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School of Earth, Engergy & Environmental SciencesCrustal Geophysics

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2017

2017 Blanchette, A. R., Klemperer, S. L., Mooney, W. D., Zahran, H. M., El-Hadidy, S. Y. Active Lithospheric Thinning at the Red Sea Margin Implied by Sub-Moho Earthquakes [poster]

2016

2016  Barak, S., and Klemperer, S.L. Rapid variation in upper-mantle rheology across the San Andreas fault system and Salton Trough, southernmost California, USA. Geology, v. 44, #7, doi: 10 .1130 /G37847 .1. [download .pdf]

2016  Barak, S., and S., L., Klemperer, Imaging of upper-mantle upwelling beneath the Salton Trough, by joint inversion of ambient noise dispersion and receiver functions, abstract/poster, T21B-2816, AGU Fall Meeting 2016 [PDF]

2016 Blanchette, A. R., Klemperer, S. L., Mooney, W. D., Zahran, H. M., El-Hadidy, S. Y. Receiver Function Analysis of the Arabian Plate and Deep Earthquakes Beneath Harrat Lunayyir, (poster), IRIS Workshop 2016 [abstract] [poster]

2016  Gao, R., Lu, Z., Klemperer, S.L., Wang, H., Dong, S., Li, W., and Li, H.  Crustal-scale duplexing beneath the Yarlung Zangbo suture in the western Himalaya. Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2730. [Read full paper] [Download Supplementary Material][Download SEG-Y migrated reflection data (130Mb)]

2016 Liang, X., Chen, Y., Tian, X., Chen, Y.J., Ni, J., Gallegos, A., Klemperer, S.L., Wang, M., Xu, T., Sun, C. and Si, S. 3D imaging of subducting and fragmenting Indian continental lithosphere beneath southern and central Tibet using body-wave finite-frequency tomography. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 443, pp.162-175. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.029 [download .pdf]

2016 Shi, D., Zhao, W., Klemperer, S.L., Wu, Z., Mechie, J., Xue, G., Su, H., and Shi, J. Transition from underplating to steep subduction in the India-Tibet collision zone revealed by receiver function profiles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 452, pp. 171-177, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.051.  [download .pdf]

2015

2015  Athens, N., Glen, J., Klemperer, S.L., Egger, A., Fontiveros, V.  Hidden intra-basin extension: Evidence for dike-fault interaction from magnetic, gravity, and seismic reflection data in Surprise Valley, NE California. Geosphere, v. 12, no. 1, p. 1–11, doi: 10.1130/GES01173.1 [download .pdf]

2015  Barak, S., S. L. Klemperer, and J. F. Lawrence, San Andreas Fault dip, Peninsular Ranges mafic lower crust and partial melt in the Salton Trough, Southern California, from ambient-noise tomography, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., v. 16, doi:10.1002/2015GC005970. [download .pdf]

2015   Klemperer, S.L., Liu, T., Hilton, D., Karlstrom, K., and Zhao, P. Does the "mantle" helium signature provide useful information about the lithospheric architecture of Tibet/Himalaya? AGU 2015 Fall meeting, invited talk T13G-03 [abstract]

2015   Shi, D., Wu, Z., Klemperer, S.L., Zhao, W., Xue, G., Su, H.   Receiver function imaging of crustal suture, steep subduction, and mantle wedge in the eastern India–Tibet continental collision zone.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 414, 6-15. [download .pdf]

2015 Tian, X., Chen, Y., Tseng, T.L., Klemperer, S.L., Thybo, H., Liu, Z., Xu, T., Liang, X., Bai, Z., Zhang, X. and Si, S. Weakly coupled lithospheric extension in southern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 430, pp.171-177. [download .pdf]

2014

2014 Barak, S., Klemperer, S.L. & Lawrence, J., “Ambient Noise Tomography of Southern California Images Dipping San Andreas-Parallel Structure and Low-Velocity Salton Trough Mantle”, (abstract, poster), AGU 2014 Fall meeting, T31B-4583. [download .PDF]

2014  Castillo, C.M., Francis, R.D., Klemperer, S.L., Legg, M.R.  Late Quaternary Subsidence of Santa Catalina Island, southern California Borderland, from submerged paleoshorelines.  Submitted to EPSL October 2014. [download .pdf]

2014 Klemperer, S.L., Shi, D., Wu, Z., Zhao, W., Xue, G., and Xu, H. West-East variability in Indian subduction geometry: new seismic receiver-function profile across the Himalaya and Lhasa terranes at 92°E. AGU 2014 Fall meeting, invited talk T11E-01. [abstract]

 

2014 Litherland, M. and Klemperer S.L. Receiver Function Imaging of the Ruby Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Abstract 17-3 presented at Rocky Mountain (66th Annual) and Cordilleran (110th Annual) Joint Meeting May 2014. [download .pdf]

 

Lithospheric Structure of Ordos, China: Evidence from Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS)

2014 Zamudio, K. D., Klemperer, S. L., Sastry, S., Harinarayana, T. Geochemical Characterization and Geothermometry of Thermal Springs of Northwest India. (abstract, poster), AGU 2014 Fall Meeting, V21A-4743. [download.pdf]

2013

2013, Barak, S. & Beroza, G.C, "The Effect of Horizontal Advection of Topography and Time Dependent Crustal Deformation on Tsunami Generation", AGU abstract NH41B-1707, 2013 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. [pdf]

2013  Caldwell, W.B., Klemperer, S.L., Lawrence, J.F., Rai, S.S., and Ashish.  Characterizing the Main Himalayan Thrust in the Garhwal Himalaya, India with receiver function CCP stacking.  Earth Planetary Science Letters, 2013, 367, 15-27, 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.009.  [Download .pdf] (findings highlighted in Nature India: download .pdf)

2013  Castillo, C.M., Francis, R.D., Klemperer, S.L., Legg, M.R. Miocene to Quaternary vertical motion of the Channel Islands:  signatures of transform tectonics.  GSA Abstract #232980 Fall Meeting, 2013. [download .pdf]

2013   Fraser-Smith, A.C., McPhee, D.K., Glen, J.M., Klemperer, S.L., McGill, P.R., and Bernardi, A.  Comments on "On the reported magnetic precursor of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake" by J. N. Thomas, J. J. Love, and M. J. S. Johnston, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.  [Download .pdf]

2013  Kappler, K.N., McPhee, D.K., Glen, J.M.,  Klemperer, S.L.  ULFEM Time-Series-Analysis Package.  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1285, 326 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131285 [download .pdf]

2013  Karplus, M.S., Klemperer, S.L., Lawrence, J.F., Zhao, W., Mechie, J., Tilmann, F., Sandvol, E., and Ni, J.  Ambient-noise tomography of north Tibet limits geological terrane signature to upper-middle crust.  Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 808-813, doi:10.1002/GRL.50202, 2013. [Download .pdf]

2013  Klemperer, S.L., Kennedy, B.M., Sastry, S.R., Makovsky, Y., Harinarayana, T., and Leech, M.L.  Mantle fluids in the Karakoram fault: Helium isotope evidence,  Earth Planetary Science Letters, 366, 59-70, 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.013. [Download .pdf] (findings highlighted in Nature India: download .pdf)