Publications

  • Bufe, C.G., and O.S. Boyd, Fault interaction in Alaska: Coulomb stress transfer, in Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska, edited by J. Freymueller, et al., AGU Monograph, 2008.
  • Wesson, R.L., O.S. Boyd, C.S. Mueller, and A.D. Frankel, Challenges in Making a Seismic Hazard Map for Alaska and the Aleutians, in Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska, edited by J. Freymueller, et al., AGU Monograph, 2008.
  • Boyd, O.S., F. Pollitz, Y. Zeng, J. Hardebeck, C.G. Bufe, and R.L. Wesson, Time-dependent Probabilistic Hazard Maps for Alaska, in Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska, edited by J. Freymueller, et al., AGU Monograph, 2008. [PDF]
  • Petersen, M.D., A.D. Frankel, S.C. Harmsen, C.S. Mueller, K.M. Haller, R.L. Wheeler, R.L. Wesson, Y. Zeng, O.S. Boyd, D.M. Perkins, N. Luco, E.H. Field, C.J. Wills, K.S. Rukstales, Documentation for the 2008 Update of the United States National Seismic Hazard Maps, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2008-1128, 2008. [PDF]
  • Boyd, O.S., M.K. Savage, C.H. Jones, and A.F. Sheehan, Illuminating upper mantle structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand, with receiver functions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2007. [PDF]
  • Boyd, O.S., C.S. Mueller, and K.S. Rukstales, Preliminary probabilistic seismic hazard map for Afghanistan, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2007-1137, 2007. [PDF]
  • Wesson, R.L., and O.S. Boyd, Stress before and after the 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L07303, doi:10.1029/2007GL029189, 2007. [PDF]
  • Wesson, R.L., O.S. Boyd, C.S. Mueller, C.G. Bufe, A.D. Frankel, and M.D. Petersen, Revision of time-independent probabilistic seismic hazard maps for Alaska, U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2007-1043, 2007. [PDF]
  • Boyd, O.S., An efficient Matlab script to calculate heterogeneous anisotropically elastic wave propagation in three dimensions, Computers and Geosciences, 32 (2), 259-264, 2006. [PDF]
  • Boyd, O.S., and A.F. Sheehan, Attenuation tomography beneath the Rocky Mountain Front: Implications for the physical state of the upper mantle, in AGU Monograph: The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere, edited by K.E. Karlstrom, and G.R. Keller, 361-377, 2005. [PDF]
  • Sheehan, A.F., V. Schulte-Pelkum, O.S. Boyd, and C.K. Wilson, Passive source seismology of the Rocky Mountain Region, in AGU Monograph: The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere, edited by K.E. Karlstrom, and G.R. Keller, 309-315, 2005. [PDF]
  • Boyd, O.S., The heterogeneous upper mantle: Insights from seismology, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado, 147 pp., 2004. [PDF]
  • Wilson, C.K., C.H. Jones, P. Molnar, A.F. Sheehan, and O.S. Boyd, Evidence for continuous deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand, Geology, 32 (10), 837-840, 2004. [PDF]
  • Boyd, O.S., C.H. Jones and A.F. Sheehan, Foundering lithosphere imaged beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, Science, 305, 660-663, 2004. [PDF]
  • Schuett, H., J. Khoeler, O.S. Boyd, and H. Spetzler, Seismic attenuation in partially saturated dime-shaped cracks, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 157 (3), 435-448, 2000. [PDF]
  • Boyd O.S., Effects on seismic absorption due to changed pore surface properties resulting from exposure to propanol: A study utilizing artificial glass cracks, Masters Thesis, University of Colorado, 121 pp., 1997. [PDF]
  • Moerig, R., W. Waite, O.S. Boyd, I. Getting, and H. Spetzler, Seismic attenuation in artificial glass cracks: Physical and physicochemical effects of fluids, Geophysical Research Letters, 23, 2053-2056, 1996. [PDF]

Manuscripts submitted and in preparation

  • Boyd, O.S., Including foreshocks and aftershocks in time-independent probabilistic seismic hazard anslysis, in preparation to be submitted to BSSA.
  • Boyd, O.S. and Y. Zeng, Increased seismic hazard in northern Sumatra due to the M 9 and M 8.7 Sumatra subduction zone earthquakes, in preparation to be submitted to BSSA.
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