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Tony Dahlen
Professor of Geosciences
(Seismology)

Department of Geosciences
Princeton University

Professor Dahlen passed away on June 3rd, 2007. A fund will be set up in his memory. Details will be posted in these pages soon. Check made out to the "Trustees of Princeton University", with "Dahlen fund" written in the memo line can be mailed to: Ms. Debbie Fahey, 114 Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544.

Publications on critical-taper wedge mechanics and mountain building

Dahlen, F. A., Mechanical energy budget of a fold-and-thrust belt, Nature, 331, 335-337, 1988.

Barr, T. D. & Dahlen, F. A., Thermodynamic efficiency of brittle frictional mountain building, Science, 242, 749-752, 1988.

Dahlen, F. A., & Barr, T. D., Brittle frictional mountain building --1. Deformation and mechanical energy budget, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3906-3922, 1989.

Barr, T. D. & Dahlen, F. A., Brittle frictional mountain building --2. Thermal structure and heat budget, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3923-3947, 1989.

Barr, T. D. & Dahlen, F. A., Constraints on friction and stress in the Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt from heat flow and geochronology, Geology, 18, 111-115, 1990.

Dahlen, F. A., Critical taper model of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci, 18, 55-90, 1990.

Xiao, H., Dahlen, F. A. & Suppe, J., Mechanics of extensional wedges, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10301-10318, 1991.

Barr, T. D., Dahlen, F. A. & McPhail, D. C., Brittle frictional mountain building--3.  Low-Grade metamorphism, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10319-10338, 1991.

Williams, C., Connors, C., Dahlen, F. A., Price, E. & Suppe, J., Effect of the brittle-ductile transition on the topography of compressive mountain belts on Earth and Venus, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 19947-19974, 1994.
 

Tromp, J. & Dahlen, F. A., Summation of the Born series for the normal modes of the Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 100, 527-533, 1990.

Tromp, J. & Dahlen, F. A., Free oscillations of a spherical anelastic Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 103, 707-723, 1990.

Um, J., Dahlen, F. A. & Park, J., Normal mode multiplet coupling along a dispersion branch, Geophys. J. Int., 106, 11-35, 1991.

Um, J., & Dahlen, F. A., Normal mode multiplet coupling on an aspherical anaelastic earth, Geophys. J. Int., 111, 11-31, 1992.

Zhao, L. & Dahlen, F. A., Asymptotic eigenfrequencies of the Earth's normal modes, Geophys. J. Int., 115, 729-758, 1993.

Zhao, L. & Dahlen, F. A., Asymptotic normal modes of the Earth--II. Eigenfunctions, Geophys. J. Int., 121, 585-626, 1994.

Zhao, L. & Dahlen, F. A., Asymptotic normal modes of the Earth--III. Frechét kernel and group velocity, Geophys. J. Int., 122, 299-325, 1995.

Zhao, L. & Dahlen, F. A., Mode-sum to ray-sum transformations in a spherical and aspherical Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 126, 389-412, 1996.
 

Tromp, J. & Dahlen, F. A., Variational principles for surface wave propagation on a laterally heterogeneous Earth--I. Time-domain JWKB theory, Geophys. J. Int., 109, 581-598, 1992.

Tromp, J. & Dahlen, F. A., Variational principles for surface wave propagation on a laterally heterogeneous Earth--II. Frequency domain JWKB theory, Geophys. J. Int., 109, 599-619, 1992.

Tromp, J. & Dahlen, F. A., The Berry phase of a slowly varying waveguide, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., 437, 329-342, 1992.

Um, J. & Dahlen, F. A., Source phase and amplitude anomalies of long-period surface waves, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 1575-1578, 1992.

Tromp, J. & Dahlen, F. A., Variational principles for surface wave propagation on a laterally heterogeneous Earth--III. Potential representation, Geophys. J. Int., 112, 195-209, 1993.

Tromp, J. & Dahlen, F. A., Propagation in a slowly varying anisotropic waveguide, Geophys. J. Int., 113, 139-149, 1993.

Wang, Z., Dahlen, F. A., & Tromp, J., Surface wave caustics, Geophys. J. Int., 114, 311-324.

Tromp, J. & Dahlen, F. A., Maslov theory for surface wave propagation on a laterally heterogeneous Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 115, 512-528, 1993.

Wang, Z., & Dahlen, F. A., JWKB surface-wave seismograms on a laterally heterogeneous Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 119, 381-401, 1994.

Wang, Z. & Dahlen, F. A., Validity of surface-wave ray theory on a laterally heterogeneous Earth, Geophys. J. Int., 123, 757-773, 1995.

Meier, T., Lebedev, S., Nolet, G. & Dahlen, F. A., Diffraction tomography using multi-mode surface waves, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 8255-8267, 1997.
 

Dahlen, F. A., Metamorphism of nonhydrostatically stressed rocks, Amer J. Sci., 292, 184-198, 1992.

Dahlen, F. A., Effect of the Earth's ellipticity on the lunar tidal potential, Geophys. J. Int., 113, 250-251, 1993.

Dahlen, F. A., Single-force representation of shallow landslide sources, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 83, 130-143, 1993.

Lognonné, P., Mosser, B. & Dahlen, F. A., Excitation of Jovian seismic waves by the Shoemaker-Levy cometary impact, Icarus, 110, 180-195, 1994.

Wang, Z. & Dahlen, F. A., Spherical-spline parameterization of three-dimensional Earth models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 3099-3102, 1995.

Keers, H., Nolet, G. & Dahlen, F. A., Ray theoretical analysis of Lg, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 86, 726-737, 1996.

Keers, H., Dahlen, F. A. & Nolet, G., Chaotic ray behavior in regional seismology, Geophys. J. Int., 131, 361-380, 1997.

Zhou, Y., Nolet, G., & Dahlen, F. A., Surface sediment effects on teleseismic P wave amplitudes, J. Geophys. Res. ., submitted, 2003.

Publications on 3-D banana-doughnut traveltime tomography

Marquering, H., Nolet, G. & Dahlen, F. A., Three-dimensional waveform sensitivity kernels, Geophys. J. Int., 132, 521-534, 1998.

Tong, J, Dahlen, F. A., Nolet, G. & Marquering, H., Diffraction effects upon finite-frequency travel times: A simple 2-D example, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1983-1986, 1998.

Marquering, H., Dahlen, F. A. & Nolet, G., Three-dimensional sensitivity kernels for finte-frequency traveltimes: the banana-doughnut paradox, Geophys. J. Int., 137, 805-815, 1999.

Dahlen, F. A., Hungh, S.-H., & Nolet, G., Fréchet kernels for finite-frequency traveltimes—I. Theory, Geophys. J. Int., 141, 175-203, 2000.

Hung, S.-H., Dahlen, F.A., & Nolet, G., Fréchet kernels for finite-frequency traveltimes—II. Examples, Geophys. J. Int., 141, 175-203, 2000.

Nolet, G., & Dahlen, F.A., Wavefront healing and the eolution of seismic delay times, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 19043-19054, 2000.

Hung, S.-H., Dahlen, F.A., & Nolet, G., Wavefront healing: a banana-doughnut perspective, Geophys. J. Int., 146, 289-312, 2001.

Dahlen, F.A., & Baig, A.M., Fréchet kernels for body wave amplitudes, Geophys. J. Int., 150, 440-466, 2002.

Baig, A.M., Dahlen, F.A., & Hung, S.-H., Traveltimes of waves in random 3-D media, Geophys. J. Int.,153, 1-16, 2003.

Zhou, Y., Nolet, G., & Dahlen, F.A, Surface sediment effects on teleseismic P wave amplitudes, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2417, 2003

Montelli, R., Nolet, G., Masters, G., Dahlen, F.A., & Hung, S.-H., Global P and PP traveltime tomography: rays versus waves, Geophys. J. Int., 158, 637-654, 2003.
 

Dahlen, F.A. & Tromp, J., Theoretical Global Seismology, Princeton University Press, 1025 pages, 1998.