Publications

Humphreys, E, 2007, Relation of Flat Subduction to Magmatism and Deformation in the Western USA, for the Backbone of the Americas volume (in review). Link

 

Humphreys, E, 2007, Cenozoic slab windows beneath the western United States for the Bill Dickinson volume (in review). Link

 

Humphreys, E., and D. Coblentz, North American dynamics and western U.S. tectonics, Rev. Geophys., doi:10.1029/ 2005RG000181 , 2007. Link

 

Zandt, G., and E. Humphreys, Toroidal mantle flow through the western U.S. slab window, Geology, in review (accepted), 2007. Link

 

Fay*, N., and E. Humphreys, Dynamics of the Salton block: Absolute fault strength and crust-mantle coupling, Geology, 34 , 261-264; doi: 10.1130/G22172.1, 2006. Link

 

Fay*, N., and E. Humphreys, Fault slip rates, effects of elastic heterogeneity on geodetic data, and the strength of the lower crust in the Salton Trough region, southern California, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JB003548, 2005. Link

 

Hales*, T.C., D. Abt*, E. Humphreys, and J. Roering, A lithospheric instability origin for Columbia River flood basalts and Willowa Mountains uplift in northeast Oregon, Nature, 438, 842-845, 2005. Link

 

Schutt D. L., E. D. Humphreys (2004), P and S wave velocity and Vp/Vs in the wake of the Yellowstone hot spot , J. Geophys. Res., 109, B01305, doi:10.1029/2003JB002442. Link

 

Crosswhite, J. A., and Humphreys, E. D., Imaging the Mountainless Root of the 1.8 Ga Cheyenne Belt Suture and Clues to its Tectonic Stability, Geology, 31, 669-672, 2003. Link

 

Humphreys, E., E. Hessler, K. Dueker, E. Erslev, G. L. Farmer, and T. Atwater, How Laramide-age hydration of North America by the Farallon slab controlled subsequent activity in the western U.S., The George A. Thompson volume, International Book Series, 7 (invited), S. L. Klemperer and W. G. Ernst, editors, 524-544, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder Colorado, 2003 Link

 

Schutt*, D.L., and E. Humphreys, Evidence for a deep asthenosphere beneath North America from western United States SKS splits, Geology, 29, 291-294, 2001. Link

 

Humphreys, E. D., K. G. Dueker, D. L. Schutt, and R. B. Smith, Beneath Yellowstone: Evaluating plume and nonplume models using teleseismic data, GSA Today, 10, 2000. Link

 

Hammond, W.C., and E.D. Humphreys, Upper mantle seismic wave velocity: Effects of realistic partial melt geometries, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 10,975-10,986, 2000. Link

 

Karlstrom, K.E., and E. Humphreys, Persistent influence of Proterozoic accretionary boundaries in the tectonic evolution of southwestern North America: Interaction of cratonic grain and mantle modification events, Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, 161-179, 1998. Link

 

Schutt*, D., E. Humphreys, and K. Dueker, Anisotropy of the Yellowstone hot spot wake, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, Pure appl. geophys., 151, 443-462, 1998. Link

 

Peng*, X., and E. Humphreys, Crustal velocity structure of northwest Nevada from teleseismic receiver function analysis, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 87, 745-754, 1997. Link

 

Humphreys, E. and K.G. Dueker*, Physical state of the western U.S. upper mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 9635-9650, 1994. Link

 

Humphreys, E. and K.G. Dueker*, Western U.S. upper mantle structure, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 9615-9634, 1994. Link

 

Humphreys, E., and R. Weldon, Deformation across the western United States: A local estimate of Pacific-North America transform deformation, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 19,975-20,010, 1994. Link

 

 

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