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  • Nonlinear attenuation of S-waves and Love waves within ambient rock

    Nonlinear attenuation of S-waves and Love waves within ambient rock

    • 4 April 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    The role of continental lithosphere metasomes in the production of HIMU-like magmatism on the northeast African and Arabian plates

    • 4 April 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    An efficient numerical method for earthquake cycles in heterogeneous media: Alternating sub-basin and surface-rupturing events on faults crossing a sedimentary basin

    • 17 March 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    Global Positioning System Constraints on Active Crustal Deformation in Central Panamá

    • 10 March 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    The origin of the asymmetry in the Iceland hotspot along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from continental breakup to present-day

    • 10 March 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    GSA Memoirs 211 – Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja California and Southern California

    • 10 March 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    Recognition of Pleistocene marine terraces in the southwest of Portugal (Iberian Peninsula): evidences of regional Quaternary uplift

    • 3 March 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    New Grants and Contracts Awarded to Geological Sciences Faculty – February 2014

    • 28 February 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    Earthquake Ground Motion and 3D Georgia Basin Amplification in Southwest British Columbia

    • 24 January 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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

    Yellowstone hotspot–continental lithosphere interaction

    • 22 January 2014
    • By Tony Carrasco

    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 […]

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