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Overview

Leonardo Seeber is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular expertise in geophysics and earth-surface processes. Additional subfields include atmospheric science, management, monitoring, policy and law, and oceanography.

The main topics of Leonardo Seeber's work include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geochemical analysis, landslides and related hazards, marine and environmental studies, and maritime and coastal archaeology.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Cecilia M. McHugh, M. S. Steckler, Michael Strasser, Toshiya Kanamatsu, and Paul Betka.

Their recent papers cover a variety of topics and publication venues:

  • Isotopic and sedimentary signature of megathrust ruptures along the Japan subduction margin (2020, Marine Geology)
  • Provenance Shifts During Neogene Brahmaputra Delta Progradation Tied to Coupled Climate and Tectonic Change in the Eastern Himalaya (2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)
  • Cascading hazards of a major Bengal basin earthquake and abrupt avulsion of the Ganges River (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Neogene shallow-marine and fluvial sediment dispersal, burial, and exhumation in the ancestral Brahmaputra delta: Indo-Burman Ranges, India (2020, Journal of Sedimentary Research)
  • Post-500 ka and Holocene activity on distributed faults of the North Anatolian Fault system along the southern shelf of Marmara Sea, Turkey (2022, Tectonophysics)

Frequent publication venues featuring Leonardo Seeber's work include Marine Geology, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Nature Communications, Journal of Sedimentary Research, and Tectonophysics.

Best Publications

  • River profiles along the Himalayan arc as indicators of active tectonics

    L Seeber;V Gornitz

  • Erosion, Himalayan geodynamics, and the geomorphology of metamorphism

    Peter K. Zeitler;Anne S. Meltzer;Peter O. Koons;David Craw

  • Seismicity and Continental Subduction in the Himalayan Arc

    Leonardo Seeber;John G. Armbruster;Richard C. Quittmeyer

  • Great Detachment Earthquakes Along the Himalayan Arc and Long-Term Forecasting

    Leonardo Seeber;John G. Armbruster

  • 40 – Case Histories of Induced and Triggered Seismicity

    Arthur F. McGarr;David Simpson;L. Seeber

  • Submarine fault scarps in the Sea of Marmara pull-apart (North Anatolian Fault): Implications for seismic hazard in Istanbul

    Rolando Armijo;Nicolas Pondard;Bertrand Meyer;Gulsen Uçarkus

  • A shallow fault-zone structure illuminated by trapped waves in the Karadere–Duzce branch of the North Anatolian Fault, western Turkey

    Yehuda Ben-Zion;Zhigang Peng;David Okaya;Leonardo Seeber

  • Cross-fault triggering in the November 1987 Superstition Hills Earthquake Sequence, southern California

    K. W. Hudnut;L. Seeber;J. Pacheco

  • Locked and loading megathrust linked to active subduction beneath the Indo-Burman Ranges

    Michael S. Steckler;Dhiman Ranjan Mondal;Dhiman Ranjan Mondal;Syed Humayun Akhter;Leonardo Seeber

  • Collision of the Ganges Brahmaputra Delta with the Burma Arc: Implications for earthquake hazard

    Michael S. Steckler;S. Humayun Akhter;Leonardo Seeber

  • On the Modified Mercalli intensities and magnitudes of the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes

    Susan E. Hough;John G. Armbruster;Leonardo Seeber;Jerry F. Hough

  • Focal depths and fault plane solutions of earthquakes and active tectonics of the Himalaya

    Jean Baranowski;John Armbruster;Leonardo Seeber;Peter Molnar

  • Crustal reworking at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan: Metamorphic consequences of thermal-mechanical coupling facilitated by erosion

    Peter K. Zeitler;Peter O. Koons;Michael P. Bishop;C. Page Chamberlain

  • Attenuation of high‐frequency shear waves in the crust: Measurements from New York State, South Africa, and southern California

    Arthur Frankel;Art McGarr;John Bicknell;Jim Mori

  • Seismic evidence for conjugate slip and block rotation within the San Andreas Fault System, southern California

    Craig Nicholson;Leonardo Seeber;Patrick Williams;Lynn R. Sykes

  • InSAR measurements of compaction and subsidence in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh

    Stephanie A. Higgins;Stephanie A. Higgins;Irina Overeem;Irina Overeem;Michael S. Steckler;James P. M. Syvitski;James P. M. Syvitski

  • The northwestern termination of the Himalayan Mountain Front: Active tectonics from microearthquakes

    J. Armbruster;L. Seeber;K. H. Jacob

  • Strain partitioning along the Himalayan arc and the Nanga Parbat antiform

    Leonardo Seeber;Arnaud Pêcher

  • Submarine earthquake geology along the North Anatolia Fault in the Marmara Sea, Turkey: A model for transform basin sedimentation

    Cecilia M.G. McHugh;Cecilia M.G. McHugh;Leonardo Seeber;Marie-Helene Cormier;Jessica Dutton

  • Early Middle Paleozoic Intraplate Orogeny in the Ogcheon Belt (South Korea): A new insight on the Paleozoic buildup of east Asia

    Dominique Cluzel;Laurent Jolivet;Jean-Paul Cadet

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S. Steckler
Michael S. Steckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Marie-Helene Cormier
Marie-Helene Cormier University of Rhode Island
Steven L. Goodbred
Steven L. Goodbred Vanderbilt University
Chris Paola
Chris Paola University of Minnesota
Susan E. Hough
Susan E. Hough United States Geological Survey
Stuart N. Thomson
Stuart N. Thomson University of Arizona
Naci Görür
Naci Görür Istanbul Technical University
Lynn R. Sykes
Lynn R. Sykes Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Felix Waldhauser
Felix Waldhauser Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Ken Ikehara
Ken Ikehara National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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