Geophysical research utilizes analytical and numerical tools to quantify tectonic processes. Basic geophysical research lays the ground for understanding of Earth processes, which affect natural hazards and resource estimation.
Mid-plate volcanoes load tectonic plates and cause the plates to flex. Plate flexure, in turn, can modify the volcanic eruptions. In transform plate boundaries, the majority of relative plate motion takes place by lateral displacement between two tectonic plates. Read ten Brink and others research papers.
- Queen Charlotte Fault (SE Alaska-Canada)
- The Dead Sea Transform
- California
At rift zones the continental crust and lithosphere are subjected to extensional stresses, which result in the formation of sedimentary basins. These basins sometime accumulate natural resources of oil, gas and water. Read ten Brink and others research papers.
- Basins along the Dead Sea Transform
- Baikal rift and Cayman Trough
- Rift-margin uplift: The Transantarctic Mountains
In subduction plate boundaries, one tectonic plate sinks under another tectonic plate. The process of sinking is often accompanied by large earthquakes, volcanism, and the building of mountains. Read ten Brink and others research papers.
- Northern Caribbean subduction zone around U.S. territories
- Cascadia subduction zone in the northwestern U.S.
Electronic Media
Podcast Title: Science in the Middle East New York Academy of Sciences - Science and the City. June 20, 2008 Format: MP3, 11.8 MByte Running Time: 00:25:08
Webinar Lecture Title: Size Distribution of Submarine Landslides and Its Implication to Tsunami Hazards Offshore Geohazard University Running Time: 00:12:00 http://www.offshoregeohazards.org/ogu/webinars/Size_Distribution_Submar…
Lecture Title: Assessing Tsunami Hazards to U.S. East Coast Using Relationships Between Submarine Landslides and Earthquakes Offshore Geohazard University Running Time: 00:21:30 http://www.offshoregeohazards.org/ogu/webinars/Assessing_Tsunami_Hazard…
Lecture Title: Deformation of the Pacific-North-American plate boundary at queen Charlotte Fault: The possible role of rheology USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Seminars, October 2017.Running Time:00:45:00 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/contactus/menlo/seminars/1100
Educational Film Title: 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, by Joram ten Brink For a DVD copy of the movie, please contact: Dr. Uri ten Brink, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Science Center 384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543 1-508-457-2396; utenbrink@usgs.gov
Publications associated with Uri ten Brink's tectonic processes research.
Plate deformation at depth under northern California: Slab gap or stretched slab?
Synthesis of crustal seismic structure and implications for the concept of a slab gap beneath Coastal California
Anatomy of the Dead Sea transform: Does it reflect continuous changes in plate motion?
Comment on "New evidence of magmatic diapirs in the intermediate crust under the Dead Sea, Israel" by Nitzan Rabinowitz, Jean Steinberg, and Yossi Mart
New seismic images of the cascadia subduction zone from cruise SO 108-ORWELL
A new view into the Cascadia subduction zone and volcanic arc: Implications for earthquake hazards along the Washington margin
Uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains and the bedrock beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet
Three-dimensional models of deformation near strike-slip faults
Crustal structure of a transform plate boundary: San Francisco Bay and the central California continental margin
Gravity field over the Sea of Galilee: Evidence for a composite basin along a transform fault
EAST93: Geophysical traverse from the Transantarctic Mountains to the Wilkes Basin, East Antarctica
Three-dimensional modeling of pull-apart basins: implications for the tectonics of the Dead Sea Basin
Geophysical research utilizes analytical and numerical tools to quantify tectonic processes. Basic geophysical research lays the ground for understanding of Earth processes, which affect natural hazards and resource estimation.
Mid-plate volcanoes load tectonic plates and cause the plates to flex. Plate flexure, in turn, can modify the volcanic eruptions. In transform plate boundaries, the majority of relative plate motion takes place by lateral displacement between two tectonic plates. Read ten Brink and others research papers.
- Queen Charlotte Fault (SE Alaska-Canada)
- The Dead Sea Transform
- California
At rift zones the continental crust and lithosphere are subjected to extensional stresses, which result in the formation of sedimentary basins. These basins sometime accumulate natural resources of oil, gas and water. Read ten Brink and others research papers.
- Basins along the Dead Sea Transform
- Baikal rift and Cayman Trough
- Rift-margin uplift: The Transantarctic Mountains
In subduction plate boundaries, one tectonic plate sinks under another tectonic plate. The process of sinking is often accompanied by large earthquakes, volcanism, and the building of mountains. Read ten Brink and others research papers.
- Northern Caribbean subduction zone around U.S. territories
- Cascadia subduction zone in the northwestern U.S.
Electronic Media
Podcast Title: Science in the Middle East New York Academy of Sciences - Science and the City. June 20, 2008 Format: MP3, 11.8 MByte Running Time: 00:25:08
Webinar Lecture Title: Size Distribution of Submarine Landslides and Its Implication to Tsunami Hazards Offshore Geohazard University Running Time: 00:12:00 http://www.offshoregeohazards.org/ogu/webinars/Size_Distribution_Submar…
Lecture Title: Assessing Tsunami Hazards to U.S. East Coast Using Relationships Between Submarine Landslides and Earthquakes Offshore Geohazard University Running Time: 00:21:30 http://www.offshoregeohazards.org/ogu/webinars/Assessing_Tsunami_Hazard…
Lecture Title: Deformation of the Pacific-North-American plate boundary at queen Charlotte Fault: The possible role of rheology USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Seminars, October 2017.Running Time:00:45:00 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/contactus/menlo/seminars/1100
Educational Film Title: 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, by Joram ten Brink For a DVD copy of the movie, please contact: Dr. Uri ten Brink, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Science Center 384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543 1-508-457-2396; utenbrink@usgs.gov
Publications associated with Uri ten Brink's tectonic processes research.