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  1. A Fiftieth Year Retrospective on the 1976 Mw 7.5 Motagua Earthquake in Guatemala

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, February 2026, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  2. Mantle Flow and Fault Zone Related Seismic Anisotropy Revealed by a Dense Linear Broadband Array in Southeast Tibet

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  3. Mantle Flow and Crustal Deformation Revealed by Seismic Anisotropy in the Subduction Zone Beneath Myanmar

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, August 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  4. Receiver Function Imaging of the Mantle Transition Zone Beneath the East Sayan Mountains and Adjacent Area in Central Asia: Implications for Lithospheric Drip and Intraplate Cenozoic Volcanism

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  5. Deciphering a Quantitative Relationship Between Rifting and Crustal Melt Fraction: Insights From the Incipient Okavango Rift Zone

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  6. Application of Convolutional Neural Network for Seismic Event Classification: Impact of Dataset Quality, Distribution, and Human-in-the-Loop Feedback

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, December 2024, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  7. Topography of the 410 and 660 km discontinuities beneath the Tibetan plateau and adjacent areas

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  8. Spatial and temporal variations of seismic azimuthal anisotropy following the 2019 ridgecrest earthquake sequence in southern california

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  9. Tectonic Implications of Seismic Anisotropy Layering Beneath the Southern Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Integrated Shear Wave Splitting and Receiver Function Analyses

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, August 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  10. Using Convolutional Neural Network to Determine Time Window for Analyzing Local Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, July 2024, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  11. Lithospheric Evolution of the South‐Central United States Constrained by Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, June 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  12. A Tilted Broad Plume Underneath the Greenland Cratonic Keels

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  13. Crustal deformation in the vicinity of the Tan-Lu Fault Zone in East China constrained by receiver function analyses

    Article • Tectonophysics, April 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  14. Layered Mantle Flow Field Associated With Plate Kinematics and Slab Modulation Underneath the Horseshoe‐Shaped Banda Arc‐Islands

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, March 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  15. Mantle flow and olivine fabric transition in the Myanmar continental subduction zone

    Article • Geology, January 2024, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  16. Supplemental Material: Mantle flow and olivine fabric transition in the Myanmar continental subduction zone

    Article • January 2024, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  17. Supplemental Material: Mantle flow and olivine fabric transition in the Myanmar continental subduction zone

    Article • January 2024, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  18. Fracture and regional stress-related upper crustal azimuthal anisotropy in the vicinity of the 2016 M5.1 Fairview, Oklahoma, earthquake

    Article • December 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  19. Insights into initial continental rifting of marginal seas from seismic evidence for slab relics in the mid-mantle of the Woodlark rift, southwestern Pacific

    Article • Geology, September 2023, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  20. Ongoing fragmentation of the subducting Cocos slab, Central America

    Article • Geology, September 2023, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  21. Supplemental Material: Ongoing fragmentation of the subducting Cocos slab, Central America

    Article • September 2023, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  22. Supplemental Material: Ongoing fragmentation of the subducting Cocos slab, Central America

    Article • September 2023, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  23. Mantle flow underneath the South China Sea revealed by seismic anisotropy

    Article • National Science Review, June 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  24. Seismic azimuthal anisotropy beneath a fast moving ancient continent: Constraints from shear wave splitting analysis in Australia

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, January 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  25. Crustal Deformation Associated with the Tan-Lu Fault Zone in East China Revealed by Receiver Function Analysis

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  26. Crustal structure and subsidence mechanisms of the Williston Basin: New constraints from receiver function imaging

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  27. Notice of Partial Retraction: A Database of Teleseismic Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements for the Ordos Block and Adjacent Areas

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, July 2022, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  28. Classification of Teleseismic Shear Wave Splitting Measurements: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao, Yanwei Zhang

  29. Mantle dynamics of the North China Craton: new insights from mantle transition zone imaging constrained by P-to-S receiver functions

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  30. Metastable olivine within oceanic lithosphere in the uppermost lower mantle beneath the eastern United States

    Article • Geology, April 2022, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  31. A Database of Teleseismic Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements for the Ordos Block and Adjacent Areas

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, April 2022, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  32. Lithospheric Structure underneath the Archean Tanzania Craton and Adjacent Regions from a Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Rayleigh-Wave Phase Velocity Dispersion

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, April 2022, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  33. Continental Break‐Up Under a Convergent Setting: Insights From P Wave Radial Anisotropy Tomography of the Woodlark Rift in Papua New Guinea

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, March 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  34. Stagnation and tearing of the subducting northwest Pacific slab

    Article • Geology, March 2022, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  35. Potassic Volcanism Induced by Mantle Upwelling Through a Slab Window: Evidence From Shear Wave Splitting Analyses in Central Java

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, March 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  36. Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Southeastern United States From Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Rayleigh Wave Dispersion

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, October 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  37. Seismic Anisotropy and Mantle Flow Constrained by Shear Wave Splitting in Central Myanmar

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, October 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  38. Layered mantle heterogeneities associated with post-subducted slab segments

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  39. Crustal azimuthal anisotropy and deformation beneath the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas: Insights from receiver function analysis

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  40. Mantle Flow in the Vicinity of the Eastern Edge of the Pacific‐Yakutat Slab: Constraints From Shear Wave Splitting Analyses

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, September 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  41. Crustal P-wave velocity structure and earthquake distribution in the Jiaodong Peninsula, China

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  42. A systematic investigation of piercing-point-dependent seismic azimuthal anisotropy

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  43. Teleseismic P ‐Wave Attenuation Beneath the Southeastern United States

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, June 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  44. Crustal structure beneath the Ethiopian Plateau and adjacent areas from receiver functions: Implications for partial melting and magmatic underplating

    Article • Tectonophysics, June 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  45. Spatial Variations of Upper Crustal Anisotropy along the San Jacinto Fault Zone in Southern California: Constraints from Shear Wave Splitting Analysis

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, February 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  46. Seismic anisotropy and mantle deformation beneath the central Sunda plate

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, February 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  47. Receiver function investigation of crustal structure in the Malawi and Luangwa rift zones and adjacent areas

    Article • Gondwana Research, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  48. Prestack simultaneous inversion for delineation of the Lower Wilcox erosional remnant sandstone beneath the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: A case study

    Article • Interpretation, October 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  49. Crustal modifications beneath the central Sunda plate associated with the Indo-Australian subduction and the evolution of the South China Sea

    Article • Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  50. Topography of the 410 and 660 km discontinuities beneath the Cenozoic Okavango rift zone and adjacent Precambrian provinces

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, August 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  51. Spatial Variations of Upper Crustal Anisotropy along the San Jacinto Fault Zone in Southern California: Constraints from Shear Wave Splitting Analysis

    Article • August 2020, Wiley

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  52. Slab Dehydration and Mantle Upwelling in the Vicinity of the Sumatra Subduction Zone: Evidence from Receiver Function Imaging of Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, August 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  53. Upper mantle and mantle transition zone thermal and water content anomalies beneath NE Asia: Constraints from receiver function imaging of the 410 and 660 km discontinuities

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, February 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  54. Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow in the Sumatra subduction zone constrained by shear wave splitting and receiver function analyses

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, January 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  55. Mantle structure and flow beneath an early‐stage continental rift: Constraints from P‐wave anisotropic tomography

    Article • Tectonics, January 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  56. Foundered lithospheric segments dropped into the mantle transition zone beneath southern California, USA

    Article • Geology, December 2019, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  57. Receiver function imaging of the 410 and 660 km discontinuities beneath the Australian continent

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  58. Toroidal mantle flow induced by slab subduction and rollback beneath the eastern Himalayan syntaxis and adjacent areas

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  59. Pre-stack simultaneous inversion for petrophysical properties of the lower Wilcox erosional remnant sandstone along the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain

    Article • August 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  60. Hydrocarbon accumulation analysis by reconstructing the canyon-fill sequence using seismic stratigraphic interpretation in the central Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas

    Article • August 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  61. Lithospheric Structure and Evolution of Southern Africa: Constraints from Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Dispersion and Receiver Functions

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, June 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  62. Tectonics of the incipient continental rifting

    Article • Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, May 2019, Wiley

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  63. Crustal azimuthal anisotropy beneath the central North China Craton revealed by receiver functions

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, April 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  64. Crustal structure beneath the Malawi and Luangwa Rift Zones and adjacent areas from ambient noise tomography

    Article • Gondwana Research, March 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  65. Shear Wave Splitting and Mantle Flow in the Vicinity of the North American-Caribbean Plate Boundary in Central America

    Article • January 2019, Wiley

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  66. Absence of thermal influence from the African Superswell and cratonic keels on the mantle transition zone beneath southern Africa: Evidence from receiver function imaging

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, December 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  67. Receiver Function Investigations of Seismic Anisotropy Layering Beneath Southern California

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, November 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  68. Integrated geological, geophysical, and petrophysical data to construct full field geological model of Cambrian-Ordovician and Upper Cretaceous Reservoir formations, Central Western Sirte Basin, Libya

    Article • Interpretation, October 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao, YOUSF ABUSHALAH

  69. Crustal azimuthal anisotropy beneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its geodynamic implications

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, October 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  70. A Database of Shear‐Wave Splitting Measurements for the Arabian Plate

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, September 2018, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  71. Azimuthal anisotropy and mantle flow underneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and northern Indochina Peninsula revealed by shear wave splitting analyses

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  72. Compaction and cement volume analyses of the Lower Wilcox sandstone along the Texas Gulf Coast

    Article • August 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  73. Identification of a shelf-edge submarine canyon using seismic attributes and spectral decomposition in the central Gulf Coast region of Texas

    Article • August 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  74. Validation of poststack seismic inversion using rock-physics analysis and 3D seismic and well correlation

    Article • August 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  75. Lithospheric layering beneath the contiguous United States constrained by S-to-P receiver functions

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, August 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  76. Characteristics of the Mantle Flow System Beneath the Indochina Peninsula Revealed by Teleseismic Shear Wave Splitting Analysis

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, April 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  77. Receiver function imaging of mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the Tanzania Craton and adjacent segments of the East African Rift System

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2017, Wiley

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  78. Topography of the mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath Alaska and its geodynamic implications: Constraints from receiver function stacking

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, November 2017, Wiley

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  79. Fault visualization enhancement using ant tracking technique and its application in the Taranaki basin, new Zealand

    Article • August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  80. Seismic azimuthal anisotropy and its geodynamic implications: Eastern US case study

    Article • August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  81. Seismic attributes aided fault detection and enhancement in the Sirte Basin, Libya

    Article • August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  82. Lateral variations of crustal structure beneath the Indochina Peninsula

    Article • Tectonophysics, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  83. Mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the Indochina Peninsula: Implications for slab subduction and mantle upwelling

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  84. Seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics beneath the Malawi Rift Zone, East Africa

    Article • Tectonics, July 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  85. Receiver function and gravity constraints on crustal structure and vertical movements of the Upper Mississippi Embayment and Ozark Uplift

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, June 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  86. Seismic azimuthal anisotropy beneath the eastern United States and its geodynamic implications

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, March 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  87. Evolution of the broadly rifted zone in southern Ethiopia through gravitational collapse and extension of dynamic topography

    Article • Tectonophysics, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  88. Mantle structure beneath the incipient Okavango rift zone in southern Africa

    Article • Geosphere, November 2016, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  89. Passive rifting of thick lithosphere in the southern East African Rift: Evidence from mantle transition zone discontinuity topography

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, November 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  90. A full field static model of the RG-oil field, central Sirte Basin, Libya

    Article • September 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  91. Shear wave splitting analyses in Tian Shan: Geodynamic implications of complex seismic anisotropy

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, June 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  92. Crustal anisotropy and ductile flow beneath the eastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  93. The mantle transition zone beneath the Afar Depression and adjacent regions: implications for mantle plumes and hydration

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  94. A Uniform Database of Teleseismic Shear‐Wave Splitting Measurements for the Western and Central United States: December 2014 Update

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, January 2016, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  95. Seismic anisotropy beneath the incipient Okavango rift: Implications for rifting initiation

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  96. A joint receiver function and gravity study of crustal structure beneath the incipient Okavango Rift, Botswana

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  97. Applicability of the Multiple-Event Stacking Technique for Shear-Wave Splitting Analysis

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, October 2015, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  98. No thermal anomalies in the mantle transition zone beneath an incipient continental rift: evidence from the first receiver function study across the Okavango Rift Zone, Botswana

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  99. Determining crustal structure beneath seismic stations overlying a low-velocity sedimentary layer using receiver functions

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, May 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Youqiang Yu, Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  100. Azimuthal anisotropy beneath north central Africa from shear wave splitting analyses

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, April 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Youqiang Yu, Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  101. Complex seismic anisotropy beneath western Tibet and its geodynamic implications

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Youqiang Yu, Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  102. A Systematic Comparison of the Transverse Energy Minimization and Splitting Intensity Techniques for Measuring Shear‐Wave Splitting Parameters

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, December 2014, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  103. Formation of the Cameroon Volcanic Line by lithospheric basal erosion: Insight from mantle seismic anisotropy

    Article • Journal of African Earth Sciences, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  104. Imaging mantle discontinuities using multiply-reflected P-to-S conversions

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  105. Mantle flow and lithosphere–asthenosphere coupling beneath the southwestern edge of the North American craton: Constraints from shear-wave splitting measurements

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  106. Seismic imaging of mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the northern Red Sea and adjacent areas

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  107. Mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the contiguous United States

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, August 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  108. A uniform database of teleseismic shear wave splitting measurements for the western and central United States

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, May 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Youqiang Yu, Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  109. Seismic anisotropy and subduction-induced mantle fabrics beneath the Arabian and Nubian Plates adjacent to the Red Sea

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Youqiang Yu, Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  110. Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow beneath the northern Great Plains of North America

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, March 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Youqiang Yu, Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  111. Receiver function constraints on crustal seismic velocities and partial melting beneath the Red Sea rift and adjacent regions, Afar Depression

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, March 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  112. Making Reliable Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, September 2013, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  113. AnisDep: A FORTRAN program for the estimation of the depth of anisotropy using spatial coherency of shear-wave splitting parameters

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  114. Magnetic stripes of a transitional continental rift in Afar

    Article • Geology, January 2012, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  115. High-accuracy practical spline-based 3D and 2D integral transformations in potential-field geophysics

    Article • Geophysical Prospecting, January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  116. Seismic anisotropy of the uppermost mantle beneath the Rio Grande rift: Evidence from Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths, New Mexico

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, November 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  117. Estimation of the Depth of Anisotropy Using Spatial Coherency of Shear-Wave Splitting Parameters

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, September 2011, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  118. Upper mantle structure of the Saharan Metacraton

    Article • Journal of African Earth Sciences, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  119. Crustal structure and evolution beneath the Colorado Plateau and the southern Basin and Range Province: Results from receiver function and gravity studies

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, June 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  120. Seismic anisotropy beneath the Afar Depression and adjacent areas: Implications for mantle flow

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  121. Spatial variations of crustal characteristics beneath the Hoggar swell, Algeria, revealed by systematic analyses of receiver functions from a single seismic station

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, August 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  122. Apparent Weekly and Daily Earthquake Periodicities in the Western United States

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, July 2009, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  123. Significant seismic anisotropy beneath the southern Lhasa Terrane, Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, February 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  124. Rationale for a Permanent Seismic Network in the U.S. Central Plains Utilizing USArray

    Article • Eos, February 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  125. Shear wave splitting and mantle flow associated with the deflected Pacific slab beneath northeast Asia

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  126. Characteristics of mantle fabrics beneath the south-central United States: Constraints from shear-wave splitting measurements

    Article • Geosphere, January 2008, Geological Society of America

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  127. Mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the Baikal rift and adjacent areas

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  128. Spatial variation of seismic b-values beneath Makushin Volcano, Unalaska Island, Alaska

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  129. Deep structure and origin of the Baikal rift zone

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  130. Southern African crustal evolution and composition: Constraints from receiver function studies

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  131. Seafloor asymmetry in the Atlantic Ocean

    Article • Journal of Ocean University of China, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  132. Seismic anisotropy, mantle fabric, and the magmatic evolution of Precambrian southern Africa

    Article • South African Journal of Geology, June 2004, GeoScienceWorld

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  133. Significant crustal thinning beneath the Baikal rift zone: New constraints from receiver function analysis

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  134. Correction to “Mantle deformation beneath southern Africa”

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  135. Evidence for small-scale mantle convection in the upper mantle beneath the Baikal rift zone

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  136. Low-coherent WDM reflectometry for accurate fiber length monitoring

    Article • IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, January 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  137. Mantle layering across central South America

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  138. Low seismic velocity layers in the Earth's crust beneath Eastern Siberia (Russia) and Central Mongolia: receiver function data and their possible geological implication

    Article • Tectonophysics, December 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  139. Mantle discontinuities beneath Southern Africa

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  140. Temporal variation of seismicb-values beneath northeastern Japan island arc

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  141. Characterization of a Continuous, Very Narrowband Seismic Signal near 2.08 Hz

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, December 2001, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  142. Mantle deformation beneath southern Africa

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2001, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  143. Northridge Earthquake Damage Caused by Geologic Focusing of Seismic Waves

    Article • Science, September 2000, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  144. Annual modulation of triggered seismicity following the 1992 Landers earthquake in California

    Article • Nature, August 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  145. Analysis of deformation data at Parkfield, California: Detection of a long-term strain transient

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2000, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  146. Reply [to “Comment on “SKS splitting beneath continental rifts zones” by Gao et al.”]

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 1999, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  147. SKSsplitting beneath continental rift zones

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 1997, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  148. SKS splitting beneath southern California

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 1995, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  149. Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow beneath the Baikal rift zone

    Article • Nature, September 1994, Nature

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao

  150. Asymmetric upwarp of the asthenosphere beneath the Baikal rift zone, Siberia

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1994, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Stephen Shangxing Gao