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Member Since 1981
Mike Gurnis
Director, Seismological Laboratory and John E and Hazel S Smits Professor of Geophysics, California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology
Director, Seismological Laboratory and John E and Hazel S Smits Professor of Geophysics
1994 - Present
Education
Australian National University
Doctorate
1987
Honors & Awards
Publications
Influence of Farallon Slab Loading on Intraplate Stress and Seismicity in Eastern North America in t...
Despite the stability of the continental interior, eastern North America has hosted many significant historical earthquakes. Seismicity concentrate...
May 31, 2024
On the Origin of Small‐Scale Seismic Scatters at 660‐km Dept...
December 01, 2022
Strong ULVZ and Slab Interaction at the Northeastern Edge of...
February 15, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Decoding the formation and evolution of the ancestral trans–North American Bell River system
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TECTONICS AND SURFACE PROCESSES: FROM OROGENS TO SEDIMENTARY BASINS II ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Sara Polanco, Michael D. Blum, Huilin Wang, Trista...
The highly debated existence of a Cenozoic transcontinental river that started in the Western Cordillera of North America and terminated in the Labrad...
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A Giant Impact Origin for the First Subduction on Earth
EXPLORING EARTH’S EVOLUTION: THE HADEAN THROUGH THE PRESENT I POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Qian Yuan, Michael Gurnis, Paul D. Asimow, Yida Li
Hadean zircon grains provide a potential record of Earth's earliest subduction around 4.3 billion years ago1. However, it remains enigmatic how subduc...
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Termination of subduction due to reduction of fluid release at the plate interface
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Wei Mao, Michael Gurnis
Recent seismic and drilling studies have revealed that fluid migration and pore pressure changes along subduction thrusts leads to anomalous fault sli...
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Volunteer Experience
2013 - 2014
Fellows Committee Representative
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Executive Committee
2013 - 2014
Member
Joint Sections Fellows Committee
2000 - 2002
Member
Lehmann Medal Committee
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