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  • 1992 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Terry C. Wallace is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as Engineering and Computer Science. The main areas of study focus heavily on geophysics and related subfields.

The scientist's work encompasses the following fields of study:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization include:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Mechanics of Materials

The primary topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • Seismology and earthquake studies
  • Geophysics and sensor technology
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Earthquake detection and analysis

Terry C. Wallace has contributed to several peer-reviewed articles, published between 2021 and 2022. Notable papers include:

  • "Accidental synthesis of a previously unknown quasicrystal in the first atomic bomb test," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Polycircular domains, numerical conformal mappings, and moduli of quadrilaterals," 2022, Advances in Computational Mathematics
  • "A strange symbiosis: Seismic ray theory and Saturday touch football - Donald V. Helmberger as a graduate advisor," 2022, Earthquake Science
  • "Circular arc polygons, numerical conformal mappings, and moduli of quadrilaterals," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has published in the following venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Advances in Computational Mathematics
  • Earthquake Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Charles J. Ammon
  • A. A. Velasco
  • Thorne Lay
  • Mohamed M. S. Nasser
  • Oona Rainio

Terry C. Wallace was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Modern global seismology

    Thorne Lay;Terry C. Wallace

  • Subduction and collision processes in the Central Andes constrained by converted seismic phases

    X. Yuan;S. V. Sobolev;R. Kind;O. Oncken

  • Crustal-thickness variations in the central Andes

    Susan L. Beck;George Zandt;Stephen C. Myers;Terry C. Wallace

  • The active tectonics of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis and surrounding regions

    William E. Holt;James F. Ni;Terry C. Wallace;A. J. Haines

  • Crust and mantle structure across the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau boundary at 37°N latitude and implications for Cenozoic extensional mechanism

    George Zandt;Stephen C. Myers;Terry C. Wallace

  • Accretionary tectonics of Burma and the three-dimensional geometry of the Burma subduction zone

    James F. Ni;Marco Guzman-Speziale;Michael Bevis;William E. Holt

  • The Rudbar-Tarom earthquake of 20 June 1990 in NW Persia: Preliminary field and seismological observations, and its tectonic significance

    M. Berberian;M. Qorashi;J. A. Jackson;K. Priestley

  • Active tectonics of the Pamirs and Karakorum

    Guangwei Fan;James F. Ni;Terry C. Wallace

  • Rupture characteristics of the deep bolivian earthquake of 9 june 1994 and the mechanism of deep-focus earthquakes.

    Paul G. Silver;Susan L. Beck;Terry C. Wallace;Charles Meade

  • Lithospheric‐scale structure across the Bolivian Andes from tomographic images of velocity and attenuation for P and S waves

    Stephen C. Myers;Stephen C. Myers;Susan Beck;George Zandt;Terry Wallace

  • Crustal thickness and upper mantle velocities in the Tibetan Plateau Region from the inversion of regional Pnl waveforms: Evidence for a thick upper mantle lid beneath southern Tibet

    William E. Holt;Terry C. Wallace

  • Geophysical evidence for a magma body in the crust in the vicinity of Socorro, New Mexico

    A. R. Sanford;R. P. Mott;P. J. Shuleski;E. J. Rinehart

  • Shear wave anisotropy beneath the Andes from the BANJO, SEDA, and PISCO experiments

    J. Polet;P. G. Silver;S. Beck;T. Wallace

  • The determination of source parameters for small earthquakes from a single, very broadband seismic station

    Guangwei Fan;Terry Wallace

  • EVIDENCE OF TECTONIC RELEASE FROM UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS IN LONG-PERIOD S WAVES

    Terry C. Wallace;Donald V. Helmberger;Gladys R. Engen

  • Tomographic imaging of deep velocity structure beneath the Eastern and Southern Carpathians, Romania: Implications for continental collision

    Guangwei Fan;Terry C. Wallace;Dapeng Zhao

  • A technique for the inversion of regional data in source parameter studies

    Terry C. Wallace;Donald V. Helmberger;George R. Mellman

  • A reexamination of the moment tensor solutions of the 1980 Mammoth Lakes Earthquakes

    Terry C. Wallace

  • Anomalous crust of the Bolivian Altiplano, central Andes: Constraints from broadband regional seismic waveforms

    G. Zandt;S. L. Beck;S. R. Ruppert;C. J. Ammon

  • The Seismic source parameters of the 1991 Costa Rica aftershock sequence: Evidence for a transcurrent plate boundary

    Guangwei Fan;Susan L. Beck;Terry C. Wallace

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan L. Beck
Susan L. Beck University of Arizona
Thorne Lay
Thorne Lay University of California, Santa Cruz
Paul G. Silver
Paul G. Silver Carnegie Institution for Science
George Zandt
George Zandt University of Arizona
William E. Holt
William E. Holt Stony Brook University
Charles J. Ammon
Charles J. Ammon Pennsylvania State University
Keith D. Koper
Keith D. Koper University of Utah
Clement G. Chase
Clement G. Chase University of Arizona
Donald V. Helmberger
Donald V. Helmberger California Institute of Technology
James Ni
James Ni New Mexico State University

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