Refereed Publications of Robert W. Clayton

Submitted

• Inbal, Asaf, Jean-Paul Ampuero, and Robert Clayton, (2021), Earthquake Detectability and Depth Resolution with Dense Arrays inn Long Beach, California, submitted to GRL Oct 6, 2021     ESSOar

• Park, S, C. Shin, Y. Kim, and R. Clayton, (2021), Seismic Wave Simulation Using a 3D Printed Model of the Los Angeles, submitted to Science Advances Sept 14, 2021.

• He, Vivien, (2021), A Low-Cost IoT Deice for On-Site and Regional Earthquake Early Warning, submitted to SRL Aug 31, 2021.

• Muir, J., R. Clayton, V. Tsai. and Q. Brissaud, (2021), Parsimonous velocity inversion applied to the Los Angeles Basin, CA, submitted to JGR Aug, 24, 2021.     archive version     model

• Castellanos, J., E. Humphreys, and R. Clayton, (2021), Evidence of Mantle-Based Deformation Across the Western US, submitted to GRL 2021/06/14, revision submitted 2021/09/14.

• Yun, J., Y. Kim, and R. Clayton, (2021), Spatial Variations and Frequency Dependence of Lg Attenuation with Site Response Correction Along the CCSE Array in Central California, US submitted to G-cubed, Sep 4, 2021

• Castellanos, C. and R. Clayton, (2021), The fine-scale structure of Long Beach, California, and its impact on ground motion acceleration, submitted to JGR May 19, 2021, revision submitted Sep 30, 2021. ESSOAR preprint

In Press

• Yang, Y., A. Gao, J. Castellanos, Z. Ross, K. Azizzadenesheli, and R. Clayton, (2021), Seismic Wave propagation and inversion with Neural Operator, submitted to TSR Aug 12, 2021, accepted Oct 16, 2021     arXiv version

Published

2021

1. Wang, X., Z. Zhan, M. Zhong, P. Persaud, R. Clayton, (2021), Urban Basin Structure based on Dense Arrays and Bayesian Array-based Coherent Receiver Functions, J. Geophys. Res., early pub, doi:10.1029/2021JB022279     PDF     supp

2. Di Lucco, F., P. Persaud, L. Cucci, A. Esposito, R. Carniel, G. G. Cortes, D. Galluzzo, R. Clayton, and G. Ventura, (2021), The seismicity of Lipari, Acolian Islands (Italy) from one-month recording of the LIPARI array, Front. Earth Sci., 9:67858.1 doi:10.3389/feart.2021.678581     PDF    

3. Yu, E., A. Bhaskaren, S-L Chen, Z. Ross, E. Hauksson, R. Clayton, (2021), Southern California Earthquake Data is Now Available in the Amazon AWS Cloud, Seismological Research Letters, XX, 1-10, doi:10.1785/0220210039     PDF    

4. Jia, Z., and R. Clayton, (2021), Determination of Near Surface Shear-Wave Velocities in the Central Los Angeles Basin with Dense Arrays, J. of Geophys. Res., e2020JB021369, doi:10.1029/2020JB021369     PDF     Supp

5. Filippitzis, F, M. Kohler, T. Heaton, R. Graves, R. Clayton, R. Guy, J. Bunn, and M. Chandy, (2021), Ground Motion Response in Urban Los Angeles from the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Earthquake Spectra, 1-30, doi:10.1177/87552930211003916     PDF     Supp

6. Dougherty, S., C. Jiang, R. Clayton, B. Schmandt, and S. Hansen, (2021), Seismic Evidence for a Fossil Slab Origin for the Isabella Anomaly, Geophys. J. Int., 224, 1188-1196, doi:10.1093/gji/ggaa472     PDF     Supp

   2020

7. Kohler, M., F. Filippitzis, T. Heaton, R.. Clayton, R. Guy, J. Bunn, M. Chandy, (2020), 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Reveals Areas of Los Angeles that Amplify Shaking of High-Rises, Seismol. Res. Lett., 91, 6, 3370-3380, doi:10.1785/0220200170     PDF

8. Castellanos, J., J. Perry-Houts, R. Clayton, Y. Kim, C. Stanciu, B. Niday, and E. Humphreys, (2020), Evidence for Mantle Vertical Coupling in the Pacific NW Revealed by Crustal Anistrophy, Science Advances, 6, eabb0476, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abb0476     PDF     Supp

9. Clayton, R., (2020), A Detailed Image of the Continent-Borderland Transition Beneath Long Beach, California, Geophys. J. Int., 222, 2102-2107, doi:10.1093/gji/ggaa286     PDF     Supp     Surfaces.tar

10. Zhang, Xiaotian, Zhe Jia, Zachary Ross, Robert Clayton, (2020), Extracting Dispersion Curves From Ambient Noise Correlations Using Deep Learning, IEEE:Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58, 12, pp8932-8939, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2020.2992043 PDF

11. Castellanos, J., R. Clayton, and A. Juarez, (2020), Using a Time-based Subarray Method to Extract and Invert Noise-derived Body Waves at Long Beach, California, J. of Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018855, doi:10.1029/2019JB018855 PDF     Supp

12. Clayton, R., (2020), Imaging the subsurface with ambient noise autocorrelations, Seismol. Res. Lett., 91, 930-935, doi:10.1785/0220190272 PDF     supp

13. Perton, M., Z. Spica, R. Clayton, and G. Beroza, (2020), Shear Wave Structure of a Transit of the Los Angeles Basin From Multimode Surface Waves and H/V Spectral Ratio, Geophysical Journal International, 220, 415-427, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz458     PDF

    2019

14. Rodriguez-Dominguez, Miguel, X. Perez-Campos, C. Montealegre, R. Clayton, and E. Cabral-Cano, (2019), Crustal structure variations in south-central Mexico from receiver functions, Geophs. J. Int, 219, 2174-2186, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz434     PDF     Supp

15. Clayton, R., H. Kohler, R. Guy, J. Bunn, T. Heaton, and M. Chandy, (2019), CSN/LAUSD Network: A Dense Accelerometer Network in Los Angeles Schools, Seismological Research Letters, 91, 622-630, doi:10.1785/0220190200 PDF

16. Jang, H., Y. Kim, H. Lim, and R. Clayton, (2019), Seismic attenuation structure of southern Peruvian subduction system, Tectonphysics, 771 228203, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228203 PDF     Supp

17. Clayton, R., P. Persaud, M Denolle, J. Polet, (2019), Exposing Los Angeles's shakey geologic underbelly, EOS, 100, Oct 10, 2019, doi:10.1029/2019EO135099 PDF

18. Di Luccio, F., P. Persaud, L. Cucci, A. Esposito, G. Ventura, R. Clayton (2019), Seismic sensors probe Lipari's underground plumbing, Eos, 100, doi:10.1029/2019EO12533, Published July 15, 2019.     PDF

    2018

19. Castellanos, Jorge, R. Clayton, and X. Perez-Campos, (2018), Imaging the eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt with ambient noise seismic noise: evidence for a slab tear, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 7741-7759, doi: 10.1029/2018JB15783 PDF     PDF-supp

20. Massari, A., R. Clayton, and M. Kohler, (2018), Damage Detection by Template-Matching of Scattered Waves, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 108, 5a, 2556-2564, doi:10.1785/0120170319. PDF

21. Clayton, R., (2018) Imaging the subsurface with ambient noise correlations, Society of Exploration Geophysics Annual Meeting, Anahiem, CA, pp4852-4856, doi:10/1190/segam2018-2978420.1 PDF

22. Kohler, M., R. Guy, J. Bunn, A. Massari, R. Clayton, T. Heaton, K.M. Chandy, H. Ebrahimain and C. Dorn, (2018), Community Seismic Network and Localized Earthquake Situational Awareness, Proceedings of the 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute , Los Angeles, CA. PDF

23. Liu, G., P. Persaud, and R. Clayton, (2018), Structure of the Northern Los Angeles Basins Revealed in Teleseismic Receiver Functions from Short-term Nodal Arrays, Seism. Res. Lett., 89, 5 pp1680-1689, doi:10:1785/0220180071 PDF     Supp

24. Lim, H., Y. Kim, R. Clayton, and C. Thurber, Seismicity and structure of Nazca Plate subduction zone in southern Peru, Earth and Planet. Sci Lett., 498, pp334-347, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.014 PDF

25. Jiang, Chengxin, B. Schmandt, and R. Clayton, (2018), An anisotropic contract in the lithosphere across the Central San Andreas Fault, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 3967-3975, doi:10.1029/2018GL077476 PDF

26. Jiang, Chengxin, B. Schmandt, S. Hansen, S. Doughtery, R. Clayton, J. Farrell, F-C Lin, Rayleigh and S wave tomography constrints on subduction termination and lithospheric foundering in central California, Earth and Planet. Sci Lett., 488, pp14-26, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.009 PDF

    2017

27. Castro, R., R. Clayton, E. Hauksson, and J. Stock, (2017), Observations of remotely triggered seismicity in the Salton Sea and Coso geothermal regions, Southern California, after big (Mw>7.8) teleseismic earthquakes. Geofisica Internacional, 56-3, 269-286. PDF

28. Castro, R., J. Stock, E. Hauksson, and R. Clayton, (2017), Source Functions and Path Effects from Earthquakes in the Farallon Transform Fault Region, Gulf of California, Mexico that Occurred on October 2013, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 174(6), 2239-2256, doi:10.1007/s00024-016-1346-4 PDF

29. Castro, R., J. Stock, E. Hauksson, and R. Clayton, Active Tectonics in the Gulf of California and seismicity (M>3.0) for the Period 2002-2014., (2017), Tectophysics online, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.015. PDF

    2016

30. Castro, Raul, J. Stock, E. Hauksson, and R. Clayton, (2016), Source Functions and Path Effects from Earthquakes in the Farallon Transform Fault Region, Gulf of California, Mexico that Occurred on October 2013, Pure Appl. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s00024-016-1346-4.   PDF

31. Inbal, A., J-P Ampuero, and R. Clayton, (2016) Localized Seismic Deformation in the Upper Mantle Revealed by Dense Arrays, Science, 354, pp88-92, doi:10.1126/science.aaf1370   PDF   Supp

32. Kohler, M., A. Massari, T. Heaton, H. Kanamori, E. Hauksson, R. Guy, R. Clayton, J. Bunn, and K. Chandy, (2016), Downtown Los Angeles 52-Story High-Rise and Free-Field Response to an Oil Refinery Explosion, Earthquake Spectra, 32, 3, 1793-1820, doi:10.1193/062315EQS101M     PDF

33. Ma, Y, R. Clayton and D. Li, (2016a), Higher-mode ambient-noise Rayleigh waves in sedimentary basins, Geophys. J. Int, 206, 1634-1644. doi:10.1093/gji/ggw235     PDF     Supp

34. Ma, Y, and R. Clayton, (2016b), Structure of the Los Angeles Basin from ambient noise and receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., 206, 1645-1651. doi:10.1093/gji/ggw236     PDF     Supp

    2015

35. Vriend, N., M. L. Hunt, and R. W. Clayton, Linear and Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Booming Sand Dunes, (2015), Phys. Fluids 27, 1003305 (2015), doi:10.1063/1.4931971 PDF

36. Ma, Y., and R. Clayton, Flat Slab Subduction Caused By Interplate Suction Force, (2015), GRL, 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL065195.     PDF     PDF-supp

37. Clayton, R., T. Heaton, M. Kohler, M. Chandy, R. Guy, and J. Bunn, (2015), Community Seismic Network: A Dense Array to Sense Earthquake Strong Motion Seismol. Res. Lett., 86, 5, Sept/Oct 2015, doi:10.1785/0220150094.     PDF

38. Inbal, A., R. Clayton, and J-P Ampuero, (2015), Mapping Active Faults in Long Beach, California Using a Dense Seismic Array, Geophys. Rec. Lett., 42, 6314-6323, doi:10.1002/2015GL064942.     PDF     PDF-supp

39. Kim, Y. and R. Clayton, (2015), Seismic properties of the Nazca oceanic crust in the southern Peruvian subduction system, Earth Planet Sci. Lett. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.055     PDF     PDF-supp

40. Persaud, P., F. Di Luccio, and R. Clayton, Rayleigh wave dispersion measurements reveal low velocity zones beneath the new crust in the Gulf od California, (2015), Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 1766-1774, doi:10.1002/2015GL063420     PDF

41. Dougherty, S., and R. Clayton, (2015), Seismic structure in southern Peru: Evidence for a smooth contortion between flat and normal subduction of the Nasca plate, Geophys. J. Int., 200, 534-55, doi:10.1093/gji/ggu415.     PDF

    2014

42. Di Luccio, F., P. Persaud, and R. Clayton, (2014), Seismic structure beneath the Gulf of California from group velocity measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 199, 3, pp1861-1872, doi:10.1093/gji/ggu338.     PDF

43. Selvans, M., J. Stock, R. Clayton, S. Cande, and R. Granot, Deep crustal structure of the Adare and Northern Basins, Ross Sea, Antarctica, from sonobuoy data, (2014), EPSL, 405, pp220-230, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.08.029.     PDF     Data-Link

44. Faulkner, M., R. Clayton, T. Heaton, K. M. Chandy, M. Kohler, J. Bunn, R. Guy, A. Liu, M. Olson, M-H., Cheng, and A. Kraus, (2014), Community Sense and Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake Dectector, CACM, 57, 7, July 2014, doi:10.1145/2622628.2622633     PDF     Video-Intro

45. Kim, Y-H, H. Lim, M. Miller, F. Pearce, R. Clayton, (2014) Imaging Opposing oceanic lithosphers in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, G-cubed, 15, 7, 3021-3034, doi:10.1002/2014/GC005320.     PDF

46. Li, D., D. Helmberger, R. Clayton, D. Sun, (2014), Global synthetic seismograms using 2D finite-difference method, Geophys. J. Int, doi:10.1093/gji/ggu050     PDF

47. Phillips, K. and R. Clayton, (2014), Structure of the Transition Region from Seismic Array Data in Southern Peru, Geophys. J. Int., 196, pp1889-1905, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt504.     PDF     Supp

48. Ma, Yiran, and R. Clayton, (2014), The Crust and Uppermost Mantle Structure of Southern Peru From Ambient Noise and Earthquake Surface Wave Analysis, Earth and Planetary Sci. Lett., 395, pp61-70. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.013. PDF   PDF-supp

49. Perez-Campos, X., and R. Clayton, (2014), Interaction of Cocos and Rivera Plates with the Upper Mantle Transition Zone Underneath Central Mexico, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.193/gji/ggu087. PDF

50. Dougherty, S. and R. Clayton, Seismicity and structure in central Mexico: Evidence for a possible slab tear in the South Cocos plate, J. Geophys. Res, 119, 3424-3447, doi:10/1002/2013/JB010883 PDF

    2013

51. Kim, Y., R. Clayton, P. Asimow, and J. Jackson, (2013), Generation of Talc in the Mantle Wedge and its Role in Subduction Dynamics in Central Mexico, Earth and Planet Sci. Lett., 384, pp81-87, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.006.     PDF

52. Schmandt, B., and R. Clayton, Analysis of P-waves with a 5200-station array in Long Beach, California: evidence for abrupt boundary for Inner Borderland rifting, (2013), J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1-19, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50370     PDF

53. Lin, Fan-Chi, D. Li, R. Clayton, D. Hollis, 2013, High-resolution shallow crustal structure in Long Beach, California: application of ambient noise tomography on a dense seismic array, Geophysics, 78(4), Q45-Q56, doi:10.1190/geo2012-0453.1     PDF     S1-movie     S2-movie     S3-movie

54. Inbal, Asaf, F. Koch, R. Clayton, and J-P Ampuero, Locating micro-events in Long Beach, CA urban environment with a dense array, SEG Extended Abstracts, p 2129-2134, doi:10.1190/segam2013-0697.1 PDF

55. Ma, Y., R. Clayton, V. Tsai, and Z. Zhongwen, 2013, Locating a Scatterer in the Active Volcanic Area of Southern Peru from Ambient Noise Cross-correlation, Geophys. J. Int., 192(3), pp.1332-1341. doi:10.1093/gji/ggs103 PDF

56. Sun, Y., D. Helmberger, J. Jackson, R. Clayton, D. Bower, 2013, Rolling Hills of Primordial Material on the Core-Mantle-Boundary, EPSL, 361, pp. 333-342, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.027 PDF     Supp

57. Perez-Campos, X., and R. Clayton, (2013), Evidence of upper mantle processes related to continental rifting versus oceanization in the Gulf of California, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1093/gji/ggt133 PDF

58. Skinner, S. and R. Clayton, (2013), The lack of correlation between flat slabs and bathymetric impactors in South America, Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 371-372, June 2013, pp1-5. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.013 PDF   Supp-PDF

59. Zhan, Z., V. Tsai, and R. Clayton, (2013), Spurious velocity changes caused by temporal variations in ambient noise frequency content, online GJI May 27.2013, doi:10.1093/gji/ggt170 PDF

    2012

60. Phillips, K., R. Clayton, P. Davis, H. R. Guy, S. Skinner, I. Stubailo, L. Audin, and V. Aguilar, (2012), Structure of the Subduction System in Southern Peru From Seismic Array Data, J. Geophys. Res, 117, B11306, doi:10.1029/2012JB009540. PDF   PDF-supp

61. Lin, Fan-Chi, D. Li, R. Clayton, D. Hollis, Interferometry with a dense 3D dataset, SEG Technical Program Extended Abstracts, pp. 1-6, doi:10.1190/segam2012-0519.1 PDF

62. Dougherty, S., R. Clayton, and D. Helmberger, (2012), Seismic Structure in central Mexico: Implication for fragmentation of the subducted Cocos Plate, J. Geophys. Res, 117, B09316, doi:10.1029/2012JB009528. PDF

63. Chen, T. and R. Clayton, (2012), Structure of central and southern Mexico from velocity and attenuation tomography, J. Geophys. Res, 117, B09302, doi:10.1029/2012JB009233. PDF

64. Kim, Y., M. Miller, F. Pearce, and R. Clayton, Seismic imaging of the Cocos subduction zone system in central Mexico, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, 13, Q07001, doi:10.1029/2012GC004033. PDF

65. Kim, Y., R. Clayton, and J. Jackson, Distribution of Hydrous Minerals in the Subduction System Beneath Mexico, (2012), EPSL 341-344, p58-67, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.001. PDF

66. Vriend, N. M., M. L. Hunt, and R. W. Clayton, Sedimentary structure of large sand dunes: examples from Dumont and Eureka dunes, Geophys. J. Int., (2012), 190, pp981-992, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05514.x PDF     Supplemment-zip

67. Selvans, M., R. Clayton, J. Stock, and R. Granot, (2012), Using overlapping sonobuoy data from the Ross Sea to construct a 2D deep crustal velocity model, Journal Marine Geophysical Research, 33, pp.17-32, doi:10.1007/s11001-011-9143-z   PDF

    2011

68. Clayton, R., T. Heaton, M. Chandy, A. Krause, M. Kohler, J. Bunn, M. Olson, M. Faulkner, M. Cheng, L. Strand, R. Chandy, D. Obenshain, A, Liu, and M. Aivazis, (2011), Community Seismic Network, Annals of Geophysics, 54, 6, doi:10.4401/ag-5269. PDF

69. Kim, Y., R. Clayton, and F. Keppie, Evidence of a collision between the Yucatan Block and Mexico in the Miocene, (2011), Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05191.x PDF

70. Kosarian, M., P. Davis, T. Tanimoto, and R. Clayton, (2011) The Relationship Between Upper Mantle Anisotropic Structures Beneath California, Transpresion and Abolute Plate Motion, J. Geophys. Res. doi:10.1029/2010JB007742. PDF

    2010

71. Zhan, Z., S. Ni, D. Helmberger, and R. Clayton, 2010, Retrieval of Moho-reflected shear wave arrivals from ambient seismic noise, Geophys. J. Int., 182, pp408-420, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04625.x PDF

72. Kostoglodov, V., A. Husker, N. Shapiro, J. Payero, M. Campillo, N. Cotte, and R. Clayton, (2010), 2006 Slow Slip Event and Nonvolcanic Tremor in the Mexican Subduction Zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L24301, doi:10.1029/2010GL045424. PDF

73. Skinner, S., and R. Clayton, An Evaluation of proposed mechansims of slab flattening in central Mexico, 2010, Pure Appl. Geophys. (Pageoph), doi:10.1007/s00024-010-0200-3 PDF

74. Iglesias, A., R. Clayton, X. Perez-Campos, S. K. Singh, J. Pacheco, D. Garcia, and C. Valdes-Gonzalez, 2010, S-Wave, Velocity Structure below Central Mexico using High Resolution Surface Wave Tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B06307, doi:10.1029/2009JB006332 PDF

75. Kim, Y., R. Clayton, and J. Jackson, 2010, The Geometry and seismic properties of the subducting Cocos plate in central Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 115, doi:10.1029/2009JB006942 PDF

76. Granot, R., S. C. Cande, J. M. Stock, F. J. Davey, and R. W. Clayton, 2010, Postspreading rifting in the Adare Basin, Antarctica: regional tectonic consequences, G-cubed, 11, 8, Q08005, doi:10.1029/2010GC003105, PDF

    2009

77. Chen, T. and R. Clayton, (2009), Seismic Attenuation Structure in central Mexico: Image of a focussed high-attenuation zone in the mantle wedge, (2009), J. Geophys. Res., doi:10:1029/2008JB005964. PDF

78. Song, T. A., D. V. Helmberger, M. R. Brudzinski, R. W. Clayton, P. Davis, X. Perez-Campos, S. K. Singh, (2009), Subducting Slab Unltra-Slow Layer Coincident with Silent Earthquakes in Southern Mexico, Science, 324, 502 (2009), doi:10,1126/science.1167595. PDF   Sup-PDF

79. Lukac, M., P. Davis, R. Clayton, D. Estrin (2009), Recovering Temporal Integrity with Data Driven Time Synchronization, 8th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. PDF

80. Lukac, M., I. Stubailo, R. Guy, P. Davis, V. Aguilar, R. Clayton, D.Estrin, First-class meta-data: a step towards a highly reliable wireless network in Peru, 8th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. PDF  

    2008

81. Perez-Campos, X., Y. Kim, A. Husker, P. M. Davis, R. W. Clayton, A. Iglesias, J. F. Pacheco, S. K. Singh, V. C. Manea, and M. Gurnis (2008), Horizontal subduction and and truncation of the cocos plate beneath Central Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L18303, doi:10.1029/2008GL035127 PDF

82. Vriend, N. M., M. L. Hunt, R. W. Clayton, C. E. Brennen, K. S. Brantley, and A. Ruiz-Angulo (2008), Reply to comment on solving the mystery of booming sand dunes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08307, doi:10.1029/2008GL033202. PDF       comment

83. Spasojevic', S., and R. W. Clayton (2008), Crustal structure and apparent tectonic underplating from receiver function analysis in South Island, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B04307, doi:10.1029/2007JB005166. PDF

84. Payero, J. S., V. Kostoglodov, N. Shapiro, T. Mikumo, A. Iglesias, X. Perez-Campos, and R. W. Clayton (2008), Non-volcanic tremor observed in the Mexican subduction zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L07305, doi:10.1029/2007GL032877. PDF     GRL_cover

85. Ai, Huirong-Anita, J. M. Stock, R. Clayton, and B. Luyendyk (2008), Vertical Tectonics of the High Plateau Region, Manihiki Plateau, Western Pacific, from Seismic Stratigraphy, Mar. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1007/s11001-008-9042-0. PDF

86. Kedar, Sharon, M. Longuet-Higgins, F. Webb, N. Graham, R. Clayton, C. Johnson (2008), The origin of deep ocean microseisms in the North Atlantic Ocean, Proc. R. Soc. A, 2091 (March), pp777-893 doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.0277. PDF

    2007

87. Persaud, P., X. Perez-Campos, and R. Clayton (2007), Crustal thickness variations in the margins of the Gulf of California from receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., 170, 2, 687-699, doi:10.1111/j.1365-03412.x PDF

88. Davis, P. and R. Clayton, (2007), Application of the telegraph model to coda Q variations in southern California, J. of Geophys. Res, 112, B09302, doi:10.1029/2006JB004542. PDF

89. Vriend, N. M., M. L. Hunt, R. W. Clayton, C. E. Brennen, K. S. Brantley, and A. Ruiz- Angulo, (2007), Solving the mystery of booming sand dunes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16306, doi:10.1029/2007GL030276. PDF     (Note: see comment and reply above)

90. Downey, N., J. M. Stock, R. W. Clayton, and S. C. Cande, (2007), History of the Cretaceous Osbourn Spreading Center, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B04102 doi:10.1029/2006JB004550 PDF Correction: PDF

91. Yan, Z., and R. W. Clayton (2007), A Notch Structure on the Moho beneath the Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, Earth Planet. Sci Lett., doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.017. PDF

92. Yan, Z., and R. W. Clayton (2007), Regional mapping of the crustal structure in southern California from receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B05311, doi:10.1029/2006JB004622. PDF

93. Downey, N. J., and R. W. Clayton (2007), A ridgelet transform method for constraining tectonic models via abyssal-hill morphology, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q03004, doi:10.1029/2006GC001440. PDF

    2005

94. Yan Z., Clayton R.W. and Saleeby J., (2005), Seismic Refraction Evidence of Steep Faults cutting highly attenuated continental basement in Central Transverse Ranges, California, Geophys. J. Int., 651-666. PDF

95. Teresa Baker, Robert Granat, and Robert W. Clayton, (2005), Real-time Earthquake Location Using Kirchhoff Reconstruction, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 95: 699 - 707. PDF

96. Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2005), Simulating Strong Ground Motion From Complex Sources By Reciprocal Green functions, Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, 49, 3, doi:10.1007/s11200-005-0013-5. PDF

    2004

97. W. J. Lutter, G. S. Fuis, T. Ryberg, D. A. Okaya, R. W. Clayton, P. M. Davis, C. Prodehl, J. M. Murphy, V. E. Langenheim, M. L. Benthien, N. J. Godfrey, N. I. Christensen, K. Thygesen, C. H. Thurber, G. Simila, and G. R. Keller (2004), Upper Crustal Structure from the Santa Monica Mountains to the Sierra Nevada, Southern California: Tomographic Results from the Los Angeles Regional Seismic Experiment, Phase II (LARSE II), Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94: 619 - 632. PDF

    2003

98. Nazareth J. J., R. W. Clayton, (2003), Crustal structure of the Borderland-Continent Transition Zone of southern California adjacent to Los Angeles, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B8), doi:10.1029/2001JB000223, 2003. PDF

99. Fuis, G. S., R. W. Clayton, P. M. Davis, T. Ryberg, W. J. Lutter, D. A. Okaya, E. Hauksson, C. Prodehl, J. M. Murphy, M. L. Benthien, S. A. Baher, M. D. Kohler, K. Thygesen, G. Simila, and G. R. Keller, (2003), Fault systems of the 1971 San Fernando and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, southern California: Relocated aftershocks and seismic images from LARSE II, Geology, 31, 171-174. PDF

100. Monica D. Kohler, Harold Magistrale and R. W. Clayton, (2003), Mantle heterogeneities and the SCEC Three-Dimensional Velocity Model Version 3, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 93, 757- 774. PDF

     2002

101. Roger L. Larson, Robert A. Pockalny, Richard F. Viso, Elisabetta Erba, Lewis J. Abrams, Bruce P. Luyendyk, Joann M. Stock, and Robert W. Clayton, (2002), Mid-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Tongareva triple junction in the southwestern Pacific Basin, Geology, 30, 1, 67-70. PDF

102. Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2002), Equivalent medium Parameters For Numerical Modeling in media with near-surface low-velocities, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 92, 2, 711-722. PDF

103. Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2002), A Full Waveform Test of the Southern California Velocity Model by the Reciprocity Method, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159, 1691-1706. PDF

     2001

104. Egill Hauksson, Patrick Small, Katrin Hafner, Robert Busby, Robert Clayton, James Goltz, Tom Heaton, Kate Hutton, Hiroo Kanamori, Jascha Polet, Doug Given, Lucile M. Jones and David Wald, (2001), Southern California Seismic Network: Caltech/USGS Element of TriNet 1997-2001, Seism. Res. Lett, 72, 6, 690-704. PDF

105. Katrin Hafner and Robert W. Clayton, (2001), The Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC), Seism. Res. Lett, 72, 6, 705-711. PDF

106. Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2001), A Reciprocity method for multiple-source simulations, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 91, 3, 553-560. PDF

107. Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2002), A Full Waveform Test of the Southern California Velocity Model by the Reciprocity Method, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159,7-8, pp. 1691-1706, doi:10.1007/s00024-002-8703-1. PDF

     2000

108. Harold Magistrale, Steven Day, Robert W. Clayton, and Robert Graves, (2000), The SCEC Southern California reference 3D seismic velocity model Version 2, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. Vol 90, 6B, pp. S65-76. PDF

109. William R. Keller, Don L. Anderson and Robert W. Clayton, (2000), Resolution of tomographic models of the model beneath Iceland, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27 (24), 3993-3996, doi:1029/2000GL011798. PDF

     1999

110. Jane Heineman, Joann Stock, Robert W. Clayton, Katrin Hafner, Steve Cande and Carol Raymond, (1999), Constraints on the proposed Marie Byrd Land-Bellingshausen plate boundary from seismic reflection data, J. Geophys. Res., 104, B11, 25321-25330. PDF

     1996

111. Brian Wernicke, Robert Clayton, Mihai Ducea, Craig H. Jones, Stephen Park, Stan Ruppert, Jason Saleeby, J. Kent Snow, Livia Squires, Moritz Fliedner, George Jiracek, Randy Keller, Simon Klemperer, James Leutgert, Peter Malin, Kate Miller, Walter Mooney, Howard Oliver, and Robert Phinney, (1996), Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada, Science, 271, 190-193. PDF

     1993

112. Linda R. Rowan and Robert W. Clayton, (1993), The Three-Dimensional Structure of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, From Travel Time Tomography, J. Geophys. Res, 98, 4355-4375. PDF

113. Raymond Hide, Robert W. Clayton, Bradford H. Hager, Mary Ann Spieth, and Curt V. Voorhies, (1993), Topographic core-mantle coupling and fluctuations in the Earth's rotation, in Relating geophysical structures and processes. The Jeffreys volume (edited by K. Aki and R. Dmowska), Geophys. Monog. Am. Geophys. Un., 76, 107-120. PDF

     1992

114. J. Huw Davies, Olafur Gudmundsson and Robert W. Clayton, (1992), Spectra of mantle shear wave velocity structure, Geophys. J. Int., 108, 865-882. PDF

115. Robert W. Graves and Robert W. Clayton, (1992), Modeling Path Effects in Three-Dimensional Basin Structures, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 82, 81-103. PDF

116. Christof Stork and Robert W. Clayton, (1992), Using constraints to address the instabilities of automated prestack velocity analysis, Geophysics, 57, 404-419. PDF

     1991

117. Olafur Gudmundsson and Robert W. Clayton, (1991), A 2-D synthetic study of global traveltime tomography, Geophys. J. Int., 106, 53-65. PDF

118. Christof Stork and Robert W. Clayton, (1991), Linear aspects of tomographic velocity analysis, Geophysics, 56, 483-495. PDF

     1990

119. Eugene D. Humphreys and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), Tomographic Image of the Southern California Mantle, J. Geophys. Res, 95, pp. 19,725-l9,746. PDF

120. Robert Graves and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), Modelling Acoustic Waves with Paraxial Extrapolators, Geophysics, 55, 306-319. PDF

121. Olafur Gudmundsson, J. Huw Davies, and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), Stochastic analysis of global travel time data: Mantle heterogeneity and random errors in the ISC data, Geophys. J. Int., 102, 25-43. PDF

122. Zhou, H.-W. and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), P and S Wave Travel-Time Inversions for Subducting Slabs under the Island Arcs of the Northwest Pacific, J. Geophys. Res, 95, 6829-6852. PDF

123. Zhou, H.-W., Don L. Anderson and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), Modeling of residual spheres for subduction zone earthquakes: 1. Apparent slab penetration signatures in the NW Pacific, J. Geophys. Res, 95, 6799-6927. PDF

     1989

124. Hager, B. H. and R. W. Clayton, (1989), Constraints on the structure of mantle convection using seismic observations, flow models, and the geoid, in: R. W. Peltier (ed.) Mantle Convection; plate tectonics and global dynamics, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York, 657-763. bigPDF-28Mb

     1988

125. Eugene Humphreys and Robert W. Clayton, (1988), Adaptation of back projection tomography to seismic travel time problems, J. Geophys. Res, 93, 1073-1085. PDF

126. Ronan LeBras and Robert W. Clayton, (1988), An iterative inversion of the back-scattered acoustic waves, Geophysics, 53, 501-508. PDF

127. John N. Louie, Robert W. Clayton, and Ronan J. LeBras, (1988), 3-D imaging of steeply dipping structure near the San Andreas fault, Parkfield, California, Geophysics, 53, 176-185. PDF

     1987

128. Phyllis Ho-Liu, Hiroo Kanamori and Robert W. Clayton, (1987), Applications of attenuation tomography to Imperial Valley and Coso-Indian Wells Region, Southern California, J. Geophys. Res, 93, 10501-10520. PDF

129. John Louie and Robert W. Clayton, (1987), The nature of deep crustal structures in the Mojave Desert, California, Geophys J., Roy. astr. Soc., 89, 125-1327. PDF

130. Marianne C. Walck and Robert W. Clayton, (1987), P-Wave Velocity Variations in the Coso Region, California, Derived from Local Earthquake Travel Times, J. Geophys. Res, 92, 393-405. PDF

     1986

131. John Vidale and Robert W. Clayton, (1986), A Stable Free-Surface Boundary Condition for 2D Elastic Finite-Difference Wave Simulation, Geophysics, 51, 2247-2249. PDF

132. Arthur Frankel and Robert W. Clayton, (1986), Finite difference simulations of seismic scattering: Implications for the propagation of short-period seismic waves in the crust and models of crustal heterogeneity, J. Geophys. Res, 91, 6465-6489. PDF

133. Thomas M. Hearn and Robert W. Clayton, (1986), Lateral Velocity Variations in Southern California: 1. Results For The Upper Crust From Pg-Waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 76, 2, 495-509. PDF

134. Thomas M. Hearn and Robert W. Clayton, (1986), Lateral Velocity Variations in Southern California: 2. Results For The Lower Crust From Pn-Waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 76, 2, 511-520. PDF

     1985

135. John Vidale, Donald H. Helmberger and Robert W. Clayton, (1985), Finite-Difference Synthetic Seismograms for SH-waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 75, 6, 1765-1782. PDF

136. Bradford H. Hager, Robert W. Clayton, Adam Dziewonski, Mark Richards, and Robert Comer, (1985), Lower mantle heterogeniety, dynamic topography and the geoid, Nature, 313, 541-545. PDF

     1984

137. Arthur Frankel and Robert W. Clayton, (1984), A finite difference simulation of wave propagation in two-dimensional random media, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 74, 6, 2167-2186. PDF

138. John Fawcett and Robert W. Clayton, (1984), Tomographic reconstruction of velocity anomalies, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 74, 6, 2201-2219. PDF

139. Marianne C. Walck and Robert W. Clayton, (1984), Analysis of upper mantle structure using wave field continuation of P waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 74, 5, 1703-1719. PDF Geophys. Res Let, 11, 7, 625-627. PDF

     1982

140. George A. McMechan, Robert W. Clayton and Walter D. Mooney, (1982), Application of Wave Field Continuation to the Inversion of Refraction Data, J. Geophys. Res, 87, 927-935. PDF

     1981

141. Robert W. Clayton and Robert H. Stolt, (1981), A Born-WKBJ Inversion Method For Acoustic Reflection Data, Geophysics, 46, 1559-1567. PDF

     1980

142. Robert W. Clayton and George A. McMechan, (1980), Inversion of Refraction Data By Wave Field Continuation, Geophysics, 46, 860-868. PDF

143. Robert W. Clayton and Bjorn Engquist, (1980), Absorbing Boundary Conditions For Wave-Equation Migration, Geophysics, 45, 895-904. PDF

144. L.R. Lines, R.W. Clayton, and T.J. Ulrych, (1980), Impulse Response Models For Noisy Vibroseis Data, Geophys. Prosp., 28, 49-59. PDF

     1977

145. L.R. Lines and Robert W. Clayton, (1977), A New Approach To Vibroseis Deconvolution, Geophys. Prosp., 3, 417-433. PDF

146. Robert W. Clayton and Bjorn Engquist, (1977), Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Acoustic and Elastic Wave Equations, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 67, 1529-1540. PDF

147. Robert W. Clayton and Tad J. Ulrych, (1977), A Restoration Method For Impulsive Functions, IEEE Trans. Info Th., 2, 262-264. PDF

     1976

148. Tad J. Ulrych and Robert W. Clayton, (1976), Time Series Modelling and Maximum Entropy, Phys. Earth & Plan. Int., 12, 180-200. PDF

149. Tad J. Ulrych and Robert W. Clayton, (1976), Comment on "Second-Order Statistical Structure of Geomagnetic Field Reversals" by P.S. Naidu, J. Geophys.Res, 81, 1033-1034. PDF

150. Robert W. Clayton and Ralph A. Wiggins, (1976), Source Shape Estimation and Deconvolution of Teleseismic Bodywaves, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 47, 151-177. PDF

151. R.W. Clayton, B. McClary & R.A. Wiggins, (1976), Comments on the paper ``Phase Distortion and Hilbert Transformation in Multiply Reflected and Refracted Body Waves'' by G.L. Choy and P.G. Richards, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 66, 325-326. PDF