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Scientific Publications on EarthScope Data
Abers, G. A., L. S. MacKenzie, S. Rondenay, Z. Zhang, A. G. Wech, and K. C. Creager - Imaging the source region of Cascadia tremor and intermediate-depth earthquakes, Geology, 37, 1119-1122, doi: 10.1130/G30143A.1, 2009.
Aguiar, A. C., T. I. Melbourne, and C. W. Scrivner - Moment release rate of Cascadia tremor constraint by GPS, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B00A05, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005909, 2009.
Allmendinger, R. W., J. P. Loveless, M. E. Pritchard, and B. Meade - From decades to epochs: Spanning the gap between geodesy and structural geology of active mountain belts, J. Struct. Geol., 31, 1409-1422, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2009.08.008, 2009.
Andrew, J. E., and J. D. Walker - Reconstructing late Cenozoic deformation in central Panaminit Valley, California: evolution of slip partitioning in the Walker Lane, Geosphere, 5, 172-198, doi: 10.1130/GES00178.1, 2009.
Arrowsmith, J. R., and O. Zielke - Tectonic geomorphology of the San Andreas Fault zone from high resolution topography: An example from the Cholame segment, Journal of Geomorphology, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.01.002, 2009.
Baig, A. M., M. Campillo, and F. Brenguier - Denoising seismic noise cross correlations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B8, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006085, 2009.
Bedle, H., and S. van der Lee - S velocity variations beneath North America, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B07308, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005949, 2009.
Bennett, R. A., N. P. Fay, S. Hreinsdottir, C. Chase, and G. Zandt - Increasing long-wavelength relief across the southeastern flank of the Sierra Nevada, California, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 287, 255-264, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.011, 2009.
Bensen, G. D., M. H. Ritzwoller, and Y. Yang - A 3-D shear velocity model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the United States from ambient seismic noise, Geophys. J. Int., 177, 3, 1177-1196, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04125.x, 2009.
Biggs, J., R. Bürgmann, J. Freymueller, Z. Lu, B. E. Parsons, I. Ryder, G. Schmalzle, and T. Wright - The postseismic response to the 2002 M7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake: Constraints from InSAR 2003-2005, Geophys. J. Int., 176, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-1246X.2008.03932.x, 2009.
Bird, P. - Long-term fault slip rates, distributed deformation rates, and forecast of seismicity in the western United States from joint fitting of community geologic, geodetic, and stress direction data sets, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B11403, doi: 10.1029/2009JB006317, 2009.
Bromirski, P. D., and P. Gerstoft - Dominant source regions of the Earth’s “hum” are coastal, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13303, doi: 10.1029/2009GL038903, 2009.
Brothers, D. S., N. W. Driscoll, G. M. Kent, A. J. Harding, J. M. Babcock, and R. L. Baskin - Tectonic evolution of the Salton Sea inferred from seismic reflection data, Nature Geosc., doi: 10.1038/NGEO590, 2009.
Burdick, S., R. D. van der Hilst, F. L. Vernon, V. Martynov, T. Cox, J. A. Eakins, T. Mulder, L. Astiz, and G. L. Pavlis - Model update December 2008: Upper mantle heterogeneity beneath North America from P-wave travel time tomography with global and USArray Transportable Array data, Seis. Res. Lett., 80, 638-645, doi: 10.1785/gssrl.80.4.638, 2009.
Carpenter, B. M., C. Marone, and D. M. Shaffer - Frictional behavior of materials in the 3D SAFOD volume, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L05302, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036660, 2009.
Chapman, J. S., and T. I. Melbourne - Future Cascadia megathrust rupture delineated by episodic tremor and slip, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L22301, doi: 10.1029/2009GL040465, 2009.
Chen, T., and N. Lapusta - Scaling of small repeating earthquakes explained by interaction of seismic and aseismic slip in a rate and state fault model, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B1, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005749, 2009.
Cochran, E. S., Y. G Li, P. M. Shearer, S. Barbot, Y. Fialko, and J. E. Vidale - Seismic and geodetic evidence for extensive, long-lived fault damage zones, Geology, 9, 4, 315–318, doi:10.1130/G25306A.1; Data Repository item 2009082, 2009.
Curtis, A., H. Nicolson, D. Halliday, J. Trampert, and B. Baptie - Virtual seismometers in the subsurface of the Earth from seismic interferometry, Nature Geosc., 2, 700-704, doi: 10.1038/ngeo615, 2009.
DeCelles, P. G., M. N. Ducea, P. Kapp, and G. Zandt - Cyclicity in Cordilleran orogenic systems, Nature Geoscience, 2, 251-257, doi: 10.1038/ngeo469, 2009.
Draper Springer, S., J. P. Evans, J. I. Garver, D. Kirschner, and S. U. Janecke - Arkosic rocks from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) borehole, central California: Implications for the structure and tectonics of the San Andreas fault zone, Lithosphere, 1, 206-226, doi: 10.1130/L13.1, 2009.
Ekström, G., G. A. Abers, and S. C. Webb - Determination of surface-wave phase velocities across USArray from noise and Aki’s spectral formulation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, 18, doi: 10.1029/2009GL039131, 2009.
Feng, L., and A. V. Newman - Constraints on continued episodic inflation of Long Valley Caldera, based on seismic and geodetic observations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B6, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006240, 2009.
French, S. W., K. M. Fischer, E. M. Syracuse, and M. E. Wysession - Crustal structure beneath the Florida-to-Edmonton broadband seismometer array, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08309, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036331, 2009.
Fulton, P. M., and D. M. Saffer - Potential role of mantle-derived fluids in weakening the San Andreas Fault, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B07408, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006087, 2009.
Fulton, P. M., and D. M. Saffer - Effect of thermal refraction on heat flow near the San Andreas Fault, Parkfield, California, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B06408, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005796, 2009.
Fulton, P. M., D. M. Saffer, and B. A. Bekins - A critical evaluation of crustal dehydration as the cause of an overpressured and weak San Andreas Fault, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., doiL 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.009, 2009.
Furlong, K., C. J. Crosby, C. S. Prentice, C. S. Whitehill, J. R. Arrowsmith, and D. A. Phillips - Illuminating Northern California’s active faults, EOS Trans. AGU, 90(7), 55, doi: 10.1029/2009EO070002, 2009.
Ghosh, A., J. E. Vidale, J. R. Sweet, K. C. Creager, and A. G. Wech - Tremor patches in Cascadia revealed by seismic array analysis, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L17316, doi: 10.1029/2009GL039080, 2009.
Ghosh, A., J. E. Vidale, Z. Peng, K. C. Creager and H. Houston - Complex non-volcanic tremor near Parkfield, triggered by the great 2004 Sumatra earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 104, doi:10.1029/2008JB006062, 2009.
Goltz, C., D. L. Turcotte, S. G. Abaimov, R. M. Nadeau, N. Uchida, and T. Matsuzawa - Rescaled earthquake recurrence time statistics: application to microrepeaters, Geophys. J. Int., 176, 256-264, 2009.
Griffith, W. A., G. Di Toro, G. Pennacchioni, D. D. Pollard, and S. Nielsen - Static stress drop associated with brittle slip events on exhumed faults, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B2, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005879, 2009.
Hackl, M., R. Malservisi, and S. Wdowinski - Strain rate patterns from dense GPS networks, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 9, 1177-1187, 2009.
Hickman, S., E. Brodsky, and J. Evans - Mechanics of faulting and earthquakes, in The Future of Continental Scientific Drilling: A U.S. Perspective, Walton, Clyde, Colman, Hickman, Koeberl, Miller and Shervais (eds), Proceedings of Continental Scientific Drilling Workshop, June 4-5, 2009, Denver, Colorado, p. 35-38, 2009.
Hill, E., J. L. Davis, P. Elósegui, B. P. Wernicke, E. Malikowski, and N. A. Niemi - Characterization of site-specific GPS errors using a short-baseline network of braced monuments at Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B11402, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006027, 2009.
Johnson, K. M., R. Bürgmann, and J. T. Freymueller - Coupled afterslip and viscoelastic flow following the 2002 Denali Fault, Alaska Earthquake, Geophys. J. Int., 176(3), doi: 10.1111/j.1365-1246X.2008.04029.x, 2009.
Jolivet, R., Bürgmann, R., and N. Houlié - Geodetic exploration of the elastic properties across and within the northern San Andreas fault zone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 288(1-2), doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.1009.1014, 2009.
Kerr, R. A. - Scoping out unseen forces shaping North America, Science, News Focus, 325, 1620-1621, doi: 10.1126/science.325_1620a, 2009.
Klein, E. C., L. M. Flesch, W. E. Holt, and A. J. Haines - Evidence of long-term weakness on seismogenic faults in western North America from dynamic modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B03402, doi: 10.1029/2007JB005201, 2009.
La Rocca, M., K. C. Creager, D. Galluzzo, S. D. Malone, J. E. Vidale, J. R. Sweet, and A. G. Wech - Cascadia tremor located near plate interface constrained by S minus P wave times, Science, 323, 620-623, doi: 10.1126/science.116711, 2009.
Larson, K. M., E. D. Gutmann, V. U. Zavorotny, J. J. Braun, M. W. Williams, and F. G. Nievinsky - Can we measure snow depth with GPS receivers?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, 17, doi: 10.1029/2009GL039430, 2009.
Lay, T., H. Kanamori, C. J. Ammon, A. R. Hutko, K. Furlong, and L. Rivera - The 2006-2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B11308, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006280, 2009.
Li, Y.-G. - The San Andreas Fault internal structure at seismogenic depths from SAFOD borehole-recordings, Academic Perspective – Chinese Scholars Assoc. S. California, ISSN 1936-1246, Volume 5.1, 4-23, 2009.
Liang, C., and C. A. Langston - Wave gradiometry for USArray: Rayleigh waves, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B02308, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005918, 2009.
Lin, F.-C., M. H. Ritzwoller, and R. Snieder - Eikonal tomography: surface wave tomography by phase front tracking across a regional broad-band seismic array, Geophys. J. Int., 177, 1091-1110, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04105.x, 2009.
Liu, K. H. - NA-SWS-1.1: A uniform database of teleseismic shear wave splitting measurements for North America, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems G3, 10(5), Q05011, doi: 10.1029/2009GC002440, 2009.
Lomnitz, C., and C.-J. Zhang - Parkfield revisited: I data retrieval, Lithosphere, 1, 227-234, doi: 10.1130/L14.1, 2009.
Long, M. D - Complex anisotropy in D" beneath the eastern Pacific from SKS-SKKS splitting discrepancies, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 283, 181-189, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.019, 2009.
Long, M. D., and P. G. Silver - Mantle flow in subduction systems: The subslab flow field and implications for mantle dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B10312, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006200, 2009.
Long, M. D., H. Gao, A. Klaus, L. S. Wagner, M. J. Fouch, D. E. James, and E. Humphreys - Shear wave splitting and the pattern of mantle flow beneath eastern Oregon, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 288, 359-369, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.039, 2009.
Luffi, P., J. B. Saleeby, C.-T. A. Lee, and M. N. Ducea - Lithospherc mantle duplex beneath the central Mojave Desert revealed by xenoliths from Dish Hill, California, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B03202, doi: 10.1029/2007JB005906, 2009.
Mahan, K. H., B. Guest, B. Wernicke, and N. A. Niemi - Low-temperature thermochronologic constraints on the kinematics and spatial extent of the Eastern California shear zone, Geosphere, 5, 483-495, doi: 10.1130/GES00226.1, 2009.
McCaffrey, R. - Time-dependent inversion of three-component continous GPS for steady and transient sources in northern Cascadia, Res. Lett., 36, L07304, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036784, 2009.
McGarr, A., M. Boettcher, J. B. Fletcher, R. Sell, and M. J. S. Johnston - Broadband records of earthquakes in deep gold mines and a comparison with results from SAFOD, California, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 99, 2815-2824, doi: 10.1785/0120080336, 2009.
Mendoza, C., and S. Hartzell - Source analysis using regional empirical Green’s functions: The 2008 Wells, Nevada earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L11302, doi: 10.1029/2009GL038073, 2009.
Murray-Moraleda, J. R., and R. W. Simpson - Geodetically inferred coseismic and postseismic slip due to the M 5.4 31 October 2007 Alum Rock earthquake, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 99, 2784-2800, doi: 10.1785/0120090017, 2009.
Nadeau, R. M., and A. Guilhem - Nonvolcanic tremor evolution and the San Simeon and Parkfield, California, earthquakes, Science, 325, 191-193, dos: 10.1126/science.1174155, 2009.
Nikulin, A., V. Levin, and J. Park - Receiver function study of the Cascadia megathrust: Evidence for localized serpentinization, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems G3, 10(7), Q07004, doi: 10.1029/2009GC002376, 2009.
Noda, H., E. M. Dunham, and J. R. Rice - Earthquake ruptures with thermal weakening and the operation of major faults at low overall stress levels, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B7, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006143, 2009.
Ozacar, A. A., and G. Zandt - Crustal structure and seismic anisotropy near the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield, California, Geophys. J. Int., 178, 1098-1104, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04198.x, 2009.
Peng, Z., and P. Zhao - Migration of early aftershocks following the 2004 Parkfield earthquake, Nature Geosc., 2, 877-881, doi: 10.1038/ngeo697, 2009.
Peng, Z., J. E. Vidale, A. G. Wech, R. M. Nadeau, and K. C. Creager - Remote triggering of tremor along the San Andreas Fault in central California, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B00A06, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006049, 2009.
Prieto, G. A., J. F. Lawrence, and G. C. Beroza - Earth structure from the coherency of the ambient seismic field, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B07303, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006067, 2009.
Puskas, C. M., and R. B. Smith - Intraplate deformation and microplate tectonics of the Yellowstone hot spot and surrounding western U.S. interior, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B04410, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005940, 2009.
Rolandone, F., R. Bürgmann, D. C. Agnew, I. A. Johanson, D. C. Templeton, M. A. d'Alessio, S. J. Titus, C. DeMets, and B. Tikoff - Reply to comment by J. C. Savage on “Aseismic slip and fault-normal strain along the central creeping section of the San Andreas fault”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13306, doi: 10.1029/2009GL039167, 2009.
Romanowicz, B. - The thickness of tectonic plates, Science, 324, 474-476, doi: 10.1126/science.1172879, 2009.
Rumpfhuber, E.-M., G. R. Keller, E. Sandvol, A. A. Velasco, and D. C. Wilson - Rocky Mountain evolution: Tying continental dynamics of the Rocky Mountains and deep probe seismic experiments with receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B08301, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005726, 2009.
Savage, J. C. - Comment on “Aseismic slip and fault-normal strain along creeping section of the San Andreas Fault” by F. Rolandone et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13305, doi: 10.1029/2009GL037964, 2009.
Savage, J. C., and J. L. Svarc - Postseismic relaxation following the 1992 7,3 Landers and 1999 7.1 Hector Mine earthquakes, southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B1, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005938, 2009.
Schleicher, A. M., L. N. Warr, and B. A. van der Pluijm - On the origin of mixed-layer clay minerals from the San Andreas Fault at 2.5–3 km vertical depth (SAFOD drillhole at Parkfield, California), Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 157, 173–187, 2009.
Schleicher, A. M., S. N. Tourscher, B. A. van der Pluijm, and L. N. Warr - Constraints on mineralization, fluid-rock interaction, and mass transfer during faulting at 2-3 km depth from the SAFOD drill hole, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B04202, doi: 10.1029/2007JB006092, 2009.
Shelly, D. R., W. L. Ellsworth, T. Ryberg, C. Haberland, G. Fuis, J. Murphy, R. M. Nadeau, and R. Bürgmann - Precise location of San Andreas Fault tremors near Cholame, California using seismometer clusters: Slip on the deep extension of the fault?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, 1, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036367, 2009.
Smith, E. F., and J. Gomberg - A search in strainmeter data for slow slip associated with triggered and ambient tremor near Parkfield, California, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B00A14, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006040, 2009.
Smith, R. B., M. Jordan, B. Steinberger, C. M. Puskas, J. Farrell, G. P. Waite, S. Husen, W.-L. Chang, and R. O’Connell - Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow, J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., 188, 26-56, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.08.020, 2009.
Smith-Konter, B., and D. Sandwell - Stress evolution of the San Andreas fault system: Recurrence interval versus locking depth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13304, doi: 10.1029/2009GL037235, 2009.
Taira, T., P. G. Silver, F. Niu, and R. M. Nadeau - Remote triggering of fault-strength changes on the San Andreas fault at Parkfield, Nature, 461, 636-639, doi: 10.1038/nature08395, 2009.
Talwani, M. - Airborne gravity gradiometry – survey over the San Andreas Fault drill site, Mitteilungen Deutsche Geophysik. Gesell., 3, 16-23, 2009.
Tembe, S., D. Lockner, and T. Wong - Constraints on the stress state of the San Andreas Fault with analysis based on core and cuttings from San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) drilling phases 1 and 2, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B11401, doi:10.1029/2008JB005883, 2009.
Thomas, A. M., R. M. Nadeau, and R. Bürgmann - Tremor-tide correlations and near-lithostatic pore pressure on the deep San Andreas fault, Nature, 462, 1048-1051, doi: 10.1038/nature08654, 2009.
Tian, Y., K. Sigloch, and G. Nolet - Multiple-frequency SH-wave tomography of the western US upper mantle, Geophys. J. Int., 178, 1384-1402, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04225.x, 2009.
Van Buer, N. J., E. L. Miller, and T. A. Dumitru - Early Tertiary paleogeologic map of the northern Sierra Nevada batholith and the northwestern Basin and Range, Geology, 37, 371-374, doi: 10.1130/G25448A.1, 2009.
Waldhauser, F. - Near-real time double-difference event location using long-term seismic archives with application to Northern California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 99(5), 2736-2748, doi: 10.1785/0120080294, 2009.
Walton, A., W. Clyde, S. Colman, S. Hickman, C. Koeberl, K. Miller, and J. Shervais - Introduction: Exciting science through drilling, in The Future of Continental Scientific Drilling: A U.S. Perspective, Walton, Clyde, Colman, Hickman, Koeberl, Miller and Shervais (eds), Proceedings of Continental Scientific Drilling Workshop, June 4-5, 2009, Denver, Colorado, p. 3-14, 2009.
Wdowinski, S., and S. Eriksson - Geodesy in the 21st century, EOS, Trans. Am. Geophy. Un., 90, 153-155, 2009.
Wech, A. G., K. C. Creager, and T. I. Melbourne - Seismic and geodetic constraints on Cascadia slow slip, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B10316, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006090, 2009.
West, J. D., M. J. Fouch, J. B. Roth, and L. T. Elkins-Tanton - Vertical mantle flow associated with a lithospheric drip beneath the Great Basin, Nature Geosc., doi: 10.1038/NGEO526, 2009.
Wüstefeld, A., G. Bokelmann, G. Barruol, J.-P. Montagner - Identifying global seismic anisotropy patterns by correlating shear-wave splitting and surface-wave data, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 176, 198-212, doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.05.006, 2009.
Zhang, H., C. Thurber, and P. Bedrosian - Joint inversion for vp, vs, vp/vs at SAFOD, Parkfield, California, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, 11, doi: 10.1029/2009GC002709, 2009.
Zhang, H., P. Wang, R. D. van der Hilst, M. N. Toksoz, C. Thurber, and L. Zhu - Three-dimensional passive seismic waveform imaging around the SAFOD site, California using the generalized Radon transform, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, 23, doi: 10.1029/2009GL040372, 2009.
Zhang, X., H. Paulssen, S. Lebedev, and T. Meier - 3D shear velocity structure beneath the Gulf of California from Rayleigh wave dispersion, Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 279, 255-262, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.003, 2009.