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John Beavan

John Beavan

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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
7782
World Ranking
5725
National Ranking
60

Overview

John Beavan was affiliated with GNS Science in New Zealand. Their research primarily focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences, covering various subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Mechanics of Materials, Geology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their scientific work encompassed multiple key topics including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Geological Modeling and Analysis

Beavan contributed to the Bulletin of the Kansas Geological Survey, publishing select research papers in this venue. Among the recent publications attributed to Beavan are:

  • Are cyclic sediments periodic? Gamma analysis and spectral analysis of Newark Supergroup lacustrine strata (2024), Bulletin (Kansas Geological Survey)
  • Evidence for orbital forcing of Middle Cambrian peritidal cycles: Wah Wah range, south-central Utah (2024), Bulletin (Kansas Geological Survey)

Frequent collaborators in Beavan's work included Gérard C. Bond, Michelle A. Kominz, and Jerry F McManus. These partnerships contributed to multidisciplinary research efforts in sedimentology and stratigraphy.

Overall, Beavan's research spanned quantitative and qualitative analyses of sedimentary cycles, stratigraphic periodicities, and orbital influences on geological formations. Their work contributed data and insights relevant to hydrocarbon exploration and the broader understanding of paleoclimate systems.

Best Publications

  • Subduction zone coupling and tectonic block rotations in the North Island, New Zealand

    Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan;Robert McCaffrey;Desmond Darby

  • Diverse slow slip behavior at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

    Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan

  • Contemporary horizontal velocity and strain rate fields of the Pacific‐Australian plate boundary zone through New Zealand

    John Beavan;John Haines

  • Motion and rigidity of the Pacific Plate and implications for plate boundary deformation

    J. Beavan;Paul Tregoning;M. Bevis;T Kato

  • Balancing the plate motion budget in the South Island, New Zealand using GPS, geological and seismological data

    Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan;Robert McCaffrey;Kelvin Berryman

  • The Mw 6.2 Christchurch earthquake of February 2011: preliminary report

    A Kaiser;C Holden;J Beavan;D Beetham

  • Simultaneous long‐term and short‐term slow slip events at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand: Implications for processes that control slow slip event occurrence, duration, and migration

    Laura M. Wallace;Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan;Stephen Bannister;Charles Williams

  • The kinematics of a transition from subduction to strike‐slip: An example from the central New Zealand plate boundary

    Laura Wallace;P. Barnes;J. Beavan;R. Van Dissen

  • Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand?

    R. Sutherland;D. Eberhart‐Phillips;R. A. Harris;T. Stern

  • Crustal deformation during 1994-1998 due to oblique continental collision in the central Southern Alps, New Zealand, and implications for seismic potential of the Alpine fault

    John Beavan;Margaret Moore;Chris Pearson;Mark Henderson

  • Seismic reflection character of the Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand, in the region of repeated Gisborne slow slip events

    Rebecca Bell;Rupert Sutherland;Daniel H. N. Barker;Stuart Henrys

  • Slow slip on the northern Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand

    Annie Douglas;J. Beavan;L. Wallace;J. Townend

  • Fault slip models of the 2010–2011 Canterbury, New Zealand, earthquakes from geodetic data and observations of postseismic ground deformation

    John Beavan;Mahdi Motagh;Eric J Fielding;Nic Donnelly

  • Plate boundary deformation in South Island, New Zealand, is related to inherited lithospheric structure

    Rupert Sutherland;Fred Davey;John Beavan

  • Geodetic evidence of back-arc spreading in the Mariana Trough

    Teruyuki Kato;John Beavan;Takeshi Matsushima;Yoshiko Kotake

  • Rapid microplate rotations and backarc rifting at the transition between collision and subduction

    Laura M. Wallace;Robert McCaffrey;John Beavan;Susan Ellis

  • Fault Location and Slip Distribution of the 22 February 2011 Mw 6.2 Christchurch, New Zealand, Earthquake from Geodetic Data

    John Beavan;Eric J. Fielding;Mahdi Motagh;Sergey Samsonov

  • Noise properties of continuous GPS data from concrete pillar geodetic monuments in New Zealand and comparison with data from U.S. deep drilled braced monuments

    John Beavan

  • Slow slip and frictional transition at low temperature at the Hikurangi subduction zone

    Robert McCaffrey;Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan

  • Shortening of an overriding plate and its implications for slip on a subduction thrust, central Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

    Andrew Nicol;John Beavan

  • A model of active faulting in New Zealand: fault parameter descriptions

    Geoffroy Lamarche;NJ Litchfield;R van Dissen;R Sutherland

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura M. Wallace
Laura M. Wallace The University of Texas at Austin
Susan Ellis
Susan Ellis GNS Science
Sergey Samsonov
Sergey Samsonov Natural Resources Canada
Martin Reyners
Martin Reyners GNS Science
Robert McCaffrey
Robert McCaffrey Portland State University
Roger Bilham
Roger Bilham University of Colorado Boulder
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington
Brendon A. Bradley
Brendon A. Bradley University of Canterbury

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