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A Database of Shear‐Wave Splitting Measurements for the Arabian Plate

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

A Database of Teleseismic Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements for the Ordos Block and Adjacent Areas

scientific article published on 8 April 2022

A Systematic Comparison of the Transverse Energy Minimization and Splitting Intensity Techniques for Measuring Shear‐Wave Splitting Parameters

scholarly article

A Tilted Broad Plume Underneath the Greenland Cratonic Keels

scientific article published on 16 April 2024

A Uniform Database of Teleseismic Shear‐Wave Splitting Measurements for the Western and Central United States: December 2014 Update

A full field static model of the RG-oil field, central Sirte Basin, Libya

A joint receiver function and gravity study of crustal structure beneath the incipient Okavango Rift, Botswana

scholarly article by Youqiang Yu et al published 28 October 2015 in Geophysical Research Letters

A systematic investigation of piercing-point-dependent seismic azimuthal anisotropy

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

A uniform database of teleseismic shear wave splitting measurements for the western and central United States

scientific article

Absence of thermal influence from the African Superswell and cratonic keels on the mantle transition zone beneath southern Africa: Evidence from receiver function imaging

article

Analysis of deformation data at Parkfield, California: Detection of a long-term strain transient

article

AnisDep: A FORTRAN program for the estimation of the depth of anisotropy using spatial coherency of shear-wave splitting parameters

Annual modulation of triggered seismicity following the 1992 Landers earthquake in California

scientific article published on August 2000

Applicability of the Multiple-Event Stacking Technique for Shear-Wave Splitting Analysis

article published in 2015

Azimuthal anisotropy and mantle flow underneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and northern Indochina Peninsula revealed by shear wave splitting analyses

scholarly article by Fansheng Kong et al published November 2018 in Tectonophysics

Azimuthal anisotropy beneath north central Africa from shear wave splitting analyses

article

Characteristics of mantle fabrics beneath the south-central United States: Constraints from shear-wave splitting measurements

article

Characteristics of the Mantle Flow System Beneath the Indochina Peninsula Revealed by Teleseismic Shear Wave Splitting Analysis

scholarly article by Youqiang Yu et al published May 2018 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Classification of Teleseismic Shear Wave Splitting Measurements: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

Compaction and cement volume analyses of the Lower Wilcox sandstone along the Texas Gulf Coast

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Complex seismic anisotropy beneath western Tibet and its geodynamic implications

scholarly article by Jing Wu et al published March 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Continental Break‐Up Under a Convergent Setting: Insights From P Wave Radial Anisotropy Tomography of the Woodlark Rift in Papua New Guinea

scientific article published on 9 March 2022

Correction to “Mantle deformation beneath southern Africa”

article

Crustal Azimuthal Anisotropy Beneath the Central North China Craton Revealed by Receiver Functions

scientific article published in May 2019

Crustal Deformation Associated with the Tan-Lu Fault Zone in East China Revealed by Receiver Function Analysis

scientific article published in 2023

Crustal P-wave velocity structure and earthquake distribution in the Jiaodong Peninsula, China

scientific article published in September 2021

Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Southeastern United States From Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Rayleigh Wave Dispersion

scientific article published in October 2021

Crustal anisotropy and ductile flow beneath the eastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas

scholarly article

Crustal azimuthal anisotropy and deformation beneath the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas: Insights from receiver function analysis

scientific article published in October 2021

Crustal azimuthal anisotropy beneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its geodynamic implications

scholarly article

Crustal deformation in the vicinity of the Tan-Lu Fault Zone in East China constrained by receiver function analyses

scientific article published in April 2024

Crustal modifications beneath the central Sunda plate associated with the Indo-Australian subduction and the evolution of the South China Sea

scientific article published in September 2020

Crustal structure and evolution beneath the Colorado Plateau and the southern Basin and Range Province: Results from receiver function and gravity studies

scholarly article

Crustal structure and subsidence mechanisms of the Williston Basin: New constraints from receiver function imaging

scientific article published in 2022

Crustal structure beneath the Ethiopian Plateau and adjacent areas from receiver functions: Implications for partial melting and magmatic underplating

scientific article published in June 2021

Crustal structure beneath the Malawi and Luangwa Rift Zones and adjacent areas from ambient noise tomography

scientific article published in March 2019

Deep structure and origin of the Baikal rift zone

scholarly article

Determining crustal structure beneath seismic stations overlying a low-velocity sedimentary layer using receiver functions

Evidence for small-scale mantle convection in the upper mantle beneath the Baikal rift zone

article

Evolution of the broadly rifted zone in southern Ethiopia through gravitational collapse and extension of dynamic topography

scholarly article by Luelseged Emishaw et al published March 2017 in Tectonophysics

Fault visualization enhancement using ant tracking technique and its application in the Taranaki basin, new Zealand

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Foundered lithospheric segments dropped into the mantle transition zone beneath southern California, USA

scientific article published on 9 December 2019

Fracture and regional stress-related upper crustal azimuthal anisotropy in the vicinity of the 2016 M5.1 Fairview, Oklahoma, earthquake

scientific article published on 14 December 2023

High-accuracy practical spline-based 3D and 2D integral transformations in potential-field geophysics

Hydrocarbon accumulation analysis by reconstructing the canyon-fill sequence using seismic stratigraphic interpretation in the central Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas

scientific article published on 10 August 2019

Identification of a shelf-edge submarine canyon using seismic attributes and spectral decomposition in the central Gulf Coast region of Texas

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Imaging mantle discontinuities using multiply-reflected P-to-S conversions

scholarly article by Stephen S. Gao & Kelly H. Liu published September 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Insights into initial continental rifting of marginal seas from seismic evidence for slab relics in the mid-mantle of the Woodlark rift, southwestern Pacific

scholarly article

Integrated geologic, geophysical, and petrophysical data to construct full field geologic model of Cambrian-Ordovician and Upper Cretaceous reservoir formations, Central Western Sirte Basin, Libya

Lateral variations of crustal structure beneath the Indochina Peninsula

scholarly article by Youqiang Yu et al published August 2017 in Tectonophysics

Layered Mantle Flow Field Associated With Plate Kinematics and Slab Modulation Underneath the Horseshoe‐Shaped Banda Arc‐Islands

scientific article published in March 2024

Layered mantle heterogeneities associated with post-subducted slab segments

scientific article published in October 2021

Lithospheric Evolution of the South‐Central United States Constrained by Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion

scientific article published in June 2024

Lithospheric Structure and Evolution of Southern Africa: Constraints From Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Dispersion and Receiver Functions

scientific article published in July 2019

Lithospheric Structure underneath the Archean Tanzania Craton and Adjacent Regions from a Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Rayleigh-Wave Phase Velocity Dispersion

scientific article published on 4 April 2022

Lithospheric layering beneath the contiguous United States constrained by S-to-P receiver functions

scholarly article by Lin Liu & Stephen S. Gao published August 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Magnetic stripes of a transitional continental rift in Afar

scholarly article

Mantle Flow in the Vicinity of the Eastern Edge of the Pacific‐Yakutat Slab: Constraints From Shear Wave Splitting Analyses

scientific article published in September 2021

Mantle Structure and Flow Beneath an Early‐Stage Continental Rift: Constraints From <i>P</i> Wave Anisotropic Tomography

scholarly article

Mantle deformation beneath southern Africa

article

Mantle discontinuities beneath Southern Africa

article

Mantle dynamics of the North China Craton: new insights from mantle transition zone imaging constrained by P -to- S receiver functions

scientific article published on 10 June 2022

Mantle flow and lithosphere–asthenosphere coupling beneath the southwestern edge of the North American craton: Constraints from shear-wave splitting measurements

scholarly article by Hesham A. Refayee et al published September 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Mantle flow and olivine fabric transition in the Myanmar continental subduction zone

scientific article published on 11 January 2024

Mantle flow underneath the South China Sea revealed by seismic anisotropy

scientific article published in October 2023

Mantle structure beneath the incipient Okavango rift zone in southern Africa

article published in 2016

Mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the Baikal rift and adjacent areas

scientific article published in 2006

Mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the Indochina Peninsula: Implications for slab subduction and mantle upwelling

scholarly article

Mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the contiguous United States

scholarly article by Stephen S. Gao & Kelly H. Liu published August 2014 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Metastable olivine within oceanic lithosphere in the uppermost lower mantle beneath the eastern United States

scholarly article

Northridge earthquake damage caused by geologic focusing of seismic waves

scientific article published on September 2000

Notice of Partial Retraction : A Database of Teleseismic Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements for the Ordos Block and Adjacent Areas

scientific article published on 20 July 2022

Ongoing fragmentation of the subducting Cocos slab, Central America

scholarly article

Passive rifting of thick lithosphere in the southern East African Rift: Evidence from mantle transition zone discontinuity topography

article

Potassic Volcanism Induced by Mantle Upwelling Through a Slab Window: Evidence From Shear Wave Splitting Analyses in Central Java

scientific article published in March 2022

Pre-stack simultaneous inversion for petrophysical properties of the lower Wilcox erosional remnant sandstone along the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain

scientific article published on 10 August 2019

Prestack simultaneous inversion for delineation of the Lower Wilcox erosional remnant sandstone beneath the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: A case study

scientific article published in November 2020

Rationale for a Permanent Seismic Network in the U.S. Central Plains Utilizing USArray

article

Receiver Function Imaging of Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Beneath the Tanzania Craton and Adjacent Segments of the East African Rift System

scholarly article by Muchen Sun et al published 18 December 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Receiver Function Investigations of Seismic Anisotropy Layering Beneath Southern California

scholarly article

Receiver function and gravity constraints on crustal structure and vertical movements of the Upper Mississippi Embayment and Ozark Uplift

Receiver function constraints on crustal seismic velocities and partial melting beneath the Red Sea rift and adjacent regions, Afar Depression

article by Cory A. Reed et al published March 2014 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Receiver function imaging of the 410 and 660 km discontinuities beneath the Australian continent

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Receiver function investigation of crustal structure in the Malawi and Luangwa rift zones and adjacent areas

scientific article published in January 2021

Reply [to “Comment on “SKS splitting beneath continental rifts zones” by Gao et al.”]

scientific article published in 1999

Seismic Anisotropy and Mantle Deformation Beneath the Central Sunda Plate

scientific article published on 26 February 2021

Seismic Anisotropy and Mantle Flow Constrained by Shear Wave Splitting in Central Myanmar

scientific article published in October 2021

Seismic Anisotropy and Mantle Flow in the Sumatra Subduction Zone Constrained by Shear Wave Splitting and Receiver Function Analyses

scientific article published in February 2020

Seismic Azimuthal Anisotropy Beneath a Fast Moving Ancient Continent: Constraints From Shear Wave Splitting Analysis in Australia

scientific article published in February 2023

Seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics beneath the Malawi Rift Zone, East Africa

article

Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow beneath the northern Great Plains of North America

scholarly article

Seismic anisotropy and subduction-induced mantle fabrics beneath the Arabian and Nubian Plates adjacent to the Red Sea

article by Ahmed A. Elsheikh et al published 11 April 2014 in Geophysical Research Letters

Seismic anisotropy beneath the Afar Depression and adjacent areas: Implications for mantle flow

scientific article

Seismic anisotropy beneath the incipient Okavango rift: Implications for rifting initiation

scholarly article

Seismic anisotropy of the uppermost mantle beneath the Rio Grande rift: Evidence from Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths, New Mexico

article

Seismic attributes aided fault detection and enhancement in the Sirte Basin, Libya

Seismic azimuthal anisotropy and its geodynamic implications: Eastern US case study

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Seismic azimuthal anisotropy beneath the eastern United States and its geodynamic implications

scientific article

Shear Wave Splitting and Mantle Flow in the Vicinity of the North American-Caribbean Plate Boundary in Central America

scientific article published on 20 January 2019

Shear wave splitting analyses in Tian Shan: Geodynamic implications of complex seismic anisotropy

Shear wave splitting and mantle flow associated with the deflected Pacific slab beneath northeast Asia

article

Significant crustal thinning beneath the Baikal rift zone: New constraints from receiver function analysis

article

Significant seismic anisotropy beneath the southern Lhasa Terrane, Tibetan Plateau

scholarly article

Slab Dehydration and Mantle Upwelling in the Vicinity of the Sumatra Subduction Zone: Evidence from Receiver Function Imaging of Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities

scientific article

Southern African crustal evolution and composition: Constraints from receiver function studies

article

Spatial Variations of Upper Crustal Anisotropy Along the San Jacinto Fault Zone in Southern California: Constraints From Shear Wave Splitting Analysis

scientific article published in April 2021

Spatial Variations of Upper Crustal Anisotropy along the San Jacinto Fault Zone in Southern California: Constraints from Shear Wave Splitting Analysis

scientific article published on 29 August 2020

Spatial variations of crustal characteristics beneath the Hoggar swell, Algeria, revealed by systematic analyses of receiver functions from a single seismic station

scholarly article by Kelly H. Liu & Stephen S. Gao published August 2010 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Stagnation and tearing of the subducting northwest Pacific slab

scientific article published on 8 March 2022

Supplemental Material: Mantle flow and olivine fabric transition in the Myanmar continental subduction zone

Supplemental Material: Mantle flow and olivine fabric transition in the Myanmar continental subduction zone

scientific article published on 4 January 2024

Supplemental Material: Ongoing fragmentation of the subducting Cocos slab, Central America

scientific article published on 12 September 2023

Supplemental Material: Ongoing fragmentation of the subducting Cocos slab, Central America

Tectonics of the incipient continental rifting

scientific article published in May 2019

Teleseismic P ‐Wave Attenuation Beneath the Southeastern United States

scientific article published in June 2021

Temporal variation of seismicb-values beneath northeastern Japan island arc

scholarly article

Topography of the 410 and 660 km Discontinuities Beneath the Cenozoic Okavango Rift Zone and Adjacent Precambrian Provinces

scientific article

Topography of the Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Beneath Alaska and Its Geodynamic Implications: Constraints From Receiver Function Stacking

scholarly article by Haider H. Dahm et al published December 2017 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Toroidal Mantle Flow Induced by Slab Subduction and Rollback Beneath the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis and Adjacent Areas

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Upper mantle and mantle transition zone thermal and water content anomalies beneath NE Asia: Constraints from receiver function imaging of the 410 and 660 km discontinuities

scientific article

Upper mantle structure of the Saharan Metacraton

scholarly article

Validation of poststack seismic inversion using rock-physics analysis and 3D seismic and well correlation

scientific article published on 27 August 2018