Refereed Publications of Robert W. Clayton

Updated 2009/04/23

In Press

Chen, T. and R. Clayton, (2009), Seismic Attenuation Structure in central Mexico: Image of a focussed high-attenuation zone in the mantle wedge, (2009), J. Geophys. Res., doi:10:1029/2008JB005964, in press. PDF

Published

Song, T. A., D. V. Helmberger, M. R. Brudzinski, R. W. Clayton, P. Davis, X. Perez-Campos, S. K. Singh, (2009), Subducting Slab Unltra-Slow Layer Coincident with Silent Earthquakes in Southern Mexico, Science, 324, 502 (2009), doi:10,1126/science.1167595. PDF Sup-PDF
Lukac, M., P. Davis, R. Clayton, D. Estrin (2009), Recovering Temporal Integrity with Data Driven Time Synchronization, 8th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. PDF
Lukac, M., I. Stubailo, R. Guy, P. Davis, V. Aguilar, R. Clayton, D.Estrin, First-class meta-data: a step towards a highly reliable wireless network in Peru, 8th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. PDF
Perez-Campos, X., Y. Kim, A. Husker, P. M. Davis, R. W. Clayton, A. Iglesias, J. F. Pacheco, S. K. Singh, V. C. Manea, and M. Gurnis (2008), Horizontal subduction and and truncation of the cocos plate beneath Central Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L18303, doi:10.1029/2008GL035127 PDF
Vriend, N. M., M. L. Hunt, R. W. Clayton, C. E. Brennen, K. S. Brantley, and A. Ruiz-Angulo (2008), Reply to comment on solving the mystery of booming sand dunes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08307, doi:10.1029/2008GL033202. PDF comment
Spasojevic', S., and R. W. Clayton (2008), Crustal structure and apparent tectonic underplating from receiver function analysis in South Island, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B04307, doi:10.1029/2007JB005166. PDF
Payero, J. S., V. Kostoglodov, N. Shapiro, T. Mikumo, A. Iglesias, X. Perez-Campos, and R. W. Clayton (2008), Non-volcanic tremor observed in the Mexican subduction zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L07305, doi:10.1029/2007GL032877. PDF GRL_cover
Ai, Huirong-Anita, J. M. Stock, R. Clayton, and B. Luyendyk (2008), Vertical Tectonics of the High Plateau Region, Manihiki Plateau, Western Pacific, from Seismic Stratigraphy, Mar. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1007/s11001-008-9042-0. PDF
Kedar, Sharon, M. Longuet-Higgins, F. Webb, N. Graham, R. Clayton, C. Johnson (2008), The origin of deep ocean microseisms in the North Atlantic Ocean, Proc. R. Soc. A, 2091 (March), pp777-893 doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.0277. PDF
Persaud, P., X. Perez-Campos, and R. Clayton (2007), Crustal thickness variations in the margins of the Gulf of California from receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., 170, 2, 687-699, doi:10.1111/j.1365-03412.x PDF
Davis, P. and R. Clayton, (2007), Application of the telegraph model to coda Q variations in southern California, J. of Geophys. Res, 112, B09302, doi:10.1029/2006JB004542. PDF
Vriend, N. M., M. L. Hunt, R. W. Clayton, C. E. Brennen, K. S. Brantley, and A. Ruiz- Angulo, (2007), Solving the mystery of booming sand dunes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16306, doi:10.1029/2007GL030276. PDF (Note: see comment and reply above)
Downey, N., J. M. Stock, R. W. Clayton, and S. C. Cande, (2007), History of the Cretaceous Osbourn Spreading Center, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B04102 doi:10.1029/2006JB004550 PDF
Yan, Z., and R. W. Clayton (2007), A Notch Structure on the Moho beneath the Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, Earth Planet. Sci Lett., doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.017. PDF
Yan, Z., and R. W. Clayton (2007), Regional mapping of the crustal structure in southern California from receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B05311, doi:10.1029/2006JB004622. PDF
Downey, N. J., and R. W. Clayton (2007), A ridgelet transform method for constraining tectonic models via abyssal-hill morphology, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q03004, doi:10.1029/2006GC001440. PDF
Yan Z., Clayton R.W. and Saleeby J., (2005), Seismic Refraction Evidence of Steep Faults cutting highly attenuated continental basement in Central Transverse Ranges, California, Geophys. J. Int., 651-666. PDF
Teresa Baker, Robert Granat, and Robert W. Clayton, (2005), Real-time Earthquake Location Using Kirchhoff Reconstruction, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 95: 699 - 707. PDF
W. J. Lutter, G. S. Fuis, T. Ryberg, D. A. Okaya, R. W. Clayton, P. M. Davis, C. Prodehl, J. M. Murphy, V. E. Langenheim, M. L. Benthien, N. J. Godfrey, N. I. Christensen, K. Thygesen, C. H. Thurber, G. Simila, and G. R. Keller (2004), Upper Crustal Structure from the Santa Monica Mountains to the Sierra Nevada, Southern California: Tomographic Results from the Los Angeles Regional Seismic Experiment, Phase II (LARSE II), Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94: 619 - 632. PDF
Fuis, G. S., R. W. Clayton, P. M. Davis, T. Ryberg, W. J. Lutter, D. A. Okaya, E. Hauksson, C. Prodehl, J. M. Murphy, M. L. Benthien, S. A. Baher, M. D. Kohler, K. Thygesen, G. Simila, and G. R. Keller, (2003), Fault systems of the 1971 San Fernando and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, southern California: Relocated aftershocks and seismic images from LARSE II, Geology, 31, 171-174. PDF
Nazareth J. J., R. W. Clayton, (2004), Crustal structure of the Borderland-Continent Transition Zone of southern California adjacent to Los Angeles, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B8), doi:10.1029/2001JB000223, 2003. PDF
Roger L. Larson, Robert A. Pockalny, Richard F. Viso, Elisabetta Erba, Lewis J. Abrams, Bruce P. Luyendyk, Joann M. Stock, and Robert W. Clayton, (2002), Mid-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Tongareva triple junction in the southwestern Pacific Basin, Geology, 30, 1, 67-70. PDF
Monica D. Kohler, Harold Magistrale and R. W. Clayton, (2003), Mantle heterogeneities and the SCEC Three-Dimensional Velocity Model Version 3, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 93, 757- 774. PDF
Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2002), Equivalent medium Parameters For Numerical Modeling in media with near-surface low-velocities, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 92, 2, 711-722. PDF
Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2002), A Full Waveform Test of the Southern California Velocity Model by the Reciprocity Method, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159, 1691-1706. PDF
Egill Hauksson, Patrick Small, Katrin Hafner, Robert Busby, Robert Clayton, James Goltz, Tom Heaton, Kate Hutton, Hiroo Kanamori, Jascha Polet, Doug Given, Lucile M. Jones and David Wald, (2001), Southern California Seismic Network: Caltech/USGS Element of TriNet 1997-2001, Seism. Res. Lett, 72, 6, 690-704. PDF
Katrin Hafner and Robert W. Clayton, (2001), The Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC), Seism. Res. Lett, 72, 6, 705-711. PDF
Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2005), Simulating Strong Ground Motion From Complex Sources By Reciprocal Green functions, Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, 49, 3, doi:10.1007/s11200-005-0013-5. PDF
Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2001), A Reciprocity method for multiple-source simulations, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 91, 3, 553-560. PDF
Leo Eisner and Robert W. Clayton, (2002), A Full Waveform Test of the Southern California Velocity Model by the Reciprocity Method, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159,7-8, pp. 1691-1706, doi:10.1007/s00024-002-8703-1. PDF
Harold Magistrale, Steven Day, Robert W. Clayton, and Robert Graves, (2000), The SCEC Southern California reference 3D seismic velocity model Version 2, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. Vol 90, 6B, pp. S65-76. PDF
William R. Keller, Don L. Anderson and Robert W. Clayton, (2000), Resolution of tomographic models of the model beneath Iceland, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27 (24), 3993-3996, doi:1029/2000GL011798. PDF
Jane Heineman, Joann Stock, Robert W. Clayton, Katrin Hafner, Steve Cande and Carol Raymond, (1999), Constraints on the proposed Marie Byrd Land-Bellingshausen plate boundary from seismic reflection data, J. Geophys. Res., 104, B11, 25321-25330. PDF
Brian Wernicke, Robert Clayton, Mihai Ducea, Craig H. Jones, Stephen Park, Stan Ruppert, Jason Saleeby, J. Kent Snow, Livia Squires, Moritz Fliedner, George Jiracek, Randy Keller, Simon Klemperer, James Leutgert, Peter Malin, Kate Miller, Walter Mooney, Howard Oliver, and Robert Phinney, (1996), Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada, Science, 271, 190-193. PDF
Linda R. Rowan and Robert W. Clayton, (1993), The Three-Dimensional Structure of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, From Travel Time Tomography, J. Geophys. Res, 98, 4355-4375. PDF
Raymond Hide, Robert W. Clayton, Bradford H. Hager, Mary Ann Spieth, and Curt V. Voorhies, (1993), Topographic core-mantle coupling and fluctuations in the Earth's rotation, in Relating geophysical structures and processes. The Jeffreys volume (edited by K. Aki and R. Dmowska), Geophys. Monog. Am. Geophys. Un., 76, 107-120. PDF
J. Huw Davies, Olafur Gudmundsson and Robert W. Clayton, (1992), Spectra of mantle shear wave velocity structure, Geophys. J. Int., 108, 865-882. PDF
Robert W. Graves and Robert W. Clayton, (1992), Modeling Path Effects in Three-Dimensional Basin Structures, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 82, 81-103. PDF
Christof Stork and Robert W. Clayton, (1992), Using constraints to address the instabilities of automated prestack velocity analysis, Geophysics, 57, 404-419. PDF
Olafur Gudmundsson and Robert W. Clayton, (1991), A 2-D synthetic study of global traveltime tomography, Geophys. J. Int., 106, 53-65. PDF
Christof Stork and Robert W. Clayton, (1991), Linear aspects of tomographic velocity analysis, Geophysics, 56, 483-495. PDF
Eugene D. Humphreys and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), Tomographic Image of the Southern California Mantle, J. Geophys. Res, 95, pp. 19,725-l9,746. PDF
Robert Graves and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), Modelling Acoustic Waves with Paraxial Extrapolators, Geophysics, 55, 306-319. PDF
Olafur Gudmundsson, J. Huw Davies, and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), Stochastic analysis of global travel time data: Mantle heterogeneity and random errors in the ISC data, Geophys. J. Int., 102, 25-43. PDF
Zhou, H.-W. and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), P and S Wave Travel-Time Inversions for Subducting Slabs under the Island Arcs of the Northwest Pacific, J. Geophys. Res, 95, 6829-6852. PDF
Zhou, H.-W., Don L. Anderson and Robert W. Clayton, (1990), Modeling of residual spheres for subduction zone earthquakes in the northwest Pacific, J. Geophys. Res, 95, 6799-6927. PDF
Hager, B. H. and R. W. Clayton, (1989), Constraints on the structure of mantle convection using seismic observations, flow models, and the geoid, in: R. W. Peltier (ed.) Mantle Convection; plate tectonics and global dynamics, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York, 657-763. bigPDF-28Mb
Eugene Humphreys and Robert W. Clayton, (1988), Adaptation of back projection tomography to seismic travel time problems, J. Geophys. Res, 93, 1073-1085. PDF
Ronan LeBras and Robert W. Clayton, (1988), An iterative inversion of the back-scattered acoustic waves, Geophysics, 53, 501-508. PDF
John N. Louie, Robert W. Clayton, and Ronan J. LeBras, (1988), 3-D imaging of steeply dipping structure near the San Andreas fault, Parkfield, California, Geophysics, 53, 176-185. PDF
Phyllis Ho-Liu, Hiroo Kanamori and Robert W. Clayton, (1987), Applications of attenuation tomography to Imperial Valley and Coso-Indian Wells Region, Southern California, J. Geophys. Res, 93, 10501-10520. PDF
John Louie and Robert W. Clayton, (1987), The nature of deep crustal structures in the Mojave Desert, California, Geophys J., Roy. astr. Soc., 89, 125-1327. PDF
Marianne C. Walck and Robert W. Clayton, (1987), P-Wave Velocity Variations in the Coso Region, California, Derived from Local Earthquake Travel Times, J. Geophys. Res, 92, 393-405. PDF
John Vidale and Robert W. Clayton, (1986), A Stable Free-Surface Boundary Condition for 2D Elastic Finite-Difference Wave Simulation, Geophysics, 51, 2247-2249. PDF
Arthur Frankel and Robert W. Clayton, (1986), Finite difference simulations of seismic scattering: Implications for the propagation of short-period seismic waves in the crust and models of crustal heterogeneity, J. Geophys. Res, 91, 6465-6489. PDF
Thomas M. Hearn and Robert W. Clayton, (1986), Lateral Velocity Variations in Southern California: 1. Results For The Upper Crust From Pg-Waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 76, 2, 495-509. PDF
Thomas M. Hearn and Robert W. Clayton, (1986), Lateral Velocity Variations in Southern California: 2. Results For The Lower Crust From Pn-Waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 76, 2, 511-520. PDF
John Vidale, Donald H. Helmberger and Robert W. Clayton, (1985), Finite-Difference Synthetic Seismograms for SH-waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 75, 6, 1765-1782. PDF
Bradford H. Hager, Robert W. Clayton, Adam Dziewonski, Mark Richards, and Robert Comer, (1985), Lower mantle heterogeniety, dynamic topography and the geoid, Nature, 313, 541-545. PDF
Arthur Frankel and Robert W. Clayton, (1984), A finite difference simulation of wave propagation in two-dimensional random media, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 74, 6, 2167-2186. PDF
John Fawcett and Robert W. Clayton, (1984), Tomographic reconstruction of velocity anomalies, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 74, 6, 2201-2219. PDF
Marianne C. Walck and Robert W. Clayton, (1984), Analysis of upper mantle structure using wave field continuation of P waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 74, 5, 1703-1719. PDF
Eugene Humphreys, Robert W. Clayton, and Bradford H. Hager, (1984), A Tomographic Image Of Mantle Structure Beneath Southern California, Geophys. Res Let, 11, 7, 625-627. PDF
George A. McMechan, Robert W. Clayton and Walter D. Mooney, (1982), Application of Wave Field Continuation to the Inversion of Refraction Data, J. Geophys. Res, 87, 927-935. PDF
Robert W. Clayton and Robert H. Stolt, (1981), A Born-WKBJ Inversion Method For Acoustic Reflection Data, Geophysics, 46, 1559-1567. PDF
Robert W. Clayton and George A. McMechan, (1980), Inversion of Refraction Data By Wave Field Continuation, Geophysics, 46, 860-868. PDF
Robert W. Clayton and Bjorn Engquist, (1980), Absorbing Boundary Conditions For Wave-Equation Migration, Geophysics, 45, 895-904. PDF
L.R. Lines, R.W. Clayton, and T.J. Ulrych, (1980), Impulse Response Models For Noisy Vibroseis Data, Geophys. Prosp., 28, 49-59. PDF
L.R. Lines and Robert W. Clayton, (1977), A New Approach To Vibroseis Deconvolution, Geophys. Prosp., 3, 417-433. PDF
Robert W. Clayton and Bjorn Engquist, (1977), Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Acoustic and Elastic Wave Equations, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 67, 1529-1540. PDF
Robert W. Clayton and Tad J. Ulrych, (1977), A Restoration Method For Impulsive Functions, IEEE Trans. Info Th., 2, 262-264. PDF
Tad J. Ulrych and Robert W. Clayton, (1976), Time Series Modelling and Maximum Entropy, Phys. Earth & Plan. Int., 12, 180-200. PDF
Tad J. Ulrych and Robert W. Clayton, (1976), Comment on "Second-Order Statistical Structure of Geomagnetic Field Reversals" by P.S. Naidu, J. Geophys.Res, 81, 1033-1034. PDF
Robert W. Clayton and Ralph A. Wiggins, (1976), Source Shape Estimation and Deconvolution of Teleseismic Bodywaves, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 47, 151-177. PDF
R.W. Clayton, B. McClary & R.A. Wiggins, (1976), Comments on the paper ``Phase Distortion and Hilbert Transformation in Multiply Reflected and Refracted Body Waves'' by G.L. Choy and P.G. Richards, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 66, 325-326. PDF