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Overview

Jian Lin is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences through a substantial body of research. Their work spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Geology, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Molecular Biology.

The researcher's publications cover a diverse range of topics primarily focused on earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Other main topics include geological and geophysical studies, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, methane hydrates and related phenomena, as well as geological studies and exploration.

Some of the recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Jian Lin include:

  • Deep high-temperature hydrothermal circulation in a detachment faulting system on the ultra-slow spreading ridge (2020), Nature Communications
  • Dynamic processes of the curved subduction system in Southeast Asia: A review and future perspective (2021), Earth-Science Reviews
  • Upper Mantle Hydration Indicated by Decreased Shear Velocity Near the Southern Mariana Trench From Rayleigh Wave Tomography (2021), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Continental Interior and Edge Breakup at Convergent Margins Induced by Subduction Direction Reversal: A Numerical Modeling Study Applied to the South China Sea Margin (2020), Tectonics
  • Deep Outer-Rise Faults in the Southern Mariana Subduction Zone Indicated by a Machine-Learning-Based High-Resolution Earthquake Catalog (2022), Geophysical Research Letters

Jian Lin frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Fan Zhang (33 joint works)
  • Zhiyuan Zhou (25 joint works)
  • K.A. Dadd (14 joint works)
  • N. Qiu (13 joint works)
  • Qiang Qiu (13 joint works)

Their research has been published across a variety of journals and repositories, with repeated contributions to the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 24 publications
  • Geophysical Research Letters - 6 publications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth - 6 publications
  • Tectonophysics - 6 publications
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University) - 6 publications

Best Publications

  • Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes

    Geoffrey C. P. King;Ross S. Stein;Jian Lin

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

    Jian Lin;Ross S. Stein

  • An ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge

    Henry J. B. Dick;Jian Lin;Hans Schouten

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

    Ross S. Stein;Geoffrey C. P. King;Jian Lin

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

    Chun Feng Li;Xing Xu;Jian Lin;Zhen Sun

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

    Brian E. Tucholke;Jian Lin;Martin C. Kleinrock

  • Coulomb 3.3 Graphic-rich deformation and stress-change software for earthquake, tectonic, and volcano research and teaching-user guide

    Shingi Toda;Ross S. Stein;Volkan Sevilgen;Jian Lin

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

    Ross S. Stein;Geoffrey C. P. King;Jian Lin

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

    Andrew M. Freed;Jian Lin

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

    Brian E. Tucholke;Jian Lin

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

    Shinji Toda;Jian Lin;Mustapha Meghraoui;Ross S. Stein

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

    Jian Lin;Jason Phipps Morgan

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

    Brian E. Tucholke;Mark D. Behn;W. Roger Buck;Jian Lin

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

    Peter Dominic Clift;J. Lin;U. Barckhausen

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

    Chunhui Tao;Jian Lin;Shiqin Guo;Yongshun John Chen

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

    Jason Phipps Morgan;E. M. Parmentier;J. Lin

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

    Chun Feng Li;Jiabiao Li;Weiwei Ding;Dieter Franke

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

    H. C. Larsen;H. C. Larsen;G. Mohn;M. Nirrengarten;Z. Sun

  • Preferential mantle lithospheric extension under the South China margin

    Peter Clift;Jian Lin

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

    Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein;Jian Lin

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

    Mathilde Cannat;Anne Briais;Christine Deplus;Javier Escartı́n;Javier Escartı́n

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross S. Stein
Ross S. Stein United States Geological Survey
Mark D. Behn
Mark D. Behn Boston College
Zhen Sun
Zhen Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shinji Toda
Shinji Toda Tohoku University
Brian E. Tucholke
Brian E. Tucholke Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Xiao-Long Huang
Xiao-Long Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhifei Liu
Zhifei Liu Tongji University
Hongfeng Yang
Hongfeng Yang Chinese University of Hong Kong
Christopher R. German
Christopher R. German Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Javier Escartín
Javier Escartín École Normale Supérieure

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