Publications
of the Geodesy Laboratory
(Refereed journal articles)
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2008
Wdowinski, S. et al.,
Space-based detection of wetlands' surface water level changes from L-band
SAR interferometry, Remote Sensing of Environment, v.112, p.681-696, 2008.
Kim, S. W. et al., InSAR
-based mapping of surface subsidence in Mokpo City, Korea, using JERS-1
and ENVISAT SAR data, Earth Planets Space, v.60, p. 453-461, 2008.
Dixon, T. H.
and R. K. Dokka, Earth scientists and public policy: have we failed New
Orleans? EOS: Trans. Am. Geophys. Union v. 89, #10, p. 96, 2008.
2007
Amelung
et al., Stress Control of Deep Rift Intrusion at Mauna Loa
Volcano, Hawaii, Science, vol 316, pp. 1026-1030, May 2007, doi:
10.1126/science.1140035
Plattner et
al., New constraints on relative motion between the Pacific Plate and
Baja California microplate (Mexico) from GPS measurements, Geophys. J.
Int., March 13th, 2007, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03494.x
Sinigalliano
et al., Impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the microbial land
scape of the New Orleans area, PNAS, April 2007, pnas.0610552104
Wdowinski
S., B. Smith-Konter, Y. Bock and D. Sanwell, Diffuse interseismic
deformation across the Pacific-North America plate boundary, GEOLOGY,
April 2007 311 Geology, April 2007, v. 35, no. 4, p. 311-314
Appendices
B. Cailleau, P.
C. LaFemina
and T. H. Dixon, Stress accumulation between volcanoes: an explanation
for intraarc earthquakes in Nicaragua?, Geophy. J. Int'l., 22
Feb
2007, doi: 10.1111/j.1365246X.2007.03353.x
Gourmelen,
N., F.
Amelung, F. Casu, M.R. Manzo, R. Lanari (2007), Mining-related ground
deformation in Crescent Valley, Nevada: Implications for sparse GPS
networks, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 34, L09309, doi:10.1029/2007GL029427.
Giovanni F. Sella,
Seth
Stein, Timothy H. Dixon, Michael Craymer, Thomas S. James, Stephane
Mazzotti, and Roy K. Dokka, Observation of glacial isostatic adjustment
in ``stable'' North America with GPS,GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL.
34, L02306, doi:10.1029/2006GL027081, 2007
Henry L.
Turner III, Peter La Femina, Armando Saballos, Glen S. Mattioli,
Pamela E. Jansma, and Timothy Dixon,Kinematics of the Nicaraguan
forearc from GPS geodesy, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34,
L02302, doi:10.1029/2006GL027586, 2007
2006
Biggs, J. , Bergman, E., Emmerson, B., Funning, G., Jackson, J.,
Parsons, B., Wright, T. 2006 , Fault Identification for Buried
Strike-Slip Earthquakes using InSAR: The 1994 and 2004 Al Hoceima,
Morocco Earthquakes. Geophysical Journal International 166 1347-1362
A.M. Lopez, S.
Stein, T. Dixon, G. Sella, E. Calais, P. Jansma, J. Weber, and P. La
Femina, Is there a northern Lesser Antilles forearc block?, GEOPHYSICAL
RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 33, L7313,doi:10.1029/2005GL025293, 2006
Roy K. Dokka,
Giovanni F.
Sella, and Timothy H. Dixon, Tectonic control of subsidence and
southward displacement of southeast Louisiana with respect to stable
North America, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 33, L23308,
doi:10.1029/2006GL027250, 2006
Dixon, T.
H., F. Amelung, A. Ferretti, F. Novali, F. Rocca, R. Dokka, G. Sella,
Sang-Wan Kim, S. Wdowinski, Dean Whitman, New Orleans subsidence and
relation to flooding after Hurricane Katrina as measured by space
geodesy, Nature, 2006, v.441, p.587-588.
Dixon, T.
H., F. Amelung, A. Ferretti, F. Novali, F. Rocca, R. Dokka, G. Sella,
Sang-Wan Kim, S. Wdowinski, Dean Whitman, New Orleans subsidence and
relation to flooding after Hurricane Katrina as measured by space
geodesy (Supplemental Information), Nature, 2006.
Iaffaldano, G., H. P. Bunge, T. H. Dixon, Feedback between mountain
belt growth and plate convergence, Geology, 2006, v.34, p.893-896.
Schmalzle, G., T. H.
Dixon, R. Malservisi, R. Govers, Strain accumulation across the Carrizo
Segment of the San Andreas Fault, California: Impact of laterally
varying crustal properties, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B5.
Talebian, M., Biggs, J., Bolourchi, M., Copley, A., Ghassemi, A.,
Ghorashi, M., Hollingsworth, J., Jackson, J., Nissen, E., Oveisi, B.,
Parsons, B., Priestley, K. & Saiidi, A., 2006, The Dahuiyeh
(Zarand) earthquake of 2005 February 22 in central Iran: reactivation
of an intra-mountain thrust, Geophysical Journal International., 164
137-148
Wdowinski, S.,
Ben-Avraham, Z., Arvidsson, R., Ekstrom, G. Seismotectonics
of the Cyprian Arc. Geophys. J. Int., 164, 176-181.
Weinberger R., Z.B. Begin, N. Waldman, M. Gardosh, G. Baer, A. Frumkin,
and
S. Wdowinski, Quaternary rise of the Sedom diaper, Dead Sea Basin, in
Enzel,
Y., A. Agnon, and M. Stein, New frontiers in the Dead Sea
paleoenvironmental
research: Geol. Soc. Am., special paper 401, 33-35, 10.1130/2006.2401,
2006.
Walter, T.R., F. Amelung, Volcano-earthquake interaction at Mauna Loa
volcano, Hawaii. Jour. Geophys. Res. (in press)
Wright, T., Ebinger, C., Biggs, J.,, Ayele, A., Yirgu, G.,
Keir, D.,
Stork, A. 2006, Dyke-maintained segmentation during continental rupture
on the Afar rift in 2005. Nature 442 doi:10.1038/nature04978
Newman, A. V., T.
H. Dixon, N. Gourmelen, A four-dimensional viscoelastic deformation
model for Long
Valley Caldera, California, between 1995-2000, J. Volc. Geotherm Res.,
150,
244-269.
DeShon, et al.,
Seismogenic zone structure beneath the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica,
from three-dimensional local earthquake P- and S-wave tomography.
Geophys. J. Int., 164, 109-124.
2005
Gourmelen,
N. and F. Amelung, Post-seismic mantle relaxation in the
Central Nevada Seismic,. Science 310: 1473-1476 [DOI:
10.1126/science.1119798], 2005.
Walter T. R., V. Acocella, M. Neri, F. Amelung, Feedback processes
between magmatic events and flank movement at Mount Etna (Italy) during
the 2002–2003 eruption, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B10205,
doi:10.1029/2005JB003688.
LaFemina, P. C., T.H. Dixon, R. Malservisi, T.
Árnadóttir, E. Sturkell, F. Sigmundsson, P.
Einarsson, Geodetic GPS measurements in South Iceland: strain
accumulation and partitioning in a propagating ridge system, J.
Geophys. Res., 110, B11405, doi 1029/2005/JB003675.
2004
Dixon, J. E., T. H. Dixon, D. Bell, R. Malservisi, Lateral variation
in upper mantle viscosity: role of water, Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, 222, 451-467.
Walter T.R, V. Troll, B. Cailleau, A. Belousov, H. U. Schmincke, P.
Bogaard, F. Amelung (2004) Rift zone reorganization through flank
instability on ocean island volcanoes: Tenerife, Canary Islands. Bull.
Volc., DOI: 10.1007/s00445-004-0352.
Walter, T. R., and F. Amelung, Influence of volcanic activity at
Mauna Loa, Hawaii, on earthquake occurrence in the
Kaoiki fault zone, Hawaii. Geophys. Res. Letters, 31, L07622,
doi:10.1029/2003GL019131
Norabuena, E.
T. H. Dixon, S. Schwartz, H. DeShon, A. Newman, M. Protti, V. Gonzalez,
L. Dorman, E. Flueh, P. Lundgren, F. Pollitz, D. Sampson, Geodetic and
seismic constraints on some seismogenci zone processes in Costa Rica,
J. Geophys. Res., 109, B11403,
doi:10.1029/2003JB002931.
Wdowinski, S.,
F. Amelung, F. Miralles-Wilhelm, T. H. Dixon, R. Carande, Space-based
measurements of sheet flow characteristics in the Everglades, wetland,
Florida, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1673, doi:10.1029/2003GL017408.
Wdowinski,
S. et al, GPS measurements of current crustal movements along the Dead
Sea Fault.
J. Geophys. Res. 109, doi:10.1029/2003JB002640.
Wang, K., and T. H. Dixon, Coupling semantics and science in earthquake
research, EOS, 85, no. 18, 180-181, 2004.
2003
Malservisi, R. T. Dixon, P. LaFemina, Holocene slip rate of the Wasatch
fault zone, Utah, from geodetic data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1673,
doi10.1029/2003GL017408.
Dixon, T. H., E. Norabuena, L. Hotaling, Paleoseismology and GPS:
earthquake cycle effects and geodetic vs geologic fault slip rates in
the eastern California shear zone, Geology, v. 31, 55-58.
B.J. Murton, Biggs, J. 2003, Numerical modelling of mud volcanoes and
their flows using constraints from the Gulf of Cadiz, Mar. Geol., 3274,
1-14.
Matmon, A.,
Wdowinski, S., Hall, J.K., Morphological and structural relations in
the Galilee extensional domain, northern Isreal, Tectonophysics, 371,
223-241.
2002
Dixon, T. H., J. Decaix, F. Farina, K. Furlong, R. Malservisi, R.
Bennett, F. Suarez-Vidal, J. Fletcher, J. Lee, Seismic cycle and
rheological effects on estimation of present-day slip rates for the
Agua Blanca and San Miguel-Vallecitos faults, northern Baja California,
Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 107, B10, 10.1029/2000JB000099.
Sella, G.F., T. H. Dixon, A. Mao, REVEL: A model for Recent plate
velocities from space geodesy, J. Geophys. Res., 107, B4,
10.1029/2000JB000033.
LaFemina, P. C., T. H. Dixon, W. Strauch, Bookshelf faulting in
Nicaragua, Geology, 30, 751-754, 2002.
Hindle, D., J. Kley, E. Klosko, S. Stein, T. Dixon, E. Norabuena,
Consistency of geologic and geodetic displacements during Andean
orogenesis, Geophys. Res. Letters, v. 29, No 8, 10.1029/2001GL013757,
2002.
Klosko, E., S. Stein, D. Hindle, J. Kley, E. Norabuena, T. Dixon, M.
Liu, Comparison of GPS, seismological and geological observations of
Andean
mountain building, in: S. Stein and J. Freymueller, eds, Plate Boundary
Zones, AGU Geodynamics Series, v. 30, Washington DC, 123-133.
2001
Weber, J. C., T. H. Dixon, C. DeMets, W. Ambeh, P. Jansma, G. Mattioli,
J. Saleh, G. Sella, R. Bilham, GPS estimate of relative motion between
the Caribbean and South American plates, and geologic implications for
Trinidad, Geology, v. 29, p. 75-78.
Newman, A.,
T. Dixon, G. Ofeagbu, J. Dixon, Geodetic and seismic constraints on
recent activity at Long valley caldera, California: evidence for
viscoelastic rheology, J.
Volc. Geotherm. Res., v. 105, p. 183-206.
Miller, M., D. Johnson, T. H. Dixon, R. K. Dokka, Refined kinematics
of the eastern California shear zone from GPS observations, 1993-198,
J.
Geophys. Res., v. 106, p. 2245-2263.
Malservisi, R., K. Furlong, T. H. Dixon, Influence of the earthquake
cycle and lithospheric rheology on the dynamics of the eastern
California
shear zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 28, p. 2731-2734.
2000
Dixon, T. H., M. Miller, F. Farina, H. Wang, and D. Johnson,
Present-day motion of the Sierra Nevada block and some tectonic.
implications for the Basin and Range province, North America
Cordillera, Tectonics, v. 19, p. 1 - 24.
DeMets, C., P. E. Jansma, G. S. Mattioli, T. H. Dixon, F. Farina, R.
Bilham, E. Calais, and P. Mann, GPS geodetic constraints on
Caribbean-North
America plate motion, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 27, p. 437-440.
T. H., Dixon, F. Farina, C. deMets, F. Suarez Vidal, J. Fletcher, B.
Margquez-Azua, M. Miller, O. Sanchez, P. Umhoefer, New kinematic models
for Pacific-North America motion from 3 Ma to present, II: evidence for
a Baja California shear zone”, Geophys. Res. Letters, v. 27,
3961-3964.
P. E. Jansma, G. S. Mattioli, A. Lopez, C. DeMets, T. H. Dixon, P.
Mann, E. Calais, Neotectonics of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,
northeastern Caribbean, from GPS geodesy, Tectonics, v. 19, 1021-1037.
1999
C. DeMets and T. H. Dixon, New kinematic models for Pacific-North
America motion from 3 Ma to present, 1: evidence for steady motion and
biases in the NUVEL-1A model, Geophys. Res. Letters, v. 26, 1921-1924.
A. Mao, C.G.A. Harrison, and T.H. Dixon, Noise in GPS coordinate time
series, J. Geophys. Res., v. 104, p. 2797 - 2816.
J.L. Masaferro, J. Poblet, M. Bulnes, G.P. Eberli, T.H. Dixon, and K.
McClay, Palaeogene-Neogene/present day (?) growth folding in the
Bahamian foreland of the Cuban fold and thrust belt, J. Geol. Soc., v.
156, p. 617 - 631.
A. Newman, S.
Stein, J.
Weber, J. Engeln, A. Mao, and T.H. Dixon, Slow deformation and lower
seismic
hazard at the New Madrid seismic zone, Science, v. 284, p. 619 - 621.
E. Norabuena, T.H. Dixon, S. Stein, and C.G.A. Harrison, Decelerating
Nazca-South America and Nazca-Pacific plate notions, Geophys. Res.
Letters, v. 26, p. 3405-3408, 1999.
1998
Mattioli, G.S., Dixon, T.H., Farina, F., Howell, E.S., Jansma, P.E.,
and A.L. Smith, GPS measurement of surface deformation around
Soufriere Hills volcano, Montserrat from October 1995 to July 1996,
Geopys. Res. Lett., v. 24, p. 3417-3420.
E. Norabuena, L. Leffler-Griffin, A. Mao, T.H. Dixon, S. Stein, I.S.
Sacks, L. Ocola, and M. Ellis, Space geodetic observations of
Nazca-South
America convergence across the central Andes, Science, v. 279, p. 358.
F.F. Pollitz, and T.H. Dixon, GPS measurements across the northern
Caribbean plate boundary zone: Impact of postseismic relaxation
following historic earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 25, p. 2233 -
2236.
T.H. Dixon, F. Farina, C. DeMets, P. Jansma, P. Mann, E. Calais,
Relative motion between the Caribbean and North American plates based
on a decade of GPS observations, J. Geophys. Res., v. 103, p. 15157 -
15182.
1997
T.H. Dixon, A. Mao, M. Bursik, M. Heflin, J. Langbein, R. Stein, F.
Webb, Continuous monitoring of surface deformation at Long Valley
Caldera with GPS. J. Geophys. Res., v. 102, 12,017 - 12,034, 1997.
M. Hagerty, S.Y. Schwartz, M. Protti, M. Garcés, and T.H.
Dixon, Observations at Costa Rican volcano offer clues to causes of
eruptions,
EOS, v. 78, no. 49, p. 565, 570.
T. H. Dixon and A. Mao, A GPS estimate of relative motion between North
and South America, Geophys. Res. Lett., v.24, 535 – 538.
L. Leffler, S. Stein, A. Mao, T. Dixon, M. Ellis, L. Ocola, S. Sacks,
Constraints on present-day shortening rate across the central eastern
Andes from GPS data, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 24, 1031 – 1034.
1996
M. Reheis, and T.H. Dixon, Slip transfer from Owens and Saline Valley
Fault Zones to Fish Lake Valley Fault Zone: Implications for kinematics
of
the Eastern California shear zone, Geology, 24, 339 – 342.
T.H. Dixon, A. Mao and S. Stein, How rigid is the stable interior of
the North America plate? Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 23, p. 3035
- 3038.
1995
T. H. Dixon, S. Robaudo, J. Lee, and Reheis, Constraints on present day
basin and range deformation from Space Geodesy, Tectonics, v. 14, p.
755-772.
T. H. Dixon, F. Farina, A. Mao, F. Webb, and M. Bursik, GPS monitoring
data for active volcanoes available on Internet, EOS, Trans. A.G.U., v.
70, p. 2.
Webb, F. M. Bursik, T. Dixon, F. Farina, G. Marshall, Inflation of Long
Valley caldera from one year of continuous GPS measurements, Geophys.
Res. Letters, 22, 195-198, 1995.
1994
H.A. Zebker, T.G. Farr, R.P. Salazar, T.H. Dixon, Mapping the world's
topography using radar interferometry: the Topsat
mission, IEEE Proceedings, v. 82, p. 1774-1786.
1993
T.H. Dixon, M. Bursik, S.K. Wolfe, M. Heflin, F. Webb, F. Farina, S.
Robaudo, Constraints on deformation of the resurgent dome, Long Valley
Caldera
from space geodesy, in: Space Geodesy and Geodynamics, D.
Smith and
D. Turcotte (eds), Am. Geophys. Union Geodynamics Series, v. 23, p.
193-213.
T.H. Dixon, GPS measurement of relative motion of the Cocos and
Caribbean plates and strain accumulation across the Middle America
Trench, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 20, p. 2167-2170.
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