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	Dr. Uri S. ten Brink
	U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center Quissett Campus, 384 Woods Hole Rd. Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 Tel. (508) 457-2396 Fax. (508) 457-2310 Contact: utenbrink@usgs.gov

Selected Bibliography

Lithospheric flexure and mid-plate volcanism

• Watts, A.B., U.S. ten Brink, P. Buhl, and T.M. Brocher, A multichannel seismic study of lithospheric flexure across the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, Nature, v. 315, pp. 105-111, 1985. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., and A.B. Watts, Seismic stratigraphy of the flexural moat flanking the Hawaiian islands, Nature, v. 317, pp. 421-424, 1985. PDF
• Brocher, T.M., and U.S. ten Brink, Variations in oceanic layer 2 elastic velocities and their correlation to lithospheric flexure, J. Geophys. Res., v. 92, pp. 2647-2661, 1987. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., and T.M. Brocher, Multichannel seismic evidence for a subcrustal intrusive complex under Oahu and a model for Hawaiian volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., v. 92, pp. 13,687-13,707, 1987. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., and T.M. Brocher, Multichannel seismic evidence for variations in crustal thickness across the Molokai fracture zone in the mid-Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., v. 93, pp. 1119-1130, 1988. PDF
• Watts, A.B., and U.S. ten Brink, Crustal structure, flexure, and subsidence of the Hawaiian Islands, J. Geophys. Res., v. 94, pp. 10,473-10,500, 1989.
• ten Brink, U.S., Volcano spacing and plate rigidity, Geology, v. 19, pp. 397-400, 1991. PDF

Lithospheric strength and plate boundaries

• Steckler, M.S., and U.S. ten Brink, Lithospheric strength variations as a control on new plate boundaries: examples from the northern Red Sea region, Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett., v. 79, pp. 120-132, 1986. PDF

Rift-margin uplift: The Transantarctic Mountains

• Stern, T., and U.S. ten Brink, Flexural uplift of the Transantarctic mountains, J. Geophys. Res., v. 94, pp. 10,315-10,330, 1989. PDF
• Stern, T. and U.S. ten Brink, Sounding the bottom of the world, New Scientist, pp. 41-43, August 31, 1991.
• ten Brink, U.S., B. Beaudoin, and T. Stern, Seismic study of lithospheric flexure in the vicinity of the Ross Archipelago, Antarctica, Extended abstract to the Sixth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science, Tokyo, Tokyo, pp. 587-592, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• ten Brink, U.S., and T. Stern, Rift-margin uplifts and flexural inland basins: Comparison between the Transantarctic Mountains and the Great Escarpment of southern Africa, J. Geophys. Res., v. 97, pp. 569-585, 1992. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., S. Bannister, B.C. Beaudoin, and T. Stern, Geophysical investigations of the tectonic boundary between East and West Antarctica, Science, v. 261, pp. 45-50, 1993. PDF
• ten Brink, U., and S. Bannister, EAST93 - Geophysical traverse from the transantarctic mountains to the Wilkes Basin, East Antarctica, USGS Open-File Report 95-225, 93 pp., 1995.
• ten Brink, U.S., R.I. Hackney, S. Bannister, T.A. Stern, and Y. Makovsky, Uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains and the bedrock under the East Antarctic ice cap, J. Geophys. Res., v. 102, pp. 27,603-27,621, 1997. PDF
• Bannister, S., A. Melhuish, S. Henrys, T. Stern, and U. ten Brink, Deep seismic reflections beneath the Trans-Antarctic Mountain front from reprocessed SERIS seismic data, Terra Antarctica, v. 6, p. 363-364, 1999.

Stratigraphic models of glaciated continental margins

• Cooper, A.K., S. Eittreim, U.S. ten Brink, and I. Zayatz, Cenozoic Glacial sequences of the Antarctic Continental margin as recorders of Antarctic ice-sheet fluctuations, in The Antarctic Paleoenvironment: A perspective on global change, Antarctic Research Series, v. 60, Edited by J. Kennett, American Geophys. Union, pp. 75-89, 1993.
• ten Brink, U., Tectonic subsidence and the stratigraphy of the Antarctic continental margins and intracontinental basins, Terra Antarctica, v. 1, pp. 255-257, 1994.
• ten Brink, U., and C. Schneider, Glacial morphology and depositional sequences of the Antarctic continental shelf, Geology, v. 23, pp. 580-584, 1995. PDF
• ten Brink, U., C. Schneider, and A.H. Johnson, Morphology and stratal geometry the Antarctic continental shelf: Insights from models, in Geology and seismic stratigraphy of the Antarctic margin, Antarctic Research Series, v. 68, Edited by A. Cooper, P. Barker, and J. Brancollini, American Geophysical Union, Washington, pp. 1-24, 1995. PDF

Transform plate boundaries: The Dead Sea Transform

• Ben-Avraham, Z., and U.S. ten Brink, Transverse faults and segmentation of basins within the Dead Sea rift, special volume of J. African Earth Sci., edited by B. Rosendahl, v. 8, pp. 603-616, 1989. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., N. Schoenberg, R.L. Kovach, and Z. Ben-Avraham, Uplift and a possible Moho offset across the Dead Sea Transform, Tectonophys., v. 180, pp. 77-92, 1990. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., R. Katzman, and J. Lin, Three-dimensional models of crustal deformation near strike-slip faults, J. Geophys. Res., v. 101, pp. 16,205-16,220, 1996. PDF
• ten Brink, U., M. Rybakov, A. Al-Zoubi, M. Hassouneh, A. Batayneh, U. Frieslander, V. Goldschmidt, M. Daoud, Y. Rotstein, and J.K. Hall, The anatomy of the Dead Sea plate boundary: Does it reflect continuous changes in plate motion? Geology, v. 27, pp. 887-980, 1999. PDF
• ten Brink, U., A. Al-Zoubi, and M. Rybakov, Bouguer gravity anomaly map of the Dead Sea fault system, Jordan and Israel: Contour interval 3 mGal, scale 1:200,000, USGS Open-File Report 01-216, 2001. WEB
• ten Brink, U.S., M. Rybakov, A.S. Al-Zoubi, and Y. Rotstein, The magnetic character of a large continental transform: An aeromagnetic survey of the Dead Sea fault, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. (G-Cubed), 8, Q07005, doi:10.1029/2007GC001582, 2007. PDF Large-format figures are also available (TIF files) - Figure 1 , Figure 2 , and Figure 3.

The evolution of continental rifts and transform basins

• ten Brink, U.S., and Z. Ben-Avraham, The anatomy of a pull-apart basin: seismic reflection observations of the Dead Sea basin, Tectonics, v. 8, pp. 333-350, 1989. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., Z. Ben-Avraham, R.E. Bell, M. Hassouneh, D.F. Coleman, G. Andreasen, G. Tibor, and B. Coakley, Structure of the Dead Sea pull-apart basin from gravity analyses, J. Geophys. Res., v. 98, pp. 21,877-21,894, 1993. PDF
• Katzman, R., U.S. ten Brink, J. and Lin, 3-D modeling of pull-apart basins: Implications for the tectonics of the Dead Sea Basin, J. Geophys. Res. v. 100, pp. 6295-6312, 1995. PDF
• Ben-Avraham, Z., U.S. ten Brink, R. Bell, and M. Rezhnikov, Gravity field over the Sea of Galilee: Evidence for a composite basin along a transform fault, J. Geophys. Res., v. 101, pp. 533-544, 1996. PDF
• A. Hofstetter, M. Rybakov, and U. ten Brink, Comment on "New evidence of magmatic diapirs in the intermediate crust under the Dead Sea, Israel" by Nitzan Rabinowitz, Jean Steinberg, and Yossi Mart, Tectonics, v. 17, pp 819820, 1998. PDF
• Al-Zoubi, A., and U.S. ten Brink, Salt diapirs in the Dead Sea basin and their relationship to quaternary extensional tectonics, Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 18, pp. 779-797, 2001. PDF
• Al-Zoubi, A., and U.S. ten Brink, Lower crustal flow and the role of shear in basin subsidence: An example from the Dead Sea basin, Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett., v. 199, pp. 67-79, 2002. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., Corrigendum to 'Lower crustal flow and the role of shear in basin subsidence: An example from the Dead Sea Basin', Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett., v. 201, pp. 447-448, 2002. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., and M.H. Taylor, Crustal structure of central Lake Baikal: Insights into intracontinental rifting, J. Geophys. Res., v. 107, no. B7, 10.1029/2001JB000300, 2002. PDF You can download a PDF version of the paper as well as high-resolution versions of each figure at http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/staffpages/utenbrink/baikal_pdf/.
• Rybakov,M., Fleischer, L., and Uri ten Brink, The Hula Valley subsurface structure inferred from gravity data, Isr. J. Earth Sci., v. 52: pp. 113–122, 2003 PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., A.S. Al-Zoubi, C.H. Flores, Y. Rotstein, I. Qabbani, S.H. Harder, and G.R. Keller, Seismic imaging of deep low-velocity zone beneath the Dead Sea basin and transform fault: Implications for strain localization and crustal rigidity, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, L24314, doi:10.1029/2006GL027890, December 23, 2006. PDF There is also auxiliary material available - Supplement.txt, FigS1.eps, and FigS2.eps.
• Al-Zoubi, A.S., T. Heinrich, I Qabbani, and U.S. ten Brink The northern end of the Dead Sea basin: Geometry from reflection seismic evidence, Tectonophysics, v. 434, 55-69, 2007. PDF

The legacy of subduction: Thermal evolution and crustal structure of coastal California

• Holbrook, W.S., T.M. Brocher, U.S. ten Brink, and J.A. Hole, Crustal structure of a transform plate boundary: San Francisco Bay and the central California continental margin, J. Geophys. Res., v. 101, pp. 22,311-22,334, 1996.
• Brocher, T.M., U.S. ten Brink, and T. Abramovitz, Synthesis of crustal seismic structure argues against a slab gap in California, International Geology Review, v. 41, pp. 263-274, 1999.
• ten Brink, U.S., N. Shimizu, and P. Molzer, Plate deformation at depth under California - slab gap or stretched slab? Tectonics, v. 18, pp. 1084-1098, 1999. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., J. Zhang, T.M. Brocher, D.A. Okaya, K.D. Klitgord, and G.S. Fuis, Geophysical evidence for the evolution of the California Inner Borderland as a metamorphic core complex, J. Geophys. Res., v. 105, pp. 5835-5857, 2000. PDF

Cascadia subduction zone and the forearc region of Puget Sound

• Flueh, E.R., M.A. Fisher, (in alphabetical order:) J. Bialas, J.M. Childs, D. Klaeschen, N. Kukowski, T. Parsons, D. Scholl, U. ten Brink, A. Trehu, and N. Vidal, New seismic images of the Cascadia subduction zone from Cruise SO108-ORWELL, Tectonophysics, v. 293, pp. 69-84, 1998.
• Parsons, T., A.M. Trehu, J.H. Luetgert, K. Miller, F. Kilbride, R.E. Wells, M.E. Fisher, E. Flueh, U.S. ten Brink, and N.I. Christensen, A new view into the Cascadia subduction zone and volcanic arc: Implications for earthquake hazards along the Washington margin, Geology, v. 26, pp. 199-202, 1998.
• Parsons, T., R.E. Wells, M.A. Fisher, E. Flueh, and U.S. ten Brink, Three-dimensional velocity structure of Siletzia and other accreted terranes in the Cascadia fore arc of Washington, J. Geophys. Res.., v. 104, pp. 18,015-18,039, 1999.
• ten Brink, U.S., P.C. Molzer, M.A. Fisher, R.J. Blakely, R.C. Bucknam, T. Parsons, R.S. Crosson, and K.C. Kreager, Subsurface geometry and evolution of the Seattle fault zone and the Seattle basin, Washington, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 92, no. 5, pp. 1737-1753, 2002. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., Song, J., and Bucknam, R.J. Rupture Models for the A.D. 900-930 Seattle fault earthquake from uplifted shorelines, Geology, v. 34, 585-588, 2006. PDF There is also auxiliary material available.

Slow spreading ridges

• ten Brink, U.S., D.F. Coleman, and W.P. Dillon, Asymmetric crustal thickness across Cayman spreading center and transitional crust in Cayman Trough from gravity, Marine and Petroleum Geology, V. 19, pp. 971-987, 2002. PDF

Processing of seismic reflection and refraction data

• Beaudoin, B.C., U.S. ten Brink, and T.A. Stern, Characteristics and processing of seismic data collected on thick, floating ice: Results from the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Geophysics, v. 57, pp. 1359-1372, 1992.
• Zhang, J., U.S. ten Brink, and M.N. Toksoz, Non-linear refraction and reflection travel time tomography: Application to the crustal structure of the California Borderland, J. Geophys. Res., v. 103, pp. 29,743-29,757, 1998.
• Loss, J., U. ten Brink, and I. Pecher, RayGui - A graphical 2-D ray-tracing interface for UNIX, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, no. 28, p. 334, 1998.
• Loss, J., I. Pecher, and U. ten Brink, RayGUI - a graphical 2-D ray-tracing package for UNIX, USGS Open-File Report 98-203, 1998.
• Song, J., and ten Brink, U.S., Graphical user interface (RayGUI 2.0) for interactive seismic ray tracing, EOS, v. 86, no. 9, p. 90, 2005. PDF
• Song, J. and U. ten Brink, RayGUI 2.0-A Graphical User Interface for Interactive Forward and Inversion Ray-Tracing, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1426, 2004. WEB

Caribbean tectonics and earthquake hazards

• Dillon, W.F., J. Acosta, E. Uchupi, and U.S. ten Brink, Joint Spanish-American research uncovers fracture pattern in northeastern Caribbean, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, no. 28, pp. 336-7, 1998.
• ten Brink, U.S., W.P. Dillon, A. Frankel, R. Rodriguez, and C. Mueller, Seismic and tsunami hazards in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, USGS Open-File Report 99-353, 1999. WEB
• Dillon, W.P., U.S. ten Brink, A. Frankel, R. Rodriguez, and C. Mueller, Seismic and tsunami hazards in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: A report on a USGS Workshop, March 23-24, 1999, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 80, pp. 309-310, 1999.
• ten Brink, U.S., Danforth, W., Polloni, C., Andrews, B., Llanes Estrada, P., Smith, S., Parker, E., Uozumi, T., New seafloor map of the Puerto Rico trench helps assess earthquake and tsunami hazards in the northwest Caribbean, EOS, v., 85, no., 37, p. 349, 354, 2004. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S. and Lin, J., Stress interaction between subduction earthquakes and forearc strike-slip faults: Modeling and application to the northern Caribbean plate boundary, J. Geophys. Res., 2004JB003031, v. 109, B12310, doi:1029/2004JB003031, 2004. PDF
• ten Brink, J., and ten Brink, U., The Puerto Rico Trench: Exploring the deepest place in the Atlantic Ocean, 14-minute educational film about sea floor mapping and tsunami and earthquake hazards, 2004. WEB
• ten Brink, U.S., Vertical motions in the Puerto Rico trench and Puerto Rico and their cause, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 100, B06404, doi:10.1020/2004JB003459, 2005. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., S. Marshak, and J.-L. Granja Bruña, Bivergent thrust wedges surrounding oceanic island arcs: Insight from observations and sandbox models of the northeastern Caribbean plate, Geological Society of America Bulletin, in press. PDF

Submarine landslides, earthquakes and tsunami hazard

• ten Brink, U.S., Geist, E.L., Lynett, P., and Andrews, B., Submarine slides north of Puerto Rico and their tsunami potential, Caribbean Tsunami Hazard, edited by A. Mercado and P. Liu, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, p. 67-90, 2006. PDF
• ten Brink, U.S., Geist, E.L., and Andrews, B.D., Size distribution of submarine landslides and its implication to tsunami hazard in Puerto Rico, Geophys. Research Letters, 33, L11307, doi:10.1029/2006GL26125, 2006. PDF There is also auxiliary material available.
• López-Venegas, A.M., ten Brink, U.S., and Geist, E.L., Submarine landslide as the source for the October 11, 1918 Mona Passage tsunami: Observations and modeling, Marine Geology, v. 254, pp. 35-46, 2008. PDF
• ten Brink, U., D. Twichell, E. Geist, J. Chaytor, J. Locat, H. Lee, B. Buczkowski, R. Barkan, A. Solow, B. Andrews, T. Parsons, P. Lynett, J. Lin, and M. Sansoucy, Evaluation of tsunami sources with the potential to impact the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts, USGS Administrative report to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 300 pp., August 22, 2008. PDF
• Chaytor, J.D., Twichell, D.C., ten Brink, U.S., Buczkowski, B.J., and Andrews, B.D., Revisiting submarine mass movements along the U.S. Atlantic continental margin: Implications for tsunami hazards, in Lykousis, V., Sakellariou, D. and Locat, J. (eds.). Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, 395-403, 2007. PDF
• ten Brink, Uri S., Lee, Homa J., Geist, Eric L. and Twichell, David, Assessment of tsunami hazard to the U.S. East Coast using relationships between submarine landslides and earthquakes, Marine Geology, in press. PDF
• Barkan, Roy, ten Brink, Uri, and Lin, Jian, Far field tsunami simulations of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake: Implications for tsunami hazard to the U.S. East Coast and the Caribbean, Marine Geology, in press. PDF
• Chaytor, Jason D., ten Brink, Uri S., Solow, Andrew R., and Andrews, Brian D., Size distribution of submarine landslides along the U.S. Atlantic Margin, Marine Geology, in press. PDF
• Locat, J., H.J. Lee, U. ten Brink, D. Twichell, E. Geist and M. Sansoucy, Geomorphology, Stability and Mobility of the Currituck Slide, Marine Geology, in press. PDF
• Twichell, D.C., J.D. Chaytor, U.S ten Brink, and B. Buczkowski, Geologic Controls on the Distribution of Submarine Landslides along the U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin, Marine Geology, in press. PDF

Subsidence processes of the Mississippi delta

• Meckel, T.A., ten Brink, U.S., and Williams, S.J., Estimating present compaction rates in coastal deltaic environments - numerical methods and stratigraphic influences, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L11403, doi:10.1029 /2006GL26300, 2006. PDF
• Meckel, T.A., ten Brink, U.S., and Williams, S.J., Sediment compaction rates and subsidence in deltatic plains: numerical constraints and stratigraphic influences, Basin Research, 19, 19-31, 2007. PDF