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List of works by Walter D. Mooney

A crustal model of the ultrahigh-pressure Dabie Shan orogenic belt, China, derived from deep seismic refraction profiling

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A seismic refraction survey of the Imperial Valley Region, California

scientific article published on 10 February 1984

A seismic study of Yucca Mountain and vicinity, southern Nevada; data report and preliminary results

scholarly article

A three-dimensional geophysical model of the crust in the Barents Sea region: model construction and basement characterization

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Accretion and subduction tectonics in the Chugach Mountains and Copper River Basin, Alaska: Initial results of the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect

scholarly article by Robert A. Page et al published 1986 in Geology

Aftershock imaging using a dense seismometer array (AIDA) after the 2011 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake

scholarly article published 11 December 2014

Application of wave field continuation to the inversion of refraction data

scientific article published on 10 February 1982

Archean and Proterozoic crustal evolution: Evidence from crustal seismology

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Basin and range crustal and upper mantle structure, northwest to central Nevada

scientific article published on 10 April 1991

Building damage survey and microtremor measurements for the source region of the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake

scholarly article by Masumi Yamada et al published 13 July 2016 in Earth, Planets and Space

CRUST 5.1: A global crustal model at 5° × 5°

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CRUSTAL STRUCTURE ALONG THE GEOSCIENCES TRANSECT FROM ALTAY TO ALTUN TAGH

article published in 2004

Comment and Reply on "Archean and Proterozoic crustal evolution: Evidence from crustal seismology"

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Comparison of Synthetic Pseudoabsolute Response Spectral Acceleration (PSA) for Four Crustal Regions within Central and Eastern North America (CENA)

Continental roots go with the flow

scientific article published in Nature

Corrigendum to “Crustal structure of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau from the Southern Tarim Basin to the Sichuan Basin, China” [Tectonophysics 584 (2013) 191–208]

scientific article published in August 2013

Cratonic root beneath North America shifted by basal drag from the convecting mantle

Crust and Lithospheric Structure - Global Crustal Structure

Crust and Lithospheric Structure – Global Crustal Structure

Crustal P wave velocity structure beneath the SE margin of the Tibetan Plateau from Deep Seismic Sounding results

scientific article published in March 2019

Crustal P-wave velocity structure from Altyn Tagh to Longmen mountains along the Taiwan-Altay geoscience transect

article published in 2005

Crustal Structure of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau from the Southern Tarim Basin to the Sichuan Basin, China

scientific article published in January 2013

Crustal imaging of northern Harrat Rahat, Saudi Arabia, from ambient noise tomography

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Crustal structure along the west flank of the Cascades, western Washington

scientific article

Crustal structure and composition of the southern Foothills Metamorphic Belt, Sierra Nevada, California, from seismic data

scientific article

Crustal structure beneath exposed accreted terranes of Southern Alaska

scholarly article by Gary S. Fuis et al published April 1987 in Geophysical Journal International

Crustal structure of China from deep seismic sounding profiles

scientific article published in March 1998

Crustal structure of accreted terranes in southern Alaska, Chugach Mountains and Copper River Basin, from seismic refraction results

scientific article published on 10 March 1991

Crustal structure of northeastern California

scientific article published on 10 June 1986

Crustal structure of southwestern Saudi Arabia

scientific article published in 1983

Crustal structure of the Chugach Mountains, southern Alaska: A study of peg-leg multiples from a low-velocity zone

scientific article published on 10 November 1989

Crustal structure of the Columbia Plateau: Evidence for continental rifting

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Crustal structure of the Imperial Valley region

scientific article published in 1982

Crustal structure of the Northwestern Basin and Range Province from the 1986 Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere Seismic Experiment

scientific article published in 1990

Data report for seismic refraction surveys conducted from 1980 to 1982 in the Livermore Valley and the Santa Cruz Mountains, California

scientific article published in 1999

Deep Structure of the Eastern Himalayan Collision Zone: Evidence for Underthrusting and Delamination in the Postcollisional Stage

scientific article published in October 2019

Deep crustal structure of the Cascade Range and surrounding regions from seismic refraction and magnetotelluric data

scientific article published in 1990

Density of the continental roots: compositional and thermal contributions

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Density, temperature, and composition of the North American lithosphere-New insights from a joint analysis of seismic, gravity, and mineral physics data: 1. Density structure of the crust and upper mantle

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Geophysical framework of the continental United States; Progress, problems, and opportunities for research

Ground‐Motion Prediction Equations for Western Saudi Arabia

Integrated geologic and geophysical studies of North American continental intraplate seismicity

Introduction to Special Section: The Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect (TACT) Across Arctic Alaska

scholarly article

Is the Ordos Basin floored by a trapped oceanic plateau?

scholarly article

Lithospheric Buoyancy and Continental Intraplate Stresses

article published in 2003

Mantle origin of the Emeishan large igneous province (South China) from the analysis of residual gravity anomalies

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NACr14: A 3D model for the crustal structure of the North American Continent

scientific article published in September 2014

On the relations between cratonic lithosphere thickness, plate motions, and basal drag

Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada

scientific article published in Science

Pore-fluid migration and the timing of the 2005 M8.7 Nias earthquake

scholarly article by Kristin L.H. Hughes et al published April 2011 in Lithosphere

Preface

Preliminary interpretation of seismic-refraction and gravity studies west of Yucca Mountain, Nevada and California

scientific article published in 1988

Proceedings of the 1980 workshop of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior on the seismic modeling of laterally varying structures; contributions based on data from the 1978 Saudi Arabian refraction profile

Proceedings of the 25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop

scientific article published in 2010

Processes of lithosphere evolution: new evidence on the structure of the continental crust and uppermost mantle

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Reflection imaging using earthquake sources: A novel application of reverse vertical seismic profiling (RVSP)

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Reflection imaging with earthquake sources and dense arrays

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Regional crustal structure and tectonics of the Pacific Coastal States; California, Oregon, and Washington

scientific article published in January 1989

Regional seismic-wave propagation from the M5.8 23 August 2011, Mineral, Virginia, earthquake

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Relocated Hypocenters and Structural Analysis from Waveform Modeling of Aftershocks from the 2011 Prague, Oklahoma, Earthquake Sequence

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Results of a reconnaissance microearthquake survey of Bucaramanga, Colombia

scholarly article by Wayne D. Pennington et al published February 1979 in Geophysical Research Letters

Rupture History of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake: Evaluation of Separate and Joint Inversions of Geodetic, Teleseismic, and Strong‐Motion Data

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Saudi Arabian seismic deep-refraction profiles; final project report

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Scientific basis for safely shutting in the Macondo Well after the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout

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Seismic anisotropy and mantle creep in young orogens

Seismic characteristics of central Brazil crust and upper mantle: A deep seismic refraction study

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Seismic evidence for active magmatic underplating beneath the Basin and Range Province, western United States

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Seismic methods for determining earthquake source parameters and lithospheric structure

scientific article published in January 1989

Seismic refraction studies of the Imperial Valley region, California: profile models, a traveltime contour map, and a gravity model

article published in 1981

Seismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of South America and surrounding oceanic basins

scientific article published in 2013

Seismic velocity structure and composition of the continental crust: A global view

scholarly article

Seismic velocity structure of the crust and shallow mantle of the Central and Eastern United States by seismic surface wave imaging

scholarly article

Shear wave velocity, seismic attenuation, and thermal structure of the continental upper mantle

Surface deformations of the 6 February 2023 earthquake sequence, eastern Türkiye

scientific article published on 18 January 2024

Synthetic seismogram modeling for the laterally varying structure in the central Imperial Valley

scientific article published in 1982

The 17 July 2006 Tsunami Earthquake in West Java, Indonesia

scholarly article by J. Mori et al published 1 March 2007 in Seismological Research Letters

The MW 7.0 Haiti Earthquake of January 12, 2010: USGS/EERI Advance Reconnaissance Team Report

scholarly article by Marc O. Eberhard et al published 2010 in Open-File Report

The North American upper mantle: Density, composition, and evolution

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The crustal structure from the Altai Mountains to the Altyn Tagh fault, northwest China

scientific article published in June 2003

The crustal structure of the axis of the Great Valley, California, from seismic refraction measurements

scientific article published in August 1987

Thermal thickness and evolution of Precambrian lithosphere: A global study

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Thin, low-velocity crust beneath the southern Yukon-Tanana Terrane, east central Alaska: Results from Trans-Alaska crustal transect refraction/wide-angle reflection data

scientific article published on 10 February 1992

Three-dimensional crustal structure of the southern Sierra Nevada from seismic fan profiles and gravity modeling

scholarly article by Moritz M. Fliedner et al published April 1996 in Geology

Three-dimensional velocity structure of crust and upper mantle in southwestern China and its tectonic implications

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Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect and continental evolution involving subduction underplating and synchronous foreland thrusting

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Transition from slab to slabless: Results from the 1993 Mendocino triple junction seismic experiment

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Two lithospheric profiles across southern California derived from gravity and seismic data

scientific article published in March 2007

Two-stage Red Sea rifting inferred from mantle earthquakes in Neoproterozoic lithosphere

scholarly article by Alexander R. Blanchette et al published September 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Upper mantle velocity structure beneath the Arabian shield from Rayleigh surface wave tomography and its implications

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Validation of the rupture properties of the 2001 Kunlun, China (Ms= 8.1), earthquake from seismological and geological observations

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Variations of the lithospheric strength and elastic thickness in North America

scientific article published in July 2015

Weakness of the lower continental crust: a condition for delamination, uplift, and escape

scientific article published in October 1998