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  • 2000 - Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), The Geological Society of America

Overview

Basil Tikoff is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on geophysics. Their work spans several closely related subfields, including geophysics, artificial intelligence applications in geosciences, atmospheric science, geology, and earth-surface processes.

Their research covers a range of topics, notably geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, and geological studies and exploration.

Recent published papers by Tikoff include:

  • Active Normal Faulting, Diking, and Doming Above the Rapidly Inflating Laguna del Maule Volcanic Field, Chile, Imaged With CHIRP, Magnetic, and Focal Mechanism Data (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Multiple, Coeval Silicic Magma Storage Domains Beneath the Laguna Del Maule Volcanic Field Inferred From Gravity Investigations (2021) in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • An integrated structural and GPS study of the Jalpatagua fault, southeastern Guatemala (2020) in Geosphere
  • Internal structure of the Paleoarchean Mt Edgar dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia (2021) in Precambrian Research
  • Stress variations in space and time within the mantle section of an oceanic transform zone: Evidence for the seismic cycle (2020) in Geology

Tikoff collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Thomas F. Shipley
  • Ellen Nelson
  • Sarah F. Trevino
  • Nicolas Roberts
  • Alexander D. Lusk

The venues where Tikoff has most often published include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • GSA Today
  • Geosphere
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Journal of Structural Geology

In addition to journal articles, Tikoff has contributed to book publications. Notably, they co-authored a book titled Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, published by the Geological Society of America in 2022.

Their scholarly contributions have been recognized through awards, including receiving the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from The Geological Society of America in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Strain modeling of displacement-field partitioning in transpressional orogens

    Basil Tikoff;Christian Teyssier

  • The deformation matrix for simultaneous simple shearing, pure shearing and volume change, and its application to transpression-transtension tectonics

    Haakon Fossen;Basil Tikoff

  • Oblique plate motion and continental tectonics

    Christian Teyssier;Basil Tikoff;Michelle Markley

  • Extended models of transpression and transtension, and application to tectonic settings

    Haakon Fossen;Basil Tikoff

  • Stretching lineations in transpressional shear zones: an example from the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California

    Basil Tikoff;David Greene

  • Crustal-scale, en echelon P-shear tensional bridges: A possible solution to the batholithic room problem

    Basil Tikoff;Christian Teyssier

  • Simultaneous pure and simple shear: the unifying deformation matrix

    Basil Tikoff;Haakon Fossen

  • Strain modeling of transpressional and transtensional deformation

    Haakon Fossen;Basil Tikoff;Christian Teyssier;H. Fossen

  • Upper mantle tectonics: three-dimensional deformation, olivine crystallographic fabrics and seismic properties

    Andréa Tommasi;Basil Tikoff;Alain Vauchez

  • Multiscale magmatic cyclicity, duration of pluton construction, and the paradoxical relationship between tectonism and plutonism in continental arcs

    Michel de Saint Blanquat;Eric Horsman;Guillaume Habert;Sven Morgan

  • Transpressional kinematics and magmatic arcs

    Michel De Saint Blanquat;Basil Tikoff;Christian Teyssier;Jean Louis Vigneresse

  • The limitations of three-dimensional kinematic vorticity analysis

    Basil Tikoff;Haakon Fossen

  • Transpressional shearing and strike-slip partitioning in the Late Cretaceous Sierra Nevada magmatic arc, California

    Basil Tikoff;Michel de Saint Blanquat

  • Strain partitioning during partial melting and crystallizing felsic magmas

    J.L. Vigneresse;B. Tikoff

  • Thirty-Five-Year Creep Rates for the Creeping Segment of the San Andreas Fault and the Effects of the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake: Constraints from Alignment Arrays, Continuous Global Positioning System, and Creepmeters

    Sarah J. Titus;Charles DeMets;Basil Tikoff

  • Modification of the regional stress field by magma intrusion and formation of tabular granitic plutons

    Jean-Louis Vigneresse;Basil Tikoff;Laurent Améglio

  • Isotopic Evolution of the Idaho Batholith and Challis Intrusive Province, Northern US Cordillera

    Richard M. Gaschnig;Jeffrey D. Vervoort;Reed S. Lewis;Basil Tikoff

  • Strike-slip partitioned transpression of the San Andreas fault system: a lithospheric-scale approach

    Christian Teyssier;Basil Tikoff

  • Mechanisms and duration of non-tectonically assisted magma emplacement in the upper crust: The Black Mesa pluton, Henry Mountains, Utah

    Michel de Saint-Blanquat;Guillaume Habert;Eric Horsman;Sven S. Morgan

  • Competency contrast, kinematics, and the development of foliations and lineations in the crust

    Laurel B Goodwin;Basil Tikoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Shipley
Thomas F. Shipley Temple University
Christian Teyssier
Christian Teyssier University of Minnesota
Jeffrey D. Vervoort
Jeffrey D. Vervoort Washington State University
Charles DeMets
Charles DeMets University of Wisconsin–Madison
Haakon Fossen
Haakon Fossen University of Bergen
Martyn R. Drury
Martyn R. Drury Utrecht University
Eric C. Ferré
Eric C. Ferré New Mexico State University
J. Douglas Walker
J. Douglas Walker University of Kansas
William C. McClelland
William C. McClelland University of Iowa

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