Nonlinear attenuation of S-waves and Love waves within ambient rock
A new paper from Dr. Brittany Erickson and Dr. Norman Sleep discuss the relationships for nonlinear attenuation of S-waves and Love waves within sedimentary basins to […]
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The role of continental lithosphere metasomes in the production of HIMU-like magmatism on the northeast African and Arabian plates
A new paper from Dr. Tyrone Rooney, Dr. Barry Hanan, and others present a geochemical study of Ethiopian Miocene intraplate alkaline lavas: melts of a lithospheric mantle […]
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An efficient numerical method for earthquake cycles in heterogeneous media: Alternating sub-basin and surface-rupturing events on faults crossing a sedimentary basin
A new paper from Dr. Brittany Erickson and Eric Dunham that has developed an efficient numerical method for simulating earthquake sequences with a finite-difference discretization of the […]
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Global Positioning System Constraints on Active Crustal Deformation in Central Panamá
A new paper by Dr. Thomas Rockwell and others provides ongoing collision rates of the of the Central American Arc with the South American continent using campaign‐style […]
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The origin of the asymmetry in the Iceland hotspot along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from continental breakup to present-day
A new paper from Dr. Barry Hanan and others using numerical models of plume–ridge interaction to study the cause of variations in the influence of […]
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GSA Memoirs 211 – Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja California and Southern California
SDSU Contributions to the GSA Memoirs 211, 2014; Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja California and Southern California. Edited by Douglas M. Morton, U.S. Geological Survey and Department of […]
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Recognition of Pleistocene marine terraces in the southwest of Portugal (Iberian Peninsula): evidences of regional Quaternary uplift
Dr. Tom Rockwell, Paula Figueiredo, and João Cabral have published a new paper in a Special Issue of the Annals of Geophysices for Earthquake Geology. The […]
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New Grants and Contracts Awarded to Geological Sciences Faculty – February 2014
Dr. Kim Olsen University of Southern California: “Ground Motion Modeler Participation” Total Budget $28,465.00 Current Actively Funded Research $1,718,455.00(sorted by PI’s) PI Name Ending Year Research […]
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Earthquake Ground Motion and 3D Georgia Basin Amplification in Southwest British Columbia
Dr. Kim Bak Olsen has two new papers published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America where the authors model ground motions for large scenario […]
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Yellowstone hotspot–continental lithosphere interaction
Dr. Barry Hanan has published a new paper were the authors model Yellowstone hotspot–continental lithosphere interaction. They compare Pb, Sr, and Nd isotope results for 25 […]
