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Sonja Spasojević (Kisin)

Staff Scientist, California Institute of Technology


Publications:

1. Spasojević, S., L. Liu, M. Gurnis, and R. D. Müller (2008), The case for dynamic subsidence of the U.S. east coast since the Eocene, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L08305, doi:10.1029/2008GL033511.

2. Spasojević, S., and R. W. Clayton (2008), Crustal structure and apparent tectonic underplating from receiver function analysis in South Island, New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B04307, doi:10.1029/2007JB005166.

3. Liu, L., S. Spasojević, and M. Gurnis (2008), Reconstructing Farallon Plate Subduction beneath North America back to the Late Cretaceous, Science, 322, doi:10.1126/science.1162921 .

4. Spasojević, S., L. Liu, and M. Gurnis (2009), Adjoint models of mantle convection with seismic, plate motion and stratigraphic constraints: North America since the Late Cretaceous, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q05W02, doi:10.1029/2008GC002345.

5. Sutherland, R., Spasojević, S., and M. Gurnis (2010), Mantle upwelling after Gondwana subduction death explains anomalous topography and subsidence histories of eastern New Zealand and West Antarctica, Geology, 38 (2), 155-158.

6. Gurnis, M., M. Turner, L. DiCaprio, S. Spasojevic, R.D. Müller, J. Boyden, M. Seton, V.C. Manea, and D.J. Bower (2010), Global Plate Reconstructions with Continuously Closing Plates, Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, in review.

7. Spasojevic, S., M. Gurnis, and R. Sutherland (2010), Inferring mantle properties with an evolving dynamic model of the Antarctica-New Zealand region from the Late Cretaceous, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, B05402, doi:10.1029/2009JB006612.

8. Spasojevic, S., M. Gurnis, and R. Sutherland (2010) , New mode of mantle upwelling above lower mantle slabs predicts the global geoid low, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo855.

Theses:

3. Spasojevic, S. (2010), Dynamics of long-term sea-level change and vertical motion of continents, Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of Technology.

2. Kisin, S. (2003), Tomographic Velocity Model Building: Application to Vinton Dome VSP Data, M.S. Thesis, University of Houston.

1. Kisin, S. (2003), Prestack seismic migration, B.S. Honors Thesis, University of Belgrade.





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