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100 years of seismic research on the Moho

scholarly article by Claus Prodehl et al published December 2013 in Tectonophysics

3D isochronal modelling of reflections from the deep crust: application to reflection profiling in central Australia

article

85.10 Synthetic seismogram calculation using the reflectivity method

scientific article published in 2003

A 2.5-D Time-Domain Elastodynamic Equation For Plane-Wave Incidence

scientific article published in May 1996

A 2.5-D time-domain elastodynamic equation for a general anisotropic medium

scientific article published in November 1996

A comparison of the upper-mantle structure beneath Eurasia and the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans

scientific article published in 1978

A low velocity zone underlying a fast-spreading rise crest

scientific article published in Nature

A novel method of hypocentre location

A reappraisal of regional surface wave tomography

scientific article published in July 2002

A review of crust and upper mantle structure beneath the Indian subcontinent

scientific article

A review of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (Mw 9.0): Large-scale rupture across heterogeneous plate coupling

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A slab in depth: Three-dimensional geometry and evolution of the Indo-Australian plate

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A unified concept for comparison of seismograms using transfer functions

A wavelet-based method for simulation of two-dimensional elastic wave propagation

scientific article published in September 2002

Ambient seismic noise tomography of Australian continent

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An integrated multi-scale 3D seismic model of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton, Australia

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Anisotropy in the Australasian upper mantle from Love and Rayleigh waveform inversion

scientific article published in December 2000

Anisotropy in the subducting slab: Observations from Philippine Sea plate events in Taiwan

scientific article

Anomalous surface waves associated with deep earthquakes, generated at an ocean ridge

scientific article published in September 1998

Areal parameter estimates from multiple datasets

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Areal parameter estimates from multiple datasets

AuSREM: Australian Seismological Reference Model

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AusMoho: the variation of Moho depth in Australia

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Australia's Moho: A test of the usefulness of gravity modelling for the determination of Moho depth

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Australian Seismological Reference Model (AuSREM): crustal component

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Australian Seismological Reference Model (AuSREM): mantle component

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Author Correction: Next-generation seismic model of the Australian crust from synchronous and asynchronous ambient noise imaging

correction of a scholarly article

Automatic infrasonic signal detection using the Hough transform

scientific article published on 3 September 2008

Azimuthal Variation of Lithospheric Heterogeneity in the Northwest Pacific Inferred From Po/So Propagation Characteristics and Anomalously Large Ground Motion of Deep In‐Slab Earthquakes

Boudinage of a stretching slablet implicated in earthquakes beneath the Hindu Kush

scientific article published on 24 February 2008

Boundary value ray tracing in a heterogeneous medium: a simple and versatile algorithm

article by M. S. Sambridge & B. L. N. Kennett published April 1990 in Geophysical Journal International

Chapter 7 A Scattering Waveguide in the Heterogeneous Subducting Plate

scientific article published in 2008

Common-Reflection-Point-Based Prestack Depth Migration for Imaging Lithosphere in Python: Application to the Dense Warramunga Array in Northern Australia

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Comparison of Location Procedures: The Kara Sea Event of 16 August 1997

scientific article published in April 2007

Comparison of crustal and upper mantle heterogeneity in different time periods: Indonesian subduction zone to northern Australia

article

Consistency regions in non-linear inversion

scientific article published in May 2004

Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from traveltimes

scientific article

Continental scale shear wave splitting analysis: Investigation of seismic anisotropy underneath the Australian continent

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Contrasts in lithospheric structure within the Australian craton—insights from surface wave tomography

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Contrasts in regional seismic wave propagation to station WMQ in central Asia

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Core structure and heterogeneity: a seismological perspective∗

Crustal Imaging with Bayesian Inversion of Teleseismic P‐wave Coda Autocorrelation

scholarly article

Crustal architecture of the Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia and associated metallogeny

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Crustal properties from seismic station autocorrelograms

scientific article published on 6 December 2012

Crustal structure of Australia from ambient seismic noise tomography

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Crustal structure of a Proterozoic craton boundary: East Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia, imaged with passive seismic and gravity anomaly data

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Crustal surface wave velocity structure of the east Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia, from ambient noise recordings

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Determination of the influence zone for surface wave paths

scientific article published in May 2002

Developments in passive seismic techniques through the ANSIR National Research Facility

Distinctive seismic reflections from the subducting Pacific slab for earthquakes in the Ryukyu arc

scholarly article

Dynamic Earth: crustal and mantle heterogeneity

Earth Structure Across Many Scales

Earth Structure, Major Divisions

Earth's Correlation Wavefield: Late Coda Correlation

scholarly article

Earthquake location — genetic algorithms for teleseisms

scholarly article by B.L.N. Kennett & M.S. Sambridge published December 1992 in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Effects of the density perturbation in scattering

scientific article published in July 2004

Enhanced waveguide effect for deep-focus earthquakes in the subducting Pacific slab produced by a metastable olivine wedge

scientific article published in September 2016

Evolution of mantle structure beneath the northwest Pacific: Evidence from seismic tomography and paleogeographic reconstructions

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Evolution of the correlation wavefield extracted from seismic event coda

Extending shear-wave tomography for the lower mantle using S and SKS arrival-time data

scientific article

Fiber-Optic Airplane Seismology on the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream

Flexible computation of teleseismic synthetics for source and structural studies

scientific article published in December 2000

Frequency dependence of seismic wave attenuation in the upper mantle beneath the Australian region

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Full seismic waveform tomography for upper-mantle structure in the Australasian region using adjoint methods

Full waveform tomography for radially anisotropic structure: New insights into present and past states of the Australasian upper mantle

Genetic algorithm inversion for receiver functions with application to crust and uppermost mantle structure beneath eastern Australia

article

Geophysical Continua

Geophysical evidence for 'thick-skinned' crustal deformation in central Australia

scientific article published in Nature

Geophysics: A new way to estimate seismic source parameters

scientific article published in Nature

Global Love wave overtone measurements

scientific article published on 2 February 2007

Global anisotropic phase velocity maps for higher mode Love and Rayleigh waves

scientific article published in March 2008

Global azimuthal seismic anisotropy and the unique plate-motion deformation of Australia

scientific article published in Nature

Guided wave attenuation in laterally varying media

High-frequency Po/So guided waves in the oceanic lithosphere: II—heterogeneity and attenuation

scholarly article

High-frequency Po/So guided waves in the oceanic lithosphere: I—long-distance propagation

scientific article published on 7 October 2013

High-frequency ground motion from Australian earthquakes

High-frequency waves guided by the subducted plates underneath Taiwan and their association with seismic intensity anomalies

scientific article published in February 2013

How to reconcile body-wave and normal-mode reference earth models

article published in 1996

Hypocentre location: genetic algorithms incorporating problem-specific information

scholarly article by S. D. Billings et al published September 1994 in Geophysical Journal International

Imaging Earth

scientific article published in Nature

Imaging architecture of the Jakarta Basin, Indonesia with transdimensional inversion of seismic noise

scholarly article by E. Saygin et al published 15 December 2015 in Geophysical Journal International

Imaging changes in morphology, geometry, and physical properties of the subducting Pacific plate along the Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc

scientific article

Imaging crustal structure variation across southeastern Australia

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Improving global shear wave traveltime tomography usingthree-dimensional ray tracing and iterative inversion

scientific article published in June 2000

Insights into the structure of the upper mantle beneath the Murray basin from 3D teleseismic tomography

scientific article published in August 2006

Interactions of multi-scale heterogeneity in the lithosphere: Australia

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Interlocking of heterogeneous plate coupling and aftershock area expansion pattern for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Mw9 earthquake

scientific article published in March 2012

Intra-plate volcanism in North Queensland and eastern new Guinea: A cryptic mantle plume?

scientific article published in 2020

Intraplate seismic events off Sumatra: 3-D source evolution

scientific article published on 14 August 2018

Inversion for multiple parameter classes

Joint bulk-sound and shear tomography for Western Pacific subduction zones

scientific article published in May 2003

Lg-wave attenuation in the Australian crust

Lithosphere–asthenosphere P-wave reflectivity across Australia

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Lithospheric Structure in the Australian Region - A Synthesis of Surface Wave and Body Wave Studies

Lithospheric discontinuities in Central Australia

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Lithospheric structure of Tasmania from a novel form of teleseismic tomography

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Lithospheric structure of the Pilbara Craton, Capricorn Orogen and northern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, from teleseismic receiver functions

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Maximum depth of magnetisation of Australia, its uncertainty, and implications for Curie depth

Mid-lithosphere discontinuities beneath the western and central North China Craton

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Model-Based Velocity Analysis

Modelling of seismic waves in heterogeneous media using a wavelet-based method: application to fault and subduction zones

scientific article published in August 2003

Morphology of the distorted subducted Pacific slab beneath the Hokkaido corner, Japan

Multi-component autoregressive techniques for the analysis of seismograms

scientific article published in June 1999

Multichannel processing for airborne gamma‐ray spectrometry

scientific article published in November 1998

Multimode surface wave tomography for the Australian region using a three-stage approach incorporating finite frequency effects

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Multiscale seismic heterogeneity in the continental lithosphere

scholarly article

Multistep modelling of receiver-based seismic and ambient noise data from WOMBAT array: crustal structure beneath southeast Australia

scholarly article by Pierre Arroucau published in 2012

NW Australian intraplate seismicity and stress regime

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New constraints on the current stress field and seismic velocity structure of the eastern Yilgarn Craton from mechanisms of local earthquakes

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New constraints on the seismic structure of West Australia: Evidence for terrane stabilization prior to the assembly of an ancient continent?

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Next-generation seismic model of the Australian crust from synchronous and asynchronous ambient noise imaging

scholarly article

Non-linear methods for event location in a global context

scientific article published in September 2006

Non-linear waveform inversion for surface waves with a neighbourhood algorithm-application to multimode dispersion measurements

scientific article published in April 2002

On a Wavelet-Based Method for the Numerical Simulation of Wave Propagation

scientific article published in December 2002

On seismological reference models and the perceived nature of heterogeneity

scientific article published in December 2006

On the inner-outer core density contrast from PKiKP/PcP amplitude ratios and uncertainties caused by seismic noise

On the nature of regional seismic phases-I. Phase representations for Pn, Pg, Sn, Lg

scientific article

On the nature of regional seismic phases-III. The influence of crustal heterogeneity on the wavefield for subduction earthquakes: the 1985 Michoacan and 1995 Copala, Guerrero, Mexico earthquakes

scientific article published in December 1998

Optimal equations of state for mantle minerals from simultaneous non-linear inversion of multiple datasets

scientific article published in September 2009

Optimal spherical spline filters for the analysis and comparison of regional-scale tomographic models

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Origin of Lateral Heterogeneities in the Upper Mantle Beneath South-east Australia from Seismic Tomography

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Pervasive seismic low-velocity zones within stagnant plates in the mantle transition zone: Thermal or compositional origin?

scientific article

Phase identification and attribute analysis of broadband seismograms at far-regional distances

scientific article published in 2001

Planning and Managing Scientific Research: A guide for the beginning researcher

scientific article published on 24 March 2014

Plate reconstructions and tomography reveal a fossil lower mantle slab below the Tasman Sea

scientific article published in February 2009

Practical Earthquake Location on a Continental Scale in Australia Using the AuSREM 3D Velocity Model

scholarly article

Probabilistic surface reconstruction from multiple data sets: An example for the Australian Moho

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Probability of radial anisotropy in the deep mantle

scientific article published in June 2008

Propagation of distinct Love-wave pulses from regional to teleseismic distances in continental and oceanic environments

RESEARCH NOTE Stacking three-component seismograms

scientific article published in April 2000

Radial earth models revisited

Rapid estimation of relative and absolute delay times across a network by adaptive stacking

scientific article published in April 2004

Receiver structure from teleseisms: Autocorrelation and cross correlation

scholarly article

Refining the Moho across the Australian continent

Refining the Moho across the Australian continent

preprint

Reflection seismograms in a 3-D elastic model: an isochronal approach

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Regional Distance PL Phase in the Crustal Waveguide-An Analog to the Teleseismic W Phase in the Upper-Mantle Waveguide

scientific article published in May 2018

Regional phases in continental and oceanic environments

scientific article published in August 2001

Reply to comment by A. Tommasi and D. Mainprice on Visser et al. (2008), “Probability of radial anisotropy in the deep mantle” [Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 270 (2008) 241–250]

scientific article published in November 2008

Reply to comment by S. Crampin on ‘Global anisotropic phase velocity maps for higher mode Love and Rayleigh waves’

scientific article published in April 2009

Retrieval of Interstation Local Body Waves From Teleseismic Coda Correlations

scholarly article

Role of lithosphere in intra-continental deformation: Central Australia

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Scattering of elastic waves in media with a random distribution of fluid-filled cavities: theory and numerical modelling

scientific article published in December 2004

Sedimentary and upper crustal structure of Australia from receiver functions

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Seismic Event Location: Nonlinear Inversion Using a Neighbourhood Algorithm

article published in 2001

Seismic Phases

Seismic Source characterization using a neighbourhood algorithm

scholarly article

Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media

Seismic heterogeneity in the mantle—strong shear wave signature of slabs from joint tomography

scientific article published in August 2004

Seismic structure of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

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Seismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of the Capricorn and Paterson Orogens and adjacent cratons, Western Australia, from passive seismic transects

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Seismic tomography with P and S data reveals lateral variations in the rigidity of deep slabs

scientific article published in November 1999

Seismic wave attenuation beneath the Australasian region

scientific article published in April 2011

Seismic wavefield calculation for laterally heterogeneous earth models-II. The influence of upper mantle heterogeneity

scientific article published in December 1999

Seismic wavefield calculation for laterally heterogeneous whole earth models using the pseudospectral method

scientific article published in December 1998

Seismological insights into heterogeneity patterns in the mantle

Sensitivity kernels for finite-frequency surface waves

scientific article published in September 2005

Separating intrinsic and apparent anisotropy

scholarly article by Andreas Fichtner et al published June 2013 in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Shear wave splitting in refracted waves returned from the upper mantle transition zone beneath northern Australia

scholarly article

Signal Parameter Estimation for Sparse Arrays

Significant P wave conversions from upgoing S waves generated by very deep earthquakes around Japan

Simultaneous use of multiple seismic arrays

Sn-wave velocity structure of the uppermost mantle beneath the Australian continent

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Spatial and temporal evolution of the subducting Pacific plate structure along the western Pacific margin

scientific article

Spiral‐Arm Seismic Arrays

scholarly article

Stacking autocorrelograms to map Moho depth with high spatial resolution in southeastern Australia

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Steep reflections from the earth's core reveal small-scale heterogeneity in the upper mantle

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Steps in lithospheric thickness within eastern Australia, evidence from surface wave tomography

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Stochastic features of scattering

scientific article published in February 2005

Stochastic waveguide in the lithosphere: Indonesian subduction zone to Australian craton

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Structural controls on the Mw 9.0 2011 Offshore-Tohoku earthquake

scientific article published in October 2011

Structure of the Mt Isa region from seismic ambient noise tomography

scientific article published in October 2013

Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior—Eighth Symposium

scientific article published in November 2005

Subspace methods for large inverse problems with multiple parameter classes

article published in 1988

Tears or thinning? Subduction structures in the Pacific plate beneath the Japanese Islands

scientific article published in May 2010

Teleseismic tomography of the upper mantle beneath the southern Lachlan Orogen, Australia

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The Australian Continent: A Geophysical Synthesis

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The Influence of 3-D Structure on the Propagation of Seismic Waves Away from Earthquakes

scientific article published in August 2002

The Moho in Australia and New Zealand

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The Significance of Long‐Period Ground Motion at Regional to Teleseismic Distances From the 610‐km Deep M w 8.3 Sea of Okhotsk Earthquake of 24 May 2013

scientific article

The apparently isotropic Australian upper mantle

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The influence of lateral variations on seismic refraction interpretation

scientific article published in 1976

The inversion of surface wave data

scientific article published in 1976

The lithosphere‐asthenosphere transition and radial anisotropy beneath the Australian continent

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The nature of Earth's correlation wavefield: late coda of large earthquakes

scientific article published in June 2018

The nature of the Moho in Australia from reflection profiling: A review

The relationship of the seismic source and subduction zone structure for the 2004 December 26 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake

scientific article published in October 2005

The seismic wavefield as seen by Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) arrays: local, regional and teleseismic sources

The seismic wavefield as seen by distributed acoustic sensing arrays: local, regional and teleseismic sources

scholarly article

The structure of the upper mantle beneath the Delamerian and Lachlan orogens from simultaneous inversion of multiple teleseismic datasets

scientific article published in April 2011

The transition from the Thomson Orogen to the North Australian Craton from seismic data

The underdetermined Earth

Theoretical background for continental- and global-scale full-waveform inversion in the time-frequency domain

article published in 2008

Three-dimensional seismic structure beneath the Australasian region from refracted wave observations

scientific article published in September 2000

Three-dimensional visualization of a near-vertical slab tear beneath the southern Mariana arc

scientific article

Toward the reconciliation of seismological and petrological perspectives on oceanic lithosphere heterogeneity

scientific article

Towards a more detailed seismic picture of the oceanic crust and mantle

scientific article published in January 1977

Towards constitutive equations for the deep Earth

Tracking earthquake source evolution in 3-D

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

Tracking high-frequency seismic source evolution: 2004Mw8.1 Macquarie event

scientific article published on 22 February 2014

Transportable seismic array tomography in southeast Australia: Illuminating the transition from Proterozoic to Phanerozoic lithosphere

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Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification

scientific article published in May 1991

Two-dimensional inversion of refraction traveltimes by progressive model development

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Unusual Strong Ground Motion Across Japan From the 680 km Deep 30 May 2015 Ogasawara Islands Earthquake

scientific article published in October 2017

Upper mantle anisotropy beneath Australia and Tahiti fromPwave polarization: Implications for real-time earthquake location

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Uppermost mantle P wavespeed structure beneath eastern China and its surroundings

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Uppermost mantle structure beneath eastern China and its surroundings from Pn and Sn tomography

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Uppermost mantle structure of the Australian continent fromPntraveltime tomography

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Variations in crustal structure across the transition from West to East Antarctica, Southern Victoria Land

scientific article published in December 2003