Tony Lowry

Publications | Abstracts

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Publications | Book Chapters

• Wannamaker, P.E, Bartley, J.M, Sheehan, A.F, Jones, C.M, Lowry, A., Dumitru, T.A, Ehlers, T.A, Holbrook, W.S, Farmer, G.L, Unsworth, M.J, Okaya, D.A, John, B.E, Wolfe, J.A, (2001). The Great Basin-Colorado Plateau transition in central Utah: An interface between active extension and stable interior: The Geological Transition: Colorado Plateau to Basin and Range. UGA/AAPG Guidebook

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Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Schutt, D.L, Lowry, A., Buehler, J.S, (2018). Moho temperature and mobility of lower crust in the western United States. Geology, 46:3, 219-222. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G39507.1
• Ma, X., Lowry, A., (2017). USArray imaging of continental crust in the conterminous United States. Tectonics, 36:12, 2882-2902. doi: 10.1002/2017TC004540
• Crossey, L.J, Karlstrom, K.E, Schmandt, B., Crow, R.R, Colman, D., Cron, B., Takacs-Vesbach, C.D, Dahm, C.N, Northrup, D.E, Hilton, D.R, Ricketts, J., Lowry, A., (2016). Continental smokers couple mantle degassing and unique microbiology within continents. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 435:1, 22-30.
• Ravat, D., Morgan, P., Lowry, A., (2016). Geotherms from the Temperature-Depth Constrained Solutions of 1-D Steady-state Heat Flow Equation. Geosphere, 12:4, 1187-1197. doi: 10.1130/GES01235.1
• Becker, T.W, Lowry, A., Faccenna, C., Schmandt, B., Borsa, A., Yu, C., (2015). Western U.S. intermountain seismicity caused by changes in upper mantle flow. Nature, 524:7556, 458-461. doi: doi:10.1038/nature14867
• Chamoli, A., Lowry, A., Jeppson, T.N, (2014). Implications of transient deformation in the northern Basin and Range, western United States. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth
• Becker, T.W, Faccena, C., Humphreys, E.D, Lowry, A., Miller, M.S, (2014). Static and dynamic support of western U.S. topography. Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Foster, J.H, Lowry, A., Brooks, B.A, (2013). Fault frictional parameters and material properties revealed by slow slip at Kilauea volcano, Hawai'i. Geophysical Research Letters, 40:23, 6059-6063.
• Paul, J., Rajendran, C.P, Lowry, A., Andrade, V., Rajendran, K., (2012). Andaman post-seismic deformation observations: Still slipping after all these years?. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102:1, 343-351.
• Berglund, H.T, Sheehan, A.F, Murray, M.H, Roy, M., Lowry, A., Nerem, R.S, Blume, F., (2012). Distributed deformation across the Rio Grande rift, Great Plains, and Colorado Plateau. Geology, 40:1, 23-26.
• Lowry, A., Perez-Gussinye, M., (2011). The role of crustal quartz in controlling Cordilleran deformation. Nature, 471:7338, 353-357. doi: 10.1038/nature09912
• Hammond, W.C, Brooks, B.A, Burgmann, R., Heaton, T., Jackson, M., Lowry, A., Anandakrishnan, S., (2011). The scientific value of high-rate, low-latency GPS data. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 92:15, 125-126.
• DeNosaquo, K.R, Smith, R.B, Lowry, A., (2009). Density and lithospheric strength models of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain volcanic system from gravity and heat flow data. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 188, 108-127.
• Perez-Gussinye, M., Metois, M., Fernandez, J., Verges, J., Fullea, J., Lowry, A., (2009). Effective elastic thickness of Africa and its relationship to other proxies for lithospheric structure and surface tectonics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 287:1-2, 152-167.
• Perez-Gussinye, M., Lowry, A., Morgan, J.P, Tassara, A., (2008). Effective elastic thickness variations along the Andean margin and their relationship to subduction geometry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, doi: 10.1029/2007GC001786
• Paul, J., Lowry, A., Bilham, R., Sen, S., Smalley, R., (2007). Postseismic deformation of the Andaman Islands following the 26 December, 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34:L19309, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031024
• Perez-Gussinye, M., Lowry, A., Watts, A.B, (2007). The effective elastic thickness of South America and its implications for intracontinental deformation. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 8:Q05009, doi: 10.1029/2006GC001511
• Lowry, A., (2006). Resonant slow fault slip in subduction zones forced by climatic load stress. Nature, 442:7104, 802-805. doi: doi:10.1038/nature05055
• Larson, K.M, Lowry, A., Kostoglodov, V., Hutton, W., Sanchez, O., Hudnut, K., (2004). Crustal deformation measurements in Guerrero, Mexico. J. Geophys. Res., 109:B4, doi: 10.1029/2003JB-002843
• Yoshioka, Y., Mikumo, T., Kostoglodov, V., Larson, K.M, Lowry, A., Singh, S.K, (2004). Interplate coupling and a recent aseismic slow slip event in the Guerrero seismic gap of the Mexican subduction zone, as deduced from GPS data inversion using a Bayesian Information Criterion. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 146, 513-530.
• Perez-Gussinye, M., Lowry, A., Watts, A.B, Velicogna, I., (2004). On the recovery of effective elastic thickness using spectral methods: examples from synthetic data and from the Fennoscandian Shield. J. Geophys. Res., 109, B10. doi: 10.1029/2003JB002788
• Iglesias, A., Singh, S.K, Lowry, A., Santoyo, M., Kostoglodov, V., Larson, K.M, Franco- Sanchez, S.I, Mikumo, T., (2004). The silent earthquake of 2002 in the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico (Mw=7.4): inversion of slip on the plate interface and some implications. Geofisica Internacional, 43:3, 309-317.
• Kostoglodov, V., Singh, S.K, Santiago, J.A, Franco, S.I, Larson, K.M, Lowry, A., Bilham, R., (2003). A large silent earthquake in the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017219
• Bartel, B.A, Hamburger, M.W, Meertens, C.M, Lowry, A., Corpuz, E., (2003). Dynamics of active magmatic and hydrothermal systems at Taal Volcano, Philippines, from continuous GPS measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 108, B10. doi: 10.1029/2002JB002194
• Lowry, A., Zhong, S., (2003). Surface versus internal loading of the Tharsis rise, Mars. J. Geophys. Res., 108, E9. doi: 10.1029/2003JE002111
• Hamburger, M.W, Rybakov, V., Lowry, A., Shen-Tu, B., Rupp, J.A, (2002). Preliminary results from a GPS geodetic network in the southern Illinois basin. Seismological Research Letters, 73, 762-775.
• Lowry, A., Rocken, C., Sokolovskiy, S.V, Anderson, K.D, (2002). Vertical profiling of atmospheric refractivity from ground-based GPS observations. Radio Sci., 37:3, doi: 10.1029/2000RS002565
• Lowry, A., Hamburger, M.W, Meertens, C.M, Ramos, E.G, (2001). GPS monitoring of crustal deformation at Taal volcano, Philippines. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 105, 35-47.
• Sokolovskiy, S.V, Rocken, C., Lowry, A., (2001). The use of GPS for estimation of bending angles of radio waves at low elevations. Radio Science, 36, 473-482.
• Lowry, A., Larson, K.M, Kostoglodov, V., Bilham, R., (2001). Transient fault slip in Guerrero, southern Mexico. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3753-3756.
• Lowry, A., Ribe, N.M, Smith, R.B, (2000). Dynamic elevation of the Cordillera, western United States. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 23,371-23,390.
• Lowry, A., Smith, R.B, (1995). Strength and rheology of the western U.S. Cordillera. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 17947-17963.
• Lowry, A., Smith, R.B, (1994). Flexural rigidity of the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau-Rocky Mountain transition from coherence analysis of gravity and topography. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 20123-20140.
• Lowry, A., Shive, P.N, (1990). An evaluation of Bristow's method for the detection of subsurface cavities. Geophysics, 55, 514-520.
• Shive, P.N, Lowry, A., Easley, D.H, Borgman, L.E, (1990). Geostatistical simulation for geophysical applications{ Part II: Geophysical modeling. Geophysics, 55, 1441-1146.
• Lowry, A., Allen, M.B, Shive, P.N, (1989). Singularity removal: A refinement of resistivity modeling techniques. Geophysics, 54, 776-774.

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Publications | Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.