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A complete solution of a one-dimensional propagating fault with nonuniform stress and strength

scientific article published in 1979

A note on the constitutive law for dilatancy

scientific article published in December 1975

A physical model for porosity reduction in sandstones

scientific article published in March 1998

A pore space model for rock permeability and bulk modulus

scientific article published in 1984

A study of porosity and permeability using a lattice Boltzmann simulation

scientific article published in May 1998

Accreted terranes

scientific article published in 1983

Acoustic Properties in Petroliferous Liquids

Acoustic reflectivity and shallow sedimentary structure in the Sea of Galilee, Jordan Valley

scientific article published in March 1986

Acoustic signatures of partial saturation

scientific article published in January 1998

Active and recent strike-slip tectonics

scientific article published in 1989

Active transcurrent fault system along the north African passive margin

scientific article published in September 1987

Aftershocks and pore fluid diffusion following the 1992 Landers earthquake

scientific article published in December 2002

Aftershocks caused by pore fluid flow?

scientific article published in Science

An exact effective stress law for elastic deformation of rock with fluids

scientific article published on 10 September 1971

An introductory overview to the concept of displaced terranes

scientific article published in June 1983

Armageddon's Earthquakes

scientific article published in June 1997

Awards presented at Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting: James B. Macelwane Award to Amos M. Nur

scientific article published in 1974

Block rotation by strike-slip faulting: Structural and paleomagnetic evidence

scientific article published on 10 July 1984

Book Review

scientific article published in 1976

Collisional processes in the eastern Mediterranean

scientific article published in February 1986

Comment and Reply on ‘Seismic velocity and anisotropy in mylonites and the reflectivity of deep crustal fault zones’: REPLY

scientific article

Comment and Reply on “Strike-slip faulting and block rotation in the Lake Mead fault system”: REPLY

article

Comment on “Shear wave anisotropy of active tectonic regions via automated S-wave polarization analysis” by M.K. Savage, X.R. Shih, R.P. Meyer and R.C. Aster, and “Azimuthal variations in P-wave travel times and shear-wave splitting in the Char

scientific article published in January 1990

Compressional and shear wave velocities in granular materials to 2.5 kilobars

scientific article published on 10 October 1973

Compressional and shear waves in saturated rock during water-steam transition

scientific article published in 1979

Correction to “Liquefaction and dynamic poroelasticity in soft sediments” by Ran Bachrach, Amos Nur, and Amotz Agnon

scientific article published in March 2003

Crustal fluids and earthquakes

scientific article published in 2000

Detection of stress-induced velocity anisotropy in unconsolidated sands

Distributed deformation and block rotation in three dimensions

scientific article published in 1991

Earthquakes and archeology: Neocatastrophism or science?

scientific article published in 2006

Earthquakes and civilizations of the Indus Valley: A challenge for archaeoseismology

scholarly article by Robert L. Kovach et al published October 2010 in Geological Society of America Special Papers

Earthquakes as a coupled shear stress-high pore pressure dynamical system

scientific article published on 15 January 1996

Effective stress laws for fluid-saturated porous rocks

scientific article published on 9 October 1973

Effects of attenuation on reflections: Experimental test

scientific article published on 10 July 1984

Effects of diagenesis and clays on compressional velocities in rocks

scientific article published in January 1982

Effects of stress on velocity anisotropy in rocks with cracks

scientific article published on 10 March 1971

Elastic properties of dry clay mineral aggregates, suspensions and sandstones

scholarly article

Elastic strain energy as a control in the evolution of asymmetric pressure-solution contacts

scientific article published in 1998

Elastic wave velocities of lunar samples at high pressures and their geophysical implications

scientific article published on January 1970

Elastic-wave velocities in sandstones with non-load-bearing clay

scientific article published in April 1999

Elastic-wave velocity in marine sediments with gas hydrates: Effective medium modeling

scientific article published in July 1999

Electrical properties of basalt: Relation of laboratory to in situ measurements

scientific article published on 10 March 1972

Emplacement of foreland thrust systems

scientific article published in April 1988

Erroneous interpretation of historical documents related to the epicenter of the 1927 Jericho earthquake in the Holy Land

scholarly article

Estimation of stress‐induced velocity anisotropy using finite‐deformation theory

scientific article published in November 1995

Evolution of pull-apart basins and their scale independence

scientific article published in February 1982

Experimental study of the effects of stress on solution rate

scientific article published on 10 July 1977

Fault mechanics and the kinematics of block rotations

scientific article

Fluid-pressure variations and fault creep in central California

scholarly article

Friction and seismic attenuation in rocks

scientific article published in Nature

High‐resolution shallow‐seismic experiments in sand, Part I: Water table, fluid flow, and saturation

scientific article published in July 1998

High‐resolution shallow‐seismic experiments in sand, Part II: Velocities in shallow unconsolidated sand

scientific article published in July 1998

Holocene stratigraphy of the Dead Sea: Correlation of high-resolution seismic reflection profiles to sediment cores

scientific article published on 10 August 1999

Introduction to Physical Properties and Elasticity Models

scientific article published in 2003

Introduction to the Special Issue on Accretion Tectonics

scientific article published in 1982

Isotopic composition of vein calcite and its fluid inclusions: Implication to paleohydrological systems, tectonic events and vein formation processes

scholarly article

James B. Macelwane Award: Citation and Acceptance of Norman H. Sleep

scientific article published in 1980

Kinematics and Mechanics of Tectonic Block Rotations

scientific article published on 21 March 2013

Kozeny-Carman relation for a medium with tapered cracks

scientific article published in May 1991

Linking oil production to surface subsidence from satellite radar interferometry

scientific article published in April 2001

Liquefaction and dynamic poroelasticity in soft sediments

scientific article published on 10 July 2001

Material and Stress Rotations: The Key to Reconciling Crustal Faulting Complexity with Rock Mechanics

scientific article published in August 2003

Matsushiro, Japan, Earthquake Swarm: Confirmation of the Dilatancy-Fluid Diffusion Model

article

Melt squirt in the asthenosphere

scientific article published on 10 April 1975

Multiple strike-slip fault sets: A case study from the Dead Sea Transform

scientific article published in December 1990

Narrow subducting slabs and the origin of backarc basins

scientific article

Non-newtonian antiplane flow and its application to plate deformation

scientific article published in May 1977

Nonuniform friction as a physical basis for earthquake mechanics

scientific article published in 1978

Oceanic plateaus, the fragmentation of continents, and mountain building

scientific article published in 1982

Overpressure detection from compressional- and shear-wave data

scientific article published on 15 November 1999

Paleomagnetic evidence for counterclockwise block rotation in the north Nevada rift region

article

Paleomagnetic results from Late Paleozoic dikes from the northwestern Junggar Block, northwestern China

scientific article published in August 1989

Paleomagnetism of tertiary and recent lavas of Israel

scientific article published in February 1971

Permeability as a toggle switch in fluid-controlled crustal processes

scientific article published on 30 November 2000

Permeability prediction from thin sections using the Lattice‐Boltzmann flow simulation

Permeability-porosity transforms from small sandstone fragments

scientific article published in January 2006

Petrophysical analysis of the Cajon Pass Scientific Well: Implications for fluid flow and seismic studies in the continental crust

scientific article published in 1992

Plate detachment, asthenosphere upwelling, and topography across subduction zones

scientific article published in 1999

Pore fluid pressure effects in anisotropic rocks: Mechanisms of induced seismicity and weak faults

scientific article published in 1992

Pore fluids and seismic attenuation in rocks

scientific article published in January 1979

Pore pressure changes during creep events on the San Andreas Fault

scientific article published on 10 February 1973

Pore pressure profiles in fractured and compliant rocks1

scientific article published in August 1994

Porosity reduction and crustal pore pressure development

article

Poseidon's Horses: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean

scientific article (publication date: 2000)

Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy

Reduction of porosity by pressure solution: Experimental verification

scholarly article

Relationship among terrestrial heat flow, thermal conductivity, and geothermal gradient

scientific article published on 10 April 1970

Reply [to "Comments on a Paper by Ki-Iti Horai and Amos Nur, ‘Relationship Among Terrestrial Heat Flow, Thermal Conductivity, and Geothermal Gradient’"]

journal article from 'Journal of Geophysical Research (1896-1977)' published in 1971

Residual topography, lithospheric structure and sunken slabs in the central Mediterranean

scholarly article

Rock physics analysis and time-lapse rock imaging of geochemical effects due to the injection of CO2 into reservoir rocks

scientific article published in September 2011

Rock property determination using digital rock physics

Rotation of stress and blocks in the Lake Mead, Nevada, Fault System

scholarly article

Scale effects on dynamic wave propagation in heterogeneous media

scientific article published in December 1995

Sediments with gas hydrates: Internal structure from seismic AVO

scientific article published in September 1998

Seismic velocities of unconsolidated sands: Part 1 — Pressure trends from 0.1 to 20 MPa

scholarly article

Seismic velocities of unconsolidated sands: Part 2 — Influence of sorting- and compaction-induced porosity variation

scientific article

Seismic velocity and anisotropy in mylonites and the reflectivity of deep crystal fault zones

scholarly article

Slip rates and morphology of continental collision belts

scholarly article

Spatial gaps in arc volcanism: The effect of collision or subduction of oceanic plateaus

scientific article published in October 1985

Stability analysis of a pressure-solution surface

scientific article published on 15 April 1998

Stanford Q Conference

scientific article published in 1980

Strength changes due to reservoir-induced pore pressure and stresses and application to Lake Oroville

scientific article published in 1978

Stress-induced velocity anisotropy in rock: An experimental study

scientific article published on 15 December 1969

Strike slip faulting in a downward varying crust

scientific article published in 1979

Strike-slip faulting and block rotation in the Lake Mead fault system

scholarly article

The Eastern Mediterranean and the levant: Tectonics of continental collision

scientific article published in April 1978

The accommodation of relative motion at depth on the San Andreas Fault System in California

scientific article published on 10 February 1981

The effect of nonelliptical cracks on the compressibility of rocks

scientific article published in 1978

The effect of saturation on velocity in low porosity rocks

scientific article published in November 1969

The effect of viscosity of a fluid phase on velocity in low porosity rocks

scientific article published in November 1969

The elevation of volcanoes and their edifice heights at subduction zones

scientific article published on 10 August 1980

The emplacement of ophiolites by collision

scholarly article

The formation of Mount Etna as the consequence of slab rollback

scientific article published in Nature

The nature of seismic reflections from deep crustal fault zones

scientific article published on 10 May 1984

The origin of tensile fracture lineaments

scientific article published in January 1982

The paleomagnetism of cretaceous rocks from Israel

scientific article published in July 1970

The role of heterogeneities in faulting

scientific article published in February 1980

Time-average equation revisited

scientific article published in March 1998

Ultrasonic velocity measurements in volcanic rocks: correlation with microtexture

article by T. Vanorio et al published April 2002 in Geophysical Journal International

Velocity and attenuation anisotropy in reservoir rocks

scholarly article published January 2003

Velocity and attenuation in sandstone at elevated temperatures and pressures

scientific article published in February 1983

Vertical axis rotations in the Mojave: Evidence from the Independence dike swarm

article

Vertical axis rotations in the Mojave: Evidence from the Independence dike swarm: Comment and Reply

scientific article

Viscous phase in rocks and the low-velocity zone

scientific article published on 10 February 1971

Volcanic gaps and the consumption of aseismic ridges in South America

Volcanic gaps due to oblique consumption of aseismic ridges

scientific article published in December 1983

Water-level fluctuations and earthquakes on the San Andreas fault zone

article