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Chapter 5. Solid-Earth Sciences

Representative Selection of CIRES Publications in the Solid-Earth Sciences

Agnew, D. 1981. Nonlinearity in rocks: Evidence from earth tides. J. Geophys. Res. 86:3969-3978.

Ando, M.,Y. Ishikawa, F. Yamazaki. 1983. Shear wave polarization anisotropy in the upper mantle beneath Honshu,Japan. J. Geophys. Res. 88:5750-5864.

Archambeau, C. B., J. B. Minster. 1978. Dynamics in prestressed media with moving phase boundaries: A continuum theory of failure in solids, Geophys. J. Roy. Astro. Soc. 52:65-96.

Bilham, R. 1989. Surface slip subsequent to the 24 November 1987 Superstition Hills, California, earthquake monitored by digital creepmeters. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 79:424-450.

Bilham, R. 1994. The 1737 Calcutta earthquake and cyclone evaluated. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 84:1650-1657.

Bilham, R., K. Larson, J. Freymueller. 1997. Project Idyihim members, GPS measurements of present-day convergence across the Nepal Himalaya. Letter to Nature 386:61-64.

Billington, S., E. R. Engdahl, S. Price. 1981.Changes in seismicity and focal mechanisms of small earthquakes prior to an Ms 6.7 earthquake in the central Aleutian island arc. Earthquake prediction-An Int'l Rev. Maurice Ewing Series 4:348-356.

Billington, S., C. Frohlich, E. R. Engdahl, A. Malahoff. 1982. Detection and location of earthquakes in the central Aleutian subduction zone using island and ocean bottom seismograph stations. J. Geophys. Res. 87:6853-6864.

Bowman, J. R., C. Kisslinger. 1985. Seismicity associated with a cluster of earthquakes of mb>4.5 near Adak, Alaska: Evidence for an asperity? Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 75:223-236.

Brodsky, N., I. C. Getting, H. Spetzler. 1985. An experimental and theoretical approach to rock deformation at elevated temperature and pressure. Sp. Tech. Pub. 869. Amer. Soc. Testing and Materials 37-54.

Burnley, P. C. 1995. The fate of olivine in subducting slabs: a reconnaissance study. Amer. Mineralog. 80:1293-1301.

Chen, G., H. Spetzler. 1993. Complexities of rock fracture and rock friction from deformation of Westerly granite. Pure & Appl. Geophys. 140:123-135.

Cormier, V. F. 1980. The synthesis of complete seismograms in an earth model speci- fied by radially inhomogeneous layers. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 70:691-716.

Datta, S. K., A. H. Shah, W. Karunasena. 1990. Wave propagation in composite media and material characterization. In Elastic Waves and Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation. S. K. Datta, J.D. Achenbach, Y.S. Rajapakse, Editors. Elsevier Sci. Publs. 135-141.

Dahlen, F. H., M. L. Smith. 1975. The influence of rotation on the free oscillations of the Earth. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London A 279: 583-629.

Douglas, B. J., S. L. Saul, C. R. Stern. 1987.Rheology of the upper mantle beneath southernmost South America inferred from peridotite xenoliths. J. Geol. 95:241-253.

Dueker, K., A. F. Sheehan. 1997. Mantle discontinuity structure from midpoint stacks of converted P to S waves across the Yellowstone hotspot track. J. Geophys. Res. 102:8313-8327.

Dueker, K., A. F. Sheehan. 1998. Mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains and High Plains. J. Geophys. Res. 103: 7153-7169.

Engdahl, E .R., L. E. Johnson. 1974. Differential PcP travel times ands the radius of the core. Geophysical J. 39:435-456.

Engdahl, E. R., E. A. Flinn, R. P. Mass. 1974. Differential PkiKP times and the radius of the inner core. Geophysical J. 39:457-463.

Engdahl, E. R., S. Billington, C. Kisslinger. 1989. Teleseismically recorded seismicity before and after the May 7, 1986, Andreanof Islands, Alaska, earthquake. J. Geophys. Res. 94:15,481-15, 498.

Evernden, J., C. B. Archambeau, E. Cranswick. 1986. An evaluation of seismic decoupling and underground nuclear test monitoring using high-frequency seismic data. Rev. Geophys. 24:143-215.

Farmer, G. L., F. V. Perry, S. Semken, B. Crowe, D. Curtis, D. J. DePaolo. 1989. Isotopic evidence on the structure and origin of subcontinental lithospheric mantle in southern Nevada. J. Geophys. Res. 94:7885-7898.

Farmer, G. L., A. F. Glazner, H. G. Wilshire, J. L. Wooden, W. J. Peckthorn, M. Katz. 1995. Origin of late Cenozoic basalts at the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California. J. Geophys. Res. 100:8399-8415.

Farmer, G. L., T. T. Ball. 1997. Source of middle Proterozoic to early Cambrian siliciclastic sedimentary rocks in the Great Basin: a Nd isotope study. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 109:1193-1205.

Farrell, W. E. 1972. Deformation of the Earth by surface loads. Rev. Geophys. Space Phys. 10:761-797.

Farrell, W. E. 1973. Earth tides, ocean tides and tidal loading. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, A 274:253-259.

Francis, T.J.G. 1976. The ratio of compressional to shear wave velocity and rock porosity on the axis of the mid-Atlantic ridge. J. Geophys. Res.81:4361-4364.

Getting, I. C., J. Paffenholz, H.A. Spetzler. 1990. Measuring attenuation in geologic materials at seismic frequencies and amplitudes. In The brittle-ductile transition in rocks. AGU Geophys. Monograph 56:239-243.

Getting, I. C., S. J. Dutton, P.C. Burnley, S-I. Karato, H.A. Spetzler. 1997. Shear attenuation and dispersion in MgO. Phys. Earth and Planetary Interiors. 99:249-257.

Gross, S. J. 1996. Magnitude distributions and slip scaling of heterogeneous seismic sources. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 86:498-504.

Gross, S. J., C. Kisslinger. 1994. Tests of models of aftershock decay. Bull. Seism.Soc. Amer. 84:1571-1579.

Gross, S. J., C. Kisslinger. 1997. Estimating tectonic stress rate and state with Landers aftershocks. J. Geophys. Res. 102:7603-7612.

Gross, S. J., J. B. Rundle. 1998. A systematic test of time-to-failure analysis. Geophys. J. Int'l. 133:57-64.

Habermann, R. E. 1982. Consistency of teleseismic reporting since 1963, Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 72:93-111.

Habermann, R. E., M. S. Craig. 1988. Comparison of Berkeley and CALNET magnitude estimates as a means of evaluating temporal consistency of magnitudes in California. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 78:1255-1267.

Habermann, R. E. 1991. Seismicity rate variations and systematic changes in magnitudes in teleseismic catalogs. Tectonophysics 193:277-289.

Harrison, J. C. 1976. Cavity and topographic effects in tilt and strain measurement. J. Geophys. Res. 81:319-328.

Harrison, J. C. 1976. Tilt observations in the Poorman mine, near Boulder, Colorado. J. Geophys. Res. 81:329-336.

Harrison, J. C., J. Levine, C. M. Meertens. 1983. Design of a deep borehole tiltmeter. Proc. Ninth Intn'l Symp. on Earth Tides: 273-281.

Harvey, D. J. 1981. Seismogram synthesis using normal mode superposition: the locked mode approximation. Geophys. J. Roy. Astro Soc. 66:37-69.

Harvey, D .J., M. Wyss. 1986. Comparison of a complex rupture model with the precursor asperities of the 1975 Hawaii Ms 7.2 earthquake. Pure & Appl. Geophys. 124:957-973.

Hebenstreit, G. T., E. N. Bernard. 1985. Azimuthal variations in tsunami interaction with multiple-island systems. J. Geophys. Res. 90:3353-3360.

Herrmann, R. B. 1975. The use of duration as a measure of seismic moment and magnitude. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 65:899-913.

Johnson, L. E., F. Gilbert. 1972. A new datum for use in the body wave travel time inverse problem. Geophys. J. Roy. Astor. Soc. 30:373-380.

Jones, C. H., H. Kanamori, S. W. Roecker. 1994. Missing roots and mantle "drips": regional Pn and teleseismic arrival times in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California. J. Geophys. Res. 99:4567-4601.

Jones, C. H., R. Phinney. 1998. Seismic structure of the lithosphere from teleseismic converted arrivals observed at small arrays in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California. J. Geophys. Res. 103:10,065-10090.

Khattri, K., M. Wyss. 1978. Precursory variation in seismicity rate in the Assam area, India. Geology 6:685-688.

Kisslinger, C. 1975. Processes during the Matsushiro, Japan earthquake swarm as revealed by leveling, gravity, and spring-flow observations. Geology. 3:57-62.

Kisslinger, C. 1988. An experiment in earthquake prediction and the 7 May 1986 Andreanof Islands earthquake. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 78:218-2229.

Kisslinger, C., L. M. Jones. 1991. Properties of aftershock sequences in southern California. J. Geophys. Res. 96:11,947-11,958.

Kisslinger, C. 1996. Aftershocks and fault-zone properties. Advances in Geophysics 30:1-36.

Liang, B., C. Kisslinger, C. Bryan. 1995. Estimates of the stress field in Kilauea's south flank, Hawaii. Geophys. J. Int'l. 123:213-231.

Martin, R. J. III, M. Wyss. 1975. Magnetism of rocks and volumetric strain in uniaxial failure tests. Pure and Appl. Geophys. 113:51-61.

Martin, R. J. III, R. E. Habermann, M. Wyss. 1978. The effect of stress cycling and inelastic volumetric strain on remanent magnetization. J. Geophys. Res. 83:3485-3496.

Meertens, C. M., R. B. Smith. 1991. Crustal deformation of the Yellowstone caldera from first GPS measurements: 1987-1989. Geophys. Res. Letters 18:1763-1766.

Mizutani, H., H. Spetzler, H. Murakami. 1982. Brittle behavior of rocks at high pressure, High Pressure Research in Geophysics. Advances in Earth and Planetary Sciences 12:207-215.

Paffenholz, J., H. Burkhardt. 1989. Absorption and modulus measurements in the seismic frequency and strain range on partially saturated sedimentary rocks. J. Geophys. Res. 94:9493-9507.

Peltier, W. R. 1972. Penetrative convection in the planetary mantle. Geophys. Fluid Dynamics 5:47-88.

Qamar, A. 1973. Revised velocities in the Earth's core. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 63:1073-1105.

Qamar, A., A. Eisenberg.1974. The damping of core waves. J. Geophys. Res. 79:758- 765.

Resovsky, J. S., M. H. Ritzwoller. 1999. A degree 8 mantle shear velocity model from normal mode observations below 3 mHz. J. Geophys. Res. 104:993-1014.

Riad, S., H. Meyers. 1985. Earthquake catalog for the Middle East countries, 1900- 1983, World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics. Report SE-40:1-127, NOAA, Boulder, CO.

Rikitake, T. 1975. Statistics of ultimate strain of the earth's crust and probability of earthquake occurrence. Tectonophysics 26:1-21.

Ritzwoller, M. H., E. M. Lavely. 1995. Three-dimensional seismic models of the Earth's mantle. Rev. Geophys. 33:1-66.

Ritzwoller, M. H., A. L. Levshin. 1998. Eurasian surface wave tomography: Group velocities. J. Geophys. Res. 103:4839-4878.

Robertson, D., G. Sasagawa, F. Klopping, R. Bilham. 1996. The use of differencing to eliminate environmental effects in the intercomparison of absolute gravity meters. Geophys. Res. Let. 23:245-248.

Robertson, D. 1996. Treating absolute gravity data as a spacecraft tracking problem. Metrologia 33:545-548.

Robertson, D. S. 1999. Algorithmic Information Theory, free will, and the Turing test. Complexity 4:25-34.

Robertson, D. S. 2001. Using absolute gravimeter data to determine vertical gravity gradients. Metrologia 38:147-153.

Rundle, J. B. 1993. Magnitude-frequency relations using a statistical-mechanical approach. J. Geophys. Res. 98:21,943-21,949.

Rundle, J. B., W. Klein, S. Gross. 1996. Dynamics of a traveling density wave model for earthquakes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 76:4285-4288.

Rundle, J. B., E. Preston, S. McGinnis, W. Klein. 1998. Why earthquakes stop: Growth and arrest in stochastic fields. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80:5698-5701.

Sasao, T., J. Wahr. 1981. An excitation mechanism for the free 'core nutation.' Geophys. J. Roy. Astro Soc. 64:729-746.

Scherbaum, F., C. Kisslinger. 1984. Variations of apparent stresses and stress drops prior to the earthquake of 6 May 1984 (mb=5.8) in the Adak seismic zone. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 74:2577-2592.

Scherbaum, F. 1990. Combined inversion for the three-dimensional Q structure and source parameters using microearthquake spectra. J. Geophys. Res. 95:12,423- 12,438.

Schwartz, J. P., D. S. Robertson, T. M. Niebauer, J. E. Faller. 1998. A free-fall determination of the Newtonian constant of gravity. Science 282:2230-2234.

Sheehan, A. F., Abers, G. A., Jones, C. H., Lerner-Lam, A. L. 1995. Crustal thickness variations across the Colorado Rocky Mountains from teleseismic receiver functions. J. Geophys. Res. 100:20,391-20,404.

Slater, L. E. 1981. Episodic block motion and convergence along the Calaveras fault in central California. Tectonophysics 71:87-94.

Slater, L. E., J. O. Langbein, M. F. Linker, A. McGarr. 1982. Observations of strain accumulation across the San Andreas fault near Palmdale, CA, with a two-color geodimeter. Science 218:1217-1219.

Smith, M. L., F. A. Dahlen. 1981. The period and Q of the Chandler wobble, Geophys. J. Roy. Astro, Soc. 64:223-281.

Soga, N., H. Mizutani, H. Spetzler, R. J. Martin III. 1978. The effect of dilatancy on velocity anisotropy in Westerly granite. J. Geophys. Res. 83:4451-4458.

Sondergeld, C. H., L. A. Granryd, H.A. Spetzler. 1979. Compressional velocity measurements for a highly fractured lunar anorthosite. Tenth Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 2147-2154.

Sondergeld, C. H., L. H. Estey, 1981. Acoustic emission study of microfracturing during the cyclic loading of Westerly granite. J. Geophys. Res. 86:2915-2924.

Spall, H. 1970. Paleomagnetic evidence for a Cretaceous disturbing event in the Precambrian Johnny Lyon granodiorite, Cochise County, Arizona. J. Geol. 79:118-122.

Spetzler, H. A., I. C. Getting, R. J. Martin III, Application of holographic interferometry to high pressure experiments. High-Pressure Science and Technology 1:883- 899, 1979.

Spetzler, H., C. Sondergeld, G. Sobolev, B. Salov. 1987. Seismic and strain studies on large laboratory rock samples being stressed to failure. Tectonophysics 144:55-68.

Spetzler, H., A. Yoneda. 1993. Performance of the complete travel-time equation of state at high pressure and temperature. Pure and Appl. Geophys. 141:379-392.

Tanaka, T. 1976. Effect of dilatancy on ocean load tides. Pure and Appl. Geophys. 114:415-423.

Toth, T., C. Kisslinger. 1984. Revised focal depths and velocity model for local earthquakes in the Adak seismic zone. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer. 74:1349-1360.

Wahr, J., M. Wyss. 1980. Interpretation of post-seismic deformation with a viscoelastic relaxation model. J. Geophys. Res. 85:6471-6477.

Wahr, J. M. 1984. Normal modes of the coupled earth and ocean system. J. Geophys. Res. 89:7621-7630.

Wahr, J., D. de Vries. 1989. The possibility of lateral structure inside the core and its implications for nutation and earth tide observations. Geophys. J. Int. 99:511-519.

Wier, S. 1982. Surface wave dispersion and Earth structure in southeastern China. Geophys. J. Roy. Astro. Soc. 69:33-47.

Wyss, M. 1973. Towards a physical understanding of the earthquake frequency distribution. Geophys. J. Roy. Astro. Soc. 31:341-359.

Wyss, M., F. W. Klein, A. Johnston. 1981. Precursors to the Kalapana M=7.2 earthquake. J. Geophys. Res. 86:3881-3900.

Wyss, M., R. E. Habermann. 1988. Precursory seismic quiescence. Pure and Appl. Geophys. 126:319-332.

Wyss, M. (Ed). 1991. Evaluation of proposed earthquake precursors, 1989/1990 IASPEI Sub-commission on Earthquake Prediction, AGU Monograph: 1-94.

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