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Overview

Timothy J. Reston is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary focus on Geophysics and Geology. Their research portfolio includes 24 publications in these fields, emphasizing earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additional topics in their work cover geological and geophysical studies, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and geological and geophysical studies worldwide.

Reston has contributed to research published in several scientific venues, notably including:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Geology
  • Tectonophysics
  • Tectonics

Frequently collaborating with peers, Reston's coauthors include C. Peirce and C. J. MacLeod, each with four joint publications, followed by R. C. Searle and M J Funnell, each with three collaborative works, and N. Simão with two.

Their recent published papers feature studies linked to seismicity and geological structures, such as:

  • Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts (2023), published in Nature Geoscience
  • Seismicity trends and detachment fault structure at 13°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2020), published in Geology
  • On the rotation and frictional lock-up of normal faults: Explaining the dip distribution of normal fault earthquakes and resolving the low-angle normal fault paradox (2020), published in Tectonophysics
  • Magmatism versus serpentinization-crustal structure along the 13°N segment at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2020), published in Geophysical Journal International
  • 3-D P-wave velocity structure of oceanic core complexes at 13°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2020), published in Geophysical Journal International

These contributions reflect an emphasis on seismic processes and crustal structure, often related to mid-ocean ridge systems and tectonic fault dynamics. The range of publications shows a combination of geological and geophysical approaches to understanding Earth's structural processes.

Best Publications

  • Rheological evolution during extension at nonvolcanic rifted margins: Onset of serpentinization and development of detachments leading to continental breakup

    Marta Pérez-Gussinyé;Tim J. Reston

  • The structure, evolution and symmetry of the magma-poor rifted margins of the North and Central Atlantic: A synthesis

    Timothy Reston

  • Insight into the nature of the ocean-continent transition off west Iberia from a deep multichannel seismic reflection profile

    S.L.B. Pickup;R.B. Whitmarsh;C.M.R. Fowler;T.J. Reston

  • Mechanisms of extension at nonvolcanic margins: Evidence from the Galicia interior basin, west of Iberia

    M. Perez-Gussinye;M. Perez-Gussinye;César R. Ranero;Timothy J. Reston;D. Sawyer

  • The S reflector west of Galicia (Spain): Evidence from prestack depth migration for detachment faulting during continental breakup

    T. J. Reston;C. M. Krawczyk;D. Klaeschen

  • Estimation of gas hydrate concentration from multi-component seismic data at sites on the continental margins of NW Svalbard and the Storegga region of Norway

    G. K. Westbrook;S. Chand;G. Rossi;C. Long

  • The rift to drift transition at non-volcanic margins: Insights from numerical modelling

    Marta Pérez-Gussinyé;Jason Phipps Morgan;Timothy J. Reston;César R. Ranero

  • Extension discrepancy at North Atlantic nonvolcanic rifted margins: Depth-dependent stretching or unrecognized faulting?

    Timothy J. Reston

  • MONA LISA : Deep seismic investigations of the lithosphere in the southeastern North Sea

    T. Abramovitz;A. Berthelsen;F. Schjøth;H. Thybo

  • Magma fingers and host rock fluidization in the emplacement of sills

    Nick Schofield;Carl Stevenson;Tim Reston

  • The 3‐D geometry of detachment faulting at mid‐ocean ridges

    Timothy Reston;César R. Ranero

  • Successive detachment faults and mantle unroofing at magma-poor rifted margins

    Tim J. Reston;Ken G. McDermott

  • Contemporaneous mass extinctions, continental flood basalts, and `impact signals': are mantle plume-induced lithospheric gas explosions the causal link?

    J Phipps Morgan;T.J Reston;C.R Ranero

  • Polyphase faulting during the development of the west Galicia rifted margin

    Timothy J. Reston

  • Evidence for shear zones in the lower crust offshore Britain

    T. J. Reston

  • Evidence for Detachment Tectonics on the Iberia Abyssal Plain rifted margin

    C.M. Krawczyk;T. J. Reston;G. Boillot;M.-O. Beslier

  • Detachment faulting, mantle serpentinization, and serpentinite- mud volcanism beneath the Porcupine Basin, southwest of Ireland

    T.J. Reston;J. Pennell;A. Stubenrauch;I. Walker

  • Mechanical decoupling and basal duplex formation observed in sandbox experiments with application to the Western Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex

    Nina Kukowski;Serge E Lallemand;Jacques Malavieille;Marc-André Gutscher

  • Serpentinization and magmatism during extension at non-volcanic margins: the effect of initial lithospheric structure

    M. Pérez-Gussinyé;T.J. Reston;J. Phipps Morgan

  • Arc–Continent Collision: The Making of an Orogen

    Dennis Brown;P.D. Ryan;Juan Carlos Afonso;D. Boutelier

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Klaeschen
Dirk Klaeschen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Timothy A. Minshull
Timothy A. Minshull University of Southampton
Dale S. Sawyer
Dale S. Sawyer Rice University
César R. Ranero
César R. Ranero Spanish National Research Council
Roger C. Searle
Roger C. Searle Durham University
Christopher J. MacLeod
Christopher J. MacLeod Cardiff University
Jörg Bialas
Jörg Bialas GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Martin Visbeck
Martin Visbeck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Patrick M. Shannon
Patrick M. Shannon University College Dublin
Julia K. Morgan
Julia K. Morgan Rice University

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