Geology and Geological Engineering

Dr. Kevin M. Ward
Observational Seismology - Continental Tectonics
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Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Haney, M. H., Ward, K. M., Tsai, V. C., and Schmandt, B., (2020), Bulk Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle beneath Alaska from an Approximate Rayleigh-Wave Dispersion Formula, Seismology Research Letters, v. XX, no. XX, p. 1-12. doi:10.1785/0220200162

  2. Berg, E. M., Lin, F., Allam, A., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Ward, K. M., and Shen, W., (2020), Shear Velocity Model of Alaska via Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity, Phase Velocities, and Receiver Functions across the Alaska Transportable Array, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 125, no. 2, p. 1-22. doi:10.1029/2019JB018582

  3. Wang, Y., Lin, F., and Ward, K. M., (2019), Ambient noise tomography across the Cascadia subduction zone using dense linear seismic arrays and double beamforming, Geophysical Journal International, v. 217, no. 3, p. 1668-1680. doi:10.1093/gji/ggz109

  4. Pavlis, G. L., Bauer, M. A., Elliott, J. L., Koons, P., Pavlis, T. L., Ruppert, N., Ward, K. M., and Worthington, L. L., (2019), A unified three-dimensional model of the lithospheric structure at the subduction corner in southeast Alaska: Summary results from STEEP, Geosphere, v. 15, no. 2, p. 1-25. doi:10.1130/GES01488.1

  5. Ward, K. M., Lin, F., and Schmandt, B., (2018), High-resolution receiver function imaging across the Cascadia subduction zone using a dense nodal array, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 45, no. 22, p. 12218-12225. doi:10.1029/2018GL079903

  6. Ward, K. M., and Lin, F., (2018), Lithospheric Structure Across the Alaskan Cordillera from the Joint Inversion of Surface Waves and Receiver Functions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 123, no. 10, p. 8780-8797. doi:10.1002/2018JB015967

  7. Jiang, C., Schmandt, B., Ward, K. M., Lin, F., and Worthington, L. L., (2018), Upper mantle seismic structure of Alaska from Rayleigh and S-wave tomography, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 45, no. 19, p. 10350-10359. doi:10.1002/2018GL079406

  8. Jiang, C., Schmandt, B., Farrell, J., Lin, F., and Ward, K. M., (2018), Seismically anisotropic magma reservoirs underlying silicic super-eruptions, Geology, v. 46, no. 8, p. 727-730. doi:10.1130/G45104.1

  9. Farrell, J., Wu, S., Ward, K. M., and Lin, F., (2018), Persistent Noise Signal in the FairfieldNodal Three-Component 5 Hz Geophones, Seismology Research Letters, v. 89, no. 5, p. 1609-1617. doi:10.1785/0220180073

  10. Pritchard, M. E., de Silva, S. L., Michelfelder, G., Zandt, G., McNutt, S. R., Gottsmann, J., West, M. E., Blundy, J., Christensen, D. H., Finnegan, N. J., Minaya, E., Sparks, R. S. J., Sunagua, M., Unsworth, M. J., Alvizuri, C., Comeau, M. J., del Potro, R., Diaz, D., Diez, M., Farrell, A., Henderson, S. T., Jay, J. A., Lopez, T., Legrand, D., Naranjo, J. A., McFarlin, H., Muir, D., Perkins, J. P., Spica, Z., Wilder, A., and Ward, K. M., (2018), Synthesis: PLUTONS: Investigating the relationship between pluton growth and volcanism in the central Andes, Geosphere, v. 14, no. 3, p. 954-982. doi:10.1130/GES01578.1

  11. McFarlin, H., Christensen, D. H., McNutt, S., Ward, K. M., Ryan, J., Zandt, G., and Thompson, G., (2017), Receiver function analyses of Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia and vicinity, Geosphere, v. 14, no. 1, p. 50-64. doi:10.1130/GES01560.1

  12. Wu, S., Ward, K. M., Farrell, J., Lin, F., Karplus, M., and Smith, R. B., (2017), Anatomy of Old Faithful from subsurface seismic imaging of the Yellowstone Upper Geyser Basin, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44, no. 20, p. 10240-10247. doi:10.1002/2017GL075255

  13. Delph, J. R., Abgarmi, B., Ward, K. M., Beck, S. L., Ozacar, A. A., Zandt, G., Sandvol, E., Turkelli, N., and Kalafat, D., (2017), The effects of subduction termination on the continental lithosphere: Linking volcanism, deformation, surface uplift, and slab tearing in central Anatolia, Geosphere, v. 13, no. 6, p. 1788-1805. doi:10.1130/GES01478.1

  14. Ward, K. M., Delph, J. R., Zandt, G., Beck, S. L., and Ducea, M. N., (2017), Magmatic evolution of a Cordilleran flare-up and its role in the creation of silicic crust, Scientific Reports, v. 7, no. 9047. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09015-5

  15. Ward, K. M., and Lin, F., (2017), On the Viability of Using Autonomous Three-Component Nodal Geophones to Calculate Teleseismic Ps Receiver Functions with an Application to Old Faithful, Yellowstone, Seismology Research Letters, v. 88, no. 5, p. 1268-1278. doi:10.1785/0220170051

  16. Garzione, C. N., McQuarrie, N., Perez N. D., Ehlers, T. A., Beck, S. L., Kar, N., Eichelberger, N., Chapman, A. D., Ward, K. M., Ducea, M. N., Lease, R. O., Poulsen, C. J., Wagner, L. S., Saylor, J. E., Zandt, G., and Horton, B. K., (2017), Tectonic Evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Implications for the Growth of Plateaus, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 45, no. 1, p. 529-559. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020612

  17. Delph, J. R., Ward, K. M., Zandt, G., Ducea, M. N., and Beck, S. L., (2017), Imaging a magma plumbing system from MASH zone to magma reservoir, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 457, p. 313-324. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.10.008

  18. Ward, K. M., Zandt, G., Beck, S. L., Wagner, L. S., and Tavera, H., (2016), Lithospheric structure beneath the northern Central Andean Plateau from the joint inversion of ambient noise and earthquake-generated surface waves, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 121, no. 11, p. 8217-8238. doi:10.1002/2016JB013237

  19. Perkins, J. P., Ward, K. M., de Silva, S. L., Zandt, G., Beck, S. L., and Finnegan, N. J., (2016), Surface uplift in the Central Andes driven by growth of the Altiplano Puna Magma Body, Nature Communications, v. 7, no. 13185. doi:10.1038/ncomms13185

  20. Pepper, M., Gehrels, G., Pullen, A., Ibanez-Mejia, M., Ward, K. M., and Kapp, P., (2016), Magmatic history and crustal genesis of western South America: Constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons in modern rivers, Geosphere, v. 12, no. 5, p. 1532-1555. doi:10.1130/GES01315.1

  21. Delph, J. R., Biryol, C. B., Beck, S. L., Zandt, G., Beck, S. L., and Ward, K. M., (2015), Shear wave velocity structure of the Anatolian Plate: anomalously slow crust in southwestern Turkey, Geophysical Journal International, v. 202, no. 1, p. 261-276. doi:10.1093/gji/ggv141

  22. Ward, K. M., (2015), Ambient noise tomography across the southern Alaskan Cordillera, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 42, no. 9, p. 3218-3227. doi:10.1002/2015GL063613

  23. Beck, S. L., Zandt, G., Ward, K. M., and Scire, A., (2015), Multiple styles and scales of lithospheric foundering beneath the Puna Plateau, central Andes, Geological Society of America Memoirs, v. 212. doi:10.1130/2015.1212(03)

  24. Ward, K. M., Zandt, G., Beck, S. L., Christensen, D. H., and McFarlin, H., (2014), Seismic imaging of the magmatic underpinnings beneath the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex from the joint inversion of surface wave dispersion and receiver functions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 404, p. 43-53. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.07.022

  25. Ward, K. M., Porter, R. C., Zandt, G., Beck, S. L., Wagner, L. S., Minaya, E., and Tavera, H., (2014), Erratum: Ambient noise tomography across the Central Andes, Geophysical Journal International, v. 196, no. 2, p. 1264-1265. doi:10.1093/gji/ggt429

  26. Ward, K. M., Porter, R. C., Zandt, G., Beck, S. L., Wagner, L. S., Minaya, E., and Tavera, H., (2013), Ambient noise tomography across the Central Andes, Geophysical Journal International, v. 194, no. 3, p. 1559-1573. doi:10.1093/gji/ggt166
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Articles

  1. Ward, K. M., Delph, J. R., and Beck, S. L., (2016), Extending Recent Seismic Imaging Successes to South America. Eos, 97. doi:10.1029/2016EO051271
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phone: (605) 394-2461 / email: kevin.ward@sdsmt.edu / Updated: August 13th, 2020