Jian Lin

Research interests

Publications

• Rapid transition from continental breakup to igneous oceanic crust in the South China Sea

  Nature Geoscience · 2018 · 10.1038/s41561-018-0198-1

• Seismic stratigraphy of the central South China Sea basin and implications for neotectonics

  Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · 2015 · 10.1002/2014jb011686

• Ages and magnetic structures of the South China Sea constrained by deep tow magnetic surveys and IODP Expedition 349

  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gc005567

• Widespread seismicity excitation throughout central Japan following the 2011 M=9.0 Tohoku earthquake and its interpretation by Coulomb stress transfer

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2011 · 10.1029/2011gl047834

• First active hydrothermal vents on an ultraslow-spreading center: Southwest Indian Ridge

  Geology · 2011 · 10.1130/g32389.1

• Deep-sea mining of seafloor massive sulfides

  Marine Policy · 2009 · 10.1016/j.marpol.2009.12.001

• Role of melt supply in oceanic detachment faulting and formation of megamullions

  Geology · 2008 · 10.1130/g24639a.1

• 12 May 2008 M = 7.9 Wenchuan, China, earthquake calculated to increase failure stress and seismicity rate on three major fault systems

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2008 · 10.1029/2008gl034903

• Spatio-temporal evolution of strain accumulation derived from multi-scale observations of Late Jurassic rifting in the northern North Sea: A critical test of models for lithospheric extension

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2005 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.039

• Stress triggering in thrust and subduction earthquakes and stress interaction between the southern San Andreas and nearby thrust and strike‐slip faults

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jb002607

• An ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge

  Nature · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02128

• Observational and theoretical studies of the dynamics of mantle plume–mid‐ocean ridge interaction

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2003 · 10.1029/2002rg000117

• Evidence of low flexural rigidity and low viscosity lower continental crust during continental break-up in the South China Sea

  Marine and Petroleum Geology · 2002 · 10.1016/s0264-8172(02)00108-3

• Preferential mantle lithospheric extension under the South China margin

  Marine and Petroleum Geology · 2001 · 10.1016/s0264-8172(01)00037-x

• Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer

  Nature · 2001 · 10.1038/35075548

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge–Azores hotspot interactions: along-axis migration of a hotspot-derived event of enhanced magmatism 10 to 4 Ma ago

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1999 · 10.1016/s0012-821x(99)00234-4

• Megamullions and mullion structure defining oceanic metamorphic core complexes on the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1998 · 10.1029/98jb00167

• Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes

  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa0840030935

• Stress Triggering of the 1994 M = 6.7 Northridge, California, Earthquake by Its Predecessors

  Science · 1994 · 10.1126/science.265.5177.1432

• A geological model for the structure of ridge segments in slow spreading ocean crust

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1994 · 10.1029/94jb00338

• Segmentation and morphotectonic variations along a slow-spreading center: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (24�00? N? 30�40? N)

  Marine Geophysical Research · 1993 · 10.1007/bf01204232

• The spreading rate dependence of three‐dimensional mid‐ocean ridge gravity structure

  Geophysical Research Letters · 1992 · 10.1029/91gl03041

• Change in Failure Stress on the Southern San Andreas Fault System Caused by the 1992 Magnitude = 7.4 Landers Earthquake

  Science · 1992 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.258.5086.1328

• Evidence from gravity data for focusedmagmatic accretionalong the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

  Nature · 1990 · 10.1038/344627a0

• Mechanisms for the origin of mid‐ocean ridge axial topography: Implications for the thermal and mechanical structure of accreting plate boundaries

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1987 · 10.1029/jb092ib12p12823

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