Publications

List of Peer-Reviewed Publications in International Journals

h-index = 31 • 3656 cites • 63 cites per article (Google Scholar),
h-index = 28 • 2932 cites • 50 cites per article (Scopus).

2021

[58] Amey, R. M. J., J. R. Elliott, Hussain, E., R. J. Walker, M. Pagani, V. Silva, K. Abdrakhmatov & C. S. Watson (2021)
Significant seismic risk potential from buried faults beneath Almaty city, Kazakhstan, revealed from high-resolution satellite DEMs, Earth & Space Science, 8, doi:10.1029/2021EA001664.

[57] Liu, F., J. R. Elliott, T. J. Craig, A. Hooper & T. J. Wright (2021)
Improving the Resolving Power of InSAR for Earthquakes Using Time Series: A Case Study in Iran, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2021GL093043.

2020

[56] Elliott, J. R. (2020)
Earth Observation for the assessment of earthquake hazard, risk and disaster management, Surveys in Geophysics, 41, 1323-1354, doi:10.1007/s10712-020-09606-4.

[55] Elliott, J. R., M. de Michele & H. K. Gupta (2020)
Earth Observations for Crustal Tectonics and Earthquake Hazards, Surveys in Geophysics, 41, 1355-1389, doi:10.1007/s10712-020-09608-2

[54] Weiss, J. R., R. J. Walters, Y. Morishita, Y., T. J. Wright, M. Lazecky, H. Wang, E. Hussain, A. J. Hooper, J. R. Elliott, C. Rollins, C. Yu, P. Gonzalez, K. Spaans, Z. Li & B. Parsons (2020).
High-resolution surface velocities and strain for Anatolia from Sentinel-1 InSAR and GNSS data, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, doi:10.1029/2020GL087376.

[53] Hussain, E., J. R. Elliott, V. Silva, M. Vilar-Vega & D. Kane (2020).
Contrasting seismic risk for Santiago, Chile, from near-field and distant earthquake sources, Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Science, doi:10.5194/nhess-2019-30.

[52] Elliott, A. J., J. R. Elliott, J. Hollingsworth, G. Kulikova, B. Parsons & R. Walker (2020)
Satellite imaging of the 2015 M7.2 earthquake in the Central Pamir, Tajikistan, elucidates a sequence of shallow strike-slip ruptures of the Sarez-Karakul fault, Geophysical Journal International, 221, doi:10.1093/gji/ggaa090.

[51] Ingleby, T., T. J. Wright, A. Hooper, T. J. Craig & J. R. Elliott (2020)
Constraints on the Geometry and Frictional Properties of the Main Himalayan Thrust Using Coseismic,Postseismic, and InterseismicDeformation in Nepal, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2019JB019201.

[50] Morishita, Y., M. Lazecky, T. J. Wright, J. R. Weiss, J. R. Elliott, & A. Hooper (2020)
LiCSBAS: An open-source InSAR time series analysis package integrated with the LiCSAR automated Sentinel-1 InSAR processor, Remote Sensing, 12, doi:10.3390/rs12030424.

2019

[49] Campbell, G. E., R. T. Walker, K. Abdrakhmatov, S. Carolin, A. S. Carr, J. R. Elliott, J. A. Jackson, D. Mackenzie, M. Rizza & A. Rodes (2019)
Rapid Late Quaternary Slip, Repeated Prehistoric Earthquake Rupture, and Widespread Landsliding Associated With the Karakudzhur Thrust, Central Kyrgyz Tien Shan, Tectonics, 38, doi:10.1029/2018TC005433.

[48] Shen, L., A. Hooper & J. R. Elliott (2019)
A spatially-varying scaling method for InSAR tropospheric corrections using a high resolution weather model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 124, 4051-4068, doi:10.1029/2018JB016189.

[47] Nissen, E., A. Ghods, E. Karasozen, J. R. Elliott, W. D. Barnhart, E. A. Bergman, G. P. Hayes, M. Jamal-Reyhani, M. Nemati, F. Tan, W. Abdulnaby, H. M. Benz, M. P. Shahvar, M. Talebian & L. Chen (2019)
The 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Ezgeleh-Sarpolzahab (Iran) earthquake and active tectonics of the Lurestan arc, Journal of Geophysical Research, 124, 2124-2152, doi:10.1029/2018JB016221.

2018

[46] Walters, R. J., L. C. Gregory, L. N. J. Wedmore, T. J. Craig, K. McCaffrey, M. Wilkinson, J. Chen, Z. Lie, J. R. Elliott, H. Goodall, F. Iezzi, F. Livio, A. M. Michetti, G. Roberts, E. Vittori (2018)
Dual control of fault intersections on stop-start rupture in the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.043.
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2017

[45] Sloan, R. A., J. R. Elliott, M. P. Searle & C. K. Morley (2017)
Active Tectonics of Myanmar and the Andaman Sea, in Barber, A. J., Khin Zaw & Crow, M. J. (eds.), Myanmar: Geology, Resources and Tectonics, Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 48, 19-52, doi:10.1144/M48.2.
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[44] Ainscoe, E. A., J. R. Elliott, A. Copley, T. J. Craig, T. Li, B. E. Parsons & R. T. Walker (2017)
Blind Thrusting, Surface Folding and the Development of Geological Structure in the Mw 6.3 2015 Pishan (China) Earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research, 122, 9359–9382, doi:10.1002/2017JB014268.
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[43] Grutzner, C., R. T. Walker, K. E. Abdrakhmatov, A. Mukambaev, A. J. Elliott & J. R. Elliott (2017)
Active Tectonics Around Almaty and along the Zailisky Alatau Rangefront, Tectonics, 36, 2192-2226, doi:10.1002/2017TC004657.
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[42] Searle, M., J.-P. Avouac, J. R. Elliott, & B. Dyck (2017)
Ductile shearing to brittle thrusting along the Nepal Himalaya: linking Miocene channel flow and critical wedge tectonics to the 25th April 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Tectonophysics, 714-715, 117-124, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.08.003.
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[41] Hamling, I. J., S. Hreinsdottir, K. Clark, J. R. Elliott, C. Liang, E. Fielding, N. Litchfield, P. Villamor, L. Wallace, T. J. Wright, E. D’Anastasio, S. Bannister, D. Burbidge, P. Denys, P. Gentle, J. Howarth, C. Mueller, N. Palmer, C. Pearson, W. Power, P. Barnes, D. Barrell, R. Van Dissen, R. Langridge, T. Little, A. Nicol, J. Pettinga, J. Rowland & M. Stirling (2017)
Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, Science, 356, 154, doi:10.1126/science.aam7194.
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[40] Middleton, T. A., J. R. Elliott, E. J. Rhodes, & S. Sherlock, R. T. Walker, W. Wang, J. Yu & Y. Zhou (2017)
Extension rates across the northern Shanxi Grabens, China, from Quaternary geology, seismicity and geodesy, Geophysical Journal International, 209, 535-558, doi:10.1093/gji/ggx031.
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[39] Grutzner, C., E. Carson, R. T. Walker, E. J. Rhodes, A. Mukambayev, D. Mackenzie, J. R. Elliott, G. Campbell & K. Abdrakhmatov (2017)
Assessing the activity of faults in continental interiors: palaeoseismic insights from SE Kazakhstan, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 459, 93-104, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.025.
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[38] Walker, R. T. & K. Wegmann, A. Bayasgalan, R. Carson, J. R. Elliott, M. Fox, E. K. Nissen & R. A. Sloan (2017)
The Egiin Dawaa prehistoric rupture, central Mongolia: a large-magnitude normal faulting earthquake, on a reactivated fault with little cumulative slip, in a slowly deforming continental interior, Seismicity, Fault Rupture and Earthquake Hazards in Slowly Deforming Regions, Special Publication of the Geological Society of London, 432, 187-212, doi:10.1144/SP432.4.
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2016

[37] Elliott, J. R., R. J. Walters & T. J. Wright (2016)
The role of space-based observation in understanding and responding to active tectonics and earthquakes, Nature Communications, 7, doi:10.1038/ncomms13844.
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[36] Middleton, T. A., R. T. Walker, D. H. Rood, E. J. Rhodes, B. Parsons, Q. Lei, J. R. Elliott, Z. Ren & Y. Zhou (2016)
The tectonics of the western Ordos Plateau, Ningxia, China: slip rates on the Luoshan and East Helanshan Faults, Tectonics, 35, 2754-2777, doi:10.1002/2016TC004230.
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[35] Ebmeier, S. K., J. R. Elliott, J.-M. Nocquet, J. Biggs, P. Mothes, P. Jarrin, M. Yepez, S. Aguiza, P. Lungdren & S. Samsonov (2016)
Shallow earthquake inhibits unrest at Chiles-Cerro Negro volcanoes, Ecuador-Columbian border, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 283-291, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.046.
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[34] Floyd, M. A., R. J. Walters, J. R. Elliott, G. J. Funning, J. L. Svarc, J. H. Murray, A. J. Hooper, Y. Larsen, P. Marinkovic, R. Burgmann, I. A. Johanson & T. J. Wright (2016)
Spatial variations in fault friction related to lithology from rupture and afterslip of the 2014 South Napa, California, earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 6808-6816, doi:10.1002/2016GL069428.
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[33] Catlos, E. J., A. M. Friedrich, T. Lay, J. R. Elliott, S. Carena, B. Upreti, P. Decelles, B. Tucker & R. Bendick (2016)
Nepal at Risk: Interdisciplinary Lessons Learned from the April 2015 Nepal (Gorkha) Earthquake and Future Concerns, GSA Today, 26, 42-43, doi:10.1130/GSATG278GW.1.
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[32] Mackenzie, D., J. R. Elliott, E. Altunel, R. T. Walker, Y. C. Kurban, J. L. Schwenninger & B. Parsons (2016)
Seismotectonics and rupture process of the Mw 7.1 2011 Van reverse faulting earthquake, Eastern Turkey, and implications for hazard in regions of distributed shortening, Geophysical Journal International, 206, 501-524, doi:10.1093/gji/ggw158.
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[31] Searle, M. P., N. M. W. Roberts, S-L. Chung, YH. Lee, K. L. Cook, J. R. Elliott, O. M. Weller, M. R. St-Onge, X-W. Xu, X-B. Tan & K. Li (2016)
Age and Anatomy of the Gongga Shan batholith, eastern Tibetan Plateau, and its relationship to the active Xianshui-he fault, Geosphere, 12, 948-970, doi:10.1130/GES01244.1.
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[30] Zhou, Y., R. T. Walker, J. R. Elliott & B. Parsons (2016)
Mapping 3D fault geometry in earthquakes using high-resolution topography: Examples from the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah (Mexico) and 2013 Balochistan (Pakistan) earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 3134-3142, doi:10.1002/2016GL067899.
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[29] Nissen, E. K., J. R. Elliott, R. A. Sloan, T. J. Craig, G. J. Funning, A. Hutko, B. E. Parsons & T. J. Wright (2016)
Limitations of rupture forecasting exposed by instantaneously triggered earthquake doublet, Nature Geoscience, 9, 330–336, doi:10.1038/NGEO2653.
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[28] Elliott, J. R., R. Jolivet, P. Gonzalez, J.-P. Avouac, J. Hollingsworth, M. Searle & V. Stevens (2016)
Himalayan Megathrust Geometry and Relation to Topography Revealed by the Gorkha Earthquake, Nature Geoscience, 9, 174-180, doi:10.1038/NGEO2623.
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2015

[27] Zhou, Y., B. Parsons, J. R. Elliott, I. Barisin & R. T. Walker (2015)
Assessing the ability of Pleiades stereo imagery to determine height changes in earthquakes: a case study for the El Mayor-Cucapah epicentral area, Journal of Geophysical Research, 120, 8793-8808, doi:10.1002/2015JB012358.
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[26] Elliott, J. R., E. Bergman, A. C. Copley, A. R. Ghods, E. K. Nissen, B. Oveisi, M. Tatar, R. J. Walters & F. Yamini-Fard (2015)
The 2013 Mw 6.2 Khaki-Shonbe (Iran) Earthquake: insights into seismic and aseismic shortening of the Zagros sedimentary cover, Earth & Space Sciences, 2, 435-471, doi:10.1002/2015EA000098.
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[25] Copley, A., E. Karasozen, B. Oveisi, J. R. Elliott, S. Samsonov & E. K. Nissen (2015)
Seismogenic faulting of the sedimentary sequence and laterally-variable material properties in the Zagros Mountains (Iran) revealed by the August 2014 Murmuri (Dehloran) earthquake sequence, Geophysical Journal International, 203, 1436-1459, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv365.
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[24] Campbell, G. E., R. T. Walker, K. Abdrakhmatov, J. A. Jackson, J. R. Elliott, D. Mackenzie, T. Middleton & J. L. Schwenninger (2015)
Great earthquakes in low strain rate continental interiors: An example from SE Kazakhstan, Journal Geophysical Research, 120, 5507-5534, doi:10.1002/2015JB011925.
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[23] Zhou, Y., J. R. Elliott, R. T. Walker & B. Parsons (2015)
The 2013 Balochistan earthquake: an extraordinary or completely ordinary event?, Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 6236-6243, doi:10.1002/2015GL065096.
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[22] Elliott, J. R., A. Elliott, A. Hooper, Y. Larsen, P. Marinkovic, & T. J. Wright (2015)
Earthquake Monitoring Gets Boost from a New Satellite, EOS, 96, 14-18, doi:10.1029/2015EO023967.
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2014

[21] Nissen, E. K., T. Maruyama, J. R. Arrowsmith, J. R. Elliott, A. Krishnan, M. Oskin & S. Saripalli (2014)
Coseismic fault zone deformation revealed with differential LiDAR: Examples from Japanese Mw 7 intraplate earthquakes, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 405, 244-256, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.08.031.
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[20] Wang, H., J. R. Elliott, T. J. Craig, T. J. Wright, J. Liu-Zeng & A. Hooper (2014)
Normal faulting sequence in the Pumqu-Xainza Rift constrained by InSAR and teleseismic body-wave seismology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15, 2947-2963, doi:10.1002/2014GC005369.
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2013

[19] Wright, T. J., J. R. Elliott, H. Wang & I. Ryder (2013)
Earthquake cycle deformation and the Moho: Implications for the rheology of continental lithosphere, Tectonophysics, 609, 504-523, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.07.029.
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[18] Feng, W., Z. Li, J. R. Elliott, Y. Fukushima, T. Hoey, A. Singleton, R. Cook & Z. Xu (2013)
The 2011 Mw 6.8 Burma earthquake: Fault constraints provided by multiple SAR techniques, Geophysical Journal International, 195, 650-660, doi:10.1093/gji/ggt254.
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[17] Campbell, G. E., R. T. Walker, K. Abdrakhmatov, J. L. Schwenninger, J. A. Jackson, J. R. Elliott & A. C. Copley (2013)
The Dzhungarian fault: Late Quaternary tectonics and slip rate of a major right-lateral strike-slip fault in the northern Tien Shan region, Journal Geophysical Research, 118, 5681-5698, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50367.
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[16] Crowley, K. & J. R. Elliott (2013)
A reply to Gomez and Hart’s ‘goldrush’, The Geographical Journal, 179, 278, doi:10.1111/geoj.12044.
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[15] Walters, R. J., J. R. Elliott, Z. Li, & B. Parsons (2013)
Rapid strain accumulation on the Ashkabad fault (Turkmenistan): a robust slip rate estimate from MERIS-corrected InSAR data, Journal Geophysical Research, 118, 3674-3690, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50236.
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[14] Elliott, J. R., A. Copley, R. Holley, K. Scharer & B. Parsons (2013)
The 2011 Mw 7.1 Van (Eastern Turkey) Earthquake, Journal Geophysical Research, 118, 1619-1637, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50117.
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[13] Walker, R. T., E. A. Bergman, J. R. Elliott, E. J. Fielding, A-R. Ghods, M. Ghoraishi, J. Jackson, M. Nemati, B. Oveisi, M. Talebian & R. Walters (2013)
The 2010-2011 South Rigan (Baluchestan) earthquake sequence and its implications for distributed deformation and earthquake hazard in southeast Iran, Geophysical Journal International, 193, 349-374, doi:10.1093/gji/ggs109.
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2012

[12] Crowley, K. & J. R. Elliott (2012)
Earthquake disasters and resilience in the global North: lessons from New Zealand and Japan, The Geographical Journal, 178, 208-215, doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00453.x.
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[11] Ebmeier, S. K., J. Biggs, T. A. Mather, J. R. Elliott, G. Wadge & F. Amelung (2012)
Measuring large topographic change with InSAR: Lava thicknesses, extrusion rate and subsidence rate at Santiaguito volcano, Guatemala, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 335, 216-225, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.027.
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[10] Elliott, J. R., E. K. Nissen, P. C. England, J. A. Jackson, S. Lamb, Z. Li, M. Oehlers & B. Parsons (2012)
Slip in the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquakes, New Zealand, Journal Geophysical Research, 117, B03401, doi:10.1029/2011JB008868.
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2011

[09] Bell, M., J. R. Elliott & B. Parsons (2011)
Interseismic strain accumulation across the Manyi fault (Tibet) prior to the 1997 Mw 7.6 earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L24303, doi:10.1029/2011GL049762.
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[08] Li, Z., J. R. Elliott, W. Feng, J. A. Jackson, B. E. Parsons & R. J. Walters (2011)
The 2010 Mw 6.8 Yushu (Qinghai, China) Earthquake: Constraints provided by InSAR & Body Wave Seismology, Journal Geophysical Research, 116, B10302, doi:10.1029/2011JB008358.
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[07] Searle, M. P., J. R. Elliott, R. J. Phillips & S.-L. Chung (2011)
Crustal-lithospheric structure and continental extrusion of Tibet, Journal of the Geological Society, 168, 633-672, doi:10.1144/0016-76492010-139.
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[06] Elliott, J. R., B. Parsons, J. A. Jackson, X. Shan, R. A. Sloan & R. T. Walker (2011)
Depth segmentation of the seismogenic continental crust: The 2008 and 2009 Qaidam earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, V. 38, L06305, doi:10.1029/2011GL046897.
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2010

[05] Elliott, J. R., R. J. Walters, P. C. England, J. A. Jackson, Z. Li & B. Parsons (2010)
Extension on the Tibetan plateau: recent normal faulting measured by InSAR and body wave seismology, Geophysical Journal International, 183, 503-555, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04754.x.
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[04] Nissen, E. K., F. Yamini-Fard, M. Tatar, A. Gholamzadeh, E. Bergman, J. R. Elliott, J. A. Jackson & B. Parsons (2010)
The vertical separation of mainshock rupture and microseismicity at Qeshm island in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt, Iran, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 296, 181-194, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.049.
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2009

[03] Walters, R. J., J. R. Elliott, N. D. Agostino, P. C. England, I. Hunstad, J. A. Jackson, B. Parsons, R. Phillips & G. Roberts (2009)
The 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake (Central Italy): an InSAR source mechanism and implications for seismic hazard, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L17312, doi:10.1029/2009GL039337.
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2008

[02] Elliott, J. R., J. Biggs, B. Parsons & T. J. Wright (2008)
InSAR Slip Rate Determination on the Altyn Tagh Fault, N. Tibet, in the Presence of Topographically Correlated Atmospheric Delays, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L12309, doi:10.1029/2008GL033659.
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2006

[01] Pyle, D. M. & J. R. Elliott (2006)
Quantitative morphology, recent evolution, and future activity of the Kameni Islands volcano, Santorini, Greece, Geosphere, 2, 253-268, doi:10.1130/GES00028.1.
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