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Earth Science

D-Index
97
Citations
32584
World Ranking
161
National Ranking
18

Best Publications

  • Active tectonics of the Alpine—Himalayan Belt between western Turkey and Pakistan

    James Jackson;Dan McKenzie

  • Active tectonics of the north and central Aegean Sea

    Tuncay Taymaz;James Jackson;Dan McKenzie

  • The relationship between plate motions and seismic moment tensors, and the rates of active deformation in the Mediterranean and Middle East

    James Jackson;Dan McKenzie

  • Active tectonics of the Adriatic Region

    Helen Anderson;James Jackson

  • Active tectonics of the South Caspian Basin

    James Jackson;Keith Priestley;Mark Allen;Manuel Berberian

  • Strength of the continental lithosphere: Time to abandon the jelly sandwich?

    James Jackson

  • Normal faulting in the upper continental crust: observations from regions of active extension

    J.A. Jackson;N.J. White

  • The relationship between strain rates, crustal thickening, palaeomagnetism, finite strain and fault movements within a deforming zone

    Dan McKenzie;James Jackson

  • A reappraisal of earthquake focal mechanisms and active shortening in the Zagros mountains of Iran

    Morteza Talebian;James Jackson

  • The geometrical evolution of normal fault systems

    James Jackson;Dan McKenzie

  • Earthquake focal depths, effective elastic thickness, and the strength of the continental lithosphere

    Alessia Maggi;James Jackson;Dan Mckenzie;Keith Priestley

  • Active Tectonics of the Aegean Region

    James Jackson

  • Active normal faulting and crustal extension

    J. A. Jackson

  • Partitioning of strike‐slip and convergent motion between Eurasia and Arabia in eastern Turkey and the Caucasus

    James Jackson

  • Reactivation of basement faults and crustal shortening in orogenic belts

    J. A. Jackson

  • The structural evolution of active fault and fold systems in central Otago, New Zealand: evidence revealed by drainage patterns

    James Jackson;Richard Norris;John Youngson

  • Surface displacements and source parameters of the 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquake from Envisat advanced synthetic aperture radar imagery

    Gareth J. Funning;Gareth J. Funning;Barry Parsons;Tim J. Wright;James A. Jackson

  • Active tectonics and late Cenozoic strain distribution in central and eastern Iran

    Richard Walker;James Jackson

  • Offset on the Main Recent Fault of NW Iran and implications for the late Cenozoic tectonics of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone

    Morteza Talebian;James Jackson

  • The relationship between the geometry of normal faults and that of the sedimentary layers in their hanging walls

    N.J. White;J.A. Jackson;D.P. McKenzie

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Walker
Richard Walker University of Oxford
Keith Priestley
Keith Priestley University of Cambridge
Dan McKenzie
Dan McKenzie University of Cambridge
Barry Parsons
Barry Parsons University of Oxford
Morteza Talebian
Morteza Talebian Geological Survey of Iran
David Cutts
David Cutts Brown University
M. R. Adams
M. R. Adams University of Illinois at Chicago

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