Peer Reviewed Articles


Bollmann, T.A., S. van der Lee, A.W. Frederisksen, et al. (2019), P-wave Teleseismic Traveltime Tomography of the North American Midcontinent, , J. Geophys. Res., tbd, doi:10.1029/2018JB016627.

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Chichester, B., C. Rychert, et al. (2018) Seismic imaging of the North American Mid-continent Rift using S-to-P receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 123 , doi:10.1029/2018JB016060.


Zhang, H., S. van der Lee, et al. (2016), Distinct crustal structure of the North American Midcontinent Rift from P wave receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB013244. 


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Ola, O., A. W. Frederiksen, et al. Anisotropic zonation in the lithosphere of Central North America: Influence of a strong cratonic lithosphere on the Mid-Continent Rift, Tectonophysics 683 (2016): 367-381.


Wolin, E., S. van der Lee, et al., Seasonal and Diurnal Variations in Long-Period Noise at SPREE Stations: The Influence of Soil Characteristics on Shallow Stations’ Performance, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 105, No. 5, pp. –, October 2015, doi: 10.1785/0120150046

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Frederiksen, A. W., Bollmann, T., Darbyshire., Van der Lee, S. (2013), Modification of Continental lithosphere by tectonic processes: a tomographic image of central North America, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

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Early Meeting Presentation Abstracts

-EarthScope National Meeting 2011

  +Suzan van der Lee, Seth Stein, Donna Jurdy, Emily Wolin, Trevor Bollmann,

    Jessica Lodewyk, Miguel Merino, Douglas Wiens, Michael Wysession, Patrick

    Shore, Ghassan Al-Eqabi, Shawn Wei, Heather Relyea, Franklin Koch, Grace

    Barcheck, Rachel Gesserman, Justin Revenaugh, Brian Bagley, Tao Wang,

    Andrew Frederiksen, Taras Zaporozan, Fiona Darbyshire - SPREE: Where is the

    ocean between Minnesota and Wisconsin?


-EarthScope National Meeting 2013

+Carol Engelmann

   - Using the Mid-Continent Rift to make plate tectonics “real” for Midwestern

      students  Click to Download

+Carol Stein

   - A New View of the Plate-Tectonic Setting of the Mid-Continent Rift

      Click to Download

+Emily Wolin

   -Assessment of tomographic models’ predictions of regional S and surface

    waveforms  Click to Download

+Ghassan Aleqabi

   - Array Analysis of Lake Superior Microseism Click to Download

   - High-Resolution 3D Crustal Structure of the North American Midcontinent Rift

      from Ambient Noise Tomography  Click to Download

+Miguel Merino

   - Mapping sediment thickness in Minnesota with horizontal-to vertical spectral

     ratios  Click to Download

   - Variations in Mid-Continent Rift Magma volumes consistent with microplate

      evolution Click to Download

+Suzan van der Lee

   - The Superior Province Rifting Earthscope Experiment (SPREE) Click to Download

+Trevor Bollmann

   - Preliminary Results from teleseismic P & S-wave delay times in the Superior

      Province Region using SPREE and TA data  Click to Download

+Tyrone Rooney

   - Combining EarthScope data with petrology and geochemistry to explore the

     Mid-Continent Rifts evolution Click to Download

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