Robert D. Van Der Hilst

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Global teleseismic earthquake relocation with improved travel times and procedures for depth determination (1998) (1989)
Evidence for deep mantle circulation from global tomography (1997) (1240)
Surface-wave array tomography in SE Tibet from ambient seismic noise and two-station analysis: I - Phase velocity maps (2006) (731)
A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People's Republic of China (2008) (599)
Surface wave array tomography in SE Tibet from ambient seismic noise and two-station analysis - II. Crustal and upper-mantle structure (2008) (594)
Subduction of the Indian lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Burma (2008) (536)
Travel-time tomography of the European-Mediterranean mantle down to 1400 km (1993) (527)
Eastward expansion of the Tibetan Plateau by crustal flow and strain partitioning across faults (2014) (265)
Structure of the upper mantle and transition zone beneath Southeast Asia from traveltime tomography (2010) (257)
4-D evolution of SE Asia’s mantle from geological reconstructions and seismic tomography (2004) (246)
Heterogeneity and anisotropy of the lithosphere of SE Tibet from surface wave array tomography (2010) (246)
Structure of the crust beneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from teleseismic receiver functions (2007) (236)
Effects of relative plate motion on the deep structure and penetration depth of slabs below the Izu-Bonin and Mariana island arcs (1993) (235)
Geodynamics of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from seismic anisotropy and geodesy (2007) (227)
Joint seismic tomography for bulk sound and shear wave speed in the Earth's mantle (1998) (223)
Global upper-mantle tomography with the automated multimode inversion of surface and S-wave forms (2006) (221)
The deep structure of the Australian continent from surface wave tomography (1999) (215)
Analysis of ambient noise energy distribution and phase velocity bias in ambient noise tomography, with application to SE Tibet (2009) (207)
Multimode Rayleigh wave inversion for heterogeneity and azimuthal anisotropy of the Australian upper mantle (2002) (191)
Tomographic imaging of the lowermost mantle with differential times of refracted and diffracted core phases (PKP, Pdiff) (2001) (190)
Tectonic implications of tomographic images of subducted lithosphere beneath northwestern South America (1993) (185)
Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from Travel Time Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data (2008) (182)
Mantle structure beneath Indonesia inferred from high-resolution tomographic imaging (1997) (180)
The Poisson ratio of the Australian crust: geological and geophysical implications (2000) (178)
Epeirogenic uplift above a detached slab in northern Central America (2002) (175)
Constraining P-wave velocity variations in the upper mantle beneath Southeast Asia (2006) (173)
Seismic anisotropy in Eastern Tibet from shear wave splitting reveals changes in lithospheric deformation (2006) (166)
A laboratory investigation of effects of trench migration on the descent of subducted slabs (1995) (161)
Shear wave splitting from local events beneath the Ryukyu arc : Trench-parallel anisotropy in the mantle wedge (2006) (142)
Upper mantle anisotropy beneath Japan from shear wave splitting (2005) (133)
Direct inversion of surface wave dispersion for three-dimensional shallow crustal structure based on ray tracing: methodology and application (2015) (132)
Understanding seismic heterogeneities in the lower mantle beneath the Americas from seismic tomography and plate tectonic history (2007) (130)
Upper-mantle shear velocity beneath eastern Australia from inversion of waveforms from SKIPPY portable arrays (1996) (119)
Seismic tomography with P and S data reveals lateral variations in the rigidity of deep slabs (1999) (113)
Structure of young East Pacific Rise lithosphere from ambient noise correlation analysis of fundamental- and higher-mode Scholte-Rayleigh waves (2011) (110)
Asthenospheric flow and origin of volcanism in the Baikal Rift area (2006) (107)
Tomographic inversion of P and pP data for aspherical mantle structure below the northwest Pacific region (1993) (107)
Buckling instabilities of subducted lithosphere beneath the transition zone (2007) (104)
High resolution global tomography : a snapshot of convection in the Earth (1997) (103)
Comparing P and S wave heterogeneity in the mantle (2001) (101)
Banana-doughnut kernels and mantle tomography (2005) (95)
A unified map of Moho depth and Vp/Vs ratio of continental China by receiver function analysis (2014) (92)
Model Update March 2011: Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from Traveltime Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data (2012) (91)
Constraints on mantle convection from seismic tomography (2013) (89)
Imaging of subducted lithosphere beneath South America (1995) (82)
On sensitivity kernels for ‘wave-equation’ transmission tomography (2005) (81)
Tomography with P, PP, and pP delay-time data and the three-dimensional mantle structure below the Caribbean region (1990) (81)
Automated multimode inversion of surface and S waveforms (2005) (80)
Low wave speed zones in the crust beneath SE Tibet revealed by ambient noise adjoint tomography (2014) (80)
Seismic and mechanical anisotropy and the past and present deformation of the Australian lithosphere (2003) (78)
Spatiospectral localization of isostatic coherence anisotropy in Australia and its relation to seismic anisotropy: Implications for lithospheric deformation (2003) (78)
Project Skippy explores lithosphere and mantle beneath Australia (1994) (78)
Core mantle boundary topography from short period PcP, PKP, and PKKP data (2003) (75)
Searching for seismic scattering off mantle interfaces between 800 km and 2000 km depth (2003) (73)
Searching for seismic scattering off mantle interfaces between 800 km and 2000 km depth (2003) (73)
Crust and lithosphere structure of the northwestern U.S. with ambient noise tomography: Terrane accretion and Cascade arc development (2011) (72)
Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Australia from Portable Array Deployments (1998) (71)
Variations in earthquake rupture properties along the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise (2012) (69)
New mantle convection model may reconcile conflicting evidence (1999) (66)
Earth's deep mantle : structure, composition, and evolution (2005) (65)
Crustal thickness, discontinuity depth, and upper mantle structure beneath southern Africa: constraints from body wave conversions (2002) (63)
The core^mantle boundary under the Gulf of Alaska: No ULVZ for shear waves (2000) (60)
Importance of the reference model in linearized tomography and images of subduction below the Caribbean Plate (1989) (60)
Towards a quantitative interpretation of global seismic tomography (2005) (57)
Slab temperature and thickness from seismic tomography: 1. Method and application to Tonga (1999) (56)
Beyond receiver functions: Passive source reverse time migration and inverse scattering of converted waves (2012) (54)
Wave-equation reflection tomography: annihilators and sensitivity kernels (2006) (53)
Imaging along‐strike variations in mechanical properties of the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise (2014) (53)
Error bars for the global seismic Q profile (2005) (53)
Resolution experiments for NW Pacific subduction zone tomography (1989) (51)
Phase Velocity Variation at Periods of 0.5-3 Seconds in the Taipei Basin of Taiwan from Correlation of Ambient Seismic Noise (2010) (50)
Model Update May 2016: Upper‐Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from Travel‐Time Tomography with Global and USArray Data (2017) (49)
Shear wave speeds at the base of the mantle (2000) (49)
Estimation of surface wave Green's functions from correlation of direct waves, coda waves, and ambient noise in SE Tibet (2009) (47)
Complex anisotropy in the Australian lithosphere from shear-wave splitting in broad-band SKS records (1998) (47)
Thick crust beneath the Ordos plateau: Implications for instability of the North China craton (2012) (46)
Estimating shear-wave splitting parameters from broadband recordings in Japan : A comparison of three methods (2005) (44)
On ISC PP and pP data and their use in delay-time tomography of the Caribbean region (1991) (44)
High Temporal Resolution Monitoring of Small Variations in Crustal Strain by Dense Seismic Arrays (2019) (42)
On the effects of a dipping axis of symmetry on shear wave splitting measurements in a transversely isotropic medium (2003) (42)
Imaging of structure at and near the core mantle boundary using a generalized radon transform: 1. Construction of image gathers (2006) (42)
Wave-equation shear wave splitting tomography (2008) (41)
Model Update December 2008: Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from P-wave Travel Time Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data (2009) (39)
Correlation between the shear-speed structure and thickness of the mantle transition zone (2003) (36)
Surface wave eikonal tomography in heterogeneous media using exploration data (2012) (35)
Imaging of structure at and near the core-mantle boundary using a generalized radon transform: 2. Statistical inference of singularities (2007) (34)
Toward quantifying uncertainty in travel time tomography using the null-space shuttle (2012) (34)
Correction of Ocean‐Bottom Seismometer Instrumental Clock Errors Using Ambient Seismic Noise (2014) (33)
The USArray Initiative (1999) (33)
The signal of mantle anisotropy in the coupling of normal modes (2008) (32)
Two‐dimensional modelling of subduction zone anisotropy with application to southwestern Japan (2007) (31)
High‐frequency precursors to P wave arrivals in New Zealand: Implications for slab structure (1996) (30)
Step-wise relocation of ISC earthquake hypocenters for linearized tomographic imaging of slab structure (1992) (30)
Poisson's ratio in the lower mantle beneath Alaska: Evidence for compositional heterogeneity (2004) (26)
Removing source-side scattering for virtual deep seismic sounding (VDSS) (2013) (26)
Imaging the lowermost mantle (D?) and the core–mantle boundary with SKKS coda waves (2008) (24)
Changing Views on Earth's Deep Mantle (2004) (23)
The 660-km discontinuity within the subducting NW-Pacific lithospheric slab (2002) (23)
Extending shear-wave tomography for the lower mantle using S and SKS arrival-time data (1998) (21)
Slab temperature and thickness from seismic tomography (1999) (20)
Upwellings from a deep mantle reservoir filtered at the 660 km phase transition in thermo-chemical convection models and implications for intra-plate volcanism (2009) (20)
Reverse-time migration-based reflection tomography using teleseismic free surface multiples (2014) (20)
Rayleigh‐Wave Phase Velocity Distribution in China Continent and its Adjacent Regions (2008) (19)
Imaging the upper mantle transition zone with a generalized Radon transform of SS precursors (2010) (19)
Structure and evolution of subducted lithosphere beneath the Sunda arc, Indonesia (1996) (19)
Reply to comment by F.A. Dahlen and G. Nolet on (2005) (18)
Numerical Study of the Origin and Stability of Chemically Distinct Reservoirs Deep in Earth's Mantle (2005) (16)
Lithospheric Deformation of Continental China from Rayleigh Wave Azimuthal Anisotropy (2010) (16)
Seismic structure of the mantle ; from subduction zone to craton (1998) (16)
Reply to comment by R. Montelli, G. Nolet and F. A. Dahlen on ‘Banana—doughnut kernels and mantle tomography’ (2006) (16)
Constraints on residual topography and crustal properties in the western United States from virtual deep seismic sounding (2016) (15)
Common conversion point stacking of receiver functions versus passive-source reverse time migration and wavefield regularization (2017) (15)
Mapping Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Beneath the Central Pacific With Array Processing of SS Precursors (2017) (14)
Systematic Detection of Clustered Seismicity Beneath the Southwestern Alps (2019) (13)
Processes and consequences of deep subduction: introduction (2001) (13)
Geodynamical modeling and multiscale seismic expression of thermo-chemical heterogeneity and phase transitions in the lowermost mantle (2010) (13)
Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Ambient Noise Based on Bayesian Theory (2010) (13)
A Seismic Look Under the Continents (1999) (13)
Deformation of the Aegean Slab in the Mantle Transition Zone (2003) (13)
On Sensitivity Kernels for 'Wave-Equation' Tomography (2002) (12)
Multimode Rayleigh wave inversion for shear wave speed heterogeneity andazimuthal anisotropy of the Australian upper mantle (2002) (11)
The deep structure of the Australian continent inferred from surface wave tomography (1999) (10)
Surface wave tomography to retrieve near surface velocity models (2014) (9)
Source depopulation potential and surface-wave tomography using a crosscorrelation method in a scattering medium (2011) (8)
Seismic Tomography of the Arabian-Eurasian Collision Zone and Surrounding Areas (2010) (8)
From Relative to Absolute Teleseismic Travel Times: The Absolute Arrival‐Time Recovery Method (AARM) (2017) (8)
Variations in Seismic Wave Speed and VP/VS Ratio in the North American Lithosphere (2020) (8)
Using a Synthetic Continental Array to Study the Earth's Interior. (1996) (7)
Surface‐wave eikonal tomography in a scattering environment (2010) (6)
Deep subduction and aspherical variations in P‐wavespeed at the base of Earth's mantle (2013) (5)
Earthquake Depth Phase Extraction With P Wave Autocorrelation Provides Insight Into Mechanisms of Intermediate‐Depth Earthquakes (2019) (5)
Clockwise rotation of the Tarim basin driven by the Indian plate impact (2019) (5)
Composition, deep structure and evolution continents (1999) (4)
Poisson's Ratio beneath Alaska from the Surface to the core mantle boundary (2001) (4)
Direct inversion of surface wave dispersion for 3-D shallow crustal structure based on ray tracing : methodology and application (2015) (3)
Complex plume dynamics in the transition zone underneath the Hawaii hotspot: seismic imaging results (2010) (3)
Surface-wave eikonal tomography for dense geophysical arrays (2012) (3)
High‐resolution lithospheric velocity structure of continental China and its geodynamic implications (2019) (3)
Preface: Composition, deep structure and evolution of continents (1999) (3)
On The Measurement Of Seismic Travel-Time Changes In The Time-Frequency Domain With Wavelet Cross-Spectral Analysis (2019) (2)
ELASTIC-WAVE INVERSE SCATTERING WITH ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SOURCE REFLECTION DATA (2011) (2)
Global wave-equation reflection tomography (2003) (2)
Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Sichuan/Yunnan Provinces, SW China: Preliminary Results of a Joint MIT-CIGMR Broad-Band Seismometry Project (2005) (2)
Analysis of Bias in Surface Wave Phase Velocities from Ambient Noise Interferometry and an Iterative Approach for Azimuthal Anisotropy (2008) (2)
Imaging the Lowermost Mantle Beneath East Asia With (Joint) Inverse Scattering (Generalized Radon Transform) of ScS and SKKS Data (2009) (1)
Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities with SS precursors: A Comparative Study of the Generalized Radon Transform method and the Common Middle Point Stacking method (2013) (1)
A High-Resolution, Shear-Speed Model of the Upper Mantle (2004) (1)
One-Way Wave Propagators For Velocity Analysis On Curvilinear Coordinates (2008) (1)
Earth's Deep Mantle: Structure, Composition, and Evolution—An Introduction (2013) (1)
Analysis of fundamental and higher mode surface waves from noise correlation near Eastern Pacific Rise (2010) (1)
TELESEISMIC WAVE-EQUATION REFLECTION TOMOGRAPHY USING FREE SURFACE REFLECTED PHASES (2012) (1)
P-wave velocity variation in the upper mantle beneath Tibetan Plateau (2005) (1)
Seismic Tomography Of The Arabian-Eurasian Collision Zone And Tectonic Implications (2008) (1)
Tomographic evidence for compositional heterogeneity deep in earth’s mantle (2002) (1)
Shear wave splitting intensity tomography beneath southwestern Japan and coupling with numerical flow models (2007) (1)
Shear wave splitting and upper mantle anisotropy beneath Japan (2003) (1)
Semiclassical inverse spectral problem for elastic Love waves in isotropic media (2019) (0)
Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Southeastern Tibet from Ambient Seismic Noise Tomography and Surface Wave Two-Station Analysis (2006) (0)
Direct ambient noise tomography for 3-D near surface shear velocity structure: methodology and applications (2014) (0)
Fine Scale Imaging of Structure at and Near the Mantle Transition Zone Using a Generalized Randon Transform (2007) (0)
Source-Indexed Migration Velocity Analysis with Global Passive Data (2012) (0)
Seismic Tomography Beneath the Western United States Using a Joint Body Wave-Surface Wave Inversion Algorithm (2014) (0)
Reflection tomography with teleseismic free-surface multiples (2009) (0)
Constraints on Crustal Structures, Residual Topography, and Isostasy in the Western US from Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS) (2015) (0)
The SKIPPY seismic array: Exploring the Seismic Structure in 3D beneath Australia (1996) (0)
A Neighbourhood Algorithm Analysis of the Constraints Provided by Surface Wave Dispersion Data on Upper Mantle Structure (2005) (0)
Large scale imaging of the lower mantle (2009) (0)
Ambient Noise Interferometry and Surface Wave Array Tomography: Promises and Problems (2008) (0)
Multimode Surface Wave Tomography Of Asia And Surroundings (2002) (0)
Teleseismic Wave-Equation Reflection Tomography with an Image Correlation Power Criterium (2012) (0)
Imaging Structure at and Near Upper Mantle Discontinuities using a Generalized Radon Transform (2005) (0)
Lithospheric deformation of SE Tibet from azimuthal and radial anisotropy using surface wave and ambient noise array data (2009) (0)
The Upper Mantle Velocity Structure Beneath the Sea of Okhotsk (2001) (0)
Statistical Analysis of Common Image Point Gathers at and near the Core-Mantle Boundary (2007) (0)
New Insight Into the Seismicity of the Western Alps from Automated Analysis of Dense Linear Array Data (2018) (0)
Evidence From Seismology for Water in the Upper Mantle Transition Zone (2008) (0)
A new approach to measure time- and frequency-dependent seismic velocity evolution (2019) (0)
Seismic images of the transition zone: is Hawaiian volcanism produced by a secondary plume from the top of the lower mantle? (2011) (0)
Transition Zone Structures beneath Hawaii Imaged with SS precursors (2014) (0)
The Mantle Structure beneath SE Asia from P-wave Tomograpy (2006) (0)
Inversion of Surface and S Wave Forms for Seismic-Velocity Perturbations Relative to a Three-Dimensional Reference Model (2003) (0)
Density and Vs contrasts across mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the Central Pacific (2016) (0)
Crust and Upper Mantle Structures Across the Western United States Imaged with Array Receiver Functions (2011) (0)
Joint Inversion of Body-Wave Arrival Times and Surface-Wave Dispersion Data in the Wavelet Domain Constrained by Sparsity Regularization (2014) (0)
Shear Velocity Structure and Anisotropy in the Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath SE Tibet From Ambient Noise and Teleseismic Surface Wave Array Tomography (2007) (0)
Quantifying uncertainties in travel time tomography using the null space shuttle (2010) (0)
Seismic velocities and composition in the deep mantle along a Japan-Aleoutian-America transect (2003) (0)
Automatic Earthquake Detection in the Western Alps Using a Matched-Filtering Based Method. (2017) (0)
High Resolution Seismic Imaging of Transition Zone Beneath the Hawaii Volcano Chain: Evidence for Deep-rooted Mantle Plume (2008) (0)
A new P-wave mantle tomographic model for Africa and a receiver function study of the Ethiopian plateau (2019) (0)
High Resolution Seismic Images of Transition Zone Discontinuities beneath the Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain (2009) (0)
Imaging Structure at and Near the Core Mantle Boundary With a Generalized Radon Transform of Broad Band ScS and SKKS Coda Waves (2004) (0)
Solid Earth A new algorithm for three-dimensional joint inversion of bodywave and surface wave data and its application to the Southern California plate boundary region (2016) (0)
Refining the global P- and S-wavespeed models with Poisson Voronoi cells based parsimonious inversion (2019) (0)
Seismic Tomography of the Continental United States from a Joint Inversion of Surface Waves and Body Waves (2015) (0)
Calibration of Sulfate Levels in the Archean Ocean (2002) (0)
3D Variations in Seismic Wavespeed and Mass Density in the Crust and Upper Mantle of SE Asia from Joint Inversion of Seismic and Gravity Data (2014) (0)
Core Mantle Boundary Topography and Lowermost Mantle Heterogeneity (2001) (0)
Ambient seismic noise tomography and radial anisotropy from a dense array in SW China (2009) (0)
Dehydration in intermediate-depth earthquakes? Insight from earthquake depth phases extracted using P-wave coda auto-correlation (2019) (0)
Heterogeneity and Azimuthal Anisotropy of the Crust in SE Tibet and Sichuan Province from Surface Wave Array Tomography (2008) (0)
Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Tibet and SW China From Seismic Tomography and Array Analysis (2006) (0)
Multimode Surface Wave Tomography of Asia and Western Pacific. (2001) (0)
Multi-scale Aspects of Wave-equation Reflection Tomography (2006) (0)
Multi-scale imaging of the Earth's interior (2006) (0)
Passive monitoring of temporal, coseismic, velocity variations at the ocean floor (2010) (0)
Constraints on the Dip of the Anisotropic Symmetry Axis Beneath Japan From Shear Wave Splitting (2001) (0)
Slab identification in the lower mantle beneath the Americas from seismic tomography and plate history reconstruction (2005) (0)
Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth Shear Wave Tomography Beneath the United States Using a Joint Inversion of Surface and BodyWaves (2018) (0)
Random Voronoi Cells Based Parsimonious Inversion: Methodology and Application to Global S wave Arrival Time Data (2018) (0)
Multi-Scale Imaging of Earth's Deep Interior: New Constraints on Structure and Thermo- chemical Evolution of Earth's Mantle (2008) (0)
The Modern Gorda-Juan de Fuca Subduction System and the Inherited Stratification of the Transition Zone below Western US (2012) (0)
Efficient ray tracing in complex 3D velocity structures using perturbation theory (1997) (0)
High resolution mantle discontinuity imaging with SS precursors: the transition zone beneath Hawaii. (Invited) (2009) (0)
ngeo2130-Liu QY (2015) (0)
Topography of Transition Zone Discontinuities beneath the Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain (2009) (0)
Small-scale thermal and thermal-chemical convection in the Deep Mantle and Seismic Expression of Post-Perovskite Transition from Multiscale Analysis (2010) (0)
Three-Dimensional Vp and Vs Models of Continental China From Joint Inversion of Body Wave, Surface Wave, and Gravity Data (2015) (0)
Structure and Evolution of The Australian Lithosphere (2002) (0)
Inverse scattering with SKKS code waves: imaging the D" from the core side (2007) (0)
Semiclassical inverse spectral problem for elastic Rayleigh waves in isotropic media (2019) (0)
Large Scale Exploration of the Core Mantle Boundary Region (D (2008) (0)

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