List of works - Peter H. Molnar

1957 Gobi-Altay, Mongolia, earthquake as a prototype for southern California's most devastating earthquake

scholarly article

A bound on the rheology of continental lithosphere using very long baseline interferometry: The velocity of south China with respect to Eurasia

scientific article published on 10 January 1996

A method for bounding uncertainties in combined plate reconstructions

scientific article

A test of laboratory based rheological parameters of olivine from an analysis of late Cenozoic convective removal of mantle lithosphere beneath the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

article

Activation of a Minor Graben and Pull‐Apart Basin Just East of Bukadaban during the 2001 Kunlun Earthquake (Mw 7.8)

scholarly article

Active faulting and block rotations in the Western Transverse Ranges, California

scientific article published in 1990

Active faulting and tectonics in China

scientific article published on 10 July 1977

Cause and effect among thrust and normal faulting, anatectic melting and exhumation in the Himalaya

article

Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision

scientific article

Comment on "Slip-rate measurements on the Karakorum Fault may imply secular variations in fault motion"

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Comments and Replies on "Surface uplift, uplift of rocks, and exhumation of rocks"

article

Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros and Himalaya and of the Iranian and Tibetan plateaus and geodynamic implications

scientific article published on 29 June 2010

Constraints on the deep structure and dynamic processes beneath the Alps and adjacent regions from an analysis of gravity anomalies

scholarly article by Hélène Lyon-Caen & Peter H. Molnar published October 1989 in Geophysical Journal International

Continental tectonics in the aftermath of plate tectonics

scientific article published in Nature

Continuous Deformation Versus Faulting Through the Continental Lithosphere of New Zealand

scientific article published in Science

Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data

scholarly article

Convective instability of a boundary layer with temperature-and strain-rate-dependent viscosity in terms of 'available buoyancy'

article published in 1999

Crust in mantle overdrive

scientific article published in Nature

Crustal Shortening on the Margins of the Tien Shan, Xinjiang, China

article

Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand

article

Early Holocene climate recorded in geomorphological features in Western Tibet

article

Earth science: palaeo-altimetry of Tibet

Efficiency, stress drop, apparent stress, effective stress, and frictional stress of Denver, Colorado, earthquakes

scientific article published on 10 March 1972

Estimation of slip rates in the southern Tien Shan using cosmic ray exposure dates of abandoned alluvial fans

scholarly article

Example of a supradetachment basin within a pull-apart tectonic setting: Mormon Point, Death Valley, California

scientific article published in June 1995

Far-field lithospheric deformation in Tibet during continental collision

scientific article published in December 2009

Features of glacial valley profiles simply explained

scientific article published in 2006

Focal depths and fault plane solutions of earthquakes under the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published in 1983

Frequency of foreshocks

scientific article published in Nature

GPS measurements from the Ladakh Himalaya, India: Preliminary tests of plate-like or continuous deformation in Tibet

article

GPS velocities and the construction of the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes

scholarly article

Geologic Evolution of Northern Tibet: Results of an Expedition to Ulugh Muztagh

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Geomorphic evidence for active faulting in the Altyn Tagh and northern Tibet and qualitative estimates of its contribution to the convergence of India and Eurasia

article

Geomorphology: Nature, nurture and landscape

scientific article published in Nature

Gravitational (Rayleigh-Taylor) instability of a layer with non-linear viscosity and convective thinning of continental lithosphere

Gravity anomalies, flexure of the Indian Plate, and the structure, support and evolution of the Himalaya and Ganga Basin

scientific article published in October 1985

Implications of a revised fit between Australia and Antarctica for the evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean

scientific article published in Nature

Interarc spreading and Cordilleran tectonics as alternates related to the age of subducted oceanic lithosphere

Intracrustal detachment within zones of continental deformation

scholarly article

John Perry's neglected critique of Kelvin's age for the Earth: A missed opportunity in geodynamics

scientific article

Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change: chicken or egg?

scientific article published in Nature

Late Quaternary right-lateral slip rates of faults adjacent to the lake Qinghai, northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 24 June 2011

Late Quaternary slip rates across the central Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, central Asia

scholarly article

Late Quaternary to decadal velocity fields in Asia

article

Lithospheric thinning and localization of deformation during Rayleigh-Taylor instability with nonlinear rheology and implications for intracontinental magmatism

scientific article published in 2010

Localization of shear along a lithospheric strength discontinuity: Application of a continuous deformation model to the boundary between Tibet and the Tarim Basin

scientific article published on 19 May 2009

Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Chaka basin and its implications for mountain building processes in the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau

article published in 2011

Mantle Earthquake Mechanisms and the Sinking of the Lithosphere

scientific article published in Nature

Mantle dynamics, isostasy, and the support of high terrain

article

Microearthquake seismicity and active tectonics of northwestern Greece

scholarly article

Partitioning of India-Eurasia convergence in the Pamir-Hindu Kush from GPS measurements

article by S. Mohadjer et al published February 2010 in Geophysical Research Letters

Plate tectonics of the Red Sea and East Africa

scientific article published in Nature

Pleistocene drainage reorganization driven by the isostatic response to deep incision into the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

scholarly article

Quaternary erosion-induced isostatic rebound in the western Alps

scientific article

Rayleigh-Taylor instability and convective thinning of mechanically thickened lithosphere: effects of non-linear viscosity decreasing exponentially with depth and of horizontal shortening of the layer

Rayleigh-Taylor instability under a shear stress free top boundary condition and its relevance to removal of mantle lithosphere from beneath the Sierra Nevada

scientific article published in 2008

Receiver functions in the western United States, with implications for upper mantle structure and dynamics

article

Relation of the tectonics of eastern China to the India-Eurasia collision: Application of slip-line field theory to large-scale continental tectonics

article

Relative motions of hotspots in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans since late Cretaceous time

scientific article published in Nature

Relatively recent construction of the Tien Shan inferred from GPS measurements of present-day crustal deformation rates

scientific article published in Nature

Reply to Jurdy & Stefanick comment

Revised history of early Tertiary plate motion in the south-west Pacific

scientific article published in Nature

Rheology of the lithosphere beneath the central and western Tien Shan

article

Right-lateral shear and rotation as the explanation for strike-slip faulting in eastern Tibet

scientific article published in Nature

Seismic moments of major earthquakes and the average rate of slip in central Asia

scientific article published on 10 July 1977

Shallow earthquakes and active tectonics in eastern Afghanistan

scientific article published on 10 March 1980

Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics

scientific article published in Nature

Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics

article

Small Earthquakes and Explosions in Western North America recorded by New High Gain, Long Period Seismographs

scientific article published in Nature

Some characteristics of foreshocks and their possible relationship to earthquake prediction and premonitory slip on faults

scholarly article by Lucy Jones & Peter H. Molnar published 10 July 1979 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Some geometrical aspects of uncertainties in combined plate reconstructions

scholarly article

Some simple physical aspects of the support, structure, and evolution of mountain belts

article by Peter H. Molnar & Hélène Lyon-Caen published 1988 in Geological Society of America Special Papers

Subduction of continental lithosphere: Some constraints and uncertainties

scientific article

Surface uplift, uplift of rocks, and exhumation of rocks

article

Surface wave dispersion across Tibet: Direct evidence for radial anisotropy in the crust

article

Tectonics, fracturing of rock, and erosion

scholarly article

Teleseismic P wave tomography of South Island, New Zealand upper mantle: Evidence of subduction of Pacific lithosphere since 45 Ma

article

Temperatures in zones of steady-state underthrusting of young oceanic lithosphere

article

The configuration of the seismic zone and the downgoing slab in southern Peru

scholarly article

The growth of Rayleigh-Taylor-type instabilities in the lithosphere for various rheological and density structures

The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large-scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies

scientific article published in 2013

The interpretation of inverted metamorphic isograds using simple physical calculations

article

Thinning and flow of Tibetan crust constrained by seismic anisotropy

scientific article

Uncertainties and implications of the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary position of North America relative to the Farallon, Kula, and Pacific Plates

scientific article

Uncertainties in reconstructions of the Pacific, Farallon, Vancouver, and Kula Plates and constraints on the rigidity of the Pacific and Farallon (and Vancouver) Plates between 72 and 35 Ma

scientific article published in 1988

Uncertainties in the relative positions of the Australia, Antarctica, Lord Howe, and Pacific Plates since the Late Cretaceous

article

Upper mantle seismic anisotropy at a strike-slip boundary: South Island, New Zealand

article

List of works by Peter H. Molnar

1957 Gobi-Altay, Mongolia, earthquake as a prototype for southern California's most devastating earthquake

A bound on the rheology of continental lithosphere using very long baseline interferometry: The velocity of south China with respect to Eurasia

A method for bounding uncertainties in combined plate reconstructions

A test of laboratory based rheological parameters of olivine from an analysis of late Cenozoic convective removal of mantle lithosphere beneath the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

Activation of a Minor Graben and Pull‐Apart Basin Just East of Bukadaban during the 2001 Kunlun Earthquake (Mw 7.8)

Active faulting and block rotations in the Western Transverse Ranges, California

Active faulting and tectonics in China

Cause and effect among thrust and normal faulting, anatectic melting and exhumation in the Himalaya

Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision

Comment on "Slip-rate measurements on the Karakorum Fault may imply secular variations in fault motion"

Comments and Replies on "Surface uplift, uplift of rocks, and exhumation of rocks"

Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros and Himalaya and of the Iranian and Tibetan plateaus and geodynamic implications

Constraints on the deep structure and dynamic processes beneath the Alps and adjacent regions from an analysis of gravity anomalies

Continental tectonics in the aftermath of plate tectonics

Continuous Deformation Versus Faulting Through the Continental Lithosphere of New Zealand

Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data

Convective instability of a boundary layer with temperature-and strain-rate-dependent viscosity in terms of 'available buoyancy'

Crust in mantle overdrive

Crustal Shortening on the Margins of the Tien Shan, Xinjiang, China

Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand

Early Holocene climate recorded in geomorphological features in Western Tibet

Earth science: palaeo-altimetry of Tibet

Efficiency, stress drop, apparent stress, effective stress, and frictional stress of Denver, Colorado, earthquakes

Estimation of slip rates in the southern Tien Shan using cosmic ray exposure dates of abandoned alluvial fans

Example of a supradetachment basin within a pull-apart tectonic setting: Mormon Point, Death Valley, California

Far-field lithospheric deformation in Tibet during continental collision

Features of glacial valley profiles simply explained

Focal depths and fault plane solutions of earthquakes under the Tibetan Plateau

Frequency of foreshocks

GPS measurements from the Ladakh Himalaya, India: Preliminary tests of plate-like or continuous deformation in Tibet

GPS velocities and the construction of the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes

Geologic Evolution of Northern Tibet: Results of an Expedition to Ulugh Muztagh

Geomorphic evidence for active faulting in the Altyn Tagh and northern Tibet and qualitative estimates of its contribution to the convergence of India and Eurasia

Geomorphology: Nature, nurture and landscape

Gravitational (Rayleigh-Taylor) instability of a layer with non-linear viscosity and convective thinning of continental lithosphere

Gravity anomalies, flexure of the Indian Plate, and the structure, support and evolution of the Himalaya and Ganga Basin

Implications of a revised fit between Australia and Antarctica for the evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean

Interarc spreading and Cordilleran tectonics as alternates related to the age of subducted oceanic lithosphere

Intracrustal detachment within zones of continental deformation

John Perry's neglected critique of Kelvin's age for the Earth: A missed opportunity in geodynamics

Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change: chicken or egg?

Late Quaternary right-lateral slip rates of faults adjacent to the lake Qinghai, northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Late Quaternary slip rates across the central Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, central Asia

Late Quaternary to decadal velocity fields in Asia

Lithospheric thinning and localization of deformation during Rayleigh-Taylor instability with nonlinear rheology and implications for intracontinental magmatism

Localization of shear along a lithospheric strength discontinuity: Application of a continuous deformation model to the boundary between Tibet and the Tarim Basin

Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Chaka basin and its implications for mountain building processes in the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau

Mantle Earthquake Mechanisms and the Sinking of the Lithosphere

Mantle dynamics, isostasy, and the support of high terrain

Microearthquake seismicity and active tectonics of northwestern Greece

Partitioning of India-Eurasia convergence in the Pamir-Hindu Kush from GPS measurements

Plate tectonics of the Red Sea and East Africa

Pleistocene drainage reorganization driven by the isostatic response to deep incision into the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary erosion-induced isostatic rebound in the western Alps

Rayleigh-Taylor instability and convective thinning of mechanically thickened lithosphere: effects of non-linear viscosity decreasing exponentially with depth and of horizontal shortening of the layer

Rayleigh-Taylor instability under a shear stress free top boundary condition and its relevance to removal of mantle lithosphere from beneath the Sierra Nevada

Receiver functions in the western United States, with implications for upper mantle structure and dynamics

Relation of the tectonics of eastern China to the India-Eurasia collision: Application of slip-line field theory to large-scale continental tectonics

Relative motions of hotspots in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans since late Cretaceous time

Relatively recent construction of the Tien Shan inferred from GPS measurements of present-day crustal deformation rates

Reply to Jurdy & Stefanick comment

Revised history of early Tertiary plate motion in the south-west Pacific

Rheology of the lithosphere beneath the central and western Tien Shan

Right-lateral shear and rotation as the explanation for strike-slip faulting in eastern Tibet

Seismic moments of major earthquakes and the average rate of slip in central Asia

Shallow earthquakes and active tectonics in eastern Afghanistan

Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics

Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics

Small Earthquakes and Explosions in Western North America recorded by New High Gain, Long Period Seismographs

Some characteristics of foreshocks and their possible relationship to earthquake prediction and premonitory slip on faults

Some geometrical aspects of uncertainties in combined plate reconstructions

Some simple physical aspects of the support, structure, and evolution of mountain belts

Subduction of continental lithosphere: Some constraints and uncertainties

Surface uplift, uplift of rocks, and exhumation of rocks

Surface wave dispersion across Tibet: Direct evidence for radial anisotropy in the crust

Tectonics, fracturing of rock, and erosion

Teleseismic P wave tomography of South Island, New Zealand upper mantle: Evidence of subduction of Pacific lithosphere since 45 Ma

Temperatures in zones of steady-state underthrusting of young oceanic lithosphere

The configuration of the seismic zone and the downgoing slab in southern Peru