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Becken, M. O. Ritter, S. K. Park, P. A. Bedrosian, U. Weckmann, and M. Weber - A deep crustal fluid channel into the San Andreas fault system near Parkfield, California, Geophys. J. Int., 173, 718-732, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03754.x, 2008.

Burdick, S., C. Li, V. Martynov, T. Cox, J. Eakins, T. Mulder, L. Astiz, F. L. Vernon, G. L. Pavlis, and R. van der Hilst - Upper mantle heterogeneity beneath North America from travel time tomography with global and USArray transportable array data, Seis. Res. Lett., 79, 384-392, doi:10.1785/gssrl.79.3.384, 2008.

Lerch, D. W., E. Miller, M. McWilliams, and J. Colgan - Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the northwestern Basin and Range and its transition to unextended volcanic plateaus: Black Rock Range, Nevada, GSA Bull., 120, 300-311, doi:10.1130/B26151.1, 2008.

Lin, F.-C., M. P. Moschetti, and M. H. Ritzwoller - Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh and Love wave phase velocity maps, Geophys. J. Int., 173, 281-298, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03720.x, 2008.

Mattia, M., M. Palano, M. Aloisi, V. Bruno, and Y. Bock - High rate GPS data on active volcanoes: an application to the 2005-2006 Mt. Augustine (Alaska, USA) eruption, Terra Nova, 20, 134-140, doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00798.x, 2008.

Niu, F., P. G. Silver, T. M. Daley, X. Cheng, and E. L. Majer - Preseismic velocity changes observed from active source monitoring at the Parkfield SAFOD drill site, Nature, 454, 204-208, doi:10.1038/nature07111, 2008.

Pares, J. M., A. M. Schleicher, B. A. van der Pluijm, and S. Hickman - Paleomagnetic reorientation of San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) core, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02306, doi:10.1029/2007GL030921, 2008.

Phillips, W. S., and R. J. Stead - Attenuation of Lg in the western US using the USArray, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L07307, doi:10.1029/2007GL032926, 2008.

Pollitz, F. F., P. McCrory, J. Svarc, and J. Murray - Dislocation models of interseismic deformation in the western United States, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B04413, doi:10.1029/2007JB005174, 2008.

Rubinstein, J. L., M. LaRoccam J. E. Vidale, K. C. Creager, and A. Wech - Tidal modulation of nonvolcanic tremor, Science, 319, 186-189, doi:10.1126/science.1150558, 2008.

Sato, T., S. Miura, Y. Ohta, H. Fujimoto, W. Sun, C. F. Larsen, M. Heavner, A. M. Kaufman, and J. T. Freymueller - Earth tides observed by gravity and GPS in southeastern Alaska, J. Geodyn., doi:10.1016/j.jog.2008.03.004, 2008.

Szeliga, W., T. Melbourne, M. Santillan, and M. Miller - GPS constraints on 34 slow slip events within the Cascadia subduction zone, 1997-2005, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B04404, doi:10.1029/2007JB004948, 2008.

Vasconcelos, I., R. Snieder, and P. Sava - Drill bit noise illuminates the San Andreas Fault, EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. Un., v. 89, 16 Sept. 2008.

Velasco, A. A., S. Hernandez, T. Parsons, and K. Pankow - Global ubiquity of dynamic earthquake triggering, Nature Geosc., doi:10.1038/ngeo204, 2008.

Wiersberg, T., and J. Erzinger - Origin and spatial distribution of gas at seismogenic depths of the San Andreas fault from drill-mud gas analysis, Appl. Geochem., 23, 1675-1690, doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.01.012, 2008.

Yang, Y., and M. H. Ritzwoller - Teleseismic surface wave tomography in the western U.S. using the Transportable Array component of USArray, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L04308, doi:10.1029/2007GL032278, 2008.

Zandt, G, and G. Humphreys - Toroidal mantle flow through the western U.S. slab window, Geology, 36, 295-298, doi:10.1130/G24611A.1, 2008.