Publications

Chuck Ammon, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Saint Louis University


Manuscripts

Ammon, C. J., J. Zucca and P. Kasameyer, An S-to-P Converted phase recorded near Long Valley/Mono Craters Region, California, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 17,721-17,727, 1989.

Ammon, C. J., G. E. Randall and G. Zandt, On the non-uniqueness of receiver function inversions, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 15303-15318, 1990.

Ammon, C. J., The isolation of receiver effects from teleseismic P waveforms, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 81, 2504-2510, 1991.

Ammon, C. J., and J. E. Vidale, Tomography without Rays, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 83, 509-528,1993.

Ammon, C. J., and G. Zandt, The receiver structure beneath the southern Mojave Block, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 83, 737-755,1993.

Ammon, C. J., A. A. Velasco, T. Lay, Rapid estimation of rupture directivity: Application to the 1992 Landers (Ms = 7.4) and Cape Mendocino (Ms = 7.2) California Earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, 20, 97-100, 1993.

Ammon, C. J., T. Lay, A. A. Velasco and J. E. Vidale, Routine estimation of earthquake source complexity: the October 18, 1992 Colombian earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 84, 1266-1271, 1994.

Ammon, C. J., R. B. Herrmann, C. A. Langston and H. Benz, Source parameters of the January 16, 1994 Wyomissing Hills, Pennsylvania earthquakes, Seism. Res. Letters, submitted, 1996.

Langston, C. A., K. P. Furlong, K. S. Vogfjord, R. H. Clouser and C. J. Ammon, Analysis of teleseismic body waves radiated from the Loma Prieta Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Letters, 17, 1405-1408, 1990.

Langston, C. A., and C. J. Ammon, Scattering of teleseismic body waves along the Hayward-Calaveras Fault system, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 81, 576-591, 1991.

Lay, T., C. J. Ammon, A. A. Velasco, J. Ritsema, T. C. Wallace and H. J. Patton, Near-real time seismology: rapid analysis of earthquake faulting, GSA Today, 4, 132-134, 1994.

Lay, T., J. Ritsema, C. J. Ammon, T. C. Wallace, Rapid source-mechanism analysis of the April 29, 1993 Cataract Creek (Mw = 5.3), northern Arizona earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 84, 451-457,1994.

Mangino, S. G., G. Zandt and C. J. Ammon, The receiver structure beneath Mina, Nevada, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 83, 542-560,1993.

McNamara, D. E., W. R. Walter, T. J. Owens and C. J. Ammon, Upper mantle velocity structure beneath the Tibetan Plateau from Pn travel time tomography, J. Geophys. Res., submitted, 1995.

Parsons, T., J. McCarthy, W. M. Kohler, C. J. Ammon, H. M. Benz, J. A. Hole and E. E. Criley, The crustal structure of the Colorado Plateau, Arizona: Application of new long-offset seismic data analysis techniques, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 1996.

Randall, G. R. , C. J. Ammon and T. J. Owens (1994). Moment-tensor estimation using regional seismograms from a Tibetan Plateau portable network deployment, Geophys. Res. Letters, 22, 1665-1668, 1995.

Velasco, A. A., C. J. Ammon and T. Lay, Recent large earthquakes near Cape Mendocino and in the Gorda Plate: Broadband source time functions, fault orientations, rupture complexities, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 711-728, 1994.

Velasco, A. A., C. J. Ammon and T. Lay, Empirical Green function deconvolution of broadband surface waves: Rupture directivity of the 1992 Landers, California (Mw = 7.3) earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 84, 735-750, 1994.

Velasco, A. A., C. J. Ammon, T. Lay and J. Zhang, Imaging a slow bilateral rupture with broadband seismic waves: the September 2, 1992 Nicaragua Tsunami Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Letters, 21, 2629-2632, 1994.

Velasco, A. A., C. J. Ammon and T. Lay, Source time function complexity of the great 1989 Macquarie Ridge earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 3989-4009, 1995.

Zandt, G., and C. J. Ammon, Continental Crustal composition constrained by measurements of crustal Poisson's ratio, Nature, 374, 152-154, 1995.

Zandt, G., S. L. Beck, S. R. Ruppert, C. J. Ammon, D. Rock, E. Minaya, T. C. Wallace and P. G. Silver, Anomalous crust of the Bolivian Altiplano, central Andes: Constraints from broadband regional seismic waveforms, Geophys. Res. Letters, in press, 1996.


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