Publications

entries with *star are authored by my students and postdocs

85. Vadim Levin, Jill Van Tongeren, Javier Fullea and Sergei Lebedev, Recurring volcanism in New England region focused by a region of thin lithosphere, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Paper, submitted March 2024, 

84. Jeffrey Park, Vadim Levin and Danny M. Rye, Where Did the Martian Ocean Go? -- Clues from InSight Seismic Studies, in review,  PEPI

83. Huaiyu Yuan; Vadim Levin; Fiona Darbyshire; William Menke, Crust of eastern North America preserves a record of the supercontinent cycle, accepted March 2024, Geol. Soc. of London Special Paper

82. Levin, V., I. Hillenbrand, W. Menke and H. Yuan, 2023. Paleozoic decollement displaced the surface trace of Iapetus Ocean closure in northern Appalachians, GRL, https://doi. org/10.1029/2023GL105972

81. Vadim Levin, Sergei Lebedev, Javier Fullea, Yiran Li and Xiaoran Chen, 2023, Defining continental lithosphere as a layer with abundant frozen-in structures that scatter seismic waves, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB026309, JGR-Solid Earth.

80. Jeffrey Park, Xiaoran Chen and Vadim Levin, 2023. Crustal Anisotropy from the Birefringence of P-to-S Converted Waves: Bias Associated with P-Wave Anisotropy, Annali di Giofisica https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8882

79*. James Bourke, Vadim Levin , Ivonne Arroyo, and Lepolt Linkimer, Evidence for Caribbean Plate subduction in Southern Costa Rica, Geology, accepted 12/22/22, online 03/02/23, https://doi.org/10.1130/G50796.1

78. Vadim Levin, Huaiyu Yuan, Andrew Hynes, Continents never forget: seismological record of lithospheric deformation 1 billion years ago, Geological Society of London Special Publication, online 28 October 2022, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP531-2022-164

77*. Chen, X., V. Levin, H. Yuan, Small Shear Wave Splitting Delays Suggest Weak Anisotropy in Cratonic Mantle Lithosphere, GRL, August 6, 2021 DOI 10.1029/2021GL093861   [PDF]

76*.  Li, Y.., V. Levin, A. Nikulin, X. Chen, Systematic Mapping of Upper Mantle Seismic Discontinuities Beneath Northeastern North America, G-cubed, June 23, 2021  DOI 10.1029/2021GC009710   [PDF]

75*. Chen, X., V., Levin, H. Yuan, M.Klaser and Y. Li, Seismic Anisotropic Layering in the Yilgarn and Superior Cratonic Lithosphere, JGR-Solid Earth, August 11, 2021 DOI 10.1029/2020JB021575 [PDF]

74*. Chen, X., Park, J. & Levin, V. Anisotropic Layering and Seismic Body Waves: Deformation Gradients, Initial S-Polarizations, and Converted-Wave Birefringence. Pure Appl. Geophys. (2021). DOI 10.1007/s00024-021-02755-6  [PDF]

73*. Bourke, J., V. Levin, L. Linkimer, I. Arroyo, A Recent Tear in Subducting Plate Explains Seismicity and Upper Mantle Structure of Southern Costa Rica, 2020, G^3, first published November 12 2020 DOI 10.1029/2020GC009300   [PDF]

72. Levin, V. S. Elkington, J. Bourke, I. Arroyo and L. Linkimer, Seismic anisotropy in southern Costa Rica confirms upper mantle flow from the Pacific to the Caribbean., Geology, accepted Bastille Day (July 14)  published September 4, 2020; DOI 10.1130/G47826.1   [PSF]

71*. Zhenxin Xie, Vadim Levin, Qingju Wu, Crustal anisotropy beneath northeastern Tibetan Plateau from the harmonic decomposition of receiver functions, 2019, GJI, Volume 220, Issue 3, March 2020, Pages 1585–1603 DOI 10.1093/gji/ggz526 [PDF]

70*. Yiran Li, Vadim Levin, Stephen Elkington, Janine Hlavaty, Localized Anisotropic Domains Beneath Eastern North America, G-cubed, published online 19 November 2019  [PDF]

69*. Xiaoran Chen, Yiran Li and Vadim Levin, Shear Wave Splitting Beneath Eastern North American Continent: Evidence for a Multi-layered and Laterally Variable Anisotropic Structure, G-cubed, published August, 02, 2018https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007646  [PDF]

68. Li, C., Gao, H., Williams, M. L. and Levin, V., Crustal thickness variation in the northern Appalachian Mountains: Implications for the geometry of 3D tectonic boundaries within the crust, GRL, published online June 19, 2018https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078777

67. Vadim Levin, Maureen D. Long, Peter Skryzalin, Yiran Li, and Ivette Lopez, 2018, Seismic evidence for a recently formed mantle upwelling beneath New England , Geology (2018) 46 (1): 87–90.,https://doi.org/10.1130/G39641.1 [PDF]

66. Levin, V., Servali, A., VanTongeren, J., Menke, W., and Darbyshire, F., 2017, Crust-mantle boundary in eastern North America, from the (oldest) craton to the (youngest) rift, in Bianchini, G., Bodinier, J.-L., Braga, R., and Wilson, M., eds., The Crust-Mantle and Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundaries: Insights from Xenoliths, Orogenic Deep Sections, and Geophysical Studies: Geological Society of America Special Paper 526, p. 107-131, doi:10.1130/2017.2526(06). [PDF]

65. Guo-chin Dino Huang, Steven W. Roecker, Vadim Levin, Haitao Wang and Zhihai Li,2017, Dynamics of intracontinental convergence between the western Tarim basin and central Tien Shan constrained by centroid moment tensors of regional earthquakes, GJI, v. 208, pp. 561-576, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw415 [PDF]

64. Menke, W., P. Skryzalin, V. Levin, T. Harper, F. Darbyshire, and T. Dong (2016), The Northern Appalachian Anomaly: A modern asthenospheric upwelling, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 10,173-10,179,DOI:10.1002/2016GL070918 [PDF]

63. Park, J. and V. Levin Anisotropic shear zones revealed by back-azimuthal harmonics of teleseismic receiver functions Geophys. J. Int., v. 207, pp. 1216-1243, online August 26, 2016 doi:10.1093/gji/ggw323  [PDF]

62. Park, J., and V. Levin, Statistics and frequency-domain moveout for multiple-taper receiver functions,(2016), Geophys. J. Int., 207, 512-527, doi:10.1093/gji/ggw291 .[PDF]

61. Boyce, A., I. D. Bastow, F. A. Darbyshire,A. G. Ellwood, A. Gilligan, V. Levin, andW. Menke (2016), Subduction beneathLaurentia modified the eastern North American cratonic edge: EvidencefromP wave and S wave tomography,J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth,121, DOI:10.1002/2016JB012838

60. Amy Gilligan, Ian D. Bastow, Emma Watson, Fiona A. Darbyshire, Vadim Levin, William Menke, Victoria Lane, David Hawthorn, Alistair Boyce, Mitchell V. Liddell and Laura Petrescu, Lithospheric deformation in the Canadian Appalachians: evidence from shear wave splitting, Geophys. J. Int. (2016) Volume 206, Issue 2, pp. 1273-1280.DOI:10.1093/gji/ggw207

59. Levin, V., J. A. VanTongeren, and A. Servali (2016), How sharp is the sharp Archean Moho? Example from eastern Superior Province, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, LINK, doi:10.1002/2016GL067729  [PDF]

58*. Razi, Ayda S., Roecker, Steven W., Levin, Vadim, The Fate of the Indian Lithosphere beneath western Tibet: Upper mantle elastic wavespeed structure from a joint teleseismic and regional body wave tomographic study, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, (2016), pp. 11-23, DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2015.12.001  [PDF]

57. Gilligan, A., K. F. Priestley, S. W. Roecker, V. Levin, and S. S. Rai (2015), The crustal structure of the western Himalayas and Tibet, J. Geophys. Res., 120

56. S. Salimbeni, S. Pondrelli, L. Margheriti, V. Levin, J. Park, Looking for layered anisotropic structures in the mantle beneath the northern Apennines, Journal of Geodynamics, Volume 82, Dec. 2014, pp. 39-51, DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2014.09.001 [PDF]

55. Margheriti, L., Lucente, F.P., Park, J., Pondrelli, S., Levin, V., Steckler, M.S., Baccheschi, P., Salimbeni, S.,Large-scale coherent anisotropy of upper mantle beneath the Italian peninsula comparing quasi-Love waves and SKS splitting., Journal of Geodynamics (2014) Volume 82, pp. 26-38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2014.07.007  [PDF]

54. Vadim Levin, Svetlana Droznina, Maxim Gavrilenko, Michael Carr, Sergey Senyukov, Seismically active sub-crustal magma source of the Klyuchevskoy volcano in Kamchatka, Geology ,2014,41(11):983,doi:10.1130/G35972.1   [PDF][supplement]

53. Huaiyu Yuan, Vadim Levin, Stratified seismic anisotropy and the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath Eastern North America, 119-4, pp. 3096-3114, 2014  https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010785 [PDF available from JGR]

52*. Ayda Shokoohi Razi, Vadim Levin , Steven Roecker , Guo-chin Dino Huang, Crustal and uppermost mantle structure beneath western Tibet using seismic traveltime tomography, G-cubed, 15-2, pp. 434-452, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GC005143 [PDF available from G^3]

51. Takaya Iwasaki, Vadim Levin, Alex Nikulin, Takashi Iidaka, Constraints on the Moho in Japan and Kamchatka, Tectonophysics, Volume 609, 8 December 2013, Pages 184 - 201 2013 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2012.11.023 [PDF]

50. Vadim Levin, Guochin Dino Huang and Steven Roecker, Crust-mantle coupling at the northern edge of the Tibetan plateau: evidence from focal mechanisms and observations of seismic anisotropy, Tectonophysics Volume 584, 22 January 2013, pp. 221-229; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2012.05.013 [PDF]

49*. Alex Nikulin; Vadim Levin, Michael Carr, Claude Herzberg, Michael West, Evidence for two upper mantle sources driving volcanism in Central Kamchatka, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 321-322, p. 14-19 2012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.039 [PDF]

48. Margaret H. Benoit, Megan Torpey, Kelly Liszewski, Vadim Levin and Jeffrey Park, P and S wave Upper Mantle Seismic Velocity Structure beneath the Northern Apennines: New Evidence for the End of Subduction, GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS, VOL. 12, Q06004, 19 PP., 2011 https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GC003428 [PDF available from G^3]

47. Levin, V., Huang, G.C.D. and Roecker, S., 2013. Crust–mantle coupling at the northern edge of the Tibetan plateau: Evidence from focal mechanisms and observations of seismic anisotropy. Tectonophysics, 584, pp.221-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2012.05.013 [PDF available from Tectonophysics]

46. Bianchi, I., J. Park, N Piana Agostinetti and V. Levin, Mapping seismic anisotropy using harmonic decomposition of Receiver Functions: an application to Northern Apennines, Italy; JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, B12317, 14 PP., 2010, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JB007061 [PDF available on JGR site]

45. Duret, F.,  N. M. Shapiro,  Z. Cao,  V. Levin,  P. Molnar, and  S. Roecker (2010),  Surface wave dispersion across Tibet: Direct evidence for radial anisotropy in the crust, Geophys. Res. Lett.,  37, L16306, doi:10.1029/2010GL043811.[PDF available from GRL]

44*. Nikulin, A., V. Levin, A. Shuler, M. West, Anomalous seismic structure beneath the Klyuchevskoy Group, Kamchatka, GRL, 37, L14311, doi:10.1029/2010GL043904 2010 [PDF and a correction published in 2012 when we found a mistake in the figures are on GRL site]

43. Davide Piccinini, Massimo Di Bona, Francesco Pio Lucente, Vadim Levin, Jeffrey Park, Seismic attenuation and mantle wedge temperature in the Northern Apennines Subduction Zone, Italy), from teleseismic body wave spectra, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B09309, 2010 doi:10.1029/2009JB007180  [PDF available from JGR]

42. Linkimer, L., S. Beck, S. Y. Schwartz, G. Zandt, V. Levin, Nature of crustal terranes and the Moho in northern Costa Rica from receiver function analysis, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 11, Q01S19,2010 doi:10.1029/2009GC002795. [PDF available from G^3]

41*. Nikulin, A., V. Levin, and J. Park (2009), Receiver function study of the Cascadia megathrust: Evidence for localized serpentinization, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q07004, doi:10.1029/2009GC002376 [PDF available from JGR]

40. Piana Agostinetti, N., Levin, V. and Park, J., 2008. Crustal structure above a retreating trench: Receiver function study of the northern Apennines orogen. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 275(3-4), pp.211-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.022 [PDF]

39. Levin, V., Roecker, S., Graham, P. and Hosseini, A., Seismic Anisotropy Indicators in Western Tibet: Shear Wave Splitting and Receiver Function Analysis, Tectonphysics, v. 462, 1-4, pp 99-108 2008 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2008.03.019 [PDF]

38. Salimbeni S., Pondrelli S. , Margheriti L., Park J., and Levin V., SKS splitting measurements beneath the Northern Apennines region: a case of oblique trench retreat, Tectonophysics, v 462, 1-4, pp 68-82, 2008 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.075 [PDF]

37. Salimbeni, S., S. Pondrelli, L. Margheriti, V. Levin, J. Park, J. Plomerova and V. Babuska, Abrupt change in mantle fabric across northern Apennines detected using seismic anisotropy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L07308, doi:10.1029/2007GL029302, 2007 [PDF available from GRL site]

36. Lees, J. L., J. Vandecar, E. Gordeev, A. Ozerov, M. T. Brandon, J. Park and V. Levin, Three-dimensional images of the Kamchatka-Pacific plate cusp, Volcanism and Tectonics of the Kamchatka Peninsula and Adjacent Arcs, AGU Geophysical Monograph, Editors: J. Eichelberger, P. Izbekov, N. Ruppert, J. Lees, E. Gordeev, https://doi.org/10.1029/172GM06 2007 [PDF available from the first author]

35. Levin., V., J. Park, F. P. Lucente, L. Margheriti, S. Pondrelli and the RETREAT seismology team,The end of subduction in Northern Apennines confirmed by observations of quasi-Love waves from the great 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. GRL, 34, L04304, doi:10.1029/2006GL028860, 2007 [PDF available from GRL site]

34. Levin. V., D. Okaya and J. Park, Cause and Effect: shear wave birefringence in wedge-shaped anisotropic regions. GJI, 168, pp. 275-286, 2007 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03224.x  [PDF available from GJI site]

33. W. Menke, H. Abend, D. Bach, K. Newman and V. Levin, Review of the Source Characteristics of the Great Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake of 2004 , DOI:10.1007/s10712-006-9013-4 "Surveys in Geophysics", Volume 27, Number 6, pp. 603-613, 2006 [PDF available from the journal site]

32. Plomerova, J., L. Margheriti, J. Park, V. Babuska, S. Pondrelli, L. Vecsey, D. Piccinini, V. Levin, P. Baccheschi, and S. Salimbeni, Seismic anisotropy beneath the Northern Apennines (Italy): Mantle flow or lithosphere fabric? Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 247, pp. 157- 170, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.023 [PDF available from EPSL site]

31. Margheriti, L., S. Pondrelli, D. Piccinini, N. Piana Agostinetti, F. P. Lucente, A. Amato, P. Baccheschi, L. Giovani, S. Salimbeni, J. Park, M. T. Brandon, V. Levin, J. Plomerova, P. Jedlicka, L. Vecsey, V. Babuska, A. Fiaschi, B. Carpani, and P. Ulbricht, The subduction structure of the Northern Apennines: results from the RETREAT seismic deployment, Annals of Geophysics, V. 49, N 4/5, August/October 2006. [PDF on the site of the journal]

30. Levin, V., A. Henza, J. Park and A. Rodgers, Texture of mantle lithosphere along the Dead Sea Rift: recently imposed or inherited? Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 2006  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2006.05.007 [PDF available from PEPI]

29. W. Menke and V. Levin, A Strategy to Rapidly Determine the Magnitude of Great Earthquakes, EOS, 86, 19, 10 May 2005 https://doi.org/10.1029/2005EO190002 [PDF available from EOS]

28. Vadim Levin, Nikolai M. Shapiro, Jeffrey Park, Michael H. Ritzwoller, The Slab Portal Beneath the Western Aleutians, Geology: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 253-256 2005 https://doi.org/10.1130/G20863.1 [PDF available from Geology site]

27. Shapiro, N. M., M. H. Ritzwoller, P. Molnar and V. Levin, Thinning and Flow in Tibetan Crust Constrained by Seismic Anisotropy, Science, 305, 233-236, 2004.DOI: 10.1126/science.1098276 [PDF][Supplement]

26. Park, J., H. Yuan, and V. Levin, Subduction-zone anisotropy under Corvallis, Oregon: A serpentinite skidmark of trench-parallel terrane migration? Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B10306, https://doi.org/10.1029/2003JB002718, 2004.[PDF available from JGR site]

25. V. Levin, D. Droznin, J. Park, E. Gordeev, Detailed mapping of seismic anisotropy with local shear waves in southeastern Kamchatka, GJI doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02352.x, 2004  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02352.x (PDF available from GJI site)

24. Michael Studinger, Garry D. Karner, Robin E. Bell, Vadim Levin, Carol A. Raymond, Anahita A. Tikku, Geophysical Models for the Tectonic Framework of the Lake Vostok Region, East Antarctica, EPSL, 216, 663 -- 677, 2003 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00548-X [PDF available from EPSL site]

23. W. Menke and V. Levin, 2003,The cross-convolution method for interpreting SKS splitting observations, with application to one and two-layer anisotropic earth models, GJI, 154, 379-392, https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01937.x [PDF available from GJI site]

22. Levin, V., L. Margheriti, J. Park, A. Amato, 2002. Anisotropic seismic structure of the lithosphere beneath the Adriatic coast of Italy constrained with mode-converted body waves, GRL, vol. 29, issue 22, pp 15-1-15-4, https://doi.org/10.1029/2002GL015438 [PDF availabe from GRL site]

21. Levin, V., N. Shapiro, J. Park and M. Ritzwoller, Seismic Evidence for Catastrophic Slab Loss Beneath Kamchatka, Nature, v418, 763-767, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature00973 [PDF] [supplement PDF]

20. Park, J., and V. Levin, Seismic anisotropy: Tracing plate dynamics in the mantle, Science, 296, 485-489, 2002. DOI: 10.1126/science.1067319 [PDF]

19. Park, J., V. Levin, M. T. Brandon, J. M. Lees, V. Peyton, E. Gordeev, and A. Ozerov, A dangling slab, amplified arc volcanism,mantle flow and seismic anisotropy near the Kamchatka plate corner, Plate Boundary Zones, Seth Stein and Jeffrey Freymueller, editors, AGU Geodynamics Series No. 30, AGU, Washington DC, pp. 295-324, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1029/GD030p0295   [PDF]

18. Menke, W and Levin, V. , Anomalous seaward dip of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath northeastern US detected using differential-array measurements of Rayleigh waves , GJI, 149, 413-421, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2002.01652.x  (PDF available from GJI site)

17. Levin, V., J. Park, J. Lees, M. T. Brandon, V. Peyton, E. Gordeev, and A. Ozerov, Crust and upper mantle of Kamchatka  from teleseismic receiver functions, Tectonophysics, 358, Pages 233-265, 2002 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00426-2 (PDF available from Tectonophysics site)

16. Peyton, Valerie, Vadim Levin, Jeffrey Park, Mark Brandon, Jonathan Lees, Evgenii Gordeev, Alexei Ozerov, Mantle Flow at a Slab Edge: Seismic Anisotropy in the Kamchatka Region, GRL, 28, pp 379-382, 2001.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2000GL012200 [PDF available from GRL site]

15. Park, J. and V. Levin, Receiver functions from regional P waves, Geophysical Journal International, v147, 1-11, 2001 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2001.00523.x [PDF available from GJI site]

14. Levin, V., and J. Park, Shear zones in the Proterozoic lithosphere of the Arabian Shield and the nature of the Hales discontinuity,Tectonophysics, 323, pp 131-148, 2000.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00105-0 [PDF available from Tectonophysics site]

13. Park, J., and V. Levin, Receiver functions from multiple-taper spectral correlation estimates, BSSA, v90, pp1507-1520, 2000 https://doi.org/10.1785/0119990122  (PDF available from BSSA site)

12. Levin, V., J. Park, M. Brandon and W. Menke, Thinning  of the upper mantle during the late Paleozoic Appalachian orogenesis, Geology, v. 28, pp 239-242, 2000 . https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<239:TOTUMD>2.0.CO;2  (PDF available from Geology site)

11. Levin, V., W. Menke and J. Park, No Regional Anisotropic Domains in Northeastern US Appalachians J. Geophysical Res., v105, pp. 19029-19042, 2000.   https://doi.org/10.1029/2000JB900123 (PDF available from JGR site)

10. Levin, V., W. Menke and J. Park, "Shear-wave splitting in Appalachians and Urals: a case for multilayered anisotropy", JGR, v104, 17975-17994,1999    https://doi.org/10.1029/1999JB900168    (PDF available from JGR site)

9. Levin, V. and J. Park, "quasi-Love phases between Tonga and Hawaii: Observations, simulations and explanations", JGR v. 103, pp 24321-24331, 1998.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8777-9_25 (PDF available from JGR site)

8. Levin, V. and J. Park, , 1998, P-SH conversions in layered media with hexagonally symmetric anisotropy: A cookbook, PAGEOPH, 151, 669-697 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8777-9_25   (PDF available from PAGEOPH site)

7. Levin, V. and J. Park, 1997. P-SH conversions in a flat-layered medium with anisotropy of arbitrary orientation. GJI, 131, pp 253-266, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb01220.x  (PDF available on GJI site)

6. Levin, V. and J. Park, 1997 Crustal Anisotropy in the Ural Mountains foredeep from teleseismic receiver functions, GRL, v. 24, pp 1283-1286,  https://doi.org/10.1029/97GL51321 (PDF available from GJI site)

5. Levin, V., W.Menke and A. Lerner-Lam, 1996, Seismic Anisotropy in Northeastern US as a Source of Significant Teleseismic P Traveltime Anomalies. GJI, v. 126, p. 593 - 603  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb05312.x (PDF available from GJI site)

4. Levin, V., A. Lerner-Lem and W. Menke, 1995, Anomalous mantle structure at the Proterozoic-Paleozoic boundary , GRL, v. 22, 121-124;   https://doi.org/10.1029/94GL02693 (PDF available from GRL site)

3. Levin, V., W.-Y. Kim and W. Menke, 1995, Seismic velocities in the shallow crust of western New England and northern New York, BSSA, v. 85, 207-219; https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0850010207 (PDF available from BSSA)

2. Menke, W., V. Levin and R. Sethi, 1995. Seismic attenuation in the crust at the mid-Atlantic plate boundary in south-west Iceland, GJI, v. 122, 175-182; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1995.tb03545.x   (PDF version available from GJI site)

1. Menke,W. and V. Levin, 1994, Cold crust in a hot spot, GRL, v.21, 1967-1970;  https://doi.org/10.1029/94GL01896 (PDF version open on Wiley site)