This is the 2018-19 reading list for James Jackson's course on Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building.
Option 1 - Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building
Professor James Jackson
Lecture 1:
- Copley et al, Constraints on fault and lithosphere rheology from the coseismic slip and postseismic afterslip of the 2006 Mw7.0 Mozambique earthquake Journal of Geophys ical Research, 117, doi:10.1029/2011JB008580, 2012.
- Konca et al, Partial rupture of a locked patch of the Sumatra megathrust during the 2007 earthquake sequence, Nature 456, 631-635, 2008.
- Marone, Laboratory-derived friction laws and their application to seismic faulting, Ann. Revs. Earth Planet. Sci., 26, 643-696, 1998.
Lecture 2:
- Savage and Prescott, Asthenosphere readjustment and the earthquake cycle, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 3369-3376, 1978.
- Perfettini and Avouac, Modeling afterslip and aftershocks following the 1992 Landers earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B07409, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004399, 2007.
- Freed et al, Far-reaching transient motions after Mojave earthquakes require broad mantle flow beneath a strong crust, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL030959, 2007
- Rousset et al, Postseismic deformation following the 1999 Chi-chi earthquake, Taiwan: Implication for lower-crustal rheology, J. Geophys. Res., 117, doi:10.1029/2012JB009571, 2012.
- Copley et al, Constraints on fault and lithosphere rheology from the coseismic slip and postseismic afterslip of the 2006 Mw7.0 Mozambique earthquake Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, doi:10.1029/2011JB008580, 2012.
- Barbot et al, Postseismic deformation due to the Mw 6.0 2004 Parkeld earthquake: Stress-driven creep on a fault with spatially variable rate-and-state friction parameters, J. Geophys. Res., 114, doi:10.1029/2008JB005748, 2009.
- Freed et al, Stress-dependent power-law flow in the upper mantle following the 2002 Denali, Alaska, earthquake, Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett., 252, 481489, 2006.
- Wang et al, Deformation cycles of subduction earthquakes in a viscoelastic Earth, Nature, 484, 327-332, 2012.
- Hetland and Hager, Postseismic and interseismic displacements near a strike-slip fault: A two-dimensional theory for general linear viscoelastic rheologies, J. Geophys. Res., 110, doi:10.1029/2005JB003689, 2005.
- Burgmann and Dresen, Rheology of the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle: Evidence from Rock Mechanics, Geodesy, and Field Observations, Ann. Rev. Earth. Planet. Sci., 36, 531-567, 2008.
Lecture 3:
- Jackson et al, 1982, Seismicity, normal faulting, and the geomorphological development of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece): the Corinth earthquakes of February and March 1981, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 57, p. 377-397.
- Jackson, 1987, Active normal faulting and crustal extension, Geological Society Special Publication No. 28, p. 3-17.
- Jackson and White, 1988, Normal faulting in the upper continental crust: observations from regions of active extension, Journal of Structural Geology, 11, p. 15-36.
- Proffett 1977, Cenozoic geology of the Yerington district, Nevada, and implications for the nature and origin of Basin and Range faulting, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 88, p. 247-266.
- Foster and Nimmo, 1996, Comparisons between the rift systems of East Africa, Earth, and Beta Regio, Venus, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 143, p. 183-195.
- Copley and Woodcock, 2016, Estimates of fault strength from the Variscan foreland of the northern UK, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 451, p. 108-113.
- Jackson and Blenkinsop, 1997, the Bilila-Mtakataka fault in Malawi: and active, 100-km long, normal fault segment in thick seismogenic crust, Tectonics, 16, p. 137-150.
- Goldsworthy and Jackson, 2001, Migration of activity within normal fault systems: examples from the Quaternary of mainland Greece, Journal of Structural Geology, 23, p. 489-506.
- Copley et al., 2018, Unexpected earthquake hazard revealed by Holocene rupture on the Kenchriae Fault (central Greece): implications for weak sub-fault shear zones. Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 486, 141–154.
Lecture 4:
Nissen et al., 2011, New views on earthquake faulting in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt of Iran, Geophysical Journal International, 186, p. 928-944.
Talebian & Jackson, 2003, A reappraisal of earthquake focal mechanisms and active shortening in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, Geophysical Journal International, 156, p. 506-526.
Copley & Jackson, 2006 Active Tectonics of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau, Tectonics, 25, doi:10.1029/2005TC001906.
Molnar & Gipson, 1994, Very long baseline interferometry and active rotations of crustal blocks in the Western Transverse Ranges, California, Bulletin of the Gological Society of America, 106, p. 594-606.
Bayasgalan et al., 1999, Field examples of strike-slip fault terminations in Mongolia and their tectonic significance, Tectonics, 18, p. 394-411.
Copley, 2014, Postseismic afterslip 30 years after the 1978 Tabas-e-Golshan (Iran) earthquake: observations and implications for the geological evolution of thrust belts, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu023.
Lecture 5:
- Mckenzie, 1972, Active Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 30, p. 109-185.
- England and Jackson, Active deformation of the continents, Ann. Revs. Earth. Planet. Sci., 17, 197-226, 1989.
- Meade, Present-day kinematics of the India-Asia collision zone, Geology, 35, 81-84, 2007.
- England and Molnar, Active deformation of Asia: from kinematics to dynamics, Science, 278, 647-650, 1997.
- Bendick et al, Geodetic evidence for a low slip rate in the Altyn Tagh fault system, Nature, 404, 69-72, 2001
Lecture 6:
- Priestley & McKenzie, 2006, The thermal structure of the lithosphere from shear wave velocities, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 244, p. 285-301.
- McKenzie & Priestley, 2008, The influence of lithospheric thickness variations on continental evolution, Lithos, 102, p. 1-11.
- Copley et al., 2014, Active faulting in apparently stable peninsular India: rift inversion and a Holocene-age great earthquake on the Tapti Fault, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1002/2014JB011294.
- Jackson et al., 2008, New views on the structure and rheology of the lithosphere, Journal of the Geological Society, 165, p. 453-465.
- McKenzie & Priestley, 2016, Speculations on the formation of cratons and cratonic basins, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 435, p. 94-104.
- McKenzie & Rodriguez Tribaldos, 2018, Lithospheric heating by crustal thickening: a possible origin of the Parnaiba Basin. Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. London, 472, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP472.7
Lecture 7:
- England and Jackson, Active deformation of the continents, Ann. Revs. Earth. Planet. Sci., 17, 197-226, 1989.
- McKenzie et al, Characteristics and consequences of flow in the lower crust, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 11,029-11,046, 2000.
- England and Houseman, Mechanics of the Tibetan Plateau, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A., v 326, p. 301-320, 1988.
- England and Molnar, Active deformation of Asia: from kinematics to dynamics, Science, 278, 647-650, 1997.
- Houseman et al, Convective instability of a thickened boundary layer and its relevance for the thermal evolution of continental convergent belts, J. Geophys. Res., 86, p. 6115-6132, 1981.
Lecture 8:
- Craig et al, Thermal and tectonic consequences of India underthrusting Tibet, EPSL, 353-354, p.231-239, 2012.
- Huppert, The propagation of two-dimensional and axisymmetric viscous gravity currents over a rigid horizontal surface, J. Fluid. Mech., 121, 43-58, 1982.
- McKenzie et al, Characteristics and consequences of flow in the lower crust, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 11,029-11,046, 2000.
- Copley, The formation of mountain range curvature by gravitational spreading, EPSL, 351-352, p.208-214, 2012.
- Copley and McKenzie, Models of crustal flow in the India-Asia collision zone, Geophys. J. Int. , 169, 683-698, 2007.
- Copley et al, Evidence for mechanical coupling and strong Indian lower crust beneath southern Tibet, Nature, 472, p.79-81, doi:10.1038/nature09926, 2011.