Peer Reviewed Publications

A.R. Levander and R.L. Kovach, 1981, S-wave observations in the Franciscan terrane, central California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 71, 1863-1874.

A.R. Levander, H. Quin and R.L. Kovach, 1983, Shear wave observations in the region north of San Francisco Bay, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 72, 1031-1039.

N.R. Hill and A.R. Levander, 1984, Resonances of low velocity layers with lateral variations, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 74, 521-537.

J.W. Wiggins and A.R. Levander, 1984, Migration of multiple offset synthetic VSP data in complex structure, Advances in Geophysical Data Processing, JAI Press, M. Simaan, editor, 269-289.

A.R. Levander, 1985, Finite difference calculations of dispersive Rayleigh wave propagation, Tectonophysics, 113, 1-30.

A.R. Levander and N.R. Hill, 1985, P-SV resonances in irregular low velocity surface layers, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 75, 847-864.

A.R. Levander, 1985, Use of the telegraphy equation to improve absorbing boundary efficiency for fourth order acoustic wave finite difference schemes, letter to the editor, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 75, 1847-1852.

A.S. Meltzer, A.R. Levander and W.D. Mooney, 1987, Upper crustal structure; Livermore Valley and vicinity, California Coast Ranges, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 77, 1655-1673.

B.S. Gibson and A.R. Levander, 1988, Modeling and processing of scattered waves in seismic reflection surveys, Geophysics, 53, 466-478.

B.S. Gibson and A.R. Levander, 1988, Lower crustal reflectivity patterns in wide-angle seismic recordings, Geophysical Research Letters, 15, 617-620.

A.R. Levander, 1988, Fourth-order finite-difference P-SV seismograms, Geophysics, 53, 1425-1436. Reprinted in Numerical Modeling of Seismic Wave Propagation, K.R. Kelly, K.J. Marfurt, editors, S.E.G. Reprint Series, No. 13.

L.W. Wolf and A.R. Levander, 1989, Upper crustal structure of the accreted Chugach terrane, Alaska, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 4457-4466.

A.R. Levander, 1989, Finite-difference forward modeling in seismology, Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, D.E. James, editor, Van Nostrand Rheinhold, New York, 410-431.

A.R. Levander, 1990, Seismic waves scattered near the surface of the Earth, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 132, invited for the special issue on Scattering and Attenuation, K. Aki and R. Wu, editors, 21-47.

C.F. Lafond and A.R. Levander, 1990, Fast and accurate dynamic ray-tracing in heterogeneous media, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 80, 1284-1296.

A.R. Levander and R.L. Kovach, 1990, Shear velocity structure of the northern California lithosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 19773-19784.

B.S. Gibson and A.R. Levander, 1990, Apparent layering in CMP stacked images of two- dimensionally heterogeneous targets, Geophysics, 55, 1466-1477.

A.S. Meltzer and A.R. Levander, 1991, Deep crustal reflection profiling offshore southern central California, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 6475-6491.

A.R. Levander and B.S. Gibson, 1991, Wide-angle seismic reflections from two- dimensionally random target zones, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10,251-10,260.

A.R. Levander and K. Holliger, 1992, Small scale heterogeneity and large scale velocity structure of the continental crust, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 8792-8804.

K. Holliger and A.R. Levander, 1992, A stochastic view of the lower crust based on the Ivrea Zone, Geophys. Res. Letters, 19, 11, 1153-1156.

K. Holliger, R. Carbonell, and A. Levander, 1992, Sensitivity of the Lateral Correlation Function in Deep Seismic Reflection Data, Geophys. Res. Letters, 19, 2263-2266.

C.F. Lafond and A.R. Levander, 1993, Migration moveout analysis and depth focusing, Geophysics, 58, 91-100.

S.A. Henrys, A.R. Levander, and A.S. Meltzer, 1993, Crustal structure of the offshore Santa Maria basin and Transverse Ranges, CA, from deep seismic reflection data, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8335-8348.

A. Levander, A. Harding, and J . Orcutt, 1993, Numerical scattering results for a rough unsedimented seafloor, in Natural Physical Sources of Underwater Sound, D.D. Ellis, J.R. Preston, and H.G. Urban, editors, Kluwer, Dordrecht, Holland, 215-220.

J. Orcutt, A. Harding, and A. Levander, 1993, The effects of seafloor roughness on reverberation: finite-difference and Kirchhoff simulations, in Natural Physical Sources of Underwater Sound, D.D. Ellis, J.R. Preston, and H.G. Urban, editors, Kluwer, Dordrecht, Holland, 221-226.

K. Holliger, A. Levander, and J.A. Goff, 1993, Stochastic modeling of the reflective lower crust: petrophysical and geological evidence from the Ivrea Zone (northern Italy), J. Geophys. Res., 98, 11,967-11,980.

A. Levander, G.S. Fuis, E.S. Wissinger, W.J. Lutter, J.S. Oldow, and T.E. Moore, 1994, Seismic images of the Brooks Range fold and thrust belt, Arctic Alaska, from an integrated seismic reflection/refraction experiment, Tectonophysics, 232, 13-30.

A. Levander, S.K. Smith, R.W. Hobbs, R.W. England, D.B. Snyder, and K. Holliger, 1994, The Crust as a Heterogeneous "Optical" Medium, or "Crocodiles in the Mist", Tectonphysics, 232, 281-297.

K. Holliger, A. Levander, R. Carbonell, and R.W. Hobbs, 1994, Some attributes of wavefields scattered from Ivrea-type lower crust, Tectonophysics, 232, 267-279.

R-C. Shih and A.R. Levander, 1994, Layer-stripping reverse time migration, Geophysical Prospecting, 42, 211-227.

K. Holliger and A. Levander, 1994, Fine-scale structure and seismic response of extended continental crust: Stochastic analysis of the Ivrea and Strona-Ceneri Zones, Geology, 22, 79-82.

A. Levander, R.W. England, S.K. Smith, R.W. Hobbs, J.A. Goff, and K. Holliger, 1994, Stochastic characterization and seismic response of upper and middle crustal rocks based on the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, Scotland, Geophys. J. Intl, 119, 243-259.

K. Holliger and A. Levander, 1994, Reflectivity of postorogenic extended lithosphere: Rheology and basaltic magmatism, Geology, 22, 367-370.

K. Holliger and A. Levander, 1994, Seismic structure of gneissic/granitic upper crust: geological and petrophysical evidence from the Strona-Ceneri zone (northern Italy) and implications for crustal seismic exploration, Geophysical Journal International, 119, 497-510.

J.A. Goff, K. Holliger, and A. Levander, 1994, Modal fields: A new method for characterization of random seismic velocity heterogeneity, Geophys. Res. Letters, 21, 493-496.

J.O.A. Robertsson and A. Levander, 1995, A numerical study of seafloor scattering J. Acoustical Soc. Am., 97, 3532-3546.

G.S. Fuis, A.R. Levander, W.J. Lutter, E.S. Wissinger, T.E. Moore, and N. Christensen, 1995, Seismic images of the Brooks Range fold and thrust belt, Arctic Alaska, Geology, 23, 65-68.

C.F. Lafond and A. Levander, 1995, Migration of wide-aperture onshore-offshore seismic data: Seismic images of late stage subduction, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 22,231-22,243.

J.O.A. Robertsson, A. Levander, and K. Holliger, 1996, Modeling of the Acoustic Reverberation Special Research Program deep ocean seafloor scattering experiments using a hybrid wave propagation simulation technique, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 3085- 3101.

J.A. Goff and A. Levander, 1996, Incorporating "sinuous connectivity" into stochastic models of crustal heterogeneity: Examples from the Lewisian gneiss complex, Scotland, the Franciscan formation, California, and the Hafafit gneiss complex, Egypt, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 8489-8502.

B.C. Beaudoin, N. Godfrey, S.L. Klemperer, C. Lendl, A.M. Trehu, T.J. Henstock, A. Levander, J.E. Holl, A.S. Meltzer, J.H. Luetgert, and W.D. Mooney, 1996, The transition from slab to slabless: Results from the 1993 Mendocino Triple Junction seismic experiment, Geology, 24, 195-199.

J.O.A. Robertsson, A. Levander and K. Holliger, 1996, A hybrid wave propagation simulation technique for ocean acoustic problems, J. Geophys. Res. 101, 11,225- 11,242.

S.P. Larkin, and A. Levander, 1996, Wave equation datuming for improving deep crustal seismic images, Tectonophysics, 264, 371-379.

S.P. Larkin, A. Levander, D. Okaya, and J.A. Goff, 1996, The RISC seismic experiment: A deterministic and stochastic velocity model for the Salton Trough/Basin and Range transition zone and constraints on magmatism during rifting, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 27,833-27,898.

E.S. Wissinger, A. Levander, and N.I. Christensen, 1997, Seismic imaging of crustal duplexing and continental subduction in the Brooks Range, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 20,847-20,872.

S.P. Larkin, A. Levander, T. Henstock, and S. Pullammanappallil, 1997, Is the Moho flat? Seismic evidence for a rough crust-mantle interface beneath the northern Basin and Range, Geology, 25, 451-454.

S. Pullammanappallil, A. Levander, and S.P. Larkin, 1997, Estimation of stochastic crustal parameters from seismic exploration data, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 15,269- 15,286.

C. Lendl, A.M. Trehu. J.A. Goff, A. Levander, B.C. Beaudoin, 1997, Synthetic seismograms through synthetic Franciscan: Insights into factors affecting real data, Geophys. Res. Letters, 24, 3317-3320.

T.J. Henstock, A. Levander, and J.A. Hole, 1997, Deformation in the lower crust of the San Andreas Fault system, northern California, Science, 278, 650-653.

A. Levander, T.J. Henstock, A.S. Meltzer, B.C. Beaudoin, A.M. Trehu, and S.L. Klemperer, 1998, Fluids in the lower crust following Mendocino Triple Junction migration: Active basaltic intrusion? Geology, 26, 171-174.

E.S. Wissinger, A.R. Levander, J.S. Oldow, G.S. Fuis, and W.J. Lutter, 1998, Seismic profiling constraints on the evolution of the central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska, in Architecture of the Central Brooks Range Fold and Thrust Belt, GSA Special Paper 324, J.S. Oldow and H.G. Ave Lallemant editors, 269-292.

T.J. Henstock, A. Levander, and the Deep Probe Working Group, 1998, Probing the Archean and Proterozoic lithosphere of western North America, GSA Today, 8, 1-5 & 16-17.

C.M. Snelson, T.J. Henstock, G.R. Keller, K.M. Miller, and A. Levander, 1998, Crust and uppermost mantle structure along the DeepProbe seismic profile, Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, 181-198

Submitted Manuscripts

J.O.A. Robertsson, K. Holliger, and A. Levander, 1997, Simulation of a deep ocean scattering experiment (Test Case No. 6) using HARVEST - A hybrid wave propagation technique, in press, Benchmark Solutions in Reverberation and Scattering: Proceedings of the Reverberation and Scattering Workshop, D.B. King, S.A. Chin-Bing, R.B. Evans, J.A. Davis, editors, U.S. Government Printing Office.

T.J. Henstock and A. Levander, 1998, Lithospheric evolution in the wake of the Mendocino Triple Junction: Structure of the San Andreas Fault system at 2 Ma, submitted to Geophysical Journal International.

Ekstrom, G., E.D. Humphreys, and A. Levander, 1998, USArray - a tool for probing the continent, IRIS Newsletter.

A. Levander, E.D. Humphreys, G. Ekstrom, A.S. Meltzer, P.M. Shearer, Continental Assembly, Stability, and Instability: USArray: An Earth sciences tool for investigating North America, submitted to EOS (3 February 1999).

P.M. Shearer, A.S. Meltzer, G. Ekstrom, E.D. Humphreys, A. Levander, 1999, USArray – Bridging the gap between regional seismic experiments and global networks, submitted to EOS (2 February, 1999).