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Publications of Leon Knopoff



1952
[1]    Knopoff, L., On Rayleigh wave velocities, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 42, 307308, 1952.

1954
[2]    Knopoff, L., On the dissipative viscoelastic constants of higher order, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 25, 183-186, 1954.

[3]    Knopoff, L., and R.J. Uffen, The densities of compounds at high pressures and the state of the earth's interior, J. Geophys. Research, 59, 471-484, 1954.

[4]    Knopoff, L., Seismic wave velocities in Westerly granite, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 35, 969-973, 1954.

1955
[5]    Knopoff, L., Small three-dimensional seismic models, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 36, 1029-1034, 1955.

[6]    Knopoff, L., The interaction between elastic wave motions and a magnetic field in electrical conductors, J. Geophys. Res., 60, 441-456, 1955.

1956
[7]    Knopoff, L., The attenuation of compressional waves in lossy media, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 46, 47-56, 1956.

[8]    Knopoff, L., Diffraction of elastic waves, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 29, 217-229, 1956.

[9]    Knopoff, L., The seismic pulse in materials possessing solid friction, I: Plane waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 46, 175-183, 1956.

1957
[10]   Knopoff, L., R.W. Fredricks, A.F. Gangi and L.D. Porter, Surface amplitudes of reflected body waves, Geophysics, 22, 842-847, 1957.

1958
[11]   Knopoff, L., and G.J.F. MacDonald, Attenuation of small amplitude stress waves in solids, Revs. Mod. Physics, 30, 1178-1192, 1958.

[12]   Knopoff, L., Energy release in earthquakes, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 1, 44-52, 1958.

[13]   Knopoff, L., Equation of state for water at high pressure, J. Chem. Physics, 28, 1067-1069, 1958.

[14]   Knopoff, L., Surface motions of a thick plate, J. Appl. Physics, 29, 661-670, 1958.

[15]   Knopoff, L., and G.J.F. MacDonald, The magnetic field and the central core of the earth, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 1, 216-224, 1958.

[16]   Knopoff, L., Love waves from a line SH source, J. Geophys. Res., 63, 619-630, 1958.

[17]   MacDonald, G.J.F., and L. Knopoff, On the chemical composition of the outer core, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 1, 284-297, 1958.

1959
[18]   Slichter, L.B., and L. Knopoff, Field of an alternating magnetic dipole on the surface of a layered earth, Geophysics, 24, 77-88, 1959.

[19]   Knopoff, L., Scattering of compression waves by spherical obstacles, Geophysics, 24, 30-39, 1959.

[20]   Knopoff, L., and F. Gilbert, Radiation from a strike-slip fault, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 49, 163-178, 1959.

[21]   Knopoff, L., Velocity of sound in two-component systems, J. Geophys. Res., 64, 359-361, 1959.

[22]   Knopoff, L., Scattering of shear waves by spherical obstacles, Geophysics, 24, 209-219, 1959.

[23]   Knopoff, L., and F. Gilbert, First motion methods in theoretical seismology, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 31, 1161-1168, 1959.

[24]   Gilbert, F., and L. Knopoff, Scattering of impulsive elastic waves by a rigid cylinder, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 31, 1169-1175, 1959.

[25]   Knopoff, L., The seismic pulse in materials possessing solid friction, II; Lamb's problem, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 49, 403-413, 1959.

[26]   Knopoff, L., and A.F. Gangi, Seismic reciprocity, Geophysics, 24, 681-691, 1959.

1960
[27]   Knopoff, L., Deductive seismology, Appendix 6 in The Need for Fundamental Research in Seismology, Report of the Panel on Seismic Improvement, L.V. Berkner, Chairman, in "Technical Aspects of Detection and Inspection Controls of a Nuclear Weapons Test Ban", Congressional Hearings, April 19-22, 690-695, 1960.

[28]   Knopoff, L., and F. Gilbert, First motions from seismic sources, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 50, 117-133, 1960.

[29]   Knopoff, L., F. Gilbert and W.L. Pilant, Wave propagation in a medium with a single layer, J. Geophys. Res., 65, 265-278, 1960.

[30]   Knopoff, L., and G.J.F. MacDonald, An equation of state for the core of the earth, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 3, 68-77, 1960.

[31]   Knopoff, L., and G.J.F. MacDonald, Models for acoustic loss in solids, J. Geophys. Res., 65, 2191-2197, 1960.

[32]   Gilbert, F. and L. Knopoff, Seismic scattering from topographic irregularities, J. Geophys. Res., 65, 3437-3444, 1960.

[33]   Knopoff, L., and A.F. Gangi, Transmission and reflection of Rayleigh waves by wedges, Geophysics, 25, 1203-1214, 1960.

[34]   Fredricks, R.W., and L. Knopoff, The reflection of Rayleigh waves by a highimpedance obstacle on a half-space, Geophysics, 25, 1195-1202, 1960.

[35]   Kennedy, G.C., and L. Knopoff, Dating by thermoluminescence (announcement), Archaeology, 13, 147-148, 1960.

[36]   Kennedy, G.C., L. Knopoff and G. Higgins, Attempt to determine the antiquity of ancient fired objects by examination of thermoluminescent glow curves (abstract), Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 71, 1903-1904, 1960.

1961
[37]   Knopoff, L., and F. Gilbert, Diffraction of elastic waves by the core of the earth, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 51, 35-39, 1961.

[38]   Gilbert, F., and L. Knopoff, The directivity problem for a buried line source, Geophysics, 25, 626-634, 1961.

[39]   Knopoff, L., The inversion of surface wave dispersion, in La Propagation des Ébranlements dans les Milieux Hétérogènes (Colloques Internationaux), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 45-65, 1961.

[40]   Knopoff, L., Green's function for eigenvalue problems and the inversion of Love wave dispersion data, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 4, 161-173, 1961.

[41]   Knopoff, L., Analytical calculation of the fault-plane problem, Publications of the Dominion Observatory (Ottawa), 24, 309-315, 1961.

[42]   Knopoff, L., Statistical accuracy of the fault-plane problem, Publications of the Dominion Observatory, (Ottawa), 24, 317-319, 1961.

[43]   Knopoff, L., and F. Press, A proposal for the study of the crustal and upper mantle structure of the Western Mediterranean by surface wave dispersion, Rapports et Proces-Verbaux des Réunions de la C.I.E.S.M.M., 16, 711-715, 1961.

[44]   Knopoff, L., Book Review: Microstructure and Macrostructure of Elastic Waves (Consultants Bureau, 1960) by B.N. Ivakin, Proc. Phys. Soc., London, 78, 323324, 1961.

1962
[45]   Knopoff, L., Higher order Born Approximations for the inversion of Love wave dispersion, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 7, 149-157, 1962.

1963
[46]   Knopoff, L., The theory of finite strain and compressibility of solids, J. Geophys. Research, 68, 2929-2932, 1963.

[47]   Knopoff, L., An index for the relative quality among musical instruments, Ethnomusicology, 7, 229-233, 1963.

[48]   Knopoff, L., Wave propagation, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 33, 345-348, 1963.

[49]   Knopoff, L., and L.D. Porter, Attenuation of surface waves in a granular material, J. Geophys. Research, 68, 6317-6321, 1963.

[50]   Knopoff, L., Solids: Equations of state of solids at moderately high pressures in Physics and Chemistry of High Pressures, R.L. Bradley, ed. (New York: Academic Press, 1963) 227-245.

[51]   Knopoff, L., Equations of state of matter at ultra-high pressures, in Physics and Chemistry of High Pressures, R.L. Bradley, ed. (New York: Academic Press, 1963) 247-263.

1964
[52]   Knopoff, L., The energy rate-depth function for earthquakes, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 51, 1-3, 1964.

[53]   Knopoff, L., A matrix method for elastic wave problems, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 54, 431-438, 1964.

[54]   Hudson, J.A., and L. Knopoff, Transmission and reflection of surface waves at a corner, 1: Love waves, J. Geophys. Res., 69, 275-280, 1964.

[55]   Hudson, J.A., and L. Knopoff, Transmission and reflection of surface waves at a corner, 2: Rayleigh waves, J. Geophys. Res., 69, 281-289, 1964.

[56]   Pilant, W.L., L. Knopoff and F. Schwab, Transmission and reflection of surface waves at a corner, 3: Rayleigh waves (Theoretical), J. Geophys. Res., 69, 291297, 1964.

[57]   Knopoff, L., The convection current hypothesis, Revs. Geophys., 2, 89-122, 1964.

[58]   Pilant, W.L., and L. Knopoff, Observations of multiple seismic events, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 54, 19-39, 1964.

[59]   Knopoff, L., and J.A. Hudson, Scattering of elastic waves by small inhomogeneities, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 36, 471-476, 1964.

[60]   Ang, D.D., and L. Knopoff, Diffraction of scalar elastic waves by a clamped finite strip, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 51, 471-476, 1964.

[61]   Knopoff, L., and J.A. Hudson, Transmission of Love waves past a continental margin, J. Geophys. Res., 69, 1649-1653, 1964.

[62]   Ang, D.D., and L. Knopoff, Diffraction of scalar elastic waves by a finite crack, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 51, 593-598, 1964.

[63]   Knopoff, L., K. Aki, C.B. Archambeau, A. Ben-Menahem and J.A. Hudson, Attenuation of dispersed waves, J. Geophys. Res., 69, 1655-1657, 1964.

[64]   Knopoff, L., An invariant form for the fusion equation, J. Geol., 72, 376-377, 1964.

[65]   Ang, D.D., and L. Knopoff, Diffraction of vector elastic waves by a clamped finite strip, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 52, 201-207, 1964.

[66]   Ang, D.D., and L. Knopoff, Diffraction of vector elastic waves by a finite crack, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci, 52, 1075-1081, 1964.

[67]   Knopoff, L., Q, Revs. Geophys., 2, 625-660, 1964.

[68]   Knopoff, L., Earth tides as a triggering mechanism for earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 54, 1865-1870, 1964.

Also published as Appendix 27, in Proc. First US-Japan Conference on Earthquake Prediction, 61-66, 1964.

[69]   Knopoff, L., The statistics of earthquakes in Southern California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 54, 1871-1873, 1964.

Also published as Appendix 28, in Proc. First US-Japan Conference on Earthquake Prediction, 66-70, 1964.

[70]   Burridge, R., and L. Knopoff, Body force equivalents for seismic dislocations, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 54, 1875-1888, 1964.

Reprinted in Seismol. Res. Lett., 74, 154-162, 2003.

[71]   Burridge, R., E.R. Lapwood and L. Knopoff, First motions from seismic sources near a free surface, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 54, 1889-1913, 1964.

1965
[72]   Knopoff, L., Attenuation of elastic waves in the earth, Chapter 7 in Physical Acoustics, Vol. 3B, W.P. Mason, ed. (Academic Press, 1965), 287-324.

Also published in Russian as Fizicheskaya Akustika, (Mir Publ., Moscow, 1968).

[73]   Knopoff, L., Some technological advances in musicological analysis, Studia Musicologica, 7, 301-307, 1965.

[74]   Knopoff, L., and T.L. Teng, Analytical calculation of the seismic travel time problem, Revs. Geophys., 3, 11-24, 1965.

[75]   Knopoff, L., Approximate compressibility of elements and compounds, Phys. Rev., 138, A1445-A1447, 1965.

[76]   Mal, A.K., and L. Knopoff, Transmission of Rayleigh waves past a step change in elevation, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 55, 319-334, 1965.

[77]   Knopoff, L., The International Upper Mantle Project, Monograph No. 29, Union Géodésique et Géophysique Internationale, 80-82, 1965.

Also published in Proc. Eighth Assembly, European Seismological Comm., Budapest, 1964 (Ed. E. Bisztricsány) Akad. Kiadó, Budapest, 144-145, 1968.

1966
[78]   Knopoff, L., A progress report on an experiment in musical synthesis, Selected Reports, UCLA Institute of Ethnomusicology, 1, No. 1, 49-60, 1966.

[79]   Schneider, G., S. Müller and L. Knopoff, Gruppengeschwindigkeitsmessungen an kurzperiodischen Oberflachenwellen in Mitteleuropa, Zs. f. Geophysik, 32, 33-57, 1966.

[80]   Hudson, J.A., and L. Knopoff, The nature of seismic noise, Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), 290A, 290-296, 1966.

[81]   Knopoff, L., S. Müller and W.L. Pilant, Structure of the crust and upper mantle in the Alps from the phase velocity of Rayleigh waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 56, 1009-1044, 1966.

[82]   Knopoff, L., and W.L. Pilant, A proposal for a seismological study of the Gulf of California, Geofis. Internac., 6, 1-21, 1966.

[83]   Knopoff, L., and J. Belshe, Gravity observations of the Dead Sea Rift, Geol. Survey of Canada, Special Paper 66-14, 5-21, 1966.

[84]   Knopoff, L., Book Review: Advances in Earth Science (MIT Press), P. Hurley, ed., J. Franklin Inst., 282, 342-343, 1966.

[85]   Burridge, R., and L. Knopoff, The effect of initial stress or residual stress on elastic energy calculations, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 56, 421-424, 1966.

[86]   Mal, A.K., and L. Knopoff, Transmission of Rayleigh waves at a corner, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 56, 455-466, 1966.

[87]   Seidl, D., and S. Müller and L. Knopoff, Dispersion von Rayleigh-Wellen in Sudwestdeutschland und in den Alpen, Zs. f. Geophysik, 32, 472-481, 1966.

[88]   Hudson, J.A., and L. Knopoff, Signal generated seismic noise, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 11, 19-24, 1966.

1967
[89]   Knopoff, L., Density velocity relations for rocks, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 13, 1-8, 1967.

[90]   Hudson, J.A., and L. Knopoff, Statistical properties of Rayleigh waves due to scattering by topography, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 57, 83-90, 1967.

[91]   Knopoff, L., "Seismology": article in Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1967 edition, vol. 20, 174-176.

[92]   Burridge, R., and L. Knopoff, Model and theoretical seismicity, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 57, 341-371, 1967.

[93]   Knopoff, L., Radiation from seismic surface and interior sources, Proc. VESIAC Conf. on Current status and future prognosis for understanding the source mechanism of shallow seismic events in the 3 to 5 magnitude range, (University of Michigan), 109-123, 1967.

[94]   Knopoff, L., and J.A. Hudson, Frequency dependence of amplitudes of scattered elastic waves, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 42, 18-20, 1967.

[95]   Knopoff, L., and A.K. Mal, Phase velocity of surface waves in the transition zone of continental margins, J. Geophys. Research, 72, 1769-1776, 1967.

[96]   Knopoff, L., Thermal convection in Earth's mantle, in The Earth's Mantle, T. Gaskell, ed., (Academic Press) Chapter 8, 171-196, 1967.

[97]   Knopoff, L., M.J. Berry and F.A. Schwab, Tripartite phase velocity observations in laterally heterogeneous regions, J. Geophys. Research, 72, 2595-2601, 1967.

[98]   Berry, M.J., and L. Knopoff, Structure of the upper mantle under the Western Mediterranean Basin, J. Geophys. Research, 72, 3613-3626, 1967.

[99]   Knopoff, L., Response to a message from President Lyndon B. Johnson on the US Upper Mantle Project, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 48, 311-312, 1967.

[100]  Knopoff, L., Upper Mantle Project, Phase III, 1968-1970, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 48, 757-758, 1967.

[101]  Knopoff, L., On convection in the Upper Mantle, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 14, 341-346, 1967.

[102]  Mal, A.K., and L. Knopoff, Elastic wave velocities in two-component systems, J. Insts. of Math. and its Applics., 3, 376-387, 1967.

[103]  Knopoff, L., The composition of the core of the Earth, in International Dictionary of Geophysics, S.K. Runcorn, ed., (Pergamon Press, 1967) 293-296.

[104]  Knopoff, L., Seismology and the theory of generation of disturbances in an elastic medium, in International Dictionary of Geophysics, S.K. Runcorn, ed., (Pergamon Press, 1967) 1401-1404.

[105]  Berry, M.J., L. Knopoff and S. Müller, The low velocity layer in the Upper Mantle under the Western Mediterranean Sea from phase velocity of Rayleigh waves, Proc. European Seismological Commission, 1966, 209-211, 1967.

1968
[106]  Mal, A.K., and D.D. Ang and L. Knopoff, Diffraction of elastic waves by a rigid circular disc, Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., 64, 237-247, 1968.

[107]  Mal, A.K., and L. Knopoff, A differential equation for surface waves in layers with varying thickness, J. Math. Anal. and Applics., 21, 431-434, 1968.

[108]  Knopoff, L., and F.A. Schwab, Apparent initial phase of a source of Rayleigh waves, J. Geophys. Research, 73, 755-760, 1968.

[109]  King, C.-Y., and L. Knopoff, Model Seismicity: Rupture parameters, stress and energy relations, J. Geophys. Research, 73, 1399-1406, 1968.

[110]  King, C.-Y., and L. Knopoff, Stress drop in earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 58, 249-257, 1968.

[111]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Advances in Geophysics, Vol. 12, 1967, Geophysics, 33, 1023-1024, 1968.

[112]  Nyland, E., and L. Knopoff, A compiler for algebraic manipulations with applications to geophysics, J. Phys. of the Earth (Tokyo), 16, Special Issue, 43-50, 1968.

[113]  Knopoff, L., C.L. Drake and P.J. Hart, editors, The Crust and Upper Mantle of the Pacific Area, Geophysical Monograph No. 12, American Geophysical Union, xi+522 pp, 1968.

[114]  Knopoff, L., A quadratic procedure for maximization of a function of many variables, Nuovo Cimento, Supplemento, 6, 120-123, 1968.

[115]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: The Heart of the Earth, by O. Phillips, (Freeman, Cooper & Co., 1968) Geotimes, 13, No. 10, 31,33 (Dec., 1968).

[116]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Methods and Techniques in Geophysics, Vol. II, S.K. Runcorn, Ed., (Interscience Publs.) Geophysics, 32, 526-527, 1968.

[117]  Knopoff, L., Pan-American Symposium on the Upper Mantle, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 49, 555-556, 1968.

1969
[118]  King, C.-Y., and L. Knopoff, A magnitude energy relation for large earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 59, 269-273, 1969.

[119]  Shapiro, J.N., and L. Knopoff, The reduction of shock wave equations of state to isothermal equations of state, J. Geophys. Research, 74, 1435-1438, 1969.

[120]  Knopoff, L., and J.N. Shapiro, Comments on the interrelationships between Grüneisen's Parameter and shock and isothermal equations of state, J. Geophys. Research, 74, 1439-1450, 1969.

[121]  Knopoff, L., Phase and group slownesses in inhomogeneous media, J. Geophys. Research, 74, 1701, 1969.

[122]  Knopoff, L., The upper mantle of the earth, Science, 163, 1277-1287, 1969.

Also appeared in Geological Newsletter, 1970, 55-78. 1970.

[123]  Knopoff, L., C.-Y. King and R. Burridge, A physical basis for earthquake statistics, Publications of the Dominion Observatory (Ottawa), 37, 224-234, 1969.

[124]  Knopoff, L., Attenuation of seismic waves in the mantle, in The Earth's Crust and Upper Mantle, Geophysical Monograph No. 13, Amer. Geophys. Union, P.J. Hart, Ed., 273-276, 1969.

[125]  Knopoff, L., Continental drift and convection, in The Earth's Crust and Upper Mantle, Geophysical Monograph No. 13, Amer. Geophys. Union, P.J. Hart, Ed., 683-689, 1969.

Also appeared in Geological Newsletter, 1970, 79-85, 1970.

[126]  Knopoff, L., Elastic wave propagation in a wedge, in Wave Propagation in Solids, J. Miklowitz, ed., Amer. Soc. Mech. Engineers, 3-43, 1969.

[127]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: The Acoustical Foundations of Music, by J. Backus, (Norton & Co.), Science, 165, 784-785, 1969.

[128]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Mathematical Aspects of Seismology, by M. B Ãäath (Elsevier Publ. Co.) Earth-Science Reviews/Atlas, 5, A146, A148, 1969.

[129]  Berry, M.J., L. Knopoff and S. Müller, The low-velocity channel of the upper mantle under the Mediterranean Basin, Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., 19, 669-670, 1969.

[130]  Knopoff, L., and J.K. Gardner, Homogeneous catalogs of earthquakes, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, 63, 1051-1054, 1969.

[131]  Knopoff, L., F.A. Schwab and J.W. Schlue, The dispersion of Rayleigh waves south of the Gulf of California, Geofisica Internacional, 9, 39-52, 1969.

[132]  Knopoff, L., B.C. Heezen and G.J.F. MacDonald, editors, The World Rift System, Tectonophysics, 8, Nos. 4-6, 1969.

1970
[133]  Knopoff, L., A.K. Mal, L.E. Alsop and R.A. Phinney, A property of long-period Love waves, J. Geophys. Research, 75, 4084-4086, 1970

[134]  Knopoff, L., Problems of continental rift structures, in Graben Problems, St. Müller and J.H. Illies, Eds., Schweizerbart'sche Verlags., Stuttgart, 1-4, 1970.

[135]  Knopoff, L., Developments in seismology and georheology, in The Megatectonics of Continents and Oceans, H. Johnson and B.L. Smith, eds., Rutgers Univ. Press., 113-146, 1970.

[136]  Knopoff, L., and J.N. Shapiro, Pseudo-Gruneisen parameter for liquids, Phys. Rev., B1, 3893-3895, 1970.

[137]  Shapiro, J.N., and L. Knopoff, Grüneisen parameter for Born-von Kármán lattices, Phys. Rev., B1, 3990-3992, 1970.

[138]  Schwab, F., and L. Knopoff, Surface-wave dispersion computations, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 60, 321-344, 1970.

[139]  Pilant, W.L., and L. Knopoff, Inversion of phase and group slowness dispersion, J. Geophys. Research, 75, 2135-2136, 1970.

[140]  Biswas, N.N., and L. Knopoff, Exact earth-flattening calculation for Love waves, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 60, 1123-1137, 1970.

[141]  Knopoff, L., and M.J. Randall, The compensated linear vector dipole: A possible mechanism for deep earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 75, 4957-4963, 1970.

[142]  Randall, M.J., and L. Knopoff, The mechanism at the focus of deep earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 75, 4965-4976, 1970.

[143]  Knopoff, L., Citation of D.T. Griggs as W.H. Bucher Medalist, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 51, 572-573, 1970.

[144]  Knopoff, L., J.W. Schlue and F.A. Schwab, Phase velocities of Rayleigh waves across the East Pacific Rise, Tectonophysics, 10, 321-334, 1970.

[145]  Knopoff, L., Models of continental drift, Phys. Earth and Planet. Interiors, 2, 386-392, 1970.

[146]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Physics of the Earth, by F.D. Stacey (John Wiley and Sons, 1969), Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 60, 1397, 1970.

[147]  Knopoff, L., Correlation of earthquakes with lunar orbital motions, The Moon, 2, 140-143, 1970.

1971
[148]  Knopoff, L., A stochastic model for the occurrence of main-sequence earthquakes, Revs. Geophys., 9, 175-188, 1971.

[149]  Schwab, F., and L. Knopoff, Surface waves on multilayered anelastic media, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 61, 893-912, 1971.

[150]  Knopoff, L., An aversion to inversion, in Mantle and Core in Planetary Physics, J. Coulomb and M. Caputo, eds. 134-145 (Academic Press, 1971).

[151]  Knopoff, L., Attenuation, in Mantle and Core in Planetary Physics, J. Coulomb and M. Caputo, eds. (Academic Press, 1971) 146-156.

[152]  Knopoff, L., Rheological properties of the deep interior, in Mantle and Core in Planetary Physics, J. Coulomb and M. Caputo, eds. (Academic Press, 1971) 194-199.

[153]  Knopoff, L., O.L. Anderson, C. Burk, A. Cox, C.L. Drake, J. Goldsmith, J. Maxwell, F. Press, E. Shoemaker, and T. van Andel, Geodynamics Project: Development of a US Program, EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 52, 396405, 1971.

Also published by Geophysics Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, March, 1971.

[154]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Physik der festen Erde, by L. Egyed, (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1969) EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 52, 16-17, 1971.

1972
[155]  Knopoff, L., and J.N. Shapiro, The melting of metals, in The Nature of the Solid Earth, E.C. Robertson, J.F. Hayes and L. Knopoff, eds., McGraw-Hill, N.Y. 614-630, 1972.

[156]  Robertson, E.C., J.F. Hayes and L. Knopoff, editors, The Nature of the Solid Earth, McGraw-Hill Book Co., N.Y., 1972, xiv+677 pp.

[157]  Knopoff, L., and A.R. Leeds, Lithospheric momenta and the deceleration of the earth, Nature, 237, 93-95, 1972.

[158]  Knopoff, L., K.A. Poehls and R.C. Smith, Drift of continental rafts with asymmetric heating, Science, 176, 1023-1024, 1972.

[159]  Knopoff, L., and J.K. Gardner, Higher seismic activity during local night on the raw worldwide earthquake catalog, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 28, 311-313, 1972.

[160]  Schwab, F.A., and L. Knopoff, Fast surface wave and free mode computations, in Methods in Computational Physics, vol. 11, B.A. Bolt, B. Alder and S. Fernbach, eds., Academic Press, New York, 87-180, 1972.

[161]  Knopoff, L., and D.D. Jackson, The analysis of underdetermined and overdetermined systems, in The Dynamic Response of Structures (G. Herrmann, ed.) Pergamon Press, 289-305, 1972.

[162]  Knopoff, L., Observation and inversion of surface-wave dispersion, in The Upper Mantle, A.R. Ritsema, ed., Tectonophysics, 13, 497-519, 1972.

[163]  Knopoff, L., and J.W. Schlue, Rayleigh wave phase velocities for the path Addis Ababa-Nairobi, Tectonophysics, 15, 157-163, 1972.

[164]  Knopoff, L., R. Mitchel and D.D. Jackson, A stochastic analysis of a model earthquake sequence, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 29, 255-261, 1972.

[165]  Leeds, A.R., and L. Knopoff, Surface wave dispersion in the Andes, Symp. on the Results of Upper Mantle Investigations with Special Emphasis on Latin America, Buenos Aires, October, 1970, 2, 205-210, 1972.

[166]  Ang, D.D., and L. Knopoff, A note on L1-approximations by exponential polynomials and Laguerre exponential polynomials, J. Approx. Theory, 6, 272-275, 1972.

[167]  Knopoff, L., Model for aftershock occurrence, in Flow and Fracture of Rocks, Amer. Geophys. Union Monograph 16, H.C. Heard, ed. 259-263, 1972.

[168]  Panza, G.F., F.A. Schwab and L. Knopoff, Channel and crustal Rayleigh waves, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 30, 273-280, 1972.

[169]  Beloussov, V.V, L.R.A. Capurro, J.M. Harrison, L. Knopoff, A.E. Ringwood, S.K. Runcorn and K. Wadati, Significance and achievements of the Upper Mantle Project, Geotimes, 18, No. 4, 18-19, 1973.

Also appeared in Tectonophysics, 13, 1-5, 1972.
Also appeared in The Upper Mantle (A.R. Ritsema, K. Aki, P.J. Hart and L. Knopoff, eds.), Elsevier Publ. Co., Amsterdam, 1-5, 1972.
Also appeared in ICSU Bulletin No. 27, Sept. 1972, 3-7.

[170]  Ritsema, A.R., ed., K. Aki, P.J. Hart and L. Knopoff, assoc. editors, The Upper Mantle, Elsevier Publishing Co., Amsterdam; xii+644 pp., 1972.

Also appeared as Tectonophysics, 13, 1-644, 1972.

[171]  Seidl, D., S. Müller, M. Caputo, G.F. Panza, and L. Knopoff, The structure of the crust and upper mantle under the Mediterranean Basin from Rayleigh wave dispersion, Rapp. Comm. Mer Medit., 21, 37-38, 1972.

1973
[172]  Schwab, F., and L. Knopoff, Love waves and the torsional free oscillations of a multi-layered anelastic sphere, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 63, 1107-1117, 1973.

[173]  Knopoff, L., F. Schwab and E.G. Kausel, Interpretation of Lg, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron., Soc., 33, 387-402, 1973.

[174]  Knopoff, L., J.O. Mouton and R. Burridge,The dynamics of a one-dimensional fault in the presence of friction, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 35, 169-184, 1973.

[175]  Panza, G.F., F.A. Schwab and L. Knopoff, Multimode surface waves for selected fault mechanisms, Part I. Dip-slip sources on a vertical fault plane, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 34, 265-278, 1973.

[176]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Geophysical Journal, Royal Astronomical Society, 25, 1971, pp. 1-305, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 63, 1499-1500, 1973.

[177]  Garbin, H.D., and L. Knopoff, Compressional modulus of a material permeated by a random distribution of circular cracks, Quart. J. Appl. Math., 30, 453-464, 1973.

1974
[178]  Biswas, N.N., and L. Knopoff, Structure of the upper mantle under the United States from the dispersion of Rayleigh Waves, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 36, 515-539, 1974.

[179]  Schwab, F., E. Kausel, and L. Knopoff, Interpretation of Sa for a shield structure, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 36, 737-742, 1974.

[180]  Knopoff, L., Das Lied von der Erde, musical composition in two movements:
   1. Kern County
   2. M > 7

First performed in its entirety at Concert Kohoutek, Yale University, January, 1974.

[181]  Vane, G., and L. Knopoff, Antarctic seismological studies, Antarctic J., 8, 256257, 1973.

[182]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Geodynamic Models, by R.W. van Bemmelen (Elsevier Publ. Co.) Marine Geology, 16, 107-109, 1974.

[183]  Kausel, E.G., A.R. Leeds and L. Knopoff, Variations of Rayleigh wave phase velocities across the Pacific Ocean, Science, 186, 139-141, 1974.

[184]  Leeds, A.R., L. Knopoff and E.G. Kausel, Variations of upper mantle structure under the Pacific Ocean, Science, 186, 141-143, 1974.

[185]  Gardner, J.K., and L. Knopoff, Is the sequence of earthquakes in Southern California, with aftershocks removed, Poissonian?, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 64, 1363-1367, 1974.

[186]  Knopoff, L., Geophysical constraints on geodynamical models, a summary, in Plate Tectonics: Assessments and Reassessments, (C.F. Kahle, ed.), Amer. Assn. of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 23, 409-410, 1974.

[187]  Knopoff, L., F. Schwab, K. Nakanishi and F. Chang, Evaluation of Lg as a discriminant among different continental crustal structures, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 39, 41-70, 1974.

1975
[188]  Griggs, D.T., D.D. Jackson, L. Knopoff and R.L. Shreve, Earthquake Prediction: Modeling the anomalous Vp/Vs source region, Science, 187, 537-540, 1975.

[189]  Knopoff, L., and A.A. Fouda, Upper mantle under the Arabian Peninsula, Tectonophysics, 26, 121-134, 1975.

[190]  Garbin, H.D., and L. Knopoff, The shear modulus of a material permeated by a random distribution of free circular cracks, Quart. J. Appl. Math., 33, 296-300, 1975.

[191]  Garbin, H.D., and L. Knopoff, Elastic moduli of a medium with liquid filled cracks, Quart. J. Appl. Math., 33, 301-303, 1975.

[192]  Panza, G.F., F. Schwab and L. Knopoff, Multimode surface waves for selected focal mechanisms, Part II. Dip-slip sources, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron Soc., 42, 931-943, 1975.

[193]  Panza, G.F., F. Schwab and L. Knopoff, Multimode surface waves for selected focal mechanisms, Part III. Strike-slip sources, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 42, 945-955, 1975.

[194]  Knopoff, L., and J.O. Mouton, Can one determine seismic focal parameters from the far-field radiation? Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 42, 591-606, 1975.

[195]  Press, F., M. Bullock, R.M. Hamilton, W.F. Brace, C. Kisslinger, M.G. Bonilla, C.R. Allen, L.R. Sykes, C.B. Raleigh, L. Knopoff, R.W. Clough and R. Hofheinz, Jr., Earthquake research in China, Trans. Amer. Geophysical Union (EOS), 55, 838-881, 1975.

[196]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, Do epicentres migrate on the San Andreas Fault?, Nature, 257, 160, 1975.

1976
[197]  Bukowinski, M., and L. Knopoff, Electronic transition in iron and the properties of the core, in The Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Rocks, R.G.J. Strens, Ed. (John Wiley, 1976) 491-508.

[198]  Bukowinski, M.S.T., and L. Knopoff, Electronic structure of iron and models of the earth's core, Geophys. Res. Letters, 3, 45-48, 1976.

[199]  Gelfand, I.M., Sh. A. Guberman, V.I. Keilis-Borok, L. Knopoff, F. Press, E. Ya. Ransman, I.M. Rotwein and A.M. Sadovsky, Pattern recognition applied to earthquake epicenters in California, Phys. Earth and Planet. Interiors, 11, 227-283, 1976.

Also published (translated into Russian) in Computational Seismology, 9, 3-91, 1976.
Also appeared (translated into Russian) in Sbornik, Sovyetsko-Amyerikanskikh Rabot po Prognozu Zemlyetryaseniyi, 1, book 2, 73-171, 1976.

[200]  Smith, R.C., and L. Knopoff, Theory of the drift of asymmetrically heated lithospheric plates, Physics Earth and Planetary Interiors, 11, 299-311, 1976.

[201]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Earth's Core by J.A. Jacobs (Academic Press) Science, 193, 311, 1976.

[202]  Schlue, J.W., and L. Knopoff, Shear wave anisotropy in the upper mantle of the Pacific Basin, Geophys. Res. Letters, 3, 359-362, 1976.

[203]  Allen, C.R., W. Edwards, W.J. Hall, L. Knopoff, C.B. Raleigh, C.H. Savit, L.R. Sykes, M.N. Toksoz, R.H. Turner, Predicting Earthquakes: A scientific and technical evaluation with implications for society, National Academy of Sciences, 1976, 62 pp.

[204]  Kagan, Y., and L. Knopoff, Statistical search for non-random features of the seismicity of strong earthquakes, Phys. Earth and Planet. Interiors, 12, 291-318, 1976.

[205]  Nakanishi, K.K., L. Knopoff and L.B. Slichter, Observation of Rayleigh wave dispersion at very long periods, J. Geophys. Research, 81, 4417-4421, 1976.

[206]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Earthquake Prediction by T. Rikitake (Elsevier Publ. Co., 1976), Nature, 263, 355, 1976.

[207]  Caputo, M., L. Knopoff, E. Mantovani, S. Müller and G.F. Panza, Rayleigh wave phase velocities and upper mantle structure in the Apennines, Annali di Geofisica, 29, 199-214, 1976.

[208]  Ernst, W.G., D.T. Griggs, L. Knopoff and L.B.Slichter, University of California: In Memoriam, William Walden Rubey, 1976.

[209]  Holzer, R.E., L.Knopoff, and L.B.Slichter, University of California: In Memoriam, Clarence E. Palmer, 1976.

1977
[210]  Prozorov, A., M. Shimshoni and L. Knopoff, Magnitude studies from ultra-long period records, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 48, 404-414, 1977.

[211]  Knopoff, L., and G.F. Panza, Resolution of upper mantle structure using higher mode Rayleigh waves, Annali di Geofisica, 30, 491-505, 1977.

[212]  Nakanishi, K., F. Schwab and L. Knopoff, Generation of complete theoretical seismograms for SH, Part I., Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 48, 525-530, 1977.

[213]  Mantovani, E., F. Schwab, H. Liao and L. Knopoff, Generation of complete theoretical seismograms for SH, Part II. Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 48, 531-536, 1977.

[214]  Kagan, Y., and L. Knopoff, Earthquake risk prediction as a stochastic process, Phys. Earth and Planet. Interiors, 14, 97-108, 1977.

[215]  Schlue, J.W., and L. Knopoff, Shear wave polarization anisotropy in the Pacific basin, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 49, 145-165, 1977.

[216]  Knopoff, L., and F.-S. Chang, The inversion of surface wave dispersion data with random errors, J. of Geophysics, 43, 299-309, 1977.

[217]  Knopoff, L., Relative errors in group velocity measurements, J. of Geophysics, 43, 509-510, 1977.

[218]  Knopoff, L., and W. Hutchinson, A hypothesis regarding the perception of musical duration, in Essays for a Humanist, an offering to Klaus Wachsmann (Town House Press, 1977), 146-161.

[219]  Bukowinski, M.S.T., and L. Knopoff, Physics and chemistry of iron and potassium at lower-mantle and core pressures, in High Pressure Research, M.H. Manghnani and S. Akimoto, Eds., (Academic Press , 1977), 367-387.

[220]  Knopoff, L., and J.O. Mouton, Earthquake sources, in Modern Modeling of Continuum Phenomena, R.C. DiPrima, ed., Vol. 16 of Lectures in Applied Mathematics, (American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1977), pp. 221251.

[221]  Knopoff, L., and Y. Kagan, Analysis of the theory of extremes as applied to earthquake problems, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 5647-5657, 1977.

[222]  Mantovani, E., F. Schwab, H. Liao and L. Knopoff, Teleseismic Sn: A guided wave in the mantle, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 51, 709-726, 1977.

1978
[223]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: The Earth's Density by K.E. Bullen (Halstead Press, 1976), EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 59, 198,201, 1978.

[224]  Chatterjee, A.K., A.K. Mal and L. Knopoff, Elastic moduli of two-component systems, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 1785-1792, 1978.

[225]  Hutchinson, W., and L. Knopoff, The acoustic component of western consonance, Interface, 7, 1-29, 1978

[226]  Schlue, J.W., and L. Knopoff, Inversion of surface wave phase velocities for an anisotropic structure, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 54, 697-702, 1978.

[227]  Kagan, Y., and L. Knopoff, Statistical study of the occurrence of shallow earthquakes, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 55, 67-86, 1978.

[228]  Knopoff, L., and G. Vane, Age of East Antarctica from surface wave dispersion, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 117, 806-815, 1978/79.

[229]  Knopoff, L., R.L. Countryman, P.A. Rydelek, W.D. Smythe, T. Yogi and W. Zürn, Free oscillations of the earth and tilt at the South Pole, Antarctic Journal, 13, 41-43, 1978.

[230]  Knopoff, L., and W. Hutchinson, An index of melodic activity, Interface, 7, 205-229, 1978.

[231]  Fuchs, K., Presentation of the Emil-Wiechert-Medal (by Karl Fuchs) to Leon Knopoff, Los Angeles, on March 7, 1978 at Muenster, J. of Geophys., 44, 567568, 1978.

1979
[232]  Knopoff, L., R.G. Mitchel, E.G. Kausel and F. Schwab, A search for the oceanic Lg phase, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 56, 211-218, 1979.

[233]  Knopoff, L., R.E. Holzer and C.F. Kennel. Memorial to Louis B. Slichter, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 69, 655-657, 1979.

Also published in Quart J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 21, 67-69, 1980.
Also published in Geol. Soc. Amer. Memorial, 10, 1980.

[234]  Chatterjee, A.K., A.K. Mal and L. Knopoff, Reply to a criticism by Budiansky and O'Connell, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 5689-5690, 1979.

[235]  Knopoff, L., Statistics vs. case histories: the example of the Oaxaca Earthquake of November 29, 1978, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Newsletter, 13, No. 3, 1-8, 1979.

[236]  Calcagnile, G., and G.F. Panza and L. Knopoff, Upper mantle structure of North-Central Italy from the dispersion of Rayleigh waves, Tectonophysics, 56, 51-63, 1979.

[237]  Slichter, L.B., W. Zürn, E. Syrstad, L. Knopoff, W.D. Smythe and H. Uffelman, Long-period gravity tides at the South Pole, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 6207-6212, 1979.

[238]  Hutchinson, W., and L. Knopoff, The significance of the acoustic component of consonance of Western triads, J. Musicological Res., 3, 5-22, 1979.

[239]  Knopoff, L., W. Zürn, P.A. Rydelek and T. Yogi, Q of mode 0S0, J. of Geophys., 46, 89-95, 1979.

[240]  Ernst, W.G., L. Knopoff and A. Boettcher, University of California: In Memoriam, George Clayton Kennedy, 1979.

1980
[241]  Keilis-Borok, V.I., L. Knopoff and I.M. Rotvain, Bursts of aftershocks, longterm precursors of strong earthquakes, Nature, 283, 259-263, 1980.

Also published in Russian as Long-term premonitory seismicity patterns in California-Sierra Nevada, New Zealand, Japan and Alaska, Computational Seismology, 13, 3-11, 1980.
Also published in Earthquake Prediction: Proc. Intl. Symp. on Earthquake Prediction, 1979 (Unesco Press, Paris, 1984) pp. 47-60.

[242]  Keilis-Borok, V.I., L. Knopoff, I.M. Rotvain and T.M. Sidorenko, Bursts of seismicity as long-term precursors of strong earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 803-811, 1980.

[243]  Keilis-Borok, V.I., L. Knopoff, and C.R. Allen, Long-term premonitory seismicity patterns in Tibet and the Himalayas, J. Geophys. Research, 85, 813-820, 1980.

Also published (translated into Russian) as Long-term premonitory seismicity patterns in Tibet-Himalaya, Computational Seismology, 13, 12-19, 1980.

[244]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, Spatial distribution of earthquakes: the two-point correlation function, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 62, 303-320, 1980.

[245]  Knopoff, L., and P.A. Rydelek, Observations of sidereal motions of the earth's surface, Revs. of Geophys. and Space Phys., 18, 723-724, 1980.

[246]  Zürn, W., L. Knopoff and P.A. Rydelek, High precision measurement of the frequency of mode 0S0, J. of Geophys., 48, 158-160, 1980.

[247]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, Dependence of seismicity on depth, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 70, 1811-1822, 1980.

[248]  Hill, T.G., and L. Knopoff, Propagation of shock waves in one-dimensional lattices, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 7025-7030, 1980.

[249]  Chatterjee, A.K., A.K. Mal, L. Knopoff and J.A. Hudson, Attenuation of elastic waves in a cracked, fluid-saturated solid, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 88, 547-561, 1980.

[250]  Morris, C.E., L. Knopoff, P.A. Rydelek and W.D. Smythe, Observations of free modes, tides and tilts at Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarct. J., 15, 1-2, 1980.

[251]  Berger, C.R., L. Knopoff and W.G. MacMillan, University of California: In Memoriam, Willard Frank Libby, 1980.

1981
[252]  Seaton, M.J., Address of the President (Professor M.J. Seaton) on the presentation of the Gold Medal to Professor Leon Knopoff at the Society's apartments on Friday 1980 September 5, Q. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 22, 1-2, 1981.

[253]  Landoni, J.A., and L. Knopoff, Dynamics of a one-dimensional crack with variable friction, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 64, 151-161, 1981.

[254]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, Stochastic synthesis of earthquake catalogs, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 2853-2862, 1981.

[255]  Knopoff, L., and W. Hutchinson, Information theory for musical continua, J. Music Theory, 235, 17-44, 1981.

[256]  Knopoff, L., The nature of the earthquake source, in Identification of Seismic Sources - Earthquake or Underground Explosion, E.S. Husebye and S. Mykkeltveit, eds. (D. Reidel Publ. Co., Dordrecht), pp. 49-69, 1981.

[257]  Knopoff, L., and F.-S. Chang, Upper mantle structure under the Tibetan Plateau, in Geological and Ecological Studies of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, (Science Press, Beijing, 1981), pp. 627-632.

[258]  Rydelek, P.A., L. Knopoff and W. Zürn, 18.6-year modulation tide at the South Pole, Antarctic J., 16, No. 5, 57-58, 1981.

1982
[259]  Knopoff, L., and A.K. Chatterjee, Unilateral extension of a two-dimensional shear crack under the influence of cohesive forces, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 68, 7-25, 1982.

[260]  Rydelek, P.A., and L. Knopoff, Long-period lunar tides at the South Pole, J. Geophys. Research, 87, 3969-3973, 1982.

[261]  Panza, G.F., St. Müller, G. Calcagnile and L. Knopoff, Delineation of the North Central Italian upper mantle anomaly, Nature, 296, 238-239, 1982.

[262]  Wielandt, E., and L. Knopoff, Dispersion of very long-period Rayleigh waves along the East Pacific Rise: evidence for S wave velocity anomalies to 450-km depth, J. Geophys. Research, 87, 8631-8641, 1982.

[263]  Knopoff, L., and E. Wielandt, Structure of the upper mantle under the East Pacific Rise, Antarctic J., 17, 46-48, 1982.

[264]  Knopoff, L., Y.Y. Kagan and R. Knopoff, b values for foreshocks and aftershocks in real and simulated earthquake sequences, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 72, 1663-1676, 1982.

[265]  Newman, W.I., and L. Knopoff, Crack fusion dynamics: A model for large earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Letts., 9, 735-738, 1982.

[266]  Rydelek, P.A., L. Knopoff and W. Zürn, Observation of 18.6-year modulation tide at the South Pole, J. Geophys. Research, 87, 5535-5537, 1982.

1983
[267]  Chatterjee, A.K., and L. Knopoff, Bilateral propagation of a spontaneous twodimensional anti-plane shear crack under the influence of cohesion, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 73, 449-473, 1983.

[268]  Newman, W.I., and L. Knopoff, A model for repetitive cycles of large earthquakes, Geophys. Research Letts., 10, 305-308, 1983.

[269]  Knopoff, L., and W.I. Newman, Crack fusion as a model for repetitive seismicity, Pure Appl. Geophys., 121, 495-510, 1983.

[270]  Xu Guoming, L. Knopoff and W. Zürn, Variations of period and Q of free oscillations due to mode overlap, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 72, 709-719, 1983.

[271]  Knopoff, L., and W. Hutchinson, Entropy as a measure of style: the influence of sample length, J. Music Theory, 27, 75-98, 1983.

[272]  Knopoff, L., Seismicity at Mammoth Lakes, Nature, 303, 576, 1983.

[273]  Rydelek, P.A., and L. Knopoff, Long-period solar tides at the South Pole, Antarctic J., 18, 59-60, 1983.

[274]  Rydelek, P.A., and L. Knopoff, Analysis of South Pole tidal data, in Proc. Ninth Intl. Symp. on Earth Tides, J.T. Kuo, ed., (E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1983) 555-560.

[275]  Kilston, S., and L. Knopoff, Lunar-solar periodicities of large earthquakes in Southern California, Nature, 304, 21-25, 1983.

Also published in Recent Developments in World Seismology, April, 1984 (no. 64) 24-26 (Translation into Chinese).

[276]  Knopoff, L., The thickness of the lithosphere from the dispersion of surface waves, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 74, 55-81, 1983.

1984
[277]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, A stochastic model of earthquake occurrence, Proc. Eighth World Conf. on Earthquake Engineering, 1, 295-302, 1984 (Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood, N.J.).

[278]  Knopoff, L., and V.M. Markushevich, Stationarity and stability of a Markov earthquake sequence, Computational Seismology, 16, 21-31, 1984 (In Russian).

(English Translation, Computational Seismology, 16, 17-27, 1984).

[279]  Knopoff, L., and V.M. Markushevich, A numerical solution of the equation for a Markov earthquake sequence, Computational Seismology, 16, 31-36, 1984 (In Russian).

(English translation, Computational Seismology, 16, 28-32, 1984).

[280]  Chatterjee, A.K., and L. Knopoff, Spontaneous growth of an in-plane shear crack, Int. J. Solids Structures, 20, 963-978, 1984.

[281]  Rydelek, P.A., and L. Knopoff, Spectral analysis of gapped data: search for mode 1S1 at the South Pole, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 1899-1902, 1984.

[282]  Knopoff, L., Mathematical geophysics: a historical survey, Terra Cognita, 4, 233-234, 1984.

[283]  Knopoff, L., M. Grünewald and W. Zürn, Observations of anomalous longperiod surface wave dispersion at the South Pole, Antarctic J., 19, 9-10, 1984.

[284]  Knopoff, L., and W.I. Newman, Epitome, Proc. Third International Workshop on Instabilities in Continuous media, Venice, 3 Dec.-7 Dec., pp 1-5, 1984.

[285]  Knopoff, L., Solitary waves from collisions on discrete lattices, Proc. Third International Workshop on Instabilities in Continuous Media, Venice, 3 Dec.-7 Dec., 1984, pp. 12-16.

1985
[286]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, The first-order statistical moment of the seismic moment tensor, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 81, 429-444, 1985.

[287]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, The two-point correlation function of the seismic moment tensor, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 83, 637-656, 1985.

[288]  Chatterjee, A.K., and L. Knopoff, Fracture dynamics of fusion of two anti-plane cracks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, 82, 1869-1873, 1985.

[289]  Knopoff, L., V.I. Keilis-Borok and G. Puppi, editors, Instabilities in Continuous Media, Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics, 12, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 1985.

Also appeared as Pure Appl. Geophys., 121, 361-572, 1983.

[290]  Knopoff, L., Analyses to support statistical criteria, Chapter 5 of Earthquake Recurrence Intervals at Nuclear Power Plants, Analysis and Ranking, Report to US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR-4145, 55 pp. + references. March 1985.

1986
[291]  Chen, Y.T., and L. Knopoff, Static shear crack with a zone of slip-weakening, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 87, 1005-1024, 1986.

Also Published (in Chinese) in Translated World Seismology, 1987, No. 5, pp. 33-45.

[292]  Chen, Y.T., and L. Knopoff, The quasistatic extension of a shear crack in a viscoelastic medium, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 87, 1025-1039, 1986.

Also Published (in Chinese) in Translated World Seismology, 1987, No. 6, pp. 30-37.

[293]  Knopoff, L., P.A. Rydelek and W. Zürn, Terrestrial gyroscopic effects and gravity tides at the South Pole, Antarctic J., 21, 1-2, 1986.

1987
[294]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, Random stress and earthquake statistics: time dependence, Geophys.J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 88, 723-731, 1987.

[295]  Kagan, Y.Y., and L. Knopoff, Statistical short-term earthquake prediction, Science, 236, 1563-1567, 1987.

[296]  Yamashita, T., and L. Knopoff, Models of aftershock occurrence, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 91, 13-26, 1987.

[297]  Chen, Y.T., X.F. Chen and L. Knopoff, Spontaneous growth and autonomous contraction of a two-dimensional earthquake fault, Tectonophysics, 144, 5-17, 1987.

Also Published (in Chinese) in Translated World Seismology, 1988, No. 3, pp. 14-23.

[298]  Hutchinson, W., and L. Knopoff, The clustering of temporal elements in melody, Musical Perception, 4, 281-303, 1987.

[299]  Chen, Y.T., and L. Knopoff, Simulation of earthquake sequences, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 91, 693-709, 1987.

Also Published (in Chinese) in Translated World Seismology, 1988, No. 1, pp. 9-19.

[300]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Seismic Strong Motion Synthetics, B.A. Bolt, ed., (Academic Press), Earthquake Spectra, 3, 821-822, 1987.

1988
[301]  Keilis-Borok, V.I., L. Knopoff, I.M. Rotwain and C.R. Allen, Intermediate-term prediction of occurrence times of strong earthquakes, Nature, 335, 690-694, 1988.

1989
[302]  Yamashita, T., and L. Knopoff, A model of foreshock occurrence, Geophys. J., 96, 389-399, 1989.

[303]  Knopoff, L., P.A. Rydelek, W. Zürn and D.C. Agnew, Observations of load tides at the South Pole, Physics Earth Planetary Interiors, 54, 33-37, 1989.

[304]  Hudson, J.A., and L. Knopoff, Predicting the overall properties of composite materials with small-scale inclusions or cracks, Pure Appl. Geophys., 131, 551576, 1989.

[305]  Knopoff, L., The ear as parallel processor, Proc. First Internat. Conf. on Music Perception and Cognition, pp. 255-259, 1989.

[306]  Knopoff, L., P.A. Rydelek and W. Zürn, The transient regime of the free oscillation spectrum: The view from the South Pole, Chapter 22 of Observatory Seismology, J.J. Litehiser, ed., University of California Press, 1989, pp. 347-365.

[307]  Knopoff, L., The physics of earthquake prediction, Proc. Internat. Interdisciplinary Symp. in honour of G. Puppi, Atti di Conferenze, 23, 95-114, 1989, Soc. Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, R. Fanti, A. Forino, G. Giacomelli, L. Padrielli and A. Speranza, eds.

[308]  Knopoff, L., Attenuation of seismic waves in the near-source region, Final Report, Geophysics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, 48 pp., 1989.

1990
[309]  Newman, W.I., and L. Knopoff, Scale invariance in brittle fracture and the dynamics of crack fusion, Int. J. of Fracture, 43, 19-24, 1990.

[310]  Knopoff, L., P.A. Rydelek and C.Y. King, Comment on 'Migration of Historical Earthquakes in California', by King and Ma, Pure Appl. Geophys., 133, 547551, 1990.

[311]  Knopoff, L., Haskell's Seismic Source Theory, in Vincit Veritas, A Portrait of the life and work of Norman Abraham Haskell, 1905-1970, A. Ben Menahem, ed., Amer. Geophys. Union, publ., pp. 46-49, 1990.

[312]  Keilis-Borok, V.I., L. Knopoff, V. Kossobokov and I. Rotvain, Intermediateterm prediction in advance of the Loma Prieta earthquake, Geophys. Res. Letts., 17, 1461-1464, 1990.

[313]  Chatterjee, A.K., and L. Knopoff, Crack breakout dynamics, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 80, 1571-1579, 1990.

[314]  Knopoff, L., The phenomenology of earthquake occurrence, in Disorder and Fracture, J.C. Charmet, S. Roux and E. Guyon, eds., Plenum Press, New York, 1990, pp. 279-287.

[315]  Knopoff, L., The Modeling of earthquake occurrence, in Disorder and Fracture, J.C. Charmet, S. Roux and E. Guyon, eds., Plenum Press, New York, 1990, pp. 289-300.

[316]  Knopoff, L., Intermediate-term earthquake prediction, Earthquakes and Volcanoes, 22, 206-208, 1990.

1991
[317]  Knopoff, L., Reply to the citation on the occasion of the award of the 13th Medal of the Seismological Society of America, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 81, 295-296, 1991

[318]  Knopoff, L., Sir Harold Jeffreys: The Earth: Its Origin, History and Internal Constitution, Chance, 4, 24-26, 1991.

[319]  Lomnitz-Adler, J., G. Martinez-Mekler and L. Knopoff, Fracture Propagation: From time to ensemble averages and back again, Nonlinear Phenomena in Fluids, Solids and Other Complex Systems, P. Cordero and B. Nachtergaele, eds., Elsevier Publs., pp. 187-201, 1991.

[320]  Davis, P.M., and L. Knopoff, The dipping antiplane crack, Geophys. J. Internat., 106, 581-585, 1991.

[321]  Rosenblatt, D.B., and L. Knopoff, Instability in a delay-PDE model of earthquake occurrence, J. Nonlinear Sci., 1, 279-288, 1991.

1992
[322]  Lomnitz-Adler, J., L. Knopoff and G. Martinez-Mekler, Avalanches and epidemic models of fracturing in earthquakes, Phys. Rev. A, 45, 2211-2221, 1992.

[323]  Sornette, D., C. Vanneste and L. Knopoff, Statistical model of earthquake foreshocks, Phys. Rev. A, 45, 8351-8357, 1992.

[324]  Yamashita, T., and L. Knopoff, Model for intermediate-term precursory clustering of earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 19,873-19,879, 1992.

[325]  Knopoff, L., J.A. Landoni and M.S. Abinante, Dynamical model of an earthquake fault with localization, Phys. Rev. A., 46, 7445-7449, 1992.

1993
[326]  Knopoff, L., Self-organization and the development of pattern: Implications for earthquake prediction, Proc. Amer. Philosoph. Soc., 137, 339-349, 1993.

1994
[327]  Gabrielov, A., W. I. Newman and L. Knopoff, Lattice models of fracture: sensitivity to the local dynamics, Phys. Rev. E, 50, 188-197, 1994.

[328]  Xu, H.-J., and L. Knopoff, Periodicity and chaos in a one-dimensional dynamical model of earthquakes, Phys. Rev. E, 50, 3577-3581, 1994.

1995
[329]  Knopoff, L., Book Review: Introduction to Elastic Wave Propagation, by A. Bedford and D.S. Drumheller, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, xiii + 297 pp., 1994, Tectonophysics, 243, 295-296, 1995.

[330]  Nielsen, S., L. Knopoff and A. Tarantola, Model of earthquake recurrence: Role of elastic wave radiation, relaxation of friction, and inhomogeneity, Jour. Geophys. Research, 100, 12,423-12,430, 1995.

[331]  Davis, P.M., and L. Knopoff, The elastic modulus of media containing strongly interacting antiplane cracks, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 18,253-18,258, 1995.

[332]  Knopoff, L., and X.X. Ni, A mesoscopic model of friction and the selforganization of earthquake events, in Impact, Waves and Fracture, R.C. Batra, A.K. Mal and G.P. MacSithigh, editors, (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York) pp. 175-187, 1995.

[333]  Abinante, M.S., and L. Knopoff, Quasidynamic model for earthquake simulations, Phys. Rev. E, 52, 5675-5678, 1995.

[334]  Knopoff, L., and D. Sornette, Earthquake death tolls, J. de Physique I, 5, 1681-1688, 1995.

[335]  Zürn, W., P.A. Rydelek, L. Knopoff and W. D. Smythe, Gravity Studies at the South Pole, Proc. Twelfth Internat. Symp. on Earth Tides, (Science Press, Beijing) pp. 539-545, 1995.

[336]  Knopoff, L., Colloquium, National Academy of Sciences Letter to Members, 25, 7, 1995.

[337]  Sornette, D., I. Dornic, A. Johansen, L. Knopoff and A. Sornette, Powerlaws, criticality and self-organized criticality, Proc. IIIeme Seminaire Rhodanien de Physique, Physics of Complexity, S. Ciliberto, T. Dauxois and M. Droz, eds. (Editions Frontieres, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France), pp. 137-152, 1995.

1996
[338]  Gao, S., H. Liu, P.M. Davis and L. Knopoff, Localized amplification of seismic waves and correlation with damage due to the Northridge earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 86, S209-S230, 1996.

[339]  Knopoff, L., T. Levshina, V.I. Keilis-Borok and C. Mattoni, Increased longrange intermediate-magnitude earthquake activity prior to strong earthquakes in California, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 5779-5796, 1996.

[340]  Knopoff, L., Earthquake Prediction, The Scientific Challenge, Proc. National Acad. Sciences, 93, 3719-3720, 1996.

[341]  Knopoff, L., A selective phenomenology of the seismicity of Southern California, Proc. National Acad. Sciences, 93, 3756-3763, 1996.

[342]  Knopoff, L., The organization of seismicity on fault networks, Proc. National Acad. Sciences, 93, 3830-3837, 1996.

[343]  Sornette, D., L. Knopoff, Y. Kagan and C. Vanneste, Rank-ordering statistics of extreme events: application to the distribution of large earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 13,883-13,893, 1996.

[344]  Davis, P.M., and L. Knopoff, The elastic modulus of media containing strongly interacting antiplane cracks- Reply, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 25,377-25,379, 1996.

[345]  Gao, S., H. Liu, P.M. Davis, L. Knopoff and G. Fuis, A 98-station seismic array to record aftershocks of the 1984 Northridge Earthquake, USGS Open File Report, 96-0690, 1996. 28pp.

1997
[346]  Sornette, D., and L. Knopoff, The paradox of the expected time until the next earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 87, 789-798, 1997.

[347]  Knopoff, L., Stephan Müller, Mitteilungen Deutsche Geophys. Gesellschaft, Dec. 1997, 33-36.

[348]  Knopoff, L., Noncausality of numerical models of dynamic fracture growth, Annali di Geofisica, 40, 1287-1292, 1997.

[349]  Knopoff, L., Scale invariance of earthquakes, in Scale Invariance and Beyond, B. Dubrulle, F. Graner and D. Sornette, eds., (Springer, Berlin), pp. 160-172, 1997.

1998
[350]  Nielsen, S.B., and L. Knopoff, The equivalent strength of geometrical barriers to earthquakes. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 9953-9965, 1998.

[351]  Knopoff, L., Beno Gutenberg, 1889-1960. National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, 76, 114-147, 1998.

Also published in Mitteilungen, Deutsche Geophysik. Gesell., 2-15, (4)1999.
Also to be published in Biographies of Notable Scientists and Engineers, IASPEI Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, submitted May 15, 2000.

1999
[352]  Lee, M.W., D. Sornette and L. Knopoff, Persistence and quiescence of seismicity on fault systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 4219-4222, 1999.

[353]  Lee, M.W. and L. Knopoff, The self-organization of aftershocks, in Proc. 1st Workshop APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation, 1999 (P. Mora, ed.), pp. 463-464, 1999.

[354]  Knopoff, L., Earthquake prediction is difficult but not impossible, Nature Debates, 6 pp., 11 March, 1999 (see Nature, 398, Mar. 11, 1999, p. vii).

2000
[355]  Davis, P.M., J.L. Rubinstein, K.H. Liu, S.S. Gao, and L. Knopoff, Anomalous earthquake damage caused by geologic focusing of seismic waves, Science, 289, 1746-1750, 2000.

[356]  Knopoff, L., The magnitude distribution of declustered earthquakes in Southern California, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97, 11880-11884, 2000.

[357]  Knopoff, L., J.A. Landoni and M.S. Abinante, Causality constraint for fractures with linear slip weakening, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 28035-28043, 2000.

2001
[358]  Knopoff, L., Rayleigh Waves without Cubic Equations, Computational Seismology, 32, 33-37, 2001.

[359]  Knopoff, L., and X.X. Ni, Numerical Instability at the edge of a dynamic fracture, Geophys. J. Int., 147, F1-F6, 2001.

[360]  Knopoff, L., and Y.T. Chen, Frictional sliding, shock waves and granular rotations, in Proc. 2nd Workshop APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation, 2000 (M. Matsu'ura, K. Nakajima and P. Mora, eds.), pp. 137-139, 2001.

2003
[361]  Knopoff, L., and S. Treitel, Gordon J.F. MacDonald (1929-2002), Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 84, 40, 2003.

2004
[362]  Knopoff, L., and C.P. Slichter, Louis Slichter, 1896-1978. National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, 85, 2-22, 2004.

2006
[363]  Knopoff, L., and J.A. Landoni, Fracture of a Liquefied Crack and the Physics of Rayleigh Waves, PAGEOPH (Proc. 4th ACES conference, X.C. Yin, ed.), 163(9), 1741-1750, 2006.

2009
[364]  Knopoff, L., and Y.T. Chen, The Single Couple Equivalent Force Component of Dynamical Fractures and Intrafault Rotations, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 99(2B), 1091-1102, 2009.

[365]  Davis, P.M., and L. Knopoff, The elastic modulus, percolation, and disaggregation of strongly interacting, intersecting, antiplane cracks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Scis., US, 106(31), 12634-12639, 2009.

2010
[366]  Gleick, P.H., et al., +254 other authors incl. L. Knopoff, Climate Change and the Integrity of Science, Science, 328(5979), 689-690, 2010.

2012
[367]  Elkhoury, J., and L. Knopoff, Dynamical Model of Faulting in Two Dimensions and Self-healing of Large Fractures, Physical Review E (APS), 86(6), 066118, 2012. [ Image featured on Kaleidoscope. ]


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Knopoff, L., A Characteristic Scale for Earthquakes in Southern California

Knopoff, L., and J.A. Landoni, Dynamic Fractures with Linear Velocity Weakening

Knopoff, L., and P. Jögi, The Classical Triangle Billiard

Landoni, J.A., and L. Knopoff, The Stress on Stopped Cracks

Elkhoury, J., and L. Knopoff, Self-organization of Earthquakes on Geometrically Irregular Fault Systems

Knopoff, L., and M.W. Lee, Physics of the Omori Law of Aftershocks
 
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