Tectonics Observatory at Caltech

Publications

Date	Title	Authors	Journal	Download
2009	Lithospheric mantle duplex beneath the central Mojave Desert revealed by xenoliths from Dish Hill, California	Luffi, P., Saleeby, J. B., Lee, C.-T. A., Ducea, M. N.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (2 Mb)
2009	Long-wavelength tilting of the Australian continent since the Late Cretaceous	DiCaprio, L., Gurnis, M., Muller, R.D.	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	PDF (2 Mb)
2009	Emergence of a low-viscosity channel in subduction zones through the coupling of mantle flow and thermodynamics	Baker Hebert, L., Antoshechkina, P., Asimow, P., Gurnis, M.	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	PDF (2 Mb)
2009	Southern San Andreas-San Jacinto fault system slip rates estimated from earthquake cycle models constrained by GPS and interferometric synthetic aperture radar observations	Lundgren, P., E. A. Hetland, Z. Liu, and E. J. Fielding	J. Geophys. Res.	PDF (0 Kb)
2009	Interseismic crustal deformation in the Taiwan plate boundary zone revealed by GPS observations, seismicity, and earthquake focal mechanisms	Hsu, Y.J., S.B. Yu, M. Simons, L.C. Kuo, Chen, H.Y.	Tectonophysics	PDF (2 Mb)
2009	Kinematic behavior of southern Alaska constrained by westward decreasing postglacial slip rates on the Denali Fault, Alaska	Meriaux, A.-S., Sieh, K., Finkel, R. C., Rubin, C. M., Taylor, M. H., Meltzner, A. J., Ryerson, F. J.	J. Geophys. Res	PDF (2 Mb)
2009	Subducting Slab Ultra-Slow Velocity Layer Coincident with Silent Earthquakes in Southern Mexico	Song, T-R.A., Helmberger, D.V., Brudzinski, M.R., Clayton, R.W., Davis, P., Perez-Campos, X., Singh. S.K.	Science	PDF
2009	The Kumaun and Garwhal Lesser Himalaya, India: Part 2. Thermal and deformation histories	Celerier, J., Harrison, M.T., Beyssac, O., Herman, F., Dunlap, W., Webb, A	Geological Society of America	PDF (4 Mb)
2009	Recovering Temporal Integrity with Data Driven Time Synchronization	Lukac, M. Davis, P., Clayton, R., Estrin, E	8th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks	PDF (956 Kb)
2009	Investigating tropospheric effects and seasonal position variations in GPS and DORIS time-series from the Nepal Himalaya	Flouzat, M., Bettinelli, P., Willis, P., Avouac, J.P., Heritier, T., Guatam, U.	Geophysical Journal International	PDF (1 Mb)
2009	The 2005 Ilan earthquake doblet and seismic doublet and seismic crisis in northeastern Taiwan: evidence for dyke intrusion associated with on-land propagation of the Okinawa Trough	Lin, K.Y., Chen, Y.-G., Wu, Y.-M.,Avouac, J.P., Kuo, Y.-T., Wang, Y.,Chang, C.-H., Lin, K.-C.	Geophysical Journal International	PDF (704 Kb)
2009	Instantaneous dynamics of the cratonic Congo basin	Downey, N. J., Gurnis, M.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (3 Mb)
2009	Step-over in the structure controlling the regional west ilst of the Sierra Nevada microplate: eastern escarpment system to Kern Canyon system	Saleeby, J., Saleeby, Z., Nadin, E., Maheo, G.	International Geology Review	PDF (892 Kb)
2009	Rupture process of 1999, Mw7.1 Duzce earthquake from joint analysis of SPOT, GPS, InSAR, strong-motion and teleseismic data : a super-shear rupture with variable rupture velocity	Konca, A. O., Leprince, S., Avouac, J.P., Helmberger, D.V.H.	BSSA (accepted)	PDF (0 Kb)
2009	Spatio-temporal slip, and stress level on the faults within the western foothills of Taiwan: implications for fault frictional properties	Hsu,Y. J., Avouac, J. P., Yu, S. B., Chang, C. H., Wu, Y. M., Woessner J.	Pure and Applied Geophysics (Accepted)	PDF (0 Kb)
2009	Seismic attenuation structure in central Mexico: Image of a focused high-attenuation zone in the mantle wedge	Chen, T. and Clayton, R.W.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (682 Kb)
2008	Chronology of Pluton Emplacement and Regional Deformation in the Southern Sierra Nevada Batholith, California	Saleeby, J., Ducea, M.N., Busby, C.,Nadin, E., Wetmore, P.H.	GSA Special Paper 419	PDF (1 Mb)
2008	Disruption of primary regional structure of the Sierra Nevada Batholith by the Kern Canyon fault system, California	Nadin, E.S., Saleeby, J.	GSA Special Paper 438	PDF (2 Mb)
2008	Heterogeneous coupling of the Sumatran megathrust constrained by geodetic and paleogeodetic measurements	Chlieh, M., J. P. Avouac, K. Sieh, D. H. Natawidjaja, and J. Galetzka	J. Geophys. Res.	PDF (6 Mb)
2008	Geomorphology of the southern most Longitudinal Valley fault: Implications for evolution of the active suture of eastern Taiwan	Shyu, J.B.H., Sieh, K., Chen, Y.-G., Cuang, R.Y., Wang, Y., Chung, L.-H.	Tectonics	PDF
2008	Seasonal variations of seismicity and geodetic strain in the Himalaya induced by surface hydrology	Bettinelli, P., Avouac, J.P., Flouzat, M., Bollinger, L., Ramillien, G., Rajaure, S., Sapkota, S.	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	PDF (2 Mb)
2008	Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics With Optical Imagery	Leprince, S., E. Berthier, F. Ayoub, C. Delacourt, and J. P. Avouac	EOS Trans AGU	PDF (1 Mb)
2008	Unroofing, incision, and uplift history of the southwestern Colorado Plateau from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry	Flowers, R.M., Wernicke, B.P., Farley K.A.	Geological Society of America Bulletin	PDF (2 Mb)
2008	Nonvolcanic tremor observed in the Mexican subduction zone	Payero, J. S., Kostoglodov, V., Shapiro, N., Mikumo, T., Iglesias, A., Perez-Campos, X., Clayton, R. W.	Geophysical Research Letters	PDF (308 Kb)
2008	The Importance of Ocean Tidal Load Corrections for InSAR	DiCaprio, C. J., Simons., M.	Geophysical Research Letters	PDF (396 Kb)
2008	In-Flight CCD Distortion Calibration for Pushbroom Satellites based on Subpixel Correlation	Leprince, S., Muse, P., Avouac, J. P.	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	PDF (2 Mb)
2008	The case for dynamic subsidence of the U.S. east coast since the Eocene	Spasojevi, S., Liu, L., Gurnis, M., Muller, R. D.	Geophysical Research Letters	PDF (2 Mb)
2008	Reconstructing Farallon Plate Subduction Beneath North America Back to the Late Cretaceous	Liu, L., Spasojevic, S., Gurnis, M.	Science	PDF
2008	Partial rupture of a locked patch of the Sumatra megathrust during the 2007 earthquake sequence	Konca, A.O., Avouac, J-P., Sladen, A., Meltzner, A., Sieh, K., Fang, P., Li, Z.,Galetzka, J., Genrich, J., Chlieh, M., Natawidjaja, D., Bock, Y., F	Nature	PDF (1 Mb)
2008	Earthquake Supercycles Inferred from Sea-Level Changes Recorded in the Corals of West Sumatra	Sieh, K., Natawidjaja,D. H., Meltzner, A.J., Shen, C-C., Cheng, H., Li, K-S., Suwargadi,B., Galetzka,,J., Philibosian, B., Edwards, R.L.	Science	PDF
2008	Persistent elastic behavior above a megathrust rupture patch: Nias island, West Sumatra	Briggs, R.W., Sieh, K., Amidon, W.H., Galetzka, J., Prayudi, D., Suprihanto, I., Sastra, N., Suwargadi, B., Natawidjaja, D., and Farr, T.	Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth)	PDF (3 Mb)
2008	Rupture across arc segment boundaries in the 1 April 2007 Solomons Earthquake	Taylor, F.W., Briggs, R.W.,, Frohlich, C., Brown, A., Hornbach, M., Papabatu, A.K., Meltzner, A.J., and Billy, D.	Nature Geoscience	PDF
2008	Horizontal subduction and truncation of the Cocos Plate beneath central Mexico	Perez-Campos, X., Y. Kim, A. Husker, P. M. Davis, R. W. Clayton, A. Iglesias, J. F. Pacheco, S. K. Singh, V. C. Manea, and M. Gurnis	Geophys. Res. Lett.	PDF (2 Mb)
2008	Simultaneous inversion of mantle properties and initial conditions using an adjoint of mantle convection	Liu, L., Gurnis, M.	J. Geophys. Res	PDF (788 Kb)
2007	Re-evaluation of the surface ruptures of the November 1951 earthquake series in Taiwan, and its neotectonic implications.	Shyu, B., Chung, L.H., Chen, Y.G., Lee, J.C., Sieh, K.	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences	PDF (3 Mb)
2007	Late Cenozoic metamorphic evolution and exhumation of Taiwan	Beyssac, O., M. Simoes, J. P. Avouac, K. A. Farley, Y. G. Chen, Y. C. Chan, and B. Goffe	Tectonics	PDF (2 Mb)
2007	Thermal evolution and exhumation of deep level batholithic exposures, southernmost Sierra Nevada, California	Saleeby, J., Farley, K.A., Kistler, R.W., Fleck, R.	Geological Society of America Special Paper 419	PDF (1 Mb)
2007	Coseismic Slip and Afterslip of the Great (Mw9.15) Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 2004	Chlieh, M., Avouac, J.P., Hjorleifsdottir, V., Song, T-R.A., Ji, C., Sieh, K., Sladen, A., Hebert, H., Prawirodirdjo, L., Bock, Y., Galetzka, J.	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	PDF (2 Mb)
2007	Slip rates on the Chelungpu and Chushiang thrust faults inferred from a deformed strath terrace along the Dungpuna river, west-central Taiwan	Simoes M., Avouac, J.P., Chen, Y.-G.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (3 Mb)
2007	Rupture kinematics of the 2005, Mw 8.6, Nias- Simeulue Earthquake from the Joint Inversion of Seismic and Geodetic Data	Konca, A.O., Hjorleifsdottir, V., Song, T-R.A., Avouac, J.P., Helmberger, D., Ji, C., Sieh, K., Briggs, R., Meltzner, A.	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	PDF (3 Mb)
2007	Tropospheric phase delay in iterferometric synthetic aperture radar estimated from meteorological model and multispectral imagery	Puyssegur, B., Michel, R., Avouac, J.-P.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (608 Kb)
2007	Geodetic, teleseismic, and strong motion constraints on slip from recent southern Peru subduction zone earthquakes	Pritchard, M. E., Ji, C., Boroscheck, R., Comte, D., Simons, M., Rosen, P. A.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (3 Mb)
2007	Radiation damage control on apatite (U-Th)/He dates from the Grand Canyon region, Colorado Plateau	Flowers, R., Farley, K. A., Wernicke, B. P., and Shuster, D.	Geology	PDF (256 Kb)
2007	Geology and thermochronology of Tertiary Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complexes in the Sghand region of central Iran	Verdel, C., Wernicke, B. P., Hassanzadeh, J., Ramezani, J.	Geological Society of America Bulletin	PDF (5 Mb)
2007	Modeling the shortening history of a fault tip fold using structural and geomorphic records of deformation	Daeron, M., Avouac, J.-P., Charreau, J.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (2 Mb)
2007	Kinematic analysis of the Pakuashan fault tip fold, west central Taiwan: shortening rate and age of folding inception	Simoes, M., Avouac, J. P., Chen, Y-G., Singhvi, A. K., Wang, C-Y., Jaisawal, M., Chan, Y-C., Bernard, S.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (9 Mb)
2007	Seasonal modulation of seismicity in the Himalaya of Nepal	Bollinger, L., Perrier, F., Avouac, J.-P., Sapkota, S., Gautam, U., Tiwari, D.R.	Geophysical Research Letters	PDF (2 Mb)
2007	Automatic and Precise Orthorectification, Coregistration, and Subpixel Correlation of Satellite Images, Application to Ground Deformation Measurements	Leprince, S., Barbot, S., Ayoub, F., Avouac, J.-P.	IEEE Trans on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	PDF (2 Mb)
2007	Waveform modeling of the slab beneath Japan	Chen, M., Tromp, J., Helmberger, D., Kanamon, H.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (2 Mb)
2007	Modeling afterslip and aftershocks following the 1992 Landers earthquake	Perfettini, H., and Avouac, J.-P.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (11 Mb)
2007	Seismic tomography of Taiwan: Improved constraints from a dense network of strong motion stations	Wu, Y. M., C. H. Chang, L. Zhao, J. B. H. Shyu, Y. G. Chen, K. Sieh, and J. P. Avouac	JGR Solid Earth	PDF (2 Mb)
2007	Mountain building in Taiwan: A thermokinetic model	Simoes, M., Avouac, J-P., Beyssac, O., Goffe, B., Farley, K., Chen, Y-G.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (3 Mb)
2007	Co-Registration of Optically Sensed Images and Correlation (COSI-Corr): an Operational Methodology for Ground Deformation Measurements	Leprince, S., Ayoub, F., Klinger, Y., Avouac, J-P.	IEEE	PDF (3 Mb)
2006	Distribution of slip from Mw 11 > 6 earthquakes in the northern Chile subduction zone	Pritchard, M. E., Ji, C., Simons, M.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (4 Mb)
2006	Coseismic surface deformation from air photos: The Kickapoo step over in the 1992 Landers rupture	Michel, R., Avouac, J.P.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (3 Mb)
2006	Plate motion of India and interseismic strain in the Nepal Himalaya from GPS and DORIS measurements	Bettinelli, P., Avouac, J.P., Flouzat, M., Jouanne, F., Bollinger, L., Willis, P., Chitrakar, G.R.	Journal of Geodesy	PDF (10 Mb)
2006	Uplift and Subsidence Associated with the Great Aceh-Andaman Earthquake of 2004	Meltzner, A., Sieh, K., Abrams, M., Agnew, D., Hudnut, K. , Avouac, J.P., Natawidjaja, D.H.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (2 Mb)
2006	Deformation and Slip Along the Sunda Megathrust in the Great 2005 Nias-Simeulue Earthquake	Briggs, R., Sieh, K., Meltzner, A., Natawidjaja, D.H., Galetzka, J., Suwargadi, B., Hsu, Y.J., Simons, M., Hananto, N., Suprihanto, I., Prayudi, D.	Science	PDF
2006	Millennial slip rate of the longitudinal Valley fault from river terraces: Implications for convergence across the active suture of eastern Taiwan	Shyu, B., Sieh, K., Avouac, J.P., Chen, W.S., Chen, Y.G.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (14 Mb)
2006	Source parameters of the great Sumatran megathrust earthquakes of 1797 and 1833 inferred from coral microatolls	Natawidjaja, D.H., Sieh, K., Chlieh, M., Galetzka, J., Suwargadi, B., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Avouac, J.P., Ward, S.N.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (10 Mb)
2006	Plate-boundary deformation associated with the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake	Subarya, C., Chlieh, M., Prawirodirdjo, L., Avouac, J.P., Bock, Y., Sieh, K., Meltzner, A., Natawidjaja, D.H., McCaffrey, R.	Nature	PDF Supplement
2006	Mountain Building in the Nepal Himalaya: Thermal and kinematic model	Bollinger, L., Henry, P., Avouac, J.P.	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	PDF (900 Kb)
2006	Kinematics of fault-related folding derived from a sandbox experiment	Bernard, S., Avouac, J.P.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (2 Mb)
2006	Frictional afterslip following the 2005 Nias-Simeulue earthquake, Sumatra	Hsu,Y.J., Simon, M., Avouac, J.P., Galetzka, J., Sieh, K., Chlieh, M., Natawidjaja, D., Prawirodirdjo, L., Bock, Y.	Science	PDF Supplement
2006	Cosmogenic and nucleogenic He-3 apatite, titanite, and zircon	Farley,K.A., Libarkin, J., Mukhopadhyay, S., Amidon, W.	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	PDF (304 Kb)
2006	Investigating the kinematics of mountain-building in Taiwan from the spatio-temporal evolution of the foreland basin and western foothills	Simoes, M., Avouac, J.P.	Journal of Geophysical	PDF (14 Mb)
2006	The 2005, Mw 7.6 Kashmir earthquake: Sub-pixel correlation of ASTER images and seismic waverforms	Avouac, J.P., Ayoub, F., Leprince, S., Konca, O., Helmberger, D.V.	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	PDF (2 Mb) Supplemental (2 Mb)
2006	An aseismic slip pulse in northern Chile and along-strike variations in seismogenic behavior	Pritchard, M.E., Simons, M.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (6 Mb)
2006	Subcontinental-scale crustal velocity changes along the Pacific-North America plate boundary	Davis, J. L., Wernicke, B. P., Bisnath, S., Niemi, N. A., and Elosegui, P.	Nature	PDF
2006	Mantle instability beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California and Death Valley extension	Le Pourhiet, L., Gurnis, M., Saleeby, J.,	Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters	PDF (2 Mb)
2006	Rapid Uplift of the Altiplano Revealed Through 13C-180 Bonds and Paleosol Carbonates	Ghosh, P., Garzione, C. N., Eiler, J., M.	Science	PDF
2005	Energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake.	Ni, S., Kanamori, H., Helmberger, D.	Nature	PDF
2005	Tandem suturing and disarticulation of the Taiwan orogen revealed by its neotectonic elements.	Shyu, B., Sieh, K., Chen, Y.G.	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	PDF (608 Kb)
2005	What happened and what's next?	Sieh, K.	Nature	PDF
2005	Long-term slip rate of the southern San Andreas Fault, from 10Be-26Al surface exposure dating of an offset alluvial fan.	van der Woerd, J., Klinger, Y., Sieh, K., Tapponnier, P., Ryerson, F. and Mériaux, A.-S.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (8 Mb)
2005	Raleigh-wave multi-pathing along the west coast of North America.	Ji, C., Tsuboi, S., Komatitsch, D., Tromp, J.	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	PDF (1 Mb)
2005	An Animated Tectonic Reconstruction of Southwestern North America since 36 Ma.	McQuarrie, N., Wernicke, B.P.	Geospheres	PDF (2 Mb) Animation (50 Mb)
2005	Geodetic displacements and aftershocks following the 2001 Mw=8.4 Peru earthquake: Implications for the mechanics of the earthquake cycle along subduction zones	Perfettini, H., Avouac, J.P., Ruegg, J.C.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (1 Mb)
2005	Rupture Processes of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake	Ammon, C., Ji, C.,Thio, H.K., Robinson, D., Ni, S., Hjorleifsdottir, V., Kanamori, H., et al	Science	PDF Supplement
2005	The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004	Lay, T., Kanamori, H., Ammon, C., Nettles, M., Ward, S., Aster, R., Beck, S., Bilek, S., Brudzinski, M., Butler, R., DeShon, H., Ekstrom, G.	Science	PDF
2005	The non-equilibrium landscape of the southern Sierra Nevada, California	Clark, M., Maheo, G., Saleeby, J., Farley, K.	GSA Today	PDF (5 Mb)
2005	Seismic refraction evidence for Steep Faults cutting highly attenuated continental basement in the Central Transverse Ranges, California	Yan, Z., Clayton, R., Saleeby, J.	Geophysical Journal International	PDF (704 Kb)
2005	Earth's Free Oscillations Excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake	Park, J., Song, T-R. A., Tromp, J., Okal, E., Stein, S., Roualt, G., Clevede, E., Laske, G., Kanamori, H., Davis, P., Berger, J., Braitenberg, C., Van	Science	PDF Supplement
2004	Stress buildup in the Himalaya.	Bollinger, L., Avouac, J.P., Cattin, R., Pandey, M.R.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (940 Kb)
2004	Slip history of the 2003 San Simeon Earthquake constrained by combining 1-Hz GPS, strong motion, and teleseismic data.	Ji, C., Larson, K.M., Tan, Y., Hudnut, K., Choi, K.	Geophysical Research Letters	PDF (218 Kb)
2004	Crustal scale geometry of the Zagros fold-thrust belt, Iran.	McQuarrie, N.	Journal of Structural Geology	PDF (2 Mb)
2004	The Sumatra subduction zone: A case for a locked fault zone extending into the mantle.	Simoes, M., Avouac, J.P., Cattin, R., Henry, P.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (1 Mb)
2004	Tectonic evolution of a continental collision zone: A thermomechanical numerical model.	Toussiant, G., Burov, E., Avouac, J.P.	Tectonics	PDF (1 Mb)
2004	The neotectonic architecture of Taiwan and its implications for future large earthquakes.	Shyu, B., Sieh, K., Chen, Y.G., Liu, C.S.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (7 Mb) Supplemental PDF (385 Kb)
2004	Topographic response to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, California	Saleeby, J., Foster, Z.	Geology	PDF (850 Kb)
2004	Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California	Zandt, G., Gilbert, H., Owens, T., Ducea, M., Saleeby, J., Jones, C.	Nature	PDF
2004	Tectonic implications of a dense continuous GPS velocity field at Yucca Mountain, Nevada	Wernicke, B., Davis, J. L., Bennett, R. A., Normandeau, J. E., Friedrich, A M., and Niemi, N. A.	Journal of Geophysical Research	PDF (520 Kb)
2004	BARGEN continuous GPS data across the eastern Basin and Range province, and implications for fault system dynamics	Niemi, N.A., Wernicke, B.P., Friedrich, A.M., Simons, M., Bennett, R.A., Davis, J.L.	Geophysical Journal International	PDF (4 Mb)
2004	Evidence for Deep Magma Injection Beneath Lake Tahoe, Nevada-California	Smith, K. D., von Seggern, D., Blewitt G., Preston, L., Anderson, J. G., Wernicke, B. P. and Davis, J. L.	Science	PDF
2004	Geologic context of geodetic data across a Basin and Range normal fault, Crescent Valley, Nevada	Friedrich, A. M., Lee, J., Wernicke B. P., and Sieh, K.	Tectonics	PDF (2 Mb)
2004	Postseismic relaxation driven by brittle creep: A possible mechanism to reconcile geodetic measurements and the decay rate of aftershocks, application to the Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan	Perfettini, H. Avouac, J. P.	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	PDF (2 Mb)
2003	Cenozoic evolution of Neotethys and implications for the causes of plate motions.	McQuarrie, N., Stock, J.M., Verdel, C., Wernicke, B.P.	Geophysical Research Letters	PDF (268 Kb)