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List of works by Nicholas Harmon

A Lithosphere‐Asthenosphere Boundary and Partial Melt Estimated Using Marine Magnetotelluric Data at the Central Middle Atlantic Ridge

scientific article published in September 2020

A unified continental thickness from seismology and diamonds suggests a melt-defined plate.

scientific article

Along‐Arc Heterogeneity in Local Seismicity across the Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone from a Dense Ocean‐Bottom Seismometer Network

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Analysis of gravity and topography in the GLIMPSE study region: Isostatic compensation and uplift of the Sojourn and Hotu Matua Ridge systems

scientific article published in 2006

Back-propagating super-shear rupture in the 2016 M7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 Mw 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Constraints on the anisotropic contributions to velocity discontinuities at ∼60 km depth beneath the Pacific

scientific article published on 4 August 2017

Crustal and mantle shear velocity structure of Costa Rica and Nicaragua from ambient noise and teleseismic Rayleigh wave tomography

scholarly article by Nicholas Harmon et al published 30 August 2013 in Geophysical Journal International

Distribution of noise sources for seismic interferometry

Distribution of recent volcanism and the morphology of seamounts and ridges in the GLIMPSE study area: Implications for the lithospheric cracking hypothesis for the origin of intraplate, non-hot spot volcanic chains

scientific article published in 2006

Effects of plate boundary geometry and kinematics on mantle melting beneath the back-arc spreading centers along the Lau Basin

article published in 2010

Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere in the Equatorial Atlantic From Rayleigh Wave Tomography, Evidence for Small‐Scale Convection From the PI‐LAB Experiment

scientific article published in September 2020

Global P, PP, and PKP wave microseisms observed from distant storms

article by Peter Gerstoft et al published 9 December 2008 in Geophysical Research Letters

Imaging Lithospheric Discontinuities Beneath the Northern East African Rift Using S-to-P Receiver Functions

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Imaging Pacific lithosphere seismic discontinuities-Insights fromSSprecursor modeling

Improving Microseismic P Wave Source Location With Multiple Seismic Arrays

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Infragravity wave source regions determined from ambient noise correlation

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Joint inversion of teleseismic and ambient noise Rayleigh waves for phase velocity maps, an application to Iceland

scholarly article by Nicholas Harmon & Catherine A. Rychert published August 2016 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Lithospheric structure beneath Indochina block from Rayleigh wave phase velocity tomography

Mantle heterogeneity and off axis volcanism on young Pacific lithosphere

Mapping geologic features onto subducted slabs

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Mapping the mantle transition zone beneath Hawaii from Ps receiver functions: Evidence for a hot plume and cold mantle downwellings

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Marine Geophysical Investigation of the Chain Fracture Zone in the Equatorial Atlantic From the PI‐LAB Experiment

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

Monitoring remote ocean waves using P-wave microseisms

Non-hotspot volcano chains produced by migration of shear-driven upwelling toward the East Pacific Rise

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One-Sided Joint Inversion of Shear Velocity and Resistivity from the PI-LAB Experiment at the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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PandSwave delays beneath intraplate volcanic ridges and gravity lineations near the East Pacific Rise

scholarly article

Phase velocities from seismic noise using beamforming and cross correlation in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

scholarly article by Nicholas Harmon et al published 3 October 2008 in Geophysical Research Letters

Predictions and Observations for the Oceanic Lithosphere From -to- Receiver Functions and Precursors

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Project VoiLA: Volatile Recycling in the Lesser Antilles

Receiver function imaging of lithospheric structure and the onset of melting beneath the Galápagos Archipelago

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Scattered wave imaging of the oceanic plate in Cascadia

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Seafloor sediment thickness beneath the VoiLA broad-band ocean-bottom seismometer deployment in the Lesser Antilles from P-to-S delay times

scientific article published on 6 August 2020

Sediment Characterization at the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge From P-to-S Teleseismic Phase Conversions Recorded on the PI-LAB Experiment

scientific article published on 23 November 2018

Sediment structure at the equatorial mid-atlantic ridge constrained by seafloor admittance using data from the PI-LAB experiment

scientific article published on 15 February 2020

Seismic Attenuation at the Equatorial Mid‐Atlantic Ridge Constrained by Local Rayleigh Wave Analysis From the PI‐LAB Experiment

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Seismic Imaging of Thickened Lithosphere Resulting From Plume Pulsing Beneath Iceland

scientific article published on 22 June 2018

Seismic Imaging of the North American Midcontinent Rift Using S -to-P Receiver Functions

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Seismic anisotropy predicted for 2-D plate-driven flow in the Lau back–arc basin

Seismic imaging of a mid-lithospheric discontinuity beneath Ontong Java Plateau

scholarly article

Seismic imaging of deep crustal melt sills beneath Costa Rica suggests a method for the formation of the Archean continental crust

scholarly article by Nicholas Harmon & Catherine A. Rychert published November 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Seismic imaging of melt in a displaced Hawaiian plume

Seismicity Properties of the Chain Transform Fault Inferred from OBS Data Obtained from the PI-LAB Experiment

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Seismicity Properties of the Chain Transform Fault Inferred from OBS Data Obtained from the PI-LAB Experiment

Shear Velocity Inversion Guided by Resistivity Structure From the PI‐LAB Experiment for Integrated Estimates of Partial Melt in the Mantle

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Shear velocity structure across the Sumatran Forearc-Arc

Source regions and reflection of infragravity waves offshore of the U.S.s Pacific Northwest

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Stacked P -to-S and S -to-P receiver functions determination of crustal thickness, Vp , and Vs : The H-V stacking method

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Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction

scientific article published on 9 July 2021

Synthetic waveform modelling of SS precursors from anisotropic upper-mantle discontinuities

The Nature of the Lithosphere‐Asthenosphere Boundary

scientific article published in October 2020

The Pacific lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: Seismic imaging and anisotropic constraints fromSSwaveforms

The Role of Oceanic Transform Faults in Seafloor Spreading: A Global Perspective From Seismic Anisotropy.

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

The Tectonics and Active Faulting of Haiti from Seismicity and Tomography

scholarly article by Daniel Possee et al published March 2019 in Tectonics

The initiation of segmented buoyancy-driven melting during continental breakup

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Thermo-mechanical control of axial topography of intra-transform spreading centers

Tidal Triggering of Microseismicity at the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Inferred from OBS Network

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Triggering of Microseismicity During Low Tides at the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Inferred from the PI-LAB Experiment Data

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Upper mantle temperature and the onset of extension and break-up in Afar, Africa

scholarly article by John J. Armitage et al published May 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Using Ambient Seismic Noise to Determine Short-Period Phase Velocities and Shallow Shear Velocities in Young Oceanic Lithosphere

article by Nicholas Harmon et al published 1 December 2007 in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Variation in Upper Plate Crustal and Lithospheric Mantle Structure in the Greater and Lesser Antilles from Ambient Noise Tomography

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Variations in shear-wave splitting in young Pacific seafloor

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Volcanism in the Afar Rift sustained by decompression melting with minimal plume influence

Widespread Hydration of the Back Arc and the Link to Variable Hydration of the Incoming Plate in the Lesser Antilles From Rayleigh Wave Imaging

scientific article published on 28 June 2021

Wide‐Angle Seismic Imaging of Two Modes of Crustal Accretion in Mature Atlantic Ocean Crust

scientific article published in June 2020