geostatistical analysis of seismic data, J. Geophys. Res. 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016593.  

39. Tauzin, B., Kim, S., Afonso, J.C. (2018), Multiple phase changes in the mantle transition zone beneath northeast Asia: constraints from teleseismic reflected and converted body-waves. J. Geophys. Res. ,123 https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015238

40. Qashqai, M., Afonso, J.C., Yang, Y. (2018) Physical state and structure of the crust beneath the Western-Central US from multi-observable probabilistic inversion. Tectonics, 35. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017TC004914.   

41. Jones, A.G.,  Afonso, J.C., Fullea, J., (2017), Geochemical and geophysical constrains on the dynamic topography of the Southern African Plateau., Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 18, 3556–3575, doi:10.1002/2017GC006908. PDF

42. Giuliani, A. et al.,  (2017), Southwestern Africa on the burner: Pleistocene carbonatite volcanism linked to deep mantle upwelling in Angola., Geology, 45, 971-974. PDF

43. Oliveira, B. and  Afonso, J.C., Zlotnik, S., Diez, P. (2017), Numerical Modelling of Multi-Phase Multi-Component Reactive Transport in the Earth`s interior, Geophys. J. Int., 212, 345-388. PDF

44. Afonso, J.C., Moorkamp, M., Fullea, J. (2016), Imaging the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle: where we are at and where we are going. (Chapter) In: Integrated imaging of the Earth, M. Moorkamp, P. Lelievre, N. Linde, and A. Khan (Editors), AGU Geophysical Monograph 218, Wiley. PDF

45. Oliveira, B.,  Afonso, J.C., Zlotnik, S. (2016), A Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element algorithm for multi-phase advection-diffusion-reaction problems with phase change. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering,300, 375-401. PDF

46. Guo, Z., Chen, Y.J., Ning, J., Yang, Y.,  Afonso, J.C., Tang, Y. (2016), Seismic evidence of on-going sublithosphere upper mantle convection for intra-plate volcanism in Northeast China. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. , 433, 31-43. PDF

47. Qashqai, T.M.,  Afonso, J.C., Yang. Y. (2016), The crustal structure of the Arizona Transition Zone and southern Colorado Plateau from multi-observable probabilistic inversion..Geophys.Geochem.Geosys. , 17, doi:10.1002/2016GC006463. PDF

48. Zhang, S., Griffin, W.L., Yang, Y., Luo, Y., Zhu, L.,  Afonso, J.C., Lei, B (2016)., How did the Dabie Orogen Collapse? Insights from 3D magnetotelluric imaging of profile data.Journal of Geophysical Research , 121, 5169-5185, doi:10.1002/2015JB012717. PDF

49. Afonso, J.C., Rawlinson N., Yang, Y., Schutt, D., Jones, A.G., Fullea, J., Griffin, W.L. (2016), 3D multi-observable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle III: Thermochemical Tomography in the Western-Central US.J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB013049 PDF

50. Guo, Z.,  Afonso, J.C., Qashqai, M., Yang, Y., Chen, J. (2016), Thermochemical structure of the North China Craton from multi-observable probabilistic inversion: extent and causes of cratonic lithosphere modification. Gondwana Res. ,37, 252-265. PDF

51. Griffin, W.L.,  Afonso J.C.,, et al., (2016), Mantle recycling: The transition zone metamorphism of Tibetan ophiolitic peridotites and its tectonic implications.J. Petrol , 57, 655-684. PDF

52. Whittaker, J.,  Afonso, J.C., Masterton, S., Muller, D.R., Wessel, P., Williams, S., Seton, M. (2015), Long-term interaction between mid-ocean ridge spreading systems and mantle plumes.Nature Geoscience , 8, 479-484, doi:10.1038/NGEO2437 PDF

53. Afonso, J.C., Zlotnik, S., Diez, P. (2015), An efficient and general approach for implementing thermodynamic phase-equilibria information in geophysical and geodynamic studies. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. , 16, doi:10.1002/2015GC006031 PDF

54. Tunini, L., Jimenez-Munt, I., Fernandez, M., Verges, Villasenor, A. Melchiorre, M.,  Afonso, J.C. (2015), Geophysical-petrological model of the crust and upper mantle in the India-Eurasia collision zone. Tectonics , 35, 1642-1669, doi:10.1002/2016TC004161 PDF

55. Carballo, A., Fernandez, M., Jimenez-Munt, I., Torne, M., Verges, J., Melchiorre, M., Pedreira, D.,  Afonso, J.C., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Diaz, J., Villasenor, A., Pulgar, J.A., Quintana, L. (2015), From the Norht-Iberian Margin to the Alboran Basin: a lithosphere geo-transect crossing the Iberian Plate. Tectonophysics. , 663, 399-418. PDF

56. Grose, C.J.,  Afonso J.C.,, (2015), The hydrothermal power of oceanic lithosphere.Solid Earth , 6, 1131-1155, doi:10.5194/se-6-1131-2015. PDF

57. Pedreira, D., Afonso, J.C. et al., (2015), Geophysical-petrological modeling of the lithosphere beneath the Cantabrian Mountains and North-Iberian margin: geodynamic implications. Lithos, 230, 46-68. PDF

58. McGowan N.M., Griffin, W.L., Gonzalez-Jimenez, J.M., Belousova, E.,Afonso, J.C. et al., (2015), Tibetan chromitites: excavating in the slab graveyard. Geology, 43, 179-182. PDF

59. Shan, B.,  Afonso, J.C., Yang, Y., Grose, C.J., Zheng, Y., Xiong, X. (2014), The compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle beneath South China: Results from multi-observable probabilistic inversion. J. Geophys. Res., 119, 8417-8441, doi:10.1002/2014JB011412 PDF

60. Adam J., Locmelis, M., Afonso, J.C., Rushmer, T., Fiorentini, M., (2014), The capacity of hydrous fluids to transport and fractionate incompatible elements and metals within the Earth's mantle. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst,15, doi:10.1002/2013GC005199 PDF

61. O'Reilly, S.Y., Afonso, J.C., Griffin, W.L. (2014). Preface, Lithos, 189, 1. PDF

62. Jones, A.G., Afonso, J.C., Fullea J., Salajegheh, F. (2014), The lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath Ireland from integrated geophysical-petrological modelling I: observations, 1D and 2D hypothesis testing. Lithos, 189, 28-48. PDF

63. Fullea J., Muller, M.R., Jones, A.G., Afonso, J.C. (2014), The lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath Ireland from integrated geophysical-petrological modelling II: 3D thermal and compositional structure.Lithos, 189, 49-64. PDF 

64. Afonso, J.C., Fullea J., Yang, Y., Connolly, J.A.D., Jones, A.G. (2013), 3D multi-observable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle II: General methodology and resolution analysis. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/jgrb.50123. PDF

65. Afonso, J.C., Fullea J., Griffin, W.L., Yang, Y., Jones, A.G., Connolly, J.A.D., O'Reilly, S.Y. (2013), 3D multi-observable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle I: a priori information and geophysical observables. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/jgrb.50124. PDF

66. Grose, C. and Afonso, J.C. (2013), Comprehensive plate models for the thermal evolution of oceanic lithosphere. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 14,9, doi:10.1002/ggge.20232.  PDF

67. Handley, H. K., Turner, S., Dosseto, A., Haberlah, D., Afonso, J.C. (2013) Considerations for U-series dating of sediments: insights from Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Chemical Geology, 340, 40-48. PDF

68. Fullea, J., Lebedev, S., Agius, M.R., Jones, A.G., Afonso, J.C. (2012) Lithospheric structure in the Baikal-central Mongolia region from integrated geophysical-petrological inversion of surface-wave data and topographic elevation. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, 13, Q0AK09, doi:10.1029/2012GC004138.  PDF

69. Handley, H. K., Turner, S., Afonso, J.C., Dosseto, A., Cohen, T. (2012) Sediment residence times constrained by Uranium-series isotopes: a critical appraisal of the comminution approach, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 103, 245-262. PDF

70. Afonso, J.C. and Schutt, D. (2012) The effects of polybaric partial melting on the density and seismic velocities of mantle restites, Lithos, 134-135, 289-303. PDF

71. Jimenez-Munt, I., Fernandez, M., Verges, J., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Fullea, J., Perez-Gussinye, Afonso, J.C. (2011). Decoupled accommodation of Africa-Eurasia Convergence in the NW-Moroccan margin, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B08403, doi:10.1029/2010JB008105. PDF

72. Afonso, J.C. and Zlotnik, S. (2011). The subductability of the continental lithosphere: the before and after story. in D. Brown & P.D. Ryan, "Arc-continent collision", Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 53-86, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88558,  Springer. PDF

73. Brown, D, P. D. Ryan, J. C. Afonso, D. Boutelier, J. P. Burg, T. Byrne, A. Calvert, F. Cook, S. DeBari, J. F. Dewey, T. V. Gerya, R. Harris, R. Herrington, E. Konstantinovskaya, T. Reston, and A. Zagorevski (2011). Arc-continent collision: The making of an orogen. in D. Brown & P.D. Ryan, "Arc-continent collision", Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 447-468, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88558,  Springer. PDF

74. Schinella, E., O'Neill, C., Afonso, J.C., (2011). Processes forming volcanic topography at Alta Regio, Venus. In Cairns, I. and Short, W. (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Australian Space Science. Conference, Brisbane, 105-117. PDF

75. O'Reilly, S.Y., Afonso, J.C., Griffin, W.L., van der Lee, S. (2010). Preface, Lithos, 120, vii-viii, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2010.09.017 PDF

76. Ayarza, P., Palomeras, I., Carbonell, R., Afonso, J.C.,  Simancas, F. (2010).  A wide angle upper mantle reflector in SW Iberia: some constraints on its nature. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 181, 88-102. PDF

77. Fullea, J., Fernandez, M., Afonso, J.C., Verges, J., Zeyen, H. (2010). The structure and evolution of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the Atlanitc-Mediterranean Transition Region. Lithos, 120, 74-95. PDF

78. Jimenez-Munt, I., Fernandez, M., Verges, J., Afonso, J.C., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Fullea, J. (2010). The lithospheric structure of the Gorringe Bank: insights into its origin and tectonic evolution. Tectonics, 29, TC5019, doi:10.1029/2009TC002458. PDF

79. Afonso, J.C., Ranalli, G., Fernandez, M., Griffin, W.L., O'Reilly, S.Y., Faul. U. (2010). On the Vp/Vs - Mg# correlation in mantle peridotites: implications for the identification of thermal and compositional anomalies in the upper mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 289, 606-618. PDF

80. Fernandez, M., Afonso, J.C., Ranalli, G. (2010). The deep lithospheric structure of the Namibian volcanic margin Tectonophysics, 481, 68-81. PDF

81. Bielik, M., Alasonati-Tasrova, Zeyen, H., Dererova, J., Afonso, J.C., Csicsay, K. (2010). Improved geophysical image of the Carpathian-Pannonian Basin region. Acta Geod. Geoph. Hung., 45, 284-298. PDF

82. Fullea, J., Afonso, J.C., Connolly, J.A.D., Fernandez, M., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Zeyen, H. (2009). LitMod3D: an interactive 3D software to model the thermal, compositional, density, rheological, and seismological structure of the lithosphere and sublithospheric upper mantle. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, 10, Q08019, doi:10.1029/2009GC002391. PDF

83. Alasonati-Tasarova, Z., Afonso, J.C., Bielik, M., Gotze, H-J. Hak, J. (2009). The lithospheric structure of the Western Carpathian-Pannonian Basin region based on the CELEBRATION 2000 seismic experiment and gravity modelling, Tectonophysics, 475, 454-469. PDF 

84. Griffin, W.L., O'Reilly, S.Y., Afonso, J.C., Begg, G. (2009). The composition and evolution of lithospheric mantle: A re-evaluation and its tectonic implications. J. Petrol., 50, 1185-1204, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egn033. PDF

85. Afonso, J.C., Zlotnik, S., Fernandez, M. (2008). The effects of compositional and rheological stratifications on small-scale convection under the oceans: implications for the thickness of oceanic lithosphere and seafloor flattening. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L20308, doi:10.1029/2008GL035419, PDF, (Supplementary material PDF).

86. Zlotnik, S., Afonso, J.C., Diez, P., Fernandez, M. (2008).  Small-scale gravitational instabilities under the oceans: implications for the evolution of oceanic lithosphere and its expression in geophysical observables. Phil. Mag., 88, 3197-3217. PDF

87. Afonso, J.C., Fernandez, M., Ranalli, G., Griffin, W. L., Connolly, J. (2008). Combined geophysical-petrological modelling of the lithospheric-sublithospheric upper mantle: methodology and applications. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q05008, doi:10.1029/2007GC001834. PDF

88. Afonso, J.C., Ranalli, G., Fernandez, M. (2007). Density structure and buoyancy of the oceanic lithosphere revisited. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L10302, doi:10.1029/2007GL029515. PDF (auxiliary on-line material PDF)

89. Afonso J.C. and Ranalli, G. (2005): Elastic properties of three-phase composites: analytical model based on the modified shear-lag model and the method of cells. Comp. Sci. Technol., 65, 1265-1275. PDF See erratum in Comp. Sci. Technol., 65, 2281. PDF

90. Afonso J.C., Ranalli, G., and Fernandez, M. (2005): Thermal expansivity and elastic properties of the lithospheric mantle: results from mineral physics of composites. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 149, 279-306. PDF

91. Giacosa, R., Afonso, J.C., Heredia, N., Paredes, J. (2005): Tertiary tectonics of the sub-Andean region of the North Patagonian Andes, Southern Central Andes of Argentina, (41o - 42o 30oS). J. South. Am. Earth Sci., 20, 157-170. PDF

92. Afonso J.C. and G. Ranalli (2004): Crustal and mantle strengths in continental lithosphere: is the jelly sandwich model obsolete? Tectonophysics, 394, 221-232. PDF

93. Giacosa, R., Marquez, M., Nillni, A., Fernandez M., Fracchia, D., Parisi, C., Afonso, J.C., Paredes, J., Sciutto, J.C. (2004): Litologia y estructura del basamento igneo-metamorfico del borde SO del Macizo Nordpatagonico al oeste del Rio Chico, (Cushamen, Chubut, Argentina; 42o 10oS - 70o 30oO). Rev. Asoc. Geol. Arg., 59, 569-577. PDF

94. Afonso, J.C., (2002) Evolucion tectonica de la cuenca de Nirihuau, Andes Patagonicos Septentrionales, Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia (inedito), Comodoro Rivadavia, 22 p.

95. Marquez, M. J.; Giacosa, R. E.; Nillni, A.; Paredes, J. M.; Fernandez, M. I.; Parisi, C.; Sciutto, J.C. Garrido, C.; Afonso, J.C. (2001). Aspectos litologicos y estructurales del bloque tectonico Cushamen (Chubut). Actas XV Congreso Geologico Argentino, Calafate, Santa Cruz, 335-341.

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