MECAIR was developed from codes for coherence analysis of gravity and topography data, written by Tim Bechtel and Don Forsyth at Brown University:

• Forsyth, D.W., Subsurface loading and estimates of the flexural rigidity of continental lithosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 2623-2632, 1985.

• Bechtel, T.D., D.W. Forsyth, and C.J. Swain, Mechanisms of isostatic compensation in the East African Rift, Kenya, Geophys. J. Int., 90, 445-465, 1987.

• Ebinger, C.J., T.D. Bechtel, D.W. Forsyth, and C.O. Bowin, Effective elastic plate thickness beneath the East African and Afar plateaus and dynamic compensation of the uplifts, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 2883-2901, 1989.

• M.T. Zuber, T.D. Bechtel, and D.W. Forsyth, Effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere and mechanisms of isostatic compensation in Australia, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 9353-9367, 1989.

• Bechtel, T.D., D.W. Forsyth, V.L. Sharpton, and R.A.F. Grieve, Variations in effective elastic thickness of the North American lithosphere, Nature, 343, 636-638, 1990.

  
  

The codes use an iterative algorithm for two-dimensional maximum entropy power spectral estimation described in:

• Lim, J.S., and N.A. Malik, A new algorithm for two-dimensional maximum entropy power spectrum estimation, IEEE T. Acoust. Speech, 29, 401-413, 1981.

• Malik, N.A., and J.S. Lim, Properties of two-dimensional maximum entropy power spectrum estimates, IEEE T. Acoust. Speech, 30, 788-798, 1982.

  
  

References Describing or Using MECAIR:

• Lowry, A.R., and R.B. Smith, Flexural rigidity of the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau-Rocky Mountain transition from coherence analysis of gravity and topography, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 20,123-20,140, 1994.

• Lowry, A.R., and R.B. Smith, Strength and rheology of the western U.S. Cordillera, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 17,947-17,963, 1995.

• Armstrong, G., Potential Field Signatures and Flexural Rigidity of the Lithosphere in Ireland, Ph.D. Dissertation, National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997.

• Stagpoole, V., A Geophysical Study of the Northern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, Ph.D. Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1998.

• Velicogna, I., Techniques for Inversion of Geophysical Data: Coherence Analysis of Gravity and Topography Data, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, 131pp., 1998.

• Wang, Y., and J.C. Mareschal, Elastic thickness of the lithosphere in the central Canadian Shield, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 3033-3036, 1999.

• Boness, N.L., Determination of Effective Elastic Thickness in the North American Craton and Rheological Implications for the Intraplate Lithosphere, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Indiana, Bloomington, 157pp., 2000.

• Friend, D.S., Flexural Rigidity of the Northern Rocky Mountains: Relationship to Crustal Domains and Deformational Style, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Montana, Missoula, 2000.

• Lowry, A.R., N.M. Ribe, and R.B. Smith, Dynamic elevation of the Cordillera, western United States, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 23,371-23,390, 2000.

• Armstrong, G.D., and A.B. Watts, Spatial variations in Te in the southern Appalachians, eastern United States, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 22,009-22,026, 2001.

• Wannamaker, P.E., J.M. Bartley, A.F. Sheehan, C.H. Jones, A.R. Lowry, T.A. Dimitru, T.A. Ehlers, W.S. Holbrook, G.L. Farmer, M.J. Unsworth, D.B. Hall, D.S. Chapman, D.A. Okaya, B.E. John, and J.A. Wolfe, The Great Basin-Colorado Plateau transition in central Utah: An interface between active extension and stable interior, in The Geological Transition: Colorado Plateau to Basin and Range, Erskine, M.C., J.E. Faulds, J.M. Bartley, and P. Rowley (Eds.), UGA/AAPG Guideb. 30/GB78, 1-38, 2001.

• Daly, E., Multiresolution coherence and techniques to understand the tectonics and rheology of the Irish Atlantic margin, Ph.D. Dissertation, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002.

• Tessema, A., Geophysical Interpretation of the East African Rift System, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 209pp., 2002.

• Flueck, P., Contributions to the Geodynamics of Western Canada, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 2003.

• Fluck, P., R.D. Hyndman, and C. Lowe, Effective elastic thickness T_e of the lithosphere in western Canada, J. Geophys. Res., 108(B9), 2430, doi:10.1029/2002JB002201, 2003.

• Swain, C.J., and J.F. Kirby, The effect of 'noise' on estimates of the elastic thickness of the continental lithosphere by the coherence method, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(11), doi 10.1029/2003GL017070, 2003.

• Audet, P., and J. C. Mareschal, Variations in elastic thickness in the Canadian Shield, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 226(1-2), 17-31, 2004.