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Overview

Meijian An is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in China and focuses on research within the broad field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work contributes particularly to Geophysics, with additional investigations in Geology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's study topics include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismic waves and analysis, geological and geophysical studies, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and groundwater and isotope geochemistry.

Meijian An has published research in several peer-reviewed journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Tectonophysics
  • Pure and Applied Geophysics
  • Environmental Research

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Meijian An include:

  • "Designing dynamic groundwater management strategies through a composite groundwater vulnerability model: Integrating human-related parameters into the DRASTIC model using LightGBM regression and SHAP analysis," 2023, Environmental Research
  • "Asthenospheric Flow Channel From Northeastern Tibet Imaged by Seismic Tomography Between Ordos Block and Yangtze Craton," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Lithospheric structures of and tectonic implications for the central-east Tibetan plateau inferred from joint tomography of receiver functions and surface waves," 2020, Geophysical Journal International
  • "Composition of garnet from the Yongping Cu skarn deposit, South China: Implication for ore-fluid evolution," 2021, Ore Geology Reviews
  • "An integrated approach combining LISA, BI-LISA, and the modified COPK method to improve groundwater management in large-scale karst areas," 2023, Journal of Hydrology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Meijian An are:

  • Mei Feng
  • J. Mechie
  • Marcelo Assumpção
  • Leda Sánchez Bettucci
  • Xu Guo

Best Publications

  • Lithospheric thickness of the Chinese continent

    Meijian An;Yaolin Shi

  • Seismic and geodetic evidence for extensive, long-lived fault damage zones

    Elizabeth S. Cochran;Yong-Gang Li;Peter M. Shearer;Sylvain Barbot

  • Seismic guided waves trapped in the fault zone of the Landers, California, earthquake of 1992

    Yong-Gang Li;Keiiti Aki;David Adams;Akiko Hasemi

  • Seismic trapped modes in the oroville and san andreas fault zones.

    Yong-Gang Li;Peter Leary;Keiiti Aki;Peter Malin

  • Evidence of Shallow Fault Zone Strengthening After the 1992 M7.5 Landers, California, Earthquake

    Yong-Gang Li;John E. Vidale;John E. Vidale;John E. Vidale;Keiiti Aki;Keiiti Aki;Keiiti Aki;Fei Xu;Fei Xu;Fei Xu

  • Damage to the shallow Landers fault from the nearby Hector Mine earthquake

    John E. Vidale;Yong-Gang Li

  • Temperature, lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary, and heat flux beneath the Antarctic Plate inferred from seismic velocities

    Meijian An;Douglas A. Wiens;Yue Zhao;Mei Feng

  • S-velocity model and inferred Moho topography beneath the Antarctic Plate from Rayleigh waves

    Meijian An;Douglas A. Wiens;Yue Zhao;Mei Feng

  • Fine structure of the landers fault zone: segmentation and the rupture process.

    Yong-Gang Li;Keiiti Aki;Keiiti Aki;Keiiti Aki;John E. Vidale;John E. Vidale;John E. Vidale;William H. K. Lee;William H. K. Lee;William H. K. Lee

  • Low‐velocity damaged structure of the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield from fault zone trapped waves

    Yong-Gang Li;John E. Vidale;Elizabeth S. Cochran

  • Sm–Nd geochronology and petrography of garnet pyroxene granulites in the northern Sulu region of China and their geotectonic implication

    Mingguo Zhai;Bolin Cong;Jinghui Guo;Wenjun Liu

  • Depth-dependent structure of the Landers fault zone from trapped waves generated by aftershocks

    Yong-Gang Li;John E. Vidale;Keiiti Aki;Fei Xu

  • Near‐fault anisotropy following the Hector Mine earthquake

    Elizabeth S. Cochran;John E. Vidale;Yong-Gang Li

  • Low-velocity fault-zone guided waves: Numerical investigations of trapping efficiency

    Yong-Gang Li;John E. Vidale

  • Anisotropy in the Shallow Crust Observed around the San Andreas Fault Before and After the 2004 M 6.0 Parkfield Earthquake

    Elizabeth S. Cochran;Yong-Gang Li;John E. Vidale

  • Fault-zone guided waves from explosions in the San Andreas fault at Parkfield and Cienega Valley, California

    Yong-Gang Li;William L. Ellsworth;Clifford H. Thurber;Peter E. Malin

  • A delineation of the Nojima fault ruptured in the M7.2 Kobe, Japan, earthquake of 1995 using fault zone trapped waves

    Yong-Gang Li;Keiiti Aki;John E. Vidale;Mark G. Alvarez

  • Healing of the shallow fault zone from 1994–1998 After the 1992 M7.5 Landers, California, Earthquake

    Yong-Gang Li;John E. Vidale

  • Seismic studies of the Brasília fold belt at the western border of the São Francisco Craton, Central Brazil, using receiver function, surface-wave dispersion and teleseismic tomography

    Marcelo Assumpção;Meijian An;Marcelo Bianchi;George S.L. França

  • Destruction of lithosphere within the north China craton inferred from surface wave tomography

    Meijian An;Mei Feng;Yue Zhao

  • San Andreas Fault damage at SAFOD viewed with fault‐guided waves

    Yong-Gang Li;Peter E. Malin

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo Assumpção
Marcelo Assumpção Universidade de São Paulo
Douglas A. Wiens
Douglas A. Wiens Washington University in St. Louis
Andrew A. Nyblade
Andrew A. Nyblade Pennsylvania State University
Suzan van der Lee
Suzan van der Lee Northwestern University
James Mechie
James Mechie University of Potsdam

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