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2014

Jan 7 Interseismic strain accumulation in and water resources available to metropolitan Los Angeles Donald Argus abstract

Jan 14

Climatic versus tectonic forcing of Himalayan erosion

Dirk Scherler

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Jan 21 The largest deep-focus earthquake: from phase transformation to thermal shear instability

Pablo Ampuero

Jan 28 From closure of the Tethys to extension at Corinth: a geologic excursion to the eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia

Jason Price

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Feb 4

Foreland basin kinematics and orogen-parallel wedge geometry variations: The Neogene Zagros fold-and-thrust belt

Mortaza Pirouz

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Feb 11 Tectonic setting and unusual aspects of the 2013, Mw 7.7, Balochistan Earthquake

Jean-Philippe Avouac

 
Feb 18 Independent Component Analysis (ICA) applied to geodetic time series: work in progress

Adriano Gualandi

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Feb 19 Brittle faults are weak but the ductile middle crust is strong: implications for lithospheric mechanics

John Platt

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Mar 11

Earthquakes, landslides, and rivers: Making the steep Longmen Shan margin, eastern Tibetan plateau

Jing Liu

China Earthquake Adminstration

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Mar 18

The role of physics in geophysics

Don Anderson

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Mar 25

The Use of Seismic Observations to Quantify River Mechanics

Florent Gimbert

 

April 1

The geomorphic aftermath of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and implications for tectonics and secondary hazards

Joshua West

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April 9

Tectonics along the Himalayan orogenic belt: A perspective from leucogranites

Lingsen Zeng

 

April 15

Fast global stereo matching via energy pyramid minimization

Bruno Conejo

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April 22

Hyperspectral signatures from MAKO along the south Bristol Mountains and Hector Mine fault zones

Janet Harvey

April 29

Western Mediterranean tectonics: Slab rollback and delamination

Gene Humphreys

May 13

Seismic anisotropy as a tool to understand oceanic-continental plate interactions

Thorsten Becker

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May 27

Understanding Quaternary deformation across the San Andreas fault system

Kimberly Blisniuk

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June 3

Slab Flattening and Foundering in the Extreme: The young growth of a craton and Flood Basalt excitation below the Western U.S.

Gene Humphreys

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June 10

Lithospheric structure and active tectonics of the eastern edge of Tibet: gravity modeling and 2008 Wenchuan earthquake slip evolution model

Eric Fielding

 

June 17

Does sea level influence mid-ocean ridge magmatism on Milankovitch timescales?

Paul Asimow

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June 24

True Polar Wander and Supercontinent Cycles: Implications for Lithospheric Elasticity and the Triaxial Earth

Ross Nelson Mitchell

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July 15

Impacts of Pleistocene Glaciation and its Geophysical Effects on North American River Systems

Andy Wickert

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July 24

Improve SAR image offsets by considering scattering characteristics

Teng Wang

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August 6

The Evolution of the Retro-Side of the Alpine Wedge, Switzerland, as Resolved by Structural Thermochronology

Mark Brandon

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August 12

The persistence of rapid exhumation in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis

Karl A. Lang

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September 9

Classical thermodynamics: from dust to ashes, what can we learn from it?

Jean-Philippe Harvey,

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November 4

An Investigation of Continental Rift-Parallel Surface Motions Along the East African Rift System

Sarah Stamps

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