Jian Lin - Publications#
More than 250 international peer-reviewed publications, full list in https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/jlin/publications
Total citations: 19,940; H-index: 69; I10-index: 167 (per Google scholar)
Most-cited earthquake paper in a decade, ISI Essential Science Indicators, 2003
ESI top 1% paper, 2017 - 2021
Selected representative publications (*denotes students and post-docs):
1. Wang, Z., and J. Lin, Role of fluids and seamount subduction in interplate coupling and the mechanism of the 2021 Mw 7.1 Fukushima-Oki earthquake, Japan, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584, 117439, 2022
2. Zhang*, F., J. Lin, Z. Zhou, H. Yang, and J.P. Morgan, Mechanism of progressive broad deformation from oceanic transform valley to off-transform faulting and rifting, The Innovation, 3, 100193, 2022
3. Lin, J., et al., Ed. Continental and Oceanic Earthquakes, Geology, and Geodynamics, Higher Education Press, in press
4. Zhang*, X., J. Lin, and M.D. Behn, Mantle heterogeneity and melting processes in the South China Sea: Thermal and melting models constrained by oceanic crustal thickness and basalt geochemistry, J. Geophys. Res., 126, e2020JB020735, 2021
5. Tao C. et al., Deep high-temperature hydrothermal circulation in a detachment faulting system on the ultra-slow spreading ridge, Nature Comm., 11, 1300, 2020
6. Zhang*, F., J. Lin, and Z. Zhou. Flexural bending curvature and yield zone of subducting plates, Int. Geol. Rev., 62, 859-886, 2020
7. Lin, J., Y. Xu, Z. Sun, and Z. Zhou, Mantle upwelling beneath the South China Sea and links to surrounding subduction systems, Nat. Sci. Rev., 6, 877-881 2019
8. Ding*, M., J. Lin, C. Gu, Q. Huang, and M.T. Zuber, Variations in Martian lithospheric strength based on gravity/topography analysis, J. Geophys. Res. - Planets, 124, 3095-3118, 2019
9. Lin, J., J. Li, et al., Ocean drilling and major advances in marine geological and geophysical research of the South China Sea, Acta Oceanol. Sin., 41, 125-140, 2019
10. Park, S.H., C.H. Langmuir, K.W.W. Sims, J. Blichert-Toft, S.S. Kim, S.R. Scott, J. Lin, et al., An isotopically distinct Zealandia–Antarctic mantle domain in the Southern Ocean, Nat. Geosci., 12, 206-214, 2019
11. Wan, K., J. Lin, et al., Deep seismic structure across the southernmost Mariana Trench: Implications for arc rifting and plate hydration, J. Geophys. Res., 124, 4710-4727, 2019
12. Zhu*, G., H. Yang, J. Lin, et al., Along-strike variation in slab geometry at the southern Mariana subduction zone revealed by seismicity through ocean bottom seismic experiments, Geophys. J. Intl., 218, 2122-2135, 2019
13. Larsen, H.C., et al., Rapid transition from continental breakup to oceanic crust at South China Sea rifted margin, Nature Geosci., 11, 782–789, 2018
14. Zhang*, F., J. Lin, Z. Zhou, H. Yang, and W. Zhan, Intra- and inter-trench variations in flexural bending of the Manila, Mariana and global trenches, Geophys. J. Intl., 212, 1429-1449, 2018
15. Zhou*, Z., and J. Lin, Elasto-plastic deformation and plate weakening due to normal faulting in the subducting plate along the Mariana Trench, Tectonophys., 734-735, 59-68, 2018
16. Lin, J. et al., Ocean drilling investigation of the global subduction processes, Adv. Earth Sci., 32, 1253-1266,2017
17. Ding*, M., and J. Lin, Deformation and faulting of subduction overriding plate caused by a subducted seamount, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 8936-8944, 2016
18. Zhou*, Z., J. Lin, M. D. Behn, and J.-A. Olive, Mechanism for normal faulting in the subducting plate at the Mariana trench, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 4309-4317, 2015
19. Li, C.-F., X. Xu, J. Lin, et al., Ages and magnetic structures of the South China Sea basin constrained by deep tow magnetic surveys and IODP Expedition 349, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 15, 4958-4983, 2014
20. Tao, C., J. Lin, et al., First active hydrothermal vents on an ultraslow spreading center: Southwest Indian Ridge, Geology, 40, 47-50, 2012
21. Lin, J., R.S. Stein, et al., Stress transfer among en echelon and opposing thrust and tear faults: Triggering caused by the 2003 Mw=6.9 Zemmouri, Algeria, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B03305, 2011
22. Toda, S., J. Lin, and R.S. Stein, Using the 2011 Mw=9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake to test the Coulomb stress triggering hypothesis and to calculate faults brought closer to failure, Earth, Planets Space, 63, 725-730, 2011
23. Toda, S., J. Lin, M. Meghraoui, R.S. Stein, 12 May 2008 M=7.9 Wenchuan, China, earthquake calculated to increase failure stress and seismicity on three major fault systems, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17305, 2008
24. Tucholke, B.E., M.D. Behn, R. Buck, and J. Lin, The role of melt supply in oceanic detachment faulting and formation of megamullions, Geology, 36, 455-458, 2008
25. Gregg*, P.M., J. Lin, M. Behn, and L.G.J. Montesi, Spreading rate dependence of gravity anomalies along oceanic transform faults, Nature, 448, 183-187, 2007
26. Lin, J., and R.S. Stein, Stress triggering in thrust and subduction earthquakes, and stress interaction between the southern San Andreas and nearby thrust and strike-slip faults, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B02303, 2004
27. Dick, H.J.B., J. Lin, and H. Schouten, An ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge, Nature, 426, 405-412, 2003
28. Fujiwara, T., J. Lin, et al., Crustal evolution of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the Fifteen-Twenty Fracture zone in the last 5 Ma, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4(3), 1024, 2003
29. Ito, G., J. Lin, and D. Graham, Observational and theoretical studies of the dynamics of mantle plume-mid-ocean ridge interaction, Rev. Geophys., 41, 1017, 2003
30. Clift, P.D., J. Lin, and U. Barckhausen, Evidence of low flexural rigidity and low viscosity lower continental crust during continental breakup in the South China Sea, Mar. Petrol. Geol., 19, 951-970, 2002
31. Clift, P.D., and J. Lin, Preferential mantle lithospheric extension under the South China margin, Mar. Petrol. Geol., 18, 925-949, 2001
32. Freed*, A.M., and J. Lin, Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer, Nature, 411, 180-183, 2001
33. Georgen*, J.E., J. Lin, and H.J.B. Dick, Evidence from gravity anomalies for interactions of the Marion and Bouvet hotspots with the Southwest Indian Ridge: Effects of transform offsets, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 187, 283-300, 2001
34. Freed*, A.M., and J. Lin, Time-dependent changes in failure stress after thrust earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 24,393-24,409, 1998
35. Tucholke, B.E., J. Lin, and M.C. Kleinrock, Megamullions and mullion structure defining oceanic metamorphic core complexes on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 9857-9866, 1998
36. Ito*, G., J. Lin, and C.W. Gable, Dynamics of mantle flow and melting at a ridge-centered hotspot: Iceland and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 144, 53-74, 1996
37. Shaw*, W.T., and J. Lin, Models of ocean ridge lithospheric deformation: Dependence on crustal thickness, spreading rate, and segmentation, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 17,977-17,993, 1996
38. Ito*, G., and J. Lin, Oceanic spreading center-hotspot interactions: Constraints from along-isochron bathymetric and gravity anomalies, Geology, 23, 657-660, 1995
39. King, G.C.P., R.S. Stein, and J. Lin, Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 84, 935-953, 1994
40. Stein, R.S., G.C.P. King, and J. Lin, Stress triggering of the 1994 Northridge earthquake by its predecessors, Science, 265, 1432-1435, 1994
41. Tucholke, B.E., and J. Lin, A geological model for the structure of ridge segments in slow-spreading ocean crust, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 11,937-11,958, 1994
42. Sempere, J.-C., J. Lin, et al., Segmentation and morphotectonic variations along a slow-spreading center: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge 24°-30°40'N, Mar. Geophys. Res., 15, 153-200, 1993
43. Lin, J., and J. Phipps Morgan, The spreading rate dependence of three-dimensional mid-ocean ridge gravity structure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 13-16, 1992
44. Stein, R.S., G.C.P. King, and J. Lin, Change in failure stress on the southern San Andreas fault system caused by the 1992 M=7.4 Landers earthquake, Science, 256, 1928-1932, 1992
45. Lin, J., G.M. Purdy, H. Schouten, J.-C. Sempere, and C. Zervas, Evidence from gravity data for focused magmatic accretion along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Nature, 344, 627-632, 1990
46. Lin, J., and E.M. Parmentier, Mechanisms of lithospheric extension at mid-ocean ridges, Geophys. J., 96, 1-22, 1989
47. Lin, J., and R.S. Stein, Coseismic folding, earthquake recurrence, and the 1987 source mechanism at Whittier Narrows, Los Angeles basin, California, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 9614-9632, 1989
48. Lin, J., and E.M. Parmentier, Quasistatic propagation of a normal fault: A fracture mechanics model, J. Struct. Geol., 10, 249-262, 1988
49. Lin, J., and E.M. Parmentier, Surface topography due to convection in a variable viscosity fluid: Application to short wavelength gravity anomalies in the Central Pacific Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 12, 357-360, 1985
