I will be doing a series of posts highlighting excellent (recent) geophysics articles that I feel could be used as a starting point for teaching current theories on topics in the field.

A summary will be provided of the article, and some discussion points.

If you feel a paper should be used in this series, please feel free to leave a comment or send an email. Or, if there is a topic you would like to be highlighted (origin of plate tectonics, future Earth, etc) then please let me know (as otherwise I will just write about papers that I currently quite enjoy).
Upcoming posts:

• The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay [2014] (R. Damian Nance, J. Brendan Murphy , M. Santosh, Gondwana Research, 25 4–29)
• Continent-sized anomalous zones with low seismic velocity at the base of Earth’s mantle [2016] (Edward J. Garnero, Allen K. McNamara and Sang-Heon Shim, Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2733)