School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment
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Dan Frost
| Title: | Assistant Professor | 
                                 
| Department: | School of the Earth, Ocean, & the Environment McCausland College of Arts and Sciences  | 
                                 
| Email: | dfrost@seoe.sc.edu | 
| Phone: | 803-777-4530 | 
| Office: | EWS 516 | 
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Research Interests
Whole Earth structure, earth evolution, cross-disciplinary studies, influence of convection on mantle structure, seismic scattering, core structure, anisotropy, chemical heterogeneity, D00 complexity, array seismology, tomographic inversion, developing seismic methodologies
Selected Publications
Frost, Daniel A.; Avery, Margaret S.; Buffett, Bruce A.; Chidester, Bethany A.; Deng, Jie; Dorfman,
                                 Susannah M.; Li, Zhi; Liu, Lijun; Lv, Mingda; Martin, Joshua F.: Multidisciplinary
                                 constraints on the thermal-chemical boundary between Earth’s core and mantle, G3, 2022, 23, 3
Open access online doi: 10.1029/
Frost, Daniel A.; Romanowicz, Barbara; Lasbleis, Marine; Chandler, Brian: Seismic evidence of slow
                                 translation and preferential equatorial growth of the inner core, Nature Geoscience, 2021
Online access doi:10.1038/s41561-021-
Author’s copy and supplements
Frost, Daniel A.; Romanowicz, Barbara; Roecker, Steve: Upper mantle slab under Alaska: contribution
                                 to anomalous core-phase observations on south-Sandwich to Alaska paths, Phys. Earth.
                                 Planet. Int., 2020, 299, 106427
link: https://www.
doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2020.
Author’s copy and supplements
Frost, Daniel A.; Rost, Sebastian; Garnero, Edward J.; Li, Mingming; Seismic evidence for Earths crusty
                                 deep mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2017, 470, p. 54-63
link: https://doi.org/10.1016/
Author’s copy
Frost, Daniel A.; Rost, Sebastian; The P-wave Boundary of the Large-Low Shear Velocity Province beneath
                                 the Pacific, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2014
link: https://doi.org/10.1016/
Author’s copy and supplements