Karen M. Fischer - Publications

Affiliations: 
Brown University, Providence, RI 
Area:
Geophysics

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2020 Chen K, Fischer KM, Hua J, Gung Y. Imaging crustal melt beneath northeast Japan with Ps receiver functions Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 537: 116173. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2020.116173  0.546
2019 Daniels C, Peng Z, Wu Q, Ni S, Meng X, Yao D, Wagner LS, Fischer KM. The 15 February 2014 Mw 4.1 South Carolina Earthquake Sequence: Aftershock Productivity, Hypocentral Depths, and Stress Drops Seismological Research Letters. 91: 452-464. DOI: 10.1785/0220190034  0.432
2018 Eilon Z, Fischer KM, Dalton CA. An adaptive Bayesian inversion for upper-mantle structure using surface waves and scattered body waves Geophysical Journal International. 214: 232-253. DOI: 10.1093/Gji/Ggy137  0.366
2018 Hu J, Liu L, Faccenda M, Zhou Q, Fischer KM, Marshak S, Lundstrom C. Modification of the Western Gondwana craton by plume–lithosphere interaction Nature Geoscience. 11: 203-210. DOI: 10.1038/S41561-018-0064-1  0.522
2018 Hopper E, Fischer KM. The Changing Face of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary: Imaging Continental Scale Patterns in Upper Mantle Structure Across the Contiguous U.S. With Sp Converted Waves Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 19: 2593-2614. DOI: 10.1029/2018Gc007476  0.446
2018 Hua J, Fischer KM, Savage MK. The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath the South Island of New Zealand Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 484: 92-102. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2017.12.011  0.494
2018 Chen C, Gilbert H, Fischer KM, Andronicos CL, Pavlis GL, Hamburger MW, Marshak S, Larson T, Yang X. Lithospheric discontinuities beneath the U.S. Midcontinent – signatures of Proterozoic terrane accretion and failed rifting Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 481: 223-235. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2017.10.033  0.601
2018 Jadamec MA, Kreylos O, Chang B, Fischer KM, Yikilmaz MB. A Visual Survey of Global Slab Geometries With ShowEarthModel and Implications for a Three-Dimensional Subduction Paradigm Earth and Space Science. 5: 240-257. DOI: 10.1002/2017Ea000349  0.33
2017 Mancinelli NJ, Fischer KM. The spatial sensitivity of Sp converted waves—scattered-wave kernels and their applications to receiver-function migration and inversion Geophysical Journal International. 212: 1722-1735. DOI: 10.1093/Gji/Ggx506  0.337
2017 MacDougall JG, Jadamec MA, Fischer KM. The zone of influence of the subducting slab in the asthenospheric mantle Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 122: 6599-6624. DOI: 10.1002/2017Jb014445  0.498
2017 Mancinelli NJ, Fischer KM, Dalton CA. How Sharp Is the Cratonic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Transition? Geophysical Research Letters. 44: 10,189-10,197. DOI: 10.1002/2017Gl074518  0.588
2016 Hopper E, Fischer KM, Wagner LS, Hawman RB. Reconstructing the end of the Appalachian orogeny Geology. 45: 15-18. DOI: 10.1130/G38453.1  0.496
2016 Hopper E, Fischer KM, Rondenay S, Hawman RB, Wagner LS. Imaging crustal structure beneath the southern Appalachians with wavefield migration Geophysical Research Letters. 43: 12,054-12,062. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl071005  0.503
2016 Parker Jr. EH, Hawman RB, Fischer KM, Wagner LS. Estimating crustal thickness using SsPmp in regions covered by low-velocity sediments: Imaging the Moho beneath the Southeastern Suture of the Appalachian Margin Experiment (SESAME) array, SE Atlantic Coastal Plain Geophysical Research Letters. 43: 9627-9635. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl070103  0.485
2016 Biryol CB, Wagner LS, Fischer KM, Hawman RB. Relationship between observed upper mantle structures and recent tectonic activity across the Southeastern United States Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. DOI: 10.1002/2015Jb012698  0.537
2015 Horry Parker E, Hawman RB, Fischer KM, Wagner LS. Constraining lithologic variability along the Alleghanian detachment in the southern Appalachians using passive-source seismology Geology. 43: 431-434. DOI: 10.1130/G36517.1  0.555
2015 MacDougall JG, Fischer KM, Forsyth DW, Hawman RB, Wagner LS. Shallow mantle velocities beneath the southern Appalachians from Pn phases Geophysical Research Letters. 42: 339-345. DOI: 10.1002/2014Gl062714  0.585
2014 Ford HA, Fischer KM, Lekic V. Localized shear in the deep lithosphere beneath the san andreas fault system Geology. 42: 295-298. DOI: 10.1130/G35128.1  0.534
2014 Calixto FJ, Robinson D, Sandvol E, Kay S, Abt D, Fischer K, Heit B, Yuan X, Comte D, Alvarado P. Shear wave splitting and shear wave splitting tomography of the southern Puna plateau Geophysical Journal International. 199: 688-699. DOI: 10.1093/Gji/Ggu296  0.419
2014 MacDougall JG, Kincaid C, Szwaja S, Fischer KM. The impact of slab dip variations, gaps and rollback on mantle wedge flow: Insights from fluids experiments Geophysical Journal International. 197: 705-730. DOI: 10.1093/Gji/Ggu053  0.477
2014 Hopper E, Ford HA, Fischer KM, Lekic V, Fouch MJ. The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary and the tectonic and magmatic history of the northwestern United States Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 402: 69-81. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2013.12.016  0.561
2014 Lekić V, Fischer KM. Contrasting lithospheric signatures across the western United States revealed by Sp receiver functions Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 402: 90-98. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2013.11.026  0.569
2014 Abers GA, Fischer KM, Hirth G, Wiens DA, Plank T, Holtzman BK, McCarthy C, Gazel E. Reconciling mantle attenuationerature relationships from seismology, petrology, and laboratory measurements Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 15: 3521-3542. DOI: 10.1002/2014Gc005444  0.686
2013 Harmon N, De La Cruz MSD, Rychert CA, Abers G, Fischer K. Crustal and mantle shear velocity structure of Costa Rica and Nicaragua from ambient noise and teleseismic Rayleigh wave tomography Geophysical Journal International. 195: 1300-1313. DOI: 10.1093/Gji/Ggt309  0.818
2013 Rondenay S, Bostock MG, Fischer KM. Multichannel Inversion of Scattered Teleseismic Body Waves: Practical Considerations and Applicability Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms. 187-203. DOI: 10.1029/157Gm12  0.455
2013 Fischer KM, Li A, Forsyth DW, Hung SH. Imaging Three-Dimensional Anisotropy with Broadband Seismometer Arrays Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms. 99-116. DOI: 10.1029/157Gm07  0.67
2013 Li A, Forsyth DW, Fischer KM. Rayleigh Wave Constraints on Shear-Wave Structure and Azimuthal Anisotropy Beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry, and Geophysics. 385-401. DOI: 10.1029/154Gm29  0.756
2013 Parker EH, Hawman RB, Fischer KM, Wagner LS. Crustal evolution across the southern Appalachians: Initial results from the SESAME broadband array Geophysical Research Letters. 40: 3853-3857. DOI: 10.1002/Grl.50761  0.488
2012 MacDougall JG, Fischer KM, Anderson ML. Seismic anisotropy above and below the subducting Nazca lithosphere in southern South America Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. 117. DOI: 10.1029/2012Jb009538  0.554
2011 Lekic V, French SW, Fischer KM. Lithospheric thinning beneath rifted regions of Southern California. Science (New York, N.Y.). 334: 783-7. PMID 21979933 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1208898  0.535
2011 Yuan H, Romanowicz B, Fischer KM, Abt D. 3-D shear wave radially and azimuthally anisotropic velocity model of the North American upper mantle Geophysical Journal International. 184: 1237-1260. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2010.04901.X  0.586
2010 Fischer KM, Ford HA, Abt DL, Rychert CA. The Lithosphere- Asthenosphere Boundary Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 38: 551-575. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Earth-040809-152438  0.753
2010 Till CB, Elkins-Tanton LT, Fischer KM. A mechanism for low-extent melts at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 11. DOI: 10.1029/2010Gc003234  0.539
2010 Abt DL, Fischer KM, French SW, Ford HA, Yuan H, Romanowicz B. North American lithospheric discontinuity structure imaged by Ps and Sp receiver functions Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 115. DOI: 10.1029/2009Jb006914  0.578
2010 Abt DL, Fischer KM, Abers GA, Protti M, González V, Strauch W. Constraints on upper mantle anisotropy surrounding the Cocos slab from SK(K)S splitting Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 115. DOI: 10.1029/2009Jb006710  0.684
2010 French SW, Warren LM, Fischer KM, Abers GA, Strauch W, Protti JM, Gonzalez V. Constraints on upper plate deformation in the Nicaraguan subduction zone from earthquake relocation and directivity analysis Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 11. DOI: 10.1029/2009Gc002841  0.657
2010 Rychert CA, Shearer PM, Fischer KM. Scattered wave imaging of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary Lithos. 120: 173-185. DOI: 10.1016/J.Lithos.2009.12.006  0.7
2010 Ford HA, Fischer KM, Abt DL, Rychert CA, Elkins-Tanton LT. The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary and cratonic lithospheric layering beneath Australia from Sp wave imaging Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 300: 299-310. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2010.10.007  0.756
2010 MacKenzie LS, Abers GA, Rondenay S, Fischer KM. Imaging a steeply dipping subducting slab in Southern Central America Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 296: 459-468. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2010.05.033  0.747
2009 Abt DL, Fischer KM, Abers GA, Strauch W, Protti JM, González V. Shear wave anisotropy beneath Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Implications for flow in the mantle wedge Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 10. DOI: 10.1029/2009Gc002375  0.708
2009 French SW, Fischer KM, Syracuse EM, Wysession ME. Crustal structure beneath the Florida-to-Edmonton broadband seismometer array Geophysical Research Letters. 36. DOI: 10.1029/2008Gl036331  0.481
2008 Hoernle K, Abt DL, Fischer KM, Nichols H, Hauff F, Abers GA, van den Bogaard P, Heydolph K, Alvarado G, Protti M, Strauch W. Arc-parallel flow in the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Nature. 451: 1094-7. PMID 18223639 DOI: 10.1038/Nature06550  0.693
2008 Abt DL, Fischer KM. Resolving three-dimensional anisotropic structure with shear wave splitting tomography Geophysical Journal International. 173: 859-886. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2008.03757.X  0.535
2008 Harmon N, Gerstoft P, Rychert CA, Abers GA, de la Cruz MS, Fischer KM. Phase velocities from seismic noise using beamforming and cross correlation in Costa Rica and Nicaragua Geophysical Research Letters. 35. DOI: 10.1029/2008Gl035387  0.732
2008 Rychert CA, Fischer KM, Abers GA, Plank T, Syracuse E, Protti JM, Gonzalez V, Strauch W. Strong along-arc variations in attenuation in the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica and Nicaragua Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 9. DOI: 10.1029/2008Gc002040  0.802
2008 MacKenzie L, Abers GA, Fischer KM, Syracuse EM, Protti JM, Gonzalez V, Strauch W. Crustal structure along the southern Central American volcanic front Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 9. DOI: 10.1029/2008Gc001991  0.724
2008 Syracuse EM, Abers GA, Fischer K, MacKenzie L, Rychert C, Protti M, González V, Strauch W. Seismic tomography and earthquake locations in the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican upper mantle Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 9: n/a-n/a. DOI: 10.1029/2008Gc001963  0.819
2007 Rychert CA, Rondenay S, Fischer KM. P-to-S and S-to-P imaging of a sharp lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath eastern North America Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 112. DOI: 10.1029/2006Jb004619  0.732
2005 Rychert CA, Fischer KM, Rondenay S. A sharp lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary imaged beneath eastern North America. Nature. 436: 542-5. PMID 16049485 DOI: 10.1038/Nature03904  0.77
2004 Savage MK, Fischer KM, Hall CE. Strain modelling, seismic anisotropy and coupling at strike-slip boundaries: Applications in New Zealand and the San Andreas fault Geological Society Special Publication. 227: 9-39. DOI: 10.1144/Gsl.Sp.2004.227.01.02  0.462
2004 Harmon N, Forsyth DW, Fischer KM, Webb SC. Variations in shear-wave splitting in young Pacific seafloor Geophysical Research Letters. 31: L15609 1-4. DOI: 10.1029/2004Gl020495  0.557
2003 Rondenay S, Fischer KM. Constraints on localized core-mantle boundary structure from multichannel, broadband SKS coda analysis Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 108: ESE 9-1 - ESE 9-16. DOI: 10.1029/2003Jb002518  0.544
2003 Weeraratne DS, Forsyth DW, Fischer KM, Nyblade AA. Evidence for an upper mantle plume beneath the Tanzanian craton from Rayleigh wave tomography Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. 108: ESE 10-1 - 10-17. DOI: 10.1029/2002Jb002273  0.597
2003 Li A, Forsyth DW, Fischer KM. Shear velocity structure and azimuthal anisotropy beneath eastern North America from Rayleigh wave inversion Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. 108: ESE 1-1- ESE 1-24. DOI: 10.1029/2002Jb002259  0.742
2003 Fisher JL, Wysession ME, Fischer KM. Small-scale lateral variations in D" attenuation and velocity structure Geophysical Research Letters. 30: 18-1. DOI: 10.1029/2002Gl016179  0.522
2002 Fischer KM. Waning buoyancy in the crustal roots of old mountains. Nature. 417: 933-6. PMID 12087400 DOI: 10.1038/Nature00855  0.401
2002 Fischer KM. Flow and fabric deep down. Nature. 415: 745-8. PMID 11845192 DOI: 10.1038/415745A  0.533
2002 Li A, Forsyth DW, Fischer KM. Evidence for shallow isostatic compensation of the southern Rocky Mountains from Rayleigh wave tomography Geology. 30: 683-686. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0683:Efsico>2.0.Co;2  0.753
2002 Li A, Fischer KM, van der Lee S, Wysession ME. Crust and upper mantle discontinuity structure beneath eastern North America Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. 107: ESE 7-1 - ESE 7-13. DOI: 10.1029/2001Jb000190  0.715
2002 Fouch MJ, Fischer KM, Wysession ME. Erratum to “Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the Pacific: Imaging the source of the Hawaiian plume” Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 195: 299-300. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00570-2  0.375
2002 Fischer KM. Earth science: Flow and fabric deep down Nature. 415: 745-748.  0.439
2001 Smith GP, Wiens DA, Fischer KM, Dorman LM, Webb SC, Hildebrand JA. A complex pattern of mantle flow in the Lau backarc. Science (New York, N.Y.). 292: 713-6. PMID 11326095 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1058763  0.485
2001 Wysession ME, Fischer KM, Al-Eqabi GI, Shore PJ, Gurari I. Using MOMA broadband array ScS-S data to image smaller-scale structures at the base of the mantle Geophysical Research Letters. 28: 867-870. DOI: 10.1029/2000Gl008485  0.578
2001 Fouch MJ, Fischer KM, Wysession ME. Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the Pacific: Imaging the source of the Hawaiian plume Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 190: 167-180. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00380-6  0.587
2000 Hall CE, Fischer KM, Parmentier EM, Blackman DK. The influence of plate motions on three-dimensional back arc mantle flow and shear wave splitting Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 105: 28009-28033. DOI: 10.1029/2000Jb900297  0.524
2000 Fischer KM, Parmentier EM, Stine AR, Wolf ER. Modeling anisotropy and plate-driven flow in the Tonga subduction zone back arc Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 105: 16181-16191. DOI: 10.1029/1999Jb900441  0.511
2000 Fouch MJ, Fischer KM, Parmentier EM, Wysession ME, Clarke TJ. Shear wave splitting, continental keels, and patterns of mantle flow Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 105: 6255-6275. DOI: 10.1029/1999Jb900372  0.537
1999 Wysession ME, Langenhorst A, Fouch MJ, Fischer KM, Al-Eqabi GI, Shore PJ, Clarke TJ. Lateral variations in Compressional/Shear velocities at the base of the mantle Science (New York, N.Y.). 284: 120-5. PMID 10102807 DOI: 10.1126/Science.284.5411.120  0.531
1999 Fischer KM, Van Der Hilst RD. A seismic look under the continents Science. 285: 1365-1366. DOI: 10.1126/Science.285.5432.1365  0.437
1999 Wysession ME, Langenhorst A, Fouch MJ, Fischer KM, Al-Eqabi GI, Shore PJ, Clarke TJ. Lateral variations in compressional/shear velocities at the base of the mantle Science. 284: 120-125. DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5411.120  0.376
1998 Li A, Fischer KM, Wysession ME, Clarke TJ. Mantle discontinuities and temperature under the North American continental keel Nature. 395: 160-163. DOI: 10.1038/25972  0.741
1998 Fouch MJ, Fischer KM. Shear wave anisotropy in the Mariana subduction zone Geophysical Research Letters. 25: 1221-1224. DOI: 10.1029/98Gl00650  0.488
1998 Fischer KM, Fouch MJ, Wiens DA, Boettcher MS. Anisotropy and flow in pacific subduction zone back-arcs Pure and Applied Geophysics. 151: 463-475. DOI: 10.1007/S000240050123  0.557
1996 Fouch MJ, Fischer KM. Mantle anisotropy beneath northwest Pacific subduction zones Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. 101: 15987-16002. DOI: 10.1029/96Jb00881  0.542
1996 Wysession ME, Fischer KM, Clarke TJ, Al-eqabi GI, Fouch MJ, Shore PJ, Valenzuela RW, Li A, Zaslow JM. Slicing into the earth Eos. 77: 477+480-481. DOI: 10.1029/96Eo00317  0.683
1996 Fischer KM, Wiens DA. The depth distribution of mantle anisotropy beneath the Tonga subduction zone Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 142: 253-260. DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(96)00084-2  0.541
1995 Xiaoping Yang, Fischer KM, Abers GA. Seismic anisotropy beneath the Shumagin Islands segment of the Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone Journal of Geophysical Research. 100: 18,165-18,177. DOI: 10.1029/95Jb01425  0.708
1995 Yang X, Fischer KM, Abers GA. Seismic anisotropy beneath the Shumagin Islands segment of the Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 100: 18165-18177. DOI: 10.1029/95JB01425  0.651
1994 Xiaoping Yang, Fischer KM. Constraints on North Atlantic upper mantle anisotropy from S and SS phases Geophysical Research Letters. 21: 309-312. DOI: 10.1029/93Gl03261  0.468
1994 Fischer KM, Xiaoping Yang. Anisotropy in Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone structure Geophysical Research Letters. 21: 5-8. DOI: 10.1029/93Gl03161  0.539
1992 Fischer KM, Hough SE. Site response in Providence, Rhode Island: constraints from ambient noise measurements Seismological Research Letters. 63: 525-532. DOI: 10.1785/Gssrl.63.4.525  0.325
1991 Fischer KM, Jordan TH. Seismic strain rate and deep slab deformation in Tonga Journal of Geophysical Research. 96: 14,429-14,444. DOI: 10.1029/91Jb00153  0.432
1991 Fischer KM, Creager KC, Jordan TH. Mapping the Tonga slab Journal of Geophysical Research. 96: 14,403-14,427. DOI: 10.1029/90Jb02703  0.503
1989 McNutt M, Fischer K, Kruse S, Natland J. The origin of the Marquesas fracture zone ridge and its implications for the nature of hot spots Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 91: 381-393. DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(89)90012-5  0.399
1988 Fischer KM, Jordan TH, Creager KC. Seismic constraints on the morphology of deep slabs Journal of Geophysical Research. 93: 4773-4783. DOI: 10.1029/Jb093Ib05P04773  0.566
1986 Fischer KM, Mcnutt MK, Shure L. Thermal and mechanical constraints on the lithosphere beneath the Marquesas swell Nature. 322: 733-736. DOI: 10.1038/322733A0  0.395
1986 Fischer KM, Purdy GM. Seismic amplitude modeling and the shallow crustal structure of the East Pacific Rise at 12°N Journal of Geophysical Research. 91: 14006. DOI: 10.1029/Jb091Ib14P14006  0.514
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