Publications Since 1985

Update: 2007

In Press
Published
    2007

  • Okaya, D., Stern, T., and Davey, F., editors, 2007, A continental plate boundary: tectonics of South Island, New Zealand, AGU Geophysical Monograph 175, 369 p.

  • Okaya, D., Stern, T., Davey, F., Henrys, S., and Cox, S., 2007, Continent-continent collision at the Pacific/Indo-Australian plate boundary: background, motivation, and principal results, in Okaya, D., Stern, T., and Davey, F., A continental plate boundary: tectonics of South Island, New Zealand, AGU Geophysical Monograph 175, 1-18.

  • Christensen, N.I., and Okaya, D., 2007, Compressional and shear wave velocities in South Island NZ rocks and their application to the interpretation of seismological models of the New Zealand crust, in Okaya, D., Stern, T., and Davey, F., A continental plate boundary: tectonics of South Island, New Zealand, AGU Geophysical Monograph 175, 125-158.

  • Stern, T.A., Okaya, D., Kleffmann, S., Scherwath, M., Henrys, S., and Davey, F., 2007, Geophysical exploration of the Alpine fault zone, in Okaya, D., Stern, T., and Davey, F., A continental plate boundary: tectonics of South Island, New Zealand, AGU Geophysical Monograph 175, 209-236.

  • Wu., F., Davey, F., and Okaya, D., 2007, Taiwan and South Island, New Zealand - a comparison of continental collisional orogenies, in Okaya, D., Stern, T., and Davey, F., A continental plate boundary: tectonics of South Island, New Zealand, AGU Geophysical Monograph 175, 331-348.

  • Wu, F., Okaya, D., Sato, H., and Hirata, N., 2007, Interaction between two subducting plates under Tokyo and its possible effects on seismic hazards, GRL, 34, L18301, doi:10.1029/2007GL30763.

    2006

  • Levin, V., Okaya, D., and Park, J., 2006, Cause and effect: Shear wave birefringence in wedge-shaped anisotropic regions, Geophys. J. Int., 168, 275-286.

    2005

  • Albertz, M., Paterson, S.R., and Okaya, D., 2005, A new criterion for fast strain rates during pluton emplacement: Magmatically folded leucocratic dikes in aureoles of the Mount Stuart Batholith, Washington and the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 117, 450-465, doi: 10.1130/B25444.1.

  • Maechling, P., Gupta, V., Gupta, N., Field, E., Okaya, D., and Jordan, T., 2005, Grid Computing In The SCEC Community Modeling Environment, Seis. Res. Letts., 76, 581-587.

  • Maechling, P., Gupta, V., Gupta, N., Field, E., Okaya, D., and Jordan, T., 2005, Seismic hazard analysis using distributed computing in the SCEC Community Modeling Environment, Seis. Res. Letts., 76, 177-181.

  • Melhuish, A., Holbrook, W.S., Davey, F., Okaya, D., and Stern, T., 2005, Crustal and upper mantle seismic structure of the Australian plate, South Island, New Zealand, Tectonophysics, 395, 113-135.

  • Sato, H., Hirata, N., Koketsu, K., Okaya, D., Abe, S., et al., 2005, Earthquake source fault beneath Tokyo, SCIENCE, 309, 15 July 2005, 462-464.

    2004

  • Okaya, D., Rabbel., W., Beilecke, T., and Hasenclever, J., 2004 P-wave material anisotropy of a tecton-metamorphic terrane: An active-source seismic experiment at the KTB super-deep drill hole, southeast Germany, Geophys. Res. Letts., 31, L24703, doi: 10.1029/2004GL020855.

  • Henrys, S.A., Woodward, D.J., Okaya, D., and Yu, J., 2004, Mapping the Moho beneath the Southern Alps continent-continent collision, New Zealand, using wide-angle reflections, Geophys. Res. Letts. 31, L17602, doi:10.1029/2004GL020561.

  • Lutter, W.J., Fuis,G.S., Ryberg,T., Okaya, D.A., Clayton, R.W., Davis, P.M., Prodehl, C., Murphy, J.M., Langenheim, V.E., Benthien, M.L., Godfrey, N.J., Christensen, N.I., Thygesen, K., Thurber, C.H., Simila, G., and Keller, G.R., 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), Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 94, 619-632.

  • Van Avendonk, H.J.A., Holbrook, W.S., Okaya, D., Austin, J.K., Davey, F., Stern, T., 2004, Continental crust under compression: A seismic refraction study of South Island Geophysical Transect I, South Island, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B06302, 10.1029/ 2003JB002790.

    2003

  • Okaya, D., and McEvilly, T., 2003, Elastic wave propagation in anisotropic crustal material possessing arbitrary internal tilt, Geophys. J. Int., 153, 344-358.

  • Okaya, D., Stern, T., Holbrook, S., van Avendonk, H., Davey, F., and Henrys, S., 2003, Imaging a plate boundary using double-sided onshore-offshore seismic profiling, Leading Edge, 22, 256-260.

  • Ben-Zion, Y., Peng, Z., Okaya, D., Seeber, L., Armbruster, J.G., Ozer, N., Michael, A.J., Baris, S., and Aktar, M., 2003, Shallow low velocity fault zone layer in the Karadere-Duzce Branch of the North Anatolian Fault based on analysis of trapped waves, Geophys. J. Int., 152, 699-714.

  • Fuis, G.S., Clayton, R.W., Davis, P.M., Ryberg, T., Lutter, W.J., Okaya, D.A., Hauksson, E., Prodehl., C., Murphy, J.M., Benthien, M.L., Baher, S.A., Kohler, M.D., Thygesen, K., Simila, G., and Keller, G.R., 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.

  • Long, D.T., Cox, S.C., Bannister, S., Gerstenberger, M.C., and Okaya, D., 2003, Upper crustal structure beneath the eastern Southern Alps and the Mackenzie basin, New Zealand, derived from seismic reflection data, New Zeal. Jour. Geol. & Geophys.,46,21-39.

  • Scherwath, M., Stern, T., Davey, F., Okaya, D., Holbrook, W.S., Davies, R., and Kleffmann, S., 2003, Lithospheric structure across oblique continental collision in New Zealand from wide-angle P-wave modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2566, doi:10.1029/2002JB002286.

    2002

  • Okaya, D., and Christensen, N., 2002, Anisotropic Effects of Non-Axial Seismic Wave Propagation in Foliated Crustal Rocks, Geophys. Res. Letts., 10.1029/ 2001GL014285.

  • Okaya, D., Henrys, S., and Stern, T., 2002, "Super-gathers" across the South Island of New Zealand: double-sided onshore-offshore seismic imaging of a plate boundary, Tectonophysics, 355, 247-263.

  • Godfrey, N.J., Fuis, G.S, and Okaya, D.A., 2002, Lower-crustal deformation beneath the central Transverse Ranges, southern California: results from the Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment, J. Geophys. Res. 10.1029/ 2001JB000354.

  • Godfrey, N.J., Christensen, N.I., and Okaya, D.A., 2002, The effect of crustal anisotropy on reflector depth and velocity determination from wide-angle seismic data: a synthetic example based on South Island, New Zealand, Tectonophysics, 355, 145-161.

  • Stern, T., Okaya, D., and Scherwath, M., 2002, Structure and strength of a continental transform from onshore-offshore seismic profiling of South Island, New Zealand, Earth Planets Space, 54, 1011-1019.

    2001

  • Godfrey, N.J., Davey, F., Stern, T.A., and Okaya, D., 2001, Crustal structure and thermal anomalies of the Dunedin Region, South Island, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 30,835-30,848.

  • Hole, J. A., Catchings, R. D., St. Clair, K. C., Rymer, M. J., Okaya, D. A., and Carney, B. J., 2001, Steep-dip seismic imaging of the shallow San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, Science, 294, 1513-1515.

  • Stern, T., Kleffmann, S., Okaya, D., Scherwath, M., and Bannister, S., 2001, Low seismic-wave speeds and enhanced fluid pressure beneath the Southern Alps of New Zealand, Geology. 29, 679-682.

  • Fuis, G.S., Ryberg, T., Godfrey, N., Okaya, D.A., and Murphy, J.M., 2001, Crustal structure and tectonics from the Los Angeles basin to the Mojave Desert, southern CA, Geology, 29, 15-18.

    2000

  • Godfrey, N.J., Christensen, N.I., and Okaya, D.A., 2000, Anisotropy of schists: contributions of crustal anisotropy to active-source seismic experiments and shear-wave splitting observations, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 27991-28007.

  • Stern, T., Molnar, P., Okaya, D., and Eberhart-Phillips, D., 2000, P-wave teleseismic delays and lithospheric thickening beneath the central South Island, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 21615-21631.

  • ten Brink, U.S., Zhang, J., Brocher, T.M., Okaya, D.A., Klitgord, K., and Fuis, G., 2000, The Inner California Borderlands as a possible metamorphic core complex: seismic and gravity evidence, J. Geophs. Res., 105, 5835-5857.

    1990s

  • Molnar, P., Anderson, H., Audoine, E., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Gledhill, K., Klosko, E., McEvilly, T., Okaya, D., Savage, M., Stern, T., and Wu, F., 1999, Continuous deformation versus faulting through continental lithosphere: tests using New Zealand as a laboratory for the study of continental dynamics, Science, 286, 516-519.

  • Davey, F.J., Henyey, T., Holbrook, W.S., Okaya, D., Stern, T.A., Melhuish, A., Henrys, S., Eberhart-Phillips, D., McEvilly, T., Urhammer, R., Anderson, H., Wu, F., Jiracek, G., Wannamaker, P., Caldwell, G., and Christensen, N., 1998, Preliminary results from a geophysical study across a modern, continent- continent collisional plate boundary - the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Tectonophysics, 288, 221-235.

  • Kruger, J.M., Faulds, J.E., Reynolds, S.J., and Okaya, D.A., 1998, Seismic reflection evidence for detachment polarity beneath a major accommodation zone, west-central Arizona, Geol. Soc. Am. Special Paper 323, 89-113.

  • Kleffmann, S., Davey, F., Melhuish, A., Okaya, D., and Stern, T., 1998, Crustal structure in the Central South Island from the Lake Pukaki seismic experiment, New Zeal. Jour. Geol. & Geophys., 41, 39-49.

  • Yoshinobu, A., Okaya, D., and Paterson, S., 1998, Modeling the thermal evolution of fault-controlled magma emplacement models: implications for the solidification of plutons, J. Structural Geology, 20, 1205-1208.

  • Faulds., J.E., Schreiber, B.C., Reynolds, S.J., Gonzalez, L.A., and Okaya, D.A., 1997, Origin and paleogeography of an immense, nonmarine Miocene salt deposit in the Basin and Range (western USA), J. Geology, 105, 19-36.

  • Larkin, S., Levander, A., Okaya, D., and Goff, J., 1996, A deterministic and stochastic velocity model for the Salton Trough/Basin and Range transition zone and constraints on magmatism during rifting, J. Geophs. Res, 101, 27883-27898.

  • Okaya, D., 1995, Spectral properties of the earth's contribution to seismic resolution, Geophysics, 60, 241-251.

  • Okaya, D.A., Christensen, N., Stanley, D., and Stern, T., 1995, Crustal anistropy in the vicinity of the Alpine Fault zone, South Island, New Zealand, New Zeal. Jour. Geol. & Geophys., 38, 579-583.

  • Chakraborty, A., and Okaya, D., 1995, Frequency-time decomposition of seismic data using wavelet based methods, Geophysics, 60, 1906-1916.

  • Davey, F., Henyey, T., Kleffman, S., Melhuish, A., Okaya, D., Stern, T., and Woodward, D., 1995, A possible crustal seismic reflection from the Alpine fault, New Zeal. Jour. Geol. & Geophys., 38, 601-604.

  • Malin, P., Goodman, E., Henyey, T., Li, Y.G., Okaya, D., and Saleeby, J., 1995, Significance of seismic reflections beneath a tilted exposure of deep continental crust, Tehachapi Mountains, California, J. Geophys. Res, 100, 2069-2087.

  • Stephenson, W.J., Rockwell, T., Odum, J., Shedlock, K.M., and Okaya, D., 1995, Seismic reflection and geomorphic characterization of the onshore Palos Verdes fault zone, Los Angeles, California, Seis. Soc. Am. Bull., 85, 943-950.

  • Okaya, D., Karageorgi, E., McEvilly, T., and Malin, P., 1992, Removing vibrator-induced correlation artifacts by filtering in frequency-uncorrelated time space, Geophysics, 57, 916-926.

  • Thompson, G. A., R. Catchings, E. Goodwin, S. Holbrook, C. Jarchow, J. McCarthy, C. Mann, and D. Okaya, 1990, Geophysics of the western Basin and Range Province, in Geophysical framework of the continental United States, L. C. Pakiser and W. D. Mooney, eds., AGU, 177-204.

    1980s

  • Okaya, D. A., and Jarchow, C. M., 1989, Extraction of deep crustal reflections from shallow Vibroseis data using extended correlation, Geophysics, 54, 555-562.

  • Flueh, E. R., and Okaya, D. A., 1989, Comparison of near-vertical and intermediate-offset (12-31 km) seismic reflection data west of the Whipple Mountain metamorphic core complex, SE California, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 625-636.

  • Goodwin, E. B., Thompson, G. A., and Okaya, D. A., 1989, Seismic identification of basement reflectors: the Bagdad reflection sequence in the Basin and Range Province - Colorado Plateau Transition zone, Arizona, Tectonics, 8, 821-831.

  • Wang, C. Y., Okaya, D., Ruppert, C., Guo, T., Davis, G. A., Zhong, Z., and Wenk, H.-R., 1989, Seismic reflectivity of the Whipple Mountain shear zone in southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 2989-3005.

  • Okaya, D. A., and Zvi Ben-Avraham, 1987, Structure of the continental margin of Southwestern Panama, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 99, 792-802.

  • Henyey, T. E., Okaya, D. A., Frost, E. G., and McEvilly, T. V., 1987, CALCRUST (1985) seismic reflection survey, Whipple Mountains detachment terrane, California: an overview, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc, 89, 111-118.

  • Okaya, D. A., and G. A. Thompson, 1986, Involvement of deep crust in extension of Basin and Range province, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 208, 15-22.

  • Okaya, D. A., 1986, Seismic profiling of the lower crust: Dixie Valley, Nevada, in AGU Geodynamics Vol. 14: Reflection Seismology: the Continental Crust, 269-280.

  • Okaya, D. A., and E. G. Frost, 1986, Application of seismic reflection profiles to structural analysis in mineral exploration, in Frontiers in geology and ore deposits of Arizona and the Southwest, Barbara Beatty and P. A. K. Wilkinson, eds., Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. XVI, 127-136.

  • Frost, E. G., and D. A. Okaya, 1986, Application of seismic reflection profiles to tectonic analysis in mineral exploration, in Frontiers in geology and ore deposits of Arizona and the Southwest, Barbara Beatty and P. A. K. Wilkinson, eds., Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. XVI, 137-152.

  • Okaya, D. A., and G. A. Thompson, 1985, Geometry of Cenozoic extensional faulting, Dixie Valley, Nevada, Tectonics, 4, 107-126.

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