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A window to the core

scientific article published in Nature

Aftershock sequences of moderate-sized intermediate and deep earthquakes in the Tonga Subduction Zone

scholarly article

An Educational Animation of the Propagation of Earthquake-Generated Seismic Shear Waves Across the Mantle

scholarly article by Michael E. Wysession & Saadia Baker published March 2002 in Journal of Geoscience Education

Anisotropic zonation in the lithosphere of Central North America: Influence of a strong cratonic lithosphere on the Mid-Continent Rift

scientific article published in June 2016

Appreciation of peer reviewers for 2015

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Characterization of Seismic Sources from Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT): Examples from Baghdad

Complex seismic anisotropy in Madagascar revealed by shear-wave splitting measurements

Constraints on the Temperature and Composition of the Base of the Mantle

scholarly article

Continents of the core

scientific article published in Nature

Correction to “Mapping the lowermost mantle using core-reflected shear waves” by M.E. Wysession, L. Bartkó, and J.B. Wilson

scholarly article

Crustal Radial Anisotropy and Linkage to Geodynamic Processes: A Study Based on Seismic Ambient Noise in Southern Madagascar

scholarly article

Crustal structure beneath the Florida‐to‐Edmonton broadband seismometer array

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Developing and Applying a Set of Earth Science Literacy Principles

Distinct crustal structure of the North American Midcontinent Rift fromPwave receiver functions

Double-crossed again

journal article; published in Nature on 2005-04-13

Erratum to “Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the Pacific: Imaging the source of the Hawaiian plume”

scientific article published in February 2002

Evidence for Lateral Heterogeneity at the Core-Mantle Boundary from the Slowness of Diffracted S Profiles

Geographic variations in lowermost mantle structure from the ray parameters and decay constants of core-diffracted waves

scientific article published in July 2017

Geophysical Research Letters: New Policies Improve Top-Cited Geosciences Journal

Geoscience serving public policy

How the core and mantle may produce mantle plumes

Imaging Cold Rock at the Base of the Mantle: The Sometimes Fate of Slabs?

scientific article

Implications for Earth and space in new K-12 science standards

Insights from North America's failed Midcontinent Rift into the evolution of continental rifts and passive continental margins

scientific article published in October 2018

Intraplate earthquakes in the southwest Pacific Ocean Basin and the seismotectonics of the southern Tasman Sea

scholarly article by Raúl W. Valenzuela & Michael E. Wysession published 19 November 1993 in Geophysical Research Letters

Intraplate seismicity of the Pacific Basin, 1913?1988

scientific article

Investigating the base of the mantle using differential travel times

scientific article published in November 1995

KIDS ARE SCIENTISTS, TOO.

scientific article published in August 2015

Large-scale structure at the core–mantle boundary from diffracted waves

scientific article published in Nature

Lateral heterogeneity and azimuthal anisotropy in the North Atlantic determined fromSS-Sdifferential travel times

scientific article

Lateral variations at the base of the mantle from profiles of digitalSdiffdata

scientific article published on 10 March 2000

Lateral variations in Compressional/Shear velocities at the base of the mantle

scientific article published in April 1999

Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the Pacific: Imaging the source of the Hawaiian plume

scientific article published in August 2001

Mantle discontinuities and temperature under the North American continental keel

scientific article published in Nature

Mapping global D″ P velocities from ISC PcP-P differential travel times

scientific article published in January 1997

Mapping the lowermost mantle using core-reflected shear waves

scholarly article

New Insights into North America's Midcontinent Rift

P Wave Teleseismic Traveltime Tomography of the North American Midcontinent

scientific article

Pacific intraplate seismicity reexamined

scientific article

Performance Characteristics of a Rotational Seismometer for Near-Field and Engineering Applications

scholarly article

QLM9: A new radial quality factor (Qμ) model for the lower mantle

scientific article published in January 2006

QLg Distribution in the Basin and Range Province of the Western United States

Recent oceanic intraplate earthquake in balleny sea was largest ever detected

scholarly article

Regional analysis of D″ velocities from the ray parameters of diffractedPprofiles

scholarly article

Seasonal and Diurnal Variations in Long‐Period Noise at SPREE Stations: The Influence of Soil Characteristics on Shallow Stations’ Performance

scientific article

Seismic Evidence for Subduction-Transported Water in the Lower Mantle

scientific article published on 19 March 2013

Seismic velocity and anisotropy of the uppermost mantle beneath Madagascar from Pn tomography

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Seismicity and seismotectonics of Madagascar revealed by the 2011–2013 deployment of the island-wide MACOMO broadband seismic array

scientific article published in September 2020

Shear velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle of Madagascar derived from surface wave tomography

scientific article

Shear wave splitting, continental keels, and patterns of mantle flow

scientific article published on 10 March 2000

Small-scale lateral variations in D″ attenuation and velocity structure

scientific article

Source Characterization of Nevada Test Site Explosions and Western U.S. Earthquakes using Lg Waves: Implications for Regional Source Discrimination

scholarly article

Thank You to Our 2020 Reviewers

article by Michael E. Wysession et al published 30 March 2021 in Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists

The Next Generation Science Standards: A potential revolution for geoscience education

scientific article published in May 2014

The structure of the core-mantle boundary from diffracted waves

scholarly article

The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath Madagascar

scholarly article

Using MOMA Broadband ArrayScS-Sdata to image smaller-scale structures at the base of the mantle

scientific article published in March 2001

Velocities in the mantle

scientific article published in Nature

Visualization of whole mantle propagation of seismic shear energy using normal mode summation

scientific article published in 1994

What on Earth is D”?

scientific article published in 2000