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Robert A. Phinney
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 49
Citations - 1982
Robert A. Phinney is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crust & Reflection (physics). The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 49 publications receiving 1924 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert A. Phinney include Incorporated Research Institutions For Seismology.
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Structure of the Earth's Crust from Spectral Behavior of Long-Period Body Waves
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed long-period P waves from distant earthquakes from seismograms recorded at Albuquerque and Bermuda in the light of Haskel's theory of the spectral response of a layered crust.
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Representation of the Elastic ‐ Gravitational Excitation of a Spherical Earth Model by Generalized Spherical Harmonics
TL;DR: The generalized spherical harmonics, which arise as representations of the rotation group, provide a natural basis for the expansion of tensors of any order in spherical co-ordinates.
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Origin of high mountains in the continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada
Brian P. Wernicke,Robert W. Clayton,Mihai N. Ducea,Craig H. Jones,Stephen K. Park,Stan Ruppert,Jason B. Saleeby,J. Kent Snow,Livia Squires,Moritz M. Fliedner,George R. Jiracek,Randy Keller,Simon L. Klemperer,James H. Luetgert,Peter Malin,Kate C. Miller,Walter D. Mooney,Howard W. Oliver,Robert A. Phinney +18 more
TL;DR: Active and passive seismic experiments show that the southern Sierra, despite standing 1.8 to 2.8 kilometers above its surroundings, is underlain by crust of similar seismic thickness, about 30 to 40 kilometers.
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Seismic structure of the lithosphere from teleseismic converted arrivals observed at small arrays in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California
Craig H. Jones,Robert A. Phinney +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, mixed broadband (BB) and short-period (SP) seismic arrays at Mineral King (MK) and Horseshoe Meadow (HM) in the southern Sierra Nevada and at Darwin Plateau (DP) between the Inyo and Argus ranges were recorded.
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Theoretical calculation of the spectrum of first arrivals in layered elastic mediums
TL;DR: In this paper, the spectral parameters of first-arriving signals in seismology have been calculated using branch line integrals and complex poles, and the spectrum of the signal is viewed through an exponentially decaying time window.