Amos Nur

Wayne Loel Professor of Earth Sciences, Emeritus
Department
Geophysics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Geophysics (1969)
B.Sc., Hebrew University, Geology (1962)

Featured Publications

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Unconventional Petroleum Geology Second Edition Foreword

2017
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Rock physics analysis and time-lapse rock imaging of geochemical effects due to the injection of CO2 into reservoir rocks

2011
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Elastic wave speeds and moduli in polycrystalline ice Ih, sI methane hydrate, and sII methane-ethane hydrate

2009
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The catastrophic end of the Bronze Age: Earthquakes or Sea people

2008
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Seismic velocities of unconsolidated sands: Part 2 - Influence of sorting- and compaction-induced porosity variation

2007
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Pressure Seismic velocities of unconsolidated sands: Part 1 trends from 0.1 to 20 MPa

2007
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Seismic velocities of unconsolidated sands: Part 2 - Influence of sorting and compaction induced porosity variation

2007
Book

Subsidence History and Its Impacts to Hydrocarbon Potential of The Song Hong Basin, Vietnam

2007
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Subsurface fluid flow and its implications for seabed pockmarks and mud volcanoes: An approach of distinct element method(DEM)

2007
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Seismic velocities of unconsolidated sands: Part 1 - Pressure trends from 0.1 to 20 MPa

2007
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Detection of stress-induced velocity anisotropy in unconsolidated sands

2006
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Evaluation of Porosity and Permeability for an Oil Prospect, Offshore Vietnam by using Artificial Neural Networks

2006
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Earthquakes and Archeology: Neocatastrophism or Science?

2006
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Evidence for Tectonic Activity During the Mature Harappan Civilization, 2600-1800 BCE

2006
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Permeability-porosity transforms from small sandstone fragments

2006
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Permeability prediction from thin sections: 3D reconstruction and Lattice-Boltzmann flow simulation

2004
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Transport property modeling in partially-saturated rocks using pore-scale simulations, EOS Trans

2004
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2003 Rock Physics for Gas Hydrate Reservoir Characterization

2003
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Rock property determination using digital rock physics

2003
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Measured temperature and pressure dependence of V-p and V-s in compacted, polycrystalline sI methane and sII methane-ethane hydrate

2003
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Us Patent No: 6516080 - Numerical method of estimating physical properties of three-dimensional porous media

2003
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Measured temperature and pressure dependence of compressional (V-p) and shear (V-s) wave speeds in compacted, polycrystalline ice Ih

2003
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Correction to Liquefaction and dynamic poroelasticity in soft sediments by Ran Bachrach, Amos Nur, and Amotz Agnon

2003
Inproceedings

Computational rock physics: Latice-Boltzmann fluid flow simulationin porous media dna dits applications

2003
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Rock physics of a gas hydrate reservoir

2003
Book

Quantitative acoustic mocroscopy: Application to petrophysical studies of reservoir rocks

2003
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Real time monitoring of permeability

2003
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Material and stress rotations: The key to reconciling crustal faulting complexity with rock mechanics

2003
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Elastic properties of dry clay mineral aggregates, suspensions and sandstones

2003
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Efficient parallel implementation of two-phase Lattice-Boltzmann flow simulation.

2002
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Stratigraphy-guided rock physics

2002
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On the universality of diagnetic trends

2002
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Parallel two-phase flow simulation and representative elementary volume

2002
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The 1993 M4.7 Kuwait earthquakes: Induced by the burning of the oil fields

2002
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Us Patent No: 6,516,080 B1. Numerical method of estimating physical properties of three-dimensional porous media

2002
Inproceedings

Quantitative acoustic microscopy: Application to petrophysical studies of reservoir rocks

2002
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Aftershocks and pore fluid diffusion following theLanders earthquake

2002
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Us Patent No: 6,374,186 B1. Method for over pressure detection from compressional and shear-wave data.

2002
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Ultrasonic velocity measurements in volcanic rocks: correlation with microtexture

2002
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Erroneous interpretation of historical documents related to the epicenter of the 1927 Jericho earthquake in the Holy Land

2002
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The 1993 M4.7 Kuwait earthquake: Induced by the burning of the oil fields

2002
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Aftershocks and pore fluid diffusion following the 1992 Landers earthquake

2002
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Theoretical rock physics for bypassed oil detection behind casing: La Cira-Infantas Oil Field

2001
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Permeability and porosity of sandstone from 2D microimages

2001
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What riggered the collapse? Earthquake storms.

2001
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Integrating reservoir engineering and sattelite remote sensing for (true) continuous time-lapse reservoir monitoring

2001
Book

Critical porosity models

2001
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Effect of initial distribution of two fluids on relative permeability using Lattice-Boltzmann method, EOS Trans

2001
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Computational rock physics at the pore scale: Transport properties and diagenesis in realistic pore geometries

2001
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Two-phase flow in complex porous media using Lattice-Boltzmann method

2001
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Residual topography, lithospheric structure and sunken slabs in the central Mediterranean

2001
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Liquefaction and dynamic poroelasticity in soft sediments

2001
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3-D seismic interperation of tectonic wrenching and faulting in La Cira-Infantas

2001
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Linking oil production to surface subsidence from satellite radar interferometry

2001
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Plate detachment, asthenosphere upwelling, and topography across subduction zones

2000
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Poseidon's horses: Plate tectonics and earthquakes storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean

2000
Book

Acoustic properties of petroliferous liquids: Chapter 8 in Handbook of Elastic Properties of Solids, Liquids and Gases, Volume IV: Elastic Properties of Fluids: Liquids and Gases, eds

2000
Inproceedings

Rock physics characterization for gas hydrate reservoirs - Elastic properties

2000
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Use of compressional and shear wave velocity for overpressure detection, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference

2000
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Flow-limited Diagenesis and Transport Properties of Porous Media using Lattice-Boltzmann Method, 70th International Symposium of Society of Exploration Geophysicists

2000
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Permeability Estimation by Numerical Flow Simulation on 3-D Porous Media Extended from Thin Sections, EOS Trans

2000
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Crustal fluids and earthquakes -GeoComplexity and the Physics of earthquakes.

2000
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Seismic velocities and Poisson's ration of shallow unconsolidated sands

2000
Inproceedings

Introduction to physical properties and elasticity models.

2000
Book

Acoustic properties in rocks saturated with petroliferous liquids: Chapter 9 in Handbook Elastic Properties of Solids, Liquids and Gases, Volume IV: Elastic Properties of Fluids: Liquids and Gases, eds

2000
Inproceedings

Laboratory measurements of compressional and shear wave speeds through methane hydrate

2000
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Seismic velocities and Poisson's ratio of shallow unconsolidated sands

2000
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Estimating the amount of gas hydrate and free gas from marine seismic data

2000
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Permeability as a toggle switch in fluid-controlled crustal processes

2000
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Sediments with gas hydrates: Internal structure from seismic AVO

1999
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Poseidon's horses: Plate tectonics and earthquake storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean

1999
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Overpressure detection from compressional and shear-wave data

1999
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Note: A new estimate for the epicenter of the Jericho earthquake of 11 July, 1927

1999
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High-resolution shallow-seismic experiments in sand, Part 1: Water table, fluid flow, and saturation

1999
Inproceedings

Seismic detection of viscous contaminant using shallow seismic reflection

1999
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High-resolution shallow-seismic experiments in sand, Part II: Velocities in shallow unconsolidated sand

1999
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Elastic-wave velocity in marine sediments with gas hydrates: Effective medium modeling

1999
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Elastic moduli of cemented sphere packs

1999
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Holocene stratigraphy of the Dead Sea: Correlation of high-resolution seismic reflection profiles to sediment cores

1999
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The formation of Mount Etna as the consequence of slab rollback

1999
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Identifying patchy saturation from well logs

1999
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Overpressure detection from compressional- and shear-wave data

1999
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Elastic-wave velocities in sandstones with non-load-bearing clay

1999
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Acoustic signatures of partial saturation

1998
Inproceedings

Numerical simulation of postseismic deformation due to pore fluid diffusion

1998
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A physical model for porosity reduction in sandstones

1998
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Time-average equation revisited

1998
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A study of porosity and permeability using a lattice Boltzmann simulation

1998
Inproceedings

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

1998
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Elastic strain energy as a control in the evolution of asymmetric pressure-solution contacts

1998
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Acoustic signatures of patchy saturation

1998
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Stability analysis of a pressure-solution surface

1998
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Vertical axis rotations in the Mojave: Evidence from the Independence dike swarm: Reply

1997
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The effect of a percolation threshold in the Kozeny-Carman relation

1997
Inproceedings

Geophysical imaging of transient ground water flow in partially saturated aquifers

1997
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Elasticity of high-porosity sandstones: Theory for two North Sea data sets

1996
Inproceedings

Seismic signatures of patchy saturation

1996
Inproceedings

Structure of hydrated sediment from seismic and rock physics

1996
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Earthquakes as a coupled shear stress high pore pressure dynamical system

1996
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Stress sensitivity of sandstones

1996
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Vertical axis rotations in the Mojave: Evidence from the Independence dike swarm

1996
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SCALE EFFECTS ON DYNAMIC WAVE-PROPAGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA

1995
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SQUIRT FLOW IN FULLY SATURATED ROCKS

1995
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EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES OF CEMENTED GRANULAR-MATERIALS

1994
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THE SQUIRT-FLOW MECHANISM - MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION

1994
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SEISMIC SIGNATURES OF RESERVOIR TRANSPORT-PROPERTIES AND PORE FLUID DISTRIBUTION

1994
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PORE PRESSURE PROFILES IN FRACTURED AND COMPLIANT ROCKS

1994
Inproceedings

CRITICAL POROSITY - A PHYSICAL BOUNDARY IN POROELASTICITY

1993
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NARROW SUBDUCTING SLABS AND THE ORIGIN OF BACKARC BASINS

1993
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ROTATION OF STRESS AND BLOCKS IN THE LAKE MEAD, NEVADA, FAULT SYSTEM

1993
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THE NATURE OF THE LANDERS-MOJAVE EARTHQUAKE LINE

1993
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DYNAMIC POROELASTICITY - A UNIFIED MODEL WITH THE SQUIRT AND THE BIOT MECHANISMS

1993
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ULTRASONIC VELOCITIES IN SANDS - REVISITED

1993
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RELATING P-WAVE ATTENUATION TO PERMEABILITY

1993
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THE DYNAMICS OF VISCOUS COMPRESSIBLE FLUID IN A FRACTURE

1992
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COMPRESSIONAL VELOCITY AND POROSITY IN SAND-CLAY MIXTURES

1992
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PETROPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CAJON PASS SCIENTIFIC WELL - IMPLICATIONS FOR FLUID-FLOW AND SEISMIC STUDIES IN THE CONTINENTAL-CRUST

1992
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ULTRASONIC VELOCITY AND ANISOTROPY OF HYDROCARBON SOURCE ROCKS

1992
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ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF VEIN CALCITE AND ITS FLUID INCLUSIONS - IMPLICATION TO PALEOHYDROLOGICAL SYSTEMS, TECTONIC EVENTS AND VEIN FORMATION PROCESSES

1992
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FILTRATION FRONTS IN PRESSURE COMPLIANT RESERVOIRS

1992
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PETROPHYSICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SILICICLASTICS FOR LITHOLOGY AND POROSITY PREDICTION FROM SEISMIC VELOCITIES

1992
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THE EFFECT OF CEMENTATION ON THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF GRANULAR MATERIAL

1991
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DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION AND BLOCK ROTATION IN 3 DIMENSIONS

1991
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AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN

1991
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ULTRASONIC VELOCITIES IN PURE HYDROCARBONS AND MIXTURES

1991
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KOZENY-CARMAN RELATION FOR A MEDIUM WITH TAPERED CRACKS

1991
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PORE-FILLING MATERIAL AND ITS EFFECT ON VELOCITY IN ROCKS

1991
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ACOUSTIC VELOCITIES IN PETROLEUM OILS

1990
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PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE FOR COUNTERCLOCKWISE BLOCK ROTATION IN THE NORTH NEVADA RIFT REGION

1990
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WAVE VELOCITIES IN HYDROCARBON-SATURATED ROCKS - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

1990
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DISPERSION ANALYSIS OF ACOUSTIC VELOCITIES IN ROCKS

1990
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MULTIPLE STRIKE-SLIP-FAULT SETS - A CASE-STUDY FROM THE DEAD-SEA TRANSFORM

1990
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THE OSCILLATIONS OF A VISCOUS COMPRESSIBLE FLUID IN AN ARBITRARILY-SHAPED PORE

1990
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STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING AND BLOCK ROTATION IN THE LAKE MEAD FAULT SYSTEM - RESPONSE

1989
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PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM LATE PALEOZOIC DIKES FROM THE NORTHWESTERN JUNGGAR BLOCK, NORTHWESTERN CHINA

1989
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PERCOLATION OF ELECTRICAL AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF GRANULAR-MATERIALS AT THE TRANSITION FROM A SUSPENSION TO A LOOSE PACKING

1989
Inproceedings

KINEMATICS AND MECHANICS OF TECTONIC BLOCK ROTATIONS

1989
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EMPLACEMENT OF FORELAND THRUST SYSTEMS

1988
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EFFECTS OF POROSITY AND CLAY CONTENT ON WAVE VELOCITIES IN SANDSTONES - REPLY

1987
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ACTIVE TRANSCURRENT FAULT SYSTEM ALONG THE NORTH AFRICAN PASSIVE MARGIN

1987
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STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING AND BLOCK ROTATION IN THE LAKE MEAD FAULT SYSTEM

1987
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THE DIELECTRIC-CONSTANT OF SANDSTONES, 60 KHZ TO 4 MHZ

1987
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PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENT BY THE PULSE-DECAY METHOD - EFFECTS OF POROELASTIC PHENOMENA AND NONLINEAR PORE PRESSURE DIFFUSION

1986
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COLLISIONAL PROCESSES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

1986
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ACOUSTIC REFLECTIVITY AND SHALLOW SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE IN THE SEA OF GALILEE, JORDAN VALLEY

1986
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QUANTIFYING SOLID FLUID INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA IN POROUS ROCKS WITH PROTON NUCLEAR-MAGNETIC-RESONANCE

1986
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FAULT MECHANICS AND THE KINEMATICS OF BLOCK ROTATIONS

1986
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EFFECTS OF POROSITY AND CLAY CONTENT ON WAVE VELOCITIES IN SANDSTONES

1986
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SPATIAL GAPS IN ARC VOLCANISM - THE EFFECT OF COLLISION OR SUBDUCTION OF OCEANIC PLATEAUS

1985
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THE NATURE OF SEISMIC REFLECTIONS FROM DEEP CRUSTAL FAULT ZONES

1984
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POROSITY REDUCTION AND CRUSTAL PORE PRESSURE DEVELOPMENT

1984
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EFFECTS OF ATTENUATION ON REFLECTIONS - EXPERIMENTAL TEST

1984
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BLOCK ROTATION BY STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING - STRUCTURAL AND PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE

1984
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A PORE-SPACE MODEL FOR ROCK PERMEABILITY AND BULK MODULUS

1984
Inproceedings

ROLE OF STEPOVERS IN STRIKE-SLIP TECTONICS

1984
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VOLCANIC GAPS DUE TO OBLIQUE CONSUMPTION OF ASEISMIC RIDGES

1983
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VELOCITY AND ATTENUATION IN SANDSTONE AT ELEVATED-TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURES

1983
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AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW TO THE CONCEPT OF DISPLACED TERRANES

1983
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ACCRETED TERRANES

1983
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SEISMIC VELOCITY AND ANISOTROPY IN MYLONITES AND THE REFLECTIVITY OF DEEP CRUSTAL FAULT ZONES

1982
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EVOLUTION OF PULL APART BASINS AND THEIR SCALE INDEPENDENCE

1982
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OCEANIC PLATEAUS, THE FRAGMENTATION OF CONTINENTS, AND MOUNTAIN BUILDING

1982
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EFFECTS OF PRESSURE AND PARTIAL WATER SATURATION ON GAS-PERMEABILITY IN TIGHT SANDS - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

1982
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EFFECTS OF DIAGENESIS AND CLAYS ON COMPRESSIONAL VELOCITIES IN ROCKS

1982
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THE EMPLACEMENT OF OPHIOLITES BY COLLISION

1982
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THE ORIGIN OF TENSILE FRACTURE LINEAMENTS

1982
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SEISMIC ATTENUATION - EFFECTS OF PORE FLUIDS AND FRICTIONAL SLIDING

1982
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THE ACCOMMODATION OF RELATIVE MOTION AT DEPTH ON THE SAN-ANDREAS FAULT SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA

1981
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CONTINENTAL ACCRETION - FROM OCEANIC PLATEAUS TO ALLOCHTHONOUS TERRANES

1981
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VOLCANIC GAPS AND THE CONSUMPTION OF ASEISMIC RIDGES IN SOUTH-AMERICA

1981
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EFFECTS OF FLUID SATURATION ON WAVES IN POROUS ROCK AND RELATIONS TO HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY

1980
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THE ELEVATION OF VOLCANOS AND THEIR EDIFICE HEIGHTS AT SUBDUCTION ZONES

1980
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ROLE OF HETEROGENEITIES IN FAULTING

1980
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WAVE ATTENUATION IN PARTIALLY SATURATED ROCKS

1979
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MICROCRACKING AND HEALING IN GRANITES - NEW EVIDENCE FROM CATHODOLUMINESCENCE

1979
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STRIKE SLIP FAULTING IN A DOWNWARD VARYING CRUST

1979
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PORE FLUIDS AND SEISMIC ATTENUATION IN ROCKS

1979
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COMPLETE SOLUTION OF A ONE-DIMENSIONAL PROPAGATING FAULT WITH NONUNIFORM STRESS AND STRENGTH

1979
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STATIC STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING IN A HORIZONTALLY VARYING CRUST

1979
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COMPRESSIONAL AND SHEAR-WAVES IN SATURATED ROCK DURING WATER-STEAM TRANSITION

1979
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FRICTION AND SEISMIC ATTENUATION IN ROCKS

1979
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EFFECT OF NON-ELLIPTICAL CRACKS ON COMPRESSIBILITY OF ROCKS

1978
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EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND LEVANT - TECTONICS OF CONTINENTAL COLLISION

1978
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STRENGTH CHANGES DUE TO RESERVOIR-INDUCED PORE PRESSURE AND STRESSES AND APPLICATION TO LAKE OROVILLE

1978
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NONUNIFORM FRICTION AS A PHYSICAL BASIS FOR EARTHQUAKE MECHANICS

1978
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PREDICTION OF HAICHENG EARTHQUAKE

1977
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DESTRUCTION OF POROSITY THROUGH PRESSURE SOLUTION

1977
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NON-NEWTONIAN ANTIPLANE FLOW AND ITS APPLICATION TO PLATE DEFORMATION

1977
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LOST PACIFICA CONTINENT

1977
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EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY OF EFFECTS OF STRESS ON SOLUTION RATE

1977
Inproceedings

MECHANICAL CONSTRAINTS ON MODELS OF STRAIN ACCUMULATION ALONG SAN ANDREAS FAULT

1977
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TECTONICS, SEISMICITY AND STRUCTURE OF AFRO-EURASIAN JUNCTION - BREAKING OF AN INCOHERENT PLATE

1976
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SLIP RATES AND MORPHOLOGY OF CONTINENTAL COLLISION BELTS

1976
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REDUCTION OF POROSITY BY PRESSURE SOLUTION - EXPERIMENTAL-VERIFICATION

1976
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EFFECTS OF PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, AND PORE WATER ON VELOCITIES IN WESTERLY GRANITE

1976
Article

MELT SQUIRT IN ASTHENOSPHERE

1975
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WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AND EARTHQUAKES ON SAN ANDREAS FAULT ZONE

1975
Inproceedings

EFFECTS OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE, VARIABLE PRESSURE PORE WATER ON SEISMIC VELOCITIES

1974
Inproceedings

POST SEISMIC DEFORMATION FROM VISCOUS RELAXATION AT DEPTH

1974
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FLUID-PRESSURE VARIATIONS AND FAULT CREEP IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

1974
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COMPRESSIONAL AND SHEAR WAVE VELOCITIES IN GRANULAR MATERIALS TO 2.5 KILOBARS

1973
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PORE PRESSURE CHANGES DURING CREEP EVENTS ON SAN-ANDREAS FAULT

1973
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EFFECTIVE STRESS LAWS FOR FLUID-SATURATED POROUS ROCKS

1973
Inproceedings

POST SEISMIC VISCOELASTIC REBOUND

1973
Inproceedings

TIME-DEPENDENT VELOCITY OF WATER-SATURATED GRANITE AT HIGH-TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURES

1973
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ROLE OF PORE FLUIDS IN FAULTING

1973