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Muawia Barazangi was affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific emphasis on Geophysics.

The scientist's work contributed to main research topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Among their recent scholarly output was the paper titled Fragmentation of the Sinai Plate indicated by spatial variation in present-day slip rate along the Dead Sea Fault System, published in 2020 in Geophysical Journal International. This work reflected their interest in geological fault dynamics and tectonic fragmentation.

Frequent collaborators included:

  • Francisco Gomez
  • W. Cochran
  • Rayan Yassminh
  • Rani Jaafar
  • Robert Reilinger

Their publications were primarily concentrated in the venue:

  • Geophysical Journal International

Muawia Barazangi's academic contributions were positioned within geophysics and involved detailed studies of earth processes, particularly relating to seismic activity and tectonic plate behavior.

Best Publications

  • Spatial distribution of earthquakes and subduction of the Nazca plate beneath South America

    Muawia Barazangi;Bryan L. Isacks

  • Seismotectonics of the Himalayan Collision Zone: Geometry of the underthrusting Indian Plate beneath the Himalaya

    James Ni;Muawia Barazangi

  • Geometry of Benioff Zones

    Bryan L. Isacks;Muawia Barazangi

  • How flat is Tibet

    Eric Fielding;Bryan Isacks;Muawia Barazangi;Christopher Duncan

  • Geophysical evidence for lithospheric delamination beneath the Alboran Sea and Rif–Betic mountains

    Dogan Seber;Muawia Barazangi;Aomar Ibenbrahim;Ahmed Demnati

  • Geodynamic evolution of the lithosphere and upper mantle beneath the Alboran region of the western Mediterranean: Constraints from travel time tomography

    Alexander Calvert;Eric Sandvol;Dogan Seber;Muawia Barazangi

  • High-frequency seismic wave propagation beneath the Indian Shield, Himalayan Arc, Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions: high uppermost mantle velocities and efficient Sn propagation beneath Tibet

    James Ni;Muawia Barazangi

  • Velocities and propagation characteristics of Pn and Sn beneath the Himalayan arc and Tibetan plateau: Possible evidence for underthrusting of Indian continental lithosphere beneath Tibet

    Muawia Barazangi;James Ni

  • The crustal structure of the East Anatolian plateau (Turkey) from receiver functions

    Ekrem Zor;Eric Sandvol;Cemil Gürbüz;Niyazi Türkelli

  • Inversion tectonics and the evolution of the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco, based on a geological-geophysical transect

    Weldon Beauchamp;Richard W. Allmendinger;Muawia Barazangi;Ahmed Demnati

  • TECTONIC AND GEOLOGIC EVOLUTION OF SYRIA

    Graham Brew;Muawia Barazangi;K. Al-Maleh;T. Sawaf

  • Subduction of the Nazca plate beneath Peru: evidence from spatial distribution of earthquakes

    Muawia Barazangi;Bryan L. Isacks

  • Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Great Basin, Western United States, as an Ensialic Interarc Basin

    Christopher H Scholz;Muawia Barazangi;Marc L Sbar

  • The 1759 Earthquake in the Bekaa Valley: Implications for earthquake hazard assessment in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

    N. N. Ambraseys;Muawia Barazangi

  • Deep crustal structure and flexure of the Arabian Plate Beneath the Zagros collisional mountain belt as inferred from gravity observations

    David B. Snyder;Muawia Barazangi

  • Pn tomographic imaging of mantle lid velocity and anisotropy at the junction of the Arabian, Eurasian and African plates

    Ali I. Al-Lazki;Eric Sandvol;Dogan Seber;Muawia Barazangi

  • Evidence for 830 years of seismic quiescence from palaeoseismology, archaeoseismology and historical seismicity along the Dead Sea fault in Syria

    Mustapha Meghraoui;Francisco Gomez;Reda Sbeinati;Jerome Van der Woerd

  • Role of the Atlas Mountains (northwest Africa) within the African-Eurasian plate-boundary zone

    Francisco Gomez;Weldon Beauchamp;Muawia Barazangi

  • Lateral variations of seismic-wave attenuation in the upper mantle above the inclined earthquake zone of the Tonga Island Arc: Deep anomaly in the upper mantle

    Muawia Barazangi;Bryan Isacks

  • Lateral variations of high-frequency seismic wave propagation at regional distances across the Turkish and Iranian plateaus

    Katharine Kadinsky-Cade;Muawia Barazangi;Jack Oliver;Bryan Isacks

  • The crustal structure of the East Anatolian plateau (Turkey) from receiver functions : The Turkey seismic experiment: The study of a young continent-continent collision

    Ekrem Zor;Eric Sandvol;Cemil Gürbüz;Niyazi Türkelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Sandvol
Eric Sandvol University of Missouri
Bryan L. Isacks
Bryan L. Isacks Cornell University
Jack Oliver
Jack Oliver Cornell University
Mustapha Meghraoui
Mustapha Meghraoui University of Strasbourg
Eric J. Fielding
Eric J. Fielding Jet Propulsion Lab
Simon McClusky
Simon McClusky Australian National University
Richard W. Allmendinger
Richard W. Allmendinger Cornell University
James Ni
James Ni New Mexico State University
Sidney Kaufman
Sidney Kaufman Cornell University

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