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List of works by Michael H. Ritzwoller

A 3-D model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the Central and Western US by joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

A 3-D shear velocity model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the United States from ambient seismic noise

A resolved mantle anomaly as the cause of the Australian-Antarctic Discordance

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A synoptic view of the distribution and connectivity of the mid-crustal low velocity zone beneath Tibet

scientific article published in 2012

Ability of a global three-dimensional model to locate regional events

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Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography across Europe

Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography of New Zealand

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Ambient noise surface wave tomography of the Iberian Peninsula: Implications for shallow seismic structure

article by Antonio H. Villaseñor et al published 9 June 2007 in Geophysical Research Letters

Ambient noise tomography with a large seismic array

Ambient seismic noise tomography of Canada and adjacent regions: Part I. Crustal structures

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Apparent anisotropy in inhomogeneous isotropic media

Bathymetry of the Pacific plate and its implications for thermal evolution of lithosphere and mantle dynamics

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Broadband ambient noise surface wave tomography across the United States

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Can the differential sensitivity of body wave, mantle wave, and normal mode data resolve the trade-off between transition zone structure and boundary topography?

Characteristics of ambient seismic noise as a source for surface wave tomography

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Complex and variable crustal and uppermost mantle seismic anisotropy in the western United States

Cooling history of the Pacific lithosphere

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Crust and uppermost mantle beneath the North China Craton, northeastern China, and the Sea of Japan from ambient noise tomography

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Crustal and upper mantle structure beneath Antarctica and surrounding oceans

scientific article published on 10 December 2001

Crustal and uppermost mantle structure beneath the United States

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Crustal and uppermost mantle structure in southern Africa revealed from ambient noise and teleseismic tomography

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Crustal and uppermost mantle structure in the central U.S. encompassing the Midcontinent Rift

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Crustal layering in northeastern Tibet: a case study based on joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

Crustal radial anisotropy across Eastern Tibet and the Western Yangtze Craton

Crustal shear wave velocity structure of the western United States inferred from ambient seismic noise and earthquake data

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Crustal structure determined from ambient noise tomography near the magmatic centers of the Coso region, southeastern California

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Crustal structure of the northeastern Tibetan plateau, the Ordos block and the Sichuan basin from ambient noise tomography

Deep water acoustic range estimation based on an ocean general circulation model: Application to PhilSea10 data

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Eikonal tomography: surface wave tomography by phase front tracking across a regional broad-band seismic array

article by Fan-Chi Lin et al published June 2009 in Geophysical Journal International

Empirically determined finite frequency sensitivity kernels for surface waves

Epicentral location based on Rayleigh wave Empirical Green's Functions from ambient seismic noise

Global surface wave diffraction tomography

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Helmholtz surface wave tomography for isotropic and azimuthally anisotropic structure

High-resolution surface-wave tomography from ambient seismic noise

scientific article published in March 2005

Inferring the oriented elastic tensor from surface wave observations: preliminary application across the western United States

Is ambient noise tomography across ocean basins possible?

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Joint inversion of surface wave dispersion and receiver functions: a Bayesian Monte-Carlo approach

Lithospheric structure of the Canadian Shield inferred from inversion of surface-wave dispersion with thermodynamic a priori constraints

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Minor-arc and major-arc global surface wave diffraction tomography

Monte-Carlo inversion for a global shear-velocity model of the crust and upper mantle

New constraints on the arctic crust and uppermost mantle: surface wave group velocities, Pn, and Sn

New evidence for dislocation creep from 3-D geodynamic modeling of the Pacific upper mantle structure

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On the reliability of attenuation measurements from ambient noise cross-correlations

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Origins of topography in the western U.S.: Mapping crustal and upper mantle density variations using a uniform seismic velocity model

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Pn and Sn tomography across Eurasia to improve regional seismic event locations

Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements

article by G. D. Bensen et al published June 2007 in Geophysical Journal International

Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps of Tibet and the surrounding regions from ambient seismic noise tomography

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Seismic evidence for catastrophic slab loss beneath Kamchatka

scientific article published on August 2002

Seismic evidence for lithospheric modification associated with intracontinental volcanism in Northeastern China

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Seismic evidence for widespread western-US deep-crustal deformation caused by extension

scientific article published in Nature

Shear velocity structure of central Eurasia from inversion of surface wave velocities

article by Antonio H. Villaseñor et al published April 2001 in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Slab portal beneath the western Aleutians

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Source location of the 26 sec microseism from cross-correlations of ambient seismic noise

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Stratification of anisotropy in the Pacific upper mantle

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Structural context of the great Sumatra-Andaman Islands earthquake

scholarly article by Nikolai M. Shapiro et al published 5 March 2008 in Geophysical Research Letters

Structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the western United States revealed by ambient noise and earthquake tomography

scholarly article by Yingjie Yang et al published 30 December 2008 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Surface Wave Isotropic and Azimuthally Anisotropic Dispersion Across Alaska and the Alaska‐Aleutian Subduction Zone

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Surface wave tomography of China from ambient seismic noise correlation

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Surface wave tomography of the Barents Sea and surrounding regions

Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh and Love wave phase velocity maps

article by Fan-Chi Lin et al published April 2008 in Geophysical Journal International

Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh wave group velocity maps

article by M. P. Moschetti et al published August 2007 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Surface wave tomography on a large-scale seismic array combining ambient noise and teleseismic earthquake data

scholarly article published February 2011

Teleseismic surface wave tomography in the western U.S. using the Transportable Array component of USArray

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The local amplification of surface waves: A new observable to constrain elastic velocities, density, and anelastic attenuation

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The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath South China from ambient noise and earthquake tomography

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The use of crustal higher modes to constrain crustal structure across Central Asia

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Theory of surface nuclear magnetic resonance with applications to geophysical imaging problems

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Thermodynamic constraints on seismic inversions

article published in 2004

Thinning and flow of Tibetan crust constrained by seismic anisotropy

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Three dimensional shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath China from ambient noise surface wave tomography

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Tutorial review of seismic surface waves’ phenomenology

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