Seismic Reflection Case Histories

Links in this list will work for UNR students and staff.

1. T. A. Stern, S. H. Henrys, D. A. Okaya, J. Louie, M. K. Savage, S. H. Lamb, H. Sato, R. Sutherland, and T. Iwasaki, 2015, A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate: Nature, 518 (5 Feb.), 85-88, doi:10.1038/nature14146.

2. Amy K. Eisses*, Annie Kell*, Graham M. Kent, Neal W. Driscoll, Rob L. Baskin, Ken D. Smith, Robert E. Karlin, John N. Louie, and Satish K. Pullammanappallil, 2015, New constraints on fault architecture, slip rates, and strain partitioning beneath Pyramid Lake, Nevada: Geosphere, 11, no. 3, doi:10.1130/GES00821.1.

3. W. J. Stephenson, R. N. Frary*, J. N. Louie, and J. K. Odum, 2013, Quaternary extensional growth folding beneath Reno, Nevada, imaged by urban seismic profiling: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103, no. 5 (October), 2921-2927, doi: 10.1785/0120120311. The 2009 and 2010 GPH492/692 classes participated.

4. A. E. Kaiser, H. Horstmeyer, A. G. Green, F. M. Campbell, R. M. Langridge, and A. F. McClymont, 2011, Case History: Detailed images of the shallow Alpine Fault Zone, New Zealand, determined from narrow-azimuth 3D seismic reflection data: Geophysics, 76, B19-B32, doi:10.1190/1.3515920.

5. Lee Liberty, 2011, Hammer seismic reflection imaging in an urban environment: The Leading Edge, 30, no. 2 (February), 146–153, doi: 10.1190/1.3555324. From the work of the 2010 GPH492/692 class.

6. Annie Kell-Hills*, Louie, J., Kent, G., Pullammanappallil, S., Sabin, A., and Lazarro, M., 2011, Revised Interpretation of 3D Seismic Data, Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada: Faulted-Basin Reflections or Sill Intrusions?: Geothermal Resources Council Bulletin, 40, no. 2 (March/April), 24-28.

7. Z. Kanbur*, J. N. Louie, S. Chavez-Perez*, G. Plank*, D. Morey, 2000, Seismic reflection study of Upheaval Dome, Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), 105, 9489-9505, doi: 10.1029/1999JE001131

8. G. Shields*, K. Allander*, R. Brigham*, R. Crosbie*, L. Trimble*, M. Sleeman*, R. Tucker*, H. Zhan* and J. N. Louie, 1998, Geophysical surveys of an active fault: results from Pahrump Valley, California-Nevada border: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 88, 270-275. The work of the 1996 GPH492/692 class.

9. Karastathis, V.K. Papamarinopoulos, St. P., 1997, The detection of King Xerxes' Canal by the use of shallow reflection and refraction seismics - preliminary results, Geophysical Prospecting, 45, no. 3, 389, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.1997.3410266.x.

10. Steeples et al., 1986, Seismic reflection investigations of sinkholes beneath Interstate Highway 70 in Kansas: Geophysics, 51, 295-301, doi: 10.1190/1.1442089

* indicates GPH 492/692 student authors