Chiara Civiero

Name: Chiara Civiero

Position: Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Email: cciviero-at-cp.dias.ie

Homepage link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chiara_Civiero

Qualifications

2016: Ph.D., Seismology, Imperial College London

2011: M. Sc., Geophysics, University of Trieste

Research Interests

Chiara’s current research uses seismology to understand the interior of the Earth. She is particularly focused in using tomographic methods to image crust and mantle structure from regional (e.g., East African Rift, Gibraltar Arc System) to global scales.

Selected Recent Publications

Arroucau, P., Custódio, S., Civiero, C., Silveira, G., Dias, N., Díaz, J., Villaseñor, A., Bodin, T. (2021). PRISM3D: a 3-D reference seismic model for Iberia and adjacent areas. Geophysical Journal International, 225, 2, 789–810, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab005

Civiero, C., Custódio, S., Duarte, J. C., Mendes, V. B., Faccenna, C. (2020). Dynamics of the Gibraltar arc system: A complex interaction between plate convergence, slab pull, and mantle flow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018873. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018873

Civiero, C., Armitage, J. J., Goes, S., & Hammond, J. O. S. (2019). The seismic signature of upper-mantle plumes: application to the Northern East African Rift. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 6106–6122. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008636

Civiero, C., Custódio, S., Rawlinson, N., Strak, V., Silveira, G., Arroucau, P., Corela, C. (2019). Thermal nature of mantle upwellings below the Ibero‐western Maghreb region inferred from teleseismic tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 1781–1801. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016531

Civiero, C., Strak, V., Custódio, S., Silveira, G., Rawlinson, N., Arroucau, P., Corela, C. (2018). A common deep source for upper‐mantle upwellings below the Ibero‐western Maghreb region from teleseismic P‐wave travel‐time tomography. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 499, 157–172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.024

Civiero, C., Goes, S., Hammond, J. O. S., Fishwick, S., Ahmed, A., Ayele, A., et al. (2016). Small‐scale thermal upwellings under the northern East African rift from S travel time tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121, 7395–7408. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013070

Civiero, C., Hammond, J. O. S., Goes, S., Fishwick, S., Ahmed, A., Ayele, A., et al. (2015). Multiple mantle upwellings in the transition zone beneath the northern East‐African Rift system from relative P‐wave travel‐time tomography. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16, 2949–2968. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GC005948