Seismology at Tulane
Tracking fluids and melts in Earth's interior using seismic waves
Liu, T., Liang, C., Aiken, J. M., Wu, W., & Sohn, R. (2026). Enigmatic harmonic tremor in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman: Evidence for subsurface gas flow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131, PDF
Liu, T., Chin, E. J., & Shearer, P. M. (2023). Strong Physical Contrasts across Two Mid-lithosphere Discontinuities beneath the Northwestern United States: Evidence for Cratonic Mantle Metasomatism. AGU Advances, 4, PDF
Hao, S., Shearer, P. M., & Liu, T. (2023). The upper‐mantle structure beneath Alaska imaged by teleseismic S‐wave reverberations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 128, PDF
Liu, T., Gong, J., Fan, W., & Lin, G. (2023). In-situ Vp/Vs reveals fault-zone material variation at the westernmost Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, PDF
Klemperer, S. L., Zhao, P., Whyte, C. J., Darrah, T. H., Crossey, L. J., Karlstrom, K. E., Liu, T., Winn, C., Hilton, D. R., Ding, L. Limited underthrusting of India below Tibet: 3He/4He analysis of thermal springs locates the mantle suture in continental collision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(12), PDF
Liu, T., & Shearer, P. M. (2022). Likely P-to-S conversion at the core-mantle boundary extracted from array processing of noise records. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(7), PDF
Liu, T., & Shearer, P. M. (2021). Complicated lithospheric structure beneath the contiguous US revealed by teleseismic S reflections. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(5), PDF
Liu, T., Klemperer, S. L., Yu, C., & Ning, J. (2020). Post-critical SsPmp and its applications to virtual deep seismic sounding (VDSS)—3: back-projection imaging of the crust-mantle boundary in a heterogeneous lithosphere, theory and application. Geophysical Journal International, 223(3), PDF.
Sleep, N. & Liu, T. (2019). Nonlinear suppression of high-frequency S waves by the near-field velocity pulse with reference to the 2002 Denali earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(1), PDF
Liu, T., Klemperer, S. L., Ferragut, G., & Yu, C. (2019). Post-critical SsPmp and its applications to Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS)–2: 1-D imaging of the crust/mantle and joint constraints with receiver functions., . Geophysical Journal International, 219(2), PDF
Liu, T., Klemperer, S. L., Yu, C., & Ning, J. (2018). Post-critical SsPmp and its applications to Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS)—1: sensitivity to lithospheric 1-D and 2-D structure. Geophysical Journal International, 215(2), PDF
Tao, K., Liu, T., Ning, J., & Niu, F. (2014). Estimating sedimentary and crustal structure using wavefield continuation: theory, techniques and applications. Geophysical Journal International, 197(1), PDF