Master list of our Cornell research project publications
Projects:
Syria and Northern
Arabian Platform Project
- Alchalbi, A., et al. Crustal deformation in northwestern Arabia from GPS measurements in Syria: Slow slip rate along the northern Dead Sea Fault. Geophys. J. Int., 180, 125-135, 2010.
- Al-Saad, D., Sawaf,
T., Gebran, A., Barazangi, M., Best, J. A., and Chaimov, T. A., Northern Arabian
platform transect across the Palmyride mountain belt, Syrian Arab Republic,
Global Geoscience Transect 1, The Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere
and the American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C., 1991.
- Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., Gebran,
A., Barazangi, M., Best, J. A., and Chaimov, T. A., Crustal structure of central
Syria: The intracontinental Palmyride Mountain belt, Tectonophysics, 207,
345-358, 1992.
- Alsdorf, D., Barazangi,
M., Litak, R., Seber, D., Sawaf, T., and Al-Saad, D., The intraplate Euphrates
fault system- Palmyrides mountain belt junction and relationship to Arabian
plate boundary tectonics, Annali di Geofisica,38, 385-397, 1995.
- Barazangi, M., Seber, D., Chaimov,
T., Best, J., Litak, R., Al-Saad, D., and Sawaf, T., Tectonic evolution of
the northern Arabian plate in western Syria, in E. Boschi, E. Mantovani, and
A. Morelli, eds., Recent Evolution and Seismicity of the Mediterranean Region,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, NATO ASI Series, The Netherlands, 117-140, 1993.
- Barazangi, M., Seber, D., Al-Saad, D.,
and Sawaf, T., Structure of the intracontinental Palmyride mountain belt in
Syria and its relationship to nearby Arabian plate boundaries, Proc. 1st Int.
Symp. Eastern Mediterranean Geology, Bull. Earth Sci., 20, Cukurova Univ.,
Adana, Turkey, 111-118, 1992.
- Best, J. A., Barazangi, M., Al-Saad, D.,
Sawaf, T. and Gebran, A., Continental margin evolution of the northern Arabian
platform in Syria, Am. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Bull., 77, 173-193, 1993.
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Best, J. A., Barazangi, M., Al-Saad, D.,
Sawaf, T., and Gebran, A., Bouguer gravity trends and crustal structure
of the Palmyride mountain belt and surrounding northern Arabian platform
in Syria, Geology, 18, 1235-1239, 1990.
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Brew, G., Best, J., Barazangi, M., Sawaf,
T. Tectonic evolution of the northeast Palmyride mountain belt, Syria: the
Bishri block, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 677-685, 2003.
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Brew, G., Tectonic evolution
of Syria Interpreted from Integrated Geophysical and Geological Analysis,
Ph. D. Dissertation, Cornell University, January 2001.
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Brew, G., Barazangi, M., Al-Maleh,
K., and Sawaf, T., Tectonic and Geologic evolution of Syria, GeoArabia,
6, 3, 2001.
- Brew, G., Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., and
Al-Maleh, K., Tectonic Map and Geologic Evolution of Syria: The role of GIS,
The Leading Edge, 19, 176-182, 2000.
- Brew, G., Litak,
R., Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., and Zaza, T., Tectonic evolution of northeast
Syria: Implications for regional tectonics and hydrocarbons, GeoArabia, 4,
289-318, 1999.
- Brew, G. E., Litak, R. K., Seber, D.,
Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., and Al-Imam, A., Basement depth and velocity structure
in the northern Arabian platform, Eastern Syria, Geophys. J. Int., 128, 617-631,
1997.
- Brew, G. E., Litak, R. K., Seber, D.,
Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., and Zaza, T., Summary of the geological evolution
of Syria through geophysical interpretation implications for hydrocarbon exploration,
The Leading Edge, 16, 1473-1482, 1997.
- Chaimov, T. A., Barazangi, M.,
Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., and Gebran, A., Shortening in the Palmyride fold belt,
Syria, and implications for movement along the Dead Sea fault system, Tectonics,
9, 1369-1386, 1990.
- Chaimov, T A.., Barazangi, M.,
Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T. and Gebran, A., Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformation inferred
from seismic stratigraphy in the southwestern intracontinental Palmyride fold-thrust
belt, Syria, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 104, 704-715, 1992.
- Chaimov, T. A., Barazangi, M.,
Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., and Khaddour, M., Seismic fabric and 3-D upper crustal
structure of the southwestern intracontinental Palmyride fold belt, Syria,
Am. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Bull., 77, 2032-2047, 1993.
- Litak, R. K., Barazangi, M., Brew,
G. E., Sawaf, T., Al-Imam, A., and Al-Youssef, W., Structure and evolution
of the petroliferous Euphrates graben system, southern Syria, Am. Assoc. Petr.
Geol. Bull., 82, 1173-1190, 1998.
- Litak, R. K., Barazangi, M., Beauchamp,
W., Seber, D., Brew, G., Sawaf, T., and Al-Youssef, W., Mesozoic-Cenozoic
evolution of the intraplate Euphrates fault system, Syria: Implications for
regional tectonics, J. Geol. Soc., London, 154, 653-666, 1997.
- McBride, J. H., Barazangi, M., Best,
J., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., Al-Otri, M., and Gebran, A., Seismic reflection
structure of intracratonic Palmyride fold-thrust belt and surrounding Arabian
platform, Syria, Am. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Bull., 74, 238-259, 1990.
- Sawaf, T., Brew, G.E., Litak, R.K., Barazangi,
M., Geologic evolution of the intraplate Palmyride basin and Euphrates fault
system, Syria, PeriTethys Memoir # 6, eds. Ziegler, P., Cavazza, W., Robertson,
A. H. F., and Crasquin-Soleau, S., 441-467, 2001.
- Sawaf, T., Al-Saad, D., Gebran,
A., Barazangi, M., Best, J. A., and Chaimov, T., Stratigraphy and structure
of eastern Syria across the Euphrates depression, Tectonophysics, 220, 267-281,
1993.
- Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Chaimov, T.
A., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., and Khaddour, M., Upper crustal velocity structure
and basement morphology beneath the intracontinental Palmyride fold-thrust
belt and north Arabian platform in Syria, Geophys. J. Int., 113, 752-766,
1993.
Eastern Turkey Seismological
Experiment
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Al-Lazki, A., Seber,
D., Sandvol, E., Türkelli, N., Mohamad, R.,
and Barazangi, M., Tomographic Pn velocity and anisotropy structure beneath
the Anatolian Plateau (Eastern Turkey) and the surrounding regions, Geophysical
Research Letters, 30(24), 2003.
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Barazangi, M., Sandvol,
E., and Seber, D., Structure and tectonic evolution of the Anatolian Plateau
in eastern Turkey, in Dilek, Y., and Pavlides, S., eds., Post-collisional
Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia: Geological
Society of America Special Paper 409, 463-473, 2006.
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Gök, R., Sandvol,
E., Türkelli, N., Seber, D., and Barazangi,
M., Sn attenuation in the Anatolian and Iranian Plateau and surrounding
regions, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(24), 2003.
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Gök, R., Türkelli,
N., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., and Barazangi, M., Regional wave propagation
in Turkey and surrounding regions, Geophysical Research Letters, 27(3),
2000.
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Gürbüz, C.,
Türkelli, N., Bekler, T., Gök, R., Sandvol,
E., Seber, D., and Barazangi, M., Seismic event location calibration using
the Eastern Turkey Broadband Seismic Network: Analysis of the Agri Dam explosion,
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 94(3), 1166-1171, 2004.
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Kuleli, S., Zor, E.,
Türkelli, N., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., and Barazangi, M., The IMS Belbasi
Seismic Array (BRAR) in Central Turkey, Seismological Research Letters,
72 (1), 60-69, 2001.
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Örgülü,
G., Aktar, M., Türkelli, N., Sandvol, E., and
Barazangi, M., Contribution to the seismotectonics of Eastern Turkey from
moderate and small size events, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(24), 2003.
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Sandvol, E., Türkelli,
N., Zor, E., Gök, R., Bekler, T., Gurbuz, C., Seber, D., and Barazangi,
M., Shear wave splitting in a young continent-continent collision: An example
from Eastern Turkey, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(24), 2003.
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Sengör, A., Özeren,
S., Genc, T., and Zor, E., East Anatolian high plateau as a mantle supported,
north-south shortened domal structure, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(24),
2003.
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Türkelli,
N., Sandvol, E., Zor, E., Gök, R., Bekler, T., Al-Lazki, A., Karabulut,
H., Kuleli, S., Eken, T., Gürbüz,
C., Bayraktutan, S., Seber, D., and Barazangi, M., Seismogenic zones in
Eastern Turkey, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(24), 2003.
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Zor, E., Sandvol, E.,
Gürbüz, C., Türkelli,
N., Seber, D., and Barazangi, M., The crustal structure of the East Anatolian
Plateau (Turkey) from receiver functions, Geophysical Research Letters,
30(24), 2003.
Active Tectonics Studies
in the Dead Sea Fault Zone
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Ambraseys, N. N.,
and Barazangi, M., The 1759 earthquake in the Bekaa Valley: Implications
for earthquake hazard assessment in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Journal
of Geophysical Research, 94(B4), 4007-4013, 1989.
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Brew, G., Lupa, J., Barazangi,
M., Sawaf, T., Al-Imam, A., and Zaza, T., Structure and tectonic development
of the Ghab Basin and the Dead Sea Fault System,Syria, Journal of the Geological
Society, London, 158, 665-674, 2001.
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Gomez, F., Karam, G.,
Khawlie, M., McClusky, S., Vernant, P., Reilinger, R., Jaafar, R., Tabet,
C., Khair, K., and Barazangi, M., Global Positioning System measurements
of strain accumulation and slip transfer through the restraining bend along
the Dead Sea fault system in Lebanon, Geophysical Journal International,
168, 1021-1028, 2007.
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Gomez, F., Nemer, T.,
Tabet, C., Khawlie, M., Meghraoui, M., and Barazangi, M. Strain partitioning
of active transpression within the Lebanese restraining bend of the Dead
Sea Fault (Lebanon and SW Syria), in Cunningham, W. D., and Mann, P. (eds),
Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends, Geological Society
of London, Special Paper, 209, 285-303, 2007.
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Gomez, F., Khawlie, M.,
Tabet, C., Darkal, A. N., Khair, K., and Barazangi, M., Late Cenozoic uplift
along the northern Dead Sea transform in Lebanon and Syria, Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 241, 913– 931, 2006.
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Gomez, F., Meghraoui,
M., Darkal, A.N., Hijazi, F., Mouty, M., Suleiman, Y., Sbeinati, R., Darawcheh,
R., Al-Ghazzi, R., and Barazangi, M., Holocene faulting and earthquake recurrence
along the Serghaya branch of the Dead Sea fault system in Syria and Lebanon,
Geophysical Journal International, 153, 658-674, 2003.
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Gomez, F., Meghraoui,
M., Darkal, A.N., Sbeinati, R., Darawcheh, R., Tabet, C., Khawlie, M., Charabe,
M., Khair, K., and Barazangi, M., Coseismic displacements along the Serghaya
Fault: An active branch of the Dead Sea Fault System in Syria and Lebanon,
Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158, 405-408, 2001.
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Khair, K., Khawlie,
M., Haddad, F., Barazangi, M., Seber, D., and Chaimov, T., Bouguer gravity
and crustal structure of the Dead Sea transform fault and adjacent mountain
belts in Lebanon, Geology, 21, 739-742, 1993.
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Meghraoui, M., Gomez,
F., Sbeinati, R., Van der Woerd, J., Mouty, M., Darkal, A.N., Radwan, Y.,
Layyous, I., Al Najjar, H., Darawcheh, R., Hijazi, F., Al-Ghazzi, R., and
Barazangi, M., Evidence for 830 years of seismic quiescence from palaeoseismology,
archaeoseismology and historical seismicity along the Dead Sea fault in
Syria, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 210 35-52, 2003.
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Mohamad, R., Darkal,
A. N., Seber, D., Sandvol, E., Gomez, F., and Barazangi, M., Remote earthquake
triggering along the Dead Sea Fault in Syria following the 1995 Gulf of
Aqaba earthquake (M (sub s) = 7.3), Seismological Research Letters
71 (1), 47-52, 2000.
Moroccan Atlas/Rif
Mountain Belts and Alboran Sea Project
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Beauchamp,
W., Barazangi, M., Demnati, A. and El Alji, M., Intracontinental rifting
and inversion: Missour Basin and Atlas Mountains, Morocco, Am. Assoc. Pet.
Geol. Bull., 80, 1459-1482, 1996.
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Beauchamp,
W., Barazangi, M., Demnati, A., and El Alji, M., Inversion of synrift normal
faults in the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco, The Leading Edge, 16, 1171-1175,
1997.
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Beauchamp,
W., Allmendinger, R., Barazangi, M., Demnati, A., El Alji, M., and Dahmani,
M., Inversion tectonics and the evolution of the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco,
based on a geological-geophysical transect, Tectonics, 18, 163-184, 1999.
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Beauchamp,
W., Superposed folding resulting from inversion of a synrift accommodation
zone, Atlas Mountains, Morocco, in K. R. McClay, ed., Thrust Tectonics and
Hydrocarbon Systems: AAPG Memoir 82, p. 635-646, 2004.
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Calvert,
A., Gomez, F., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Jabbour, N., Ibenbrahim, A., Demnati,
A., An integrated geophysical investigation of recent seismicity in the
Al-Hoceima region of North Morocco, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 87(3), 637-651,
1997.
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Calvert,
A., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Roecker, S., Mourabit, T., Vidal,
F., Alguacil, G., and Jabour, N., Geodynamic
evolution of the lithosphere and upper mantle beneath the Alboran region
of the western Mediterranean: constraints from travel time tomography,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 10871-10898, 2000.
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Calvert,
A., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Roecker, S., Mourabit, T., Vidal,
F., Alguacil, G., and Jabour, N., Propagation
of regional seismic phases (Lg and Sn) and Pn velocity structure along the
Africa-Iberia plate boundary zone, Geophysical Journal International,
142, 384-408, 2000.
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Fadil, A., Vernant, P., McClusky,
S., Reilinger, R., Gomez, F., Sari, D. B., Mourabit, T., Feigl, K., and
Barazangi, M., Active tectonics of the western Mediterranean: Geodetic evidence
for roll back of a delaminated subcontinental lithospheric slab beneath
the Rif Mountains, Morocco, Geology, 34(7), 529-532, 2006.
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Gomez, F.,
Barazangi, M., and Bensaid, M., Active tectonism in the intracontinental
Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco: Synchronous crustal shortening and extension,
J. Geol. Soc. London, 153, 389-402, 1996.
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Gomez, F.,
Allmendinger, R., Barazangi, M., Er-Raji, A., and Dahmani, M., Crustal shortening
and vertical strain partitioning in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco,
Tectonics, 17, 520-533, 1998.
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Gomez,
F., Barazangi, M., and Demnati, A., Structure and evolution of the Neogene
Guercif Basin at the junction of the Middle Atlas Mountains and the Rif
thrust belt, Morocco, AAPG Bulletin, 84, 1340-1364, 2000.
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Gomez, F., Barazangi,
M., and Beauchamp, W., Role of the Atlas Mountains (northwest Africa)
within the African-Eurasian plate-boundary zone, Geology, 28, 769-864, 2000.
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Plafcan,
D., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Ibenbrahim, A., and Cherkaoui,
T-E., Regional discrimination of chemical explosions and earthquakes: A
case study in Morocco, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 87(5), 1126-1139, 1997.
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Seber, D., Barazangi,
M., Tadili, B., Ramdani, M., Ibenbrahim, A., Ben Sari, D., and El Alami,
S.O., Sn to Sg conversion and focusing along the Atlantic margin, Morocco:
Implications for earthquake hazard evaluation, Geophys. Res. Let., 20, 1503-1506,
1993.
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Seber,
D., Barazangi, M., Ibenbrahim, A., and Demnati, A., Geophysical evidence
for lithospheric delamination beneath the Alboran Sea and Rif-Betic mountains,
Nature, 379, 785-790, 1996.
- Seber, D.,
Barazangi, M., Tadili, B., Ramdani, M., Ibenbrahim, A., and Ben Sari, D.,
Three-dimensional upper mantle structure beneath the intraplate Atlas and
interplate Rif mountains of Morocco, J. Geophy. Res., 101, 3125-3138, 1996.
Oman Project
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Al-Lazki, A. I., Seber, D.,
Sandvol, E., and Barazangi, M., A crustal transect across the Oman Mountains
on the eastern margin of Arabia, GeoArabia, 7(1), 47-78, 2002.
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Ali Al-Lazki , Crustal
and upper mantle structure of Oman and the Northern Middle East, Ph. D. Dissertation,
Cornell University, January 2003.
Saudi Arabia Project
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Sandvol, E., Seber,
D., Barazangi, M., Vernon, F., Mellors, R., and Al-Amri, A., Lithospheric
seismic velocity discontinuities beneath the Arabian Shield. Geophys.
Res. Lett., 25, 2873-2876, 1998.
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Al-Damegh, K.,
Sandvol, E., and Barazangi, M., Crustal structure of the Arabian Plate:
New constraints from the analysis of teleseismic receiver functions, Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett., 231, 177-196, 2005.
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Khaled
Al-Damegh, Lithospheric Structure of the Arabian Plate and Surrounding Regions,
Ph. D. Dissertation, Cornell University, May 2004.
Middle East and North
Africa Project
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Al-Damegh,
K., Sandvol, E., Al-Lazki, A., and Barazangi, M., Regional seismic wave
propagation (Lg and Sn) and Pn attenuation in the Arabian Plate and surrounding
regions, Geophys. J. Int., 157, 775-795, 2004.
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Al-Lazki,
A., Sandvol, E., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Turkelli, N., and Mohamad, R.,
Pn tomographic imaging of mantle lid velocity and anisotropy at the junction
of the Arabian, Eurasian, and African plates, Geophys. J. Int., 158, 1024-1040,
2004.
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Barazangi,
M., Fielding, E., Isacks, B., and Seber, D., Geophysical and geological
databases and CTBT monitoring: A case study of the Middle East, in E. S.
Husebye and A. M. Dainty, eds., Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 197-224, 1996.
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Sandvol, E.,
Al-Damegh, K., Calvert, A., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Mohamad, R., Gok,
R., Turkelli, N., and Gurbuz, C., Tomographic imaging of Lg and Sn Propagation
in the Middle East, Pure App. Geophys., 158, 1121-1163, 2001.
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Sandvol, E.,
Seber, D., Calvert, A., and Barazangi, M., Grid search modeling of receiver
functions: Implications for crustal structure in the Middle East and North
Africa, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 26899-26917, 1998.
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Seber, D., Sandvol,
E., Sandvol, C., Brindisi, C., and Barazangi, M., Crustal model for the
Middle East and North Africa region: Implications for the isostatic compensation
mechanism, Geophys. J. Int., 147, 630-638, 2001.
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Seber, D., Steer,
D., Sandvol, E., Sandvol, C., Brindisi, C., and Barazangi, M., Design and
development of information systems for the geosciences: An application to
the Middle East, GeoArabia, 5(2), 269-296, 2000.
Ph.
D. Dissertations of Graduate Students Supervised by Muawia Barazangi
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Beauchamp, Weldon, Tectonic
evolution of the Atlas Mountains, North Africa, Ph. D. Dissertation, Cornell
University, 1998.
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Beghoul, Mohammed Noureddine,
Lithospheric structure of the western United States and the Tibetan Plateau:
Implications on their mechanism of uplift, Ph. D. Dissertation, Cornell University,
1991.
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Best, John, Crustal evolution of
the northern Arabian Platform beneath the Syrian Arab Republic, Ph. D. Dissertation,
Cornell University, 1991.
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Brew, Graham, Tectonic evolution
of Syria Interpreted from Integrated Geophysical and Geological Analysis,
Ph. D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 2001.
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Chaimov, Thomas, Balanced cross
sections, seismic stratigraphy, and structural interpretation of the intracontinental
Palmyride fold belt, Syria, Ph. D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 1991.
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Gomez, Francisco, Late Cenozoic
tectonics of the Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Continental deformation
in the diffuse western Mediterranean plate boundary, Ph. D. Dissertation,
Cornell University, 1999.
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Ni, James, Seismicity and active tectonics
of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau, Ph. D. Dissertation, Cornell University,
1984.
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Seber, Dogan, Lithospheric and upper
mantle structure beneath northern Morocco and central Syria, Ph. D. Dissertation,
Cornell University, 1995.
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