Tanya Atwater

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Tanya Atwater is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Tanya Atwater

Earth Sciences

#164

World Rank

#350

Historical Rank

#70

USA Rank

Geophysics

#69

World Rank

#86

Historical Rank

#29

USA Rank

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Tanya Atwater's Degrees

PhD Geophysics University of California, San Diego
Masters Geology University of California, Davis
Bachelors Geology University of California, Davis

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According to Wikipedia, Tanya Atwater is an American geophysicist and marine geologist who specializes in plate tectonics. She is particularly renowned for her early research on the plate tectonic history of western North America.

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Tanya Atwater's Published Works

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Implications of Plate Tectonics for the Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Western North America (1970) (1810)
Pacific-North America Plate Tectonics of the Neogene Southwestern United States: An Update (1998) (722)
East Pacific Rise: Hot Springs and Geophysical Experiments (1980) (691)
Plate tectonic history of the northeast Pacific and western North America (1989) (464)
Interarc spreading and Cordilleran tectonics as alternates related to the age of subducted oceanic lithosphere (1978) (457)
Magnetic Anomalies, Bathymetry and the Tectonic Evolution of the South Pacific since the Late Cretaceous (1975) (438)
How Laramide-Age Hydration of North American Lithosphere by the Farallon Slab Controlled Subsequent Activity in the Western United States (2003) (332)
Microplate capture, rotation of the western Transverse Ranges, and initiation of the San Andreas transform as a low-angle fault system (1994) (322)
Changes in Direction of Sea Floor Spreading (1968) (296)
Detailed near-bottom geophysical study of the Gorda Rise (1973) (271)
Chapter 1: Cenozoic geometry and thermal state of the subducting slabs beneath western North America (1990) (191)
Relative Motion of Hot Spots in the Mantle (1973) (173)
Magnetic study of basalts from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, lat 37°N (1977) (162)
Sea Beam/Deep-Tow Investigation of an active oceanic propagating rift system, Galapagos 95.5°W (1986) (162)
Origin of Fracture Zone Topography (1969) (159)
Magnetic lineations in the Northeast Pacific (1970) (153)
Mid-Tertiary Tectonic Transition in the Aleutian Arc (1970) (147)
Tectonic maps of the northeast Pacific (1989) (100)
Investigation of a Vine‐Matthews Magnetic Lineation from a submersible: The source and character of marine magnetic anomalies (1983) (86)
Block Faulting on the Gorda Rise (1968) (76)
Evolution of rifted ocean ridges (1978) (70)
Test of New Global Tectonics: DISCUSSION (1972) (67)
Are spreading centers perpendicular to their transform faults? (1977) (66)
Changes in direction of seafloor spreading revisited (1988) (52)
Plate Tectonic History of Southern California with Emphasis on the Western Transverse Ranges and Northern Channel Islands (1998) (26)
A near-bottom geophysical traverse of the Reykjanes Ridge (1978) (24)
ALVIN investigation of an active propagating rift system, Galapagos 95.5° W (1992) (20)
Propagating rifts in seafloor spreading patterns (1981) (15)
Fracture Zone Traces Across the North Pacific Cretaceous Quiet Zone and their Tectonic Implications (2013) (11)
Managed island ecosystems (2016) (8)
The northeast Pacific Ocean and Hawaii (1989) (8)
Microplate capture, rotation of the western Transverse Ranges, and initiation of t he San Andreas transform as a low-angle fault system : Geology, 22(6), 1994, pp 491–495 (1994) (6)
Some Magnetic Properties of Some Leg 37 Samples (1977) (3)
Neogene plate tectonic history of Southwestern United States; an update (1998) (2)
Constraints from the Famous Area Concerning the Structure of the Oceanic Section (2013) (2)
Abstract: Plate Tectonic History of the Transverse Ranges and Channel Islands, Southern California. (1998) (1)
Terminology of Geodynamics: GEOLOGIC NOTES (1974) (1)
Evolution of Western North America Implications of Plate Tectonics for the Cenozoic Tectonic (2009) (1)
Plate Tectonic Constraints on the History of the Transverse Ranges: ABSTRACT (1994) (1)
When the Plate Tectonic Revolution Met Western North America (2018) (1)
THIRTY-FOUR. Managed Island Ecosystems (2019) (0)
PENROSE MEDAL: CONTINENTAL PLATE TECTONICS AND SOME LONG-STANDING CONTROVERSIES SURROUNDING THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA (2019) (0)
Reflections on the Nature and Speed of Individuals' Paradigm Shifts in the Plate Tectonic Revolution (2017) (0)
Plate Tectonic Constraints and Geological Analogs for Southern Californian Crustal Structures (2001) (0)
POSSIBLE TRIPLE JUNCTION AND PLATE PULL-APART ORIGIN FOR MONTEREY BAY AND THE MONTEREY SUBMARINE CANYON, CALIFORNIA (2019) (0)
Combined SeaBeam 2000 bathymetry and sidescan on the Melville: East Pacific Rise 15-19 S (1993) (0)
Research in Oceanography at MIT, 1 October 1974 - 31 December 1979. (1980) (0)
Oblique spreading and fracture zones (reply) (1978) (0)

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