Selected Publications

Publications

Chen Y, Gu Y J, *Zhang Q, *Wang H, Chen Y. (2023). Least-squares migration imaging of receiver functions. Journal of Geophysical Research, revised.

Schultz R, Woo J-U, Pepin K, Ellsworth W, Zebkar H, Segall P, Gu Y J, Samsonov S (2023). Disposal from in situ bitumen recovery induced the ML 5.6 Peace River earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL10294.

Sun W, Sacchi M, Gu Y J. (2023). Multichannel Sparse Deconvolution of Teleseismic Receiver Functions with f-x Preconditioning. Journal of Geophysical Research, accepted.

Currie C A, Mallyon D A, Yu T-C, Chen Y, Schaefer A, Audet P, Gu Y J. (2023). Mantle structure and dynamics at the eastern boundary of the northern Cascadia backarc. Journal of Geodynamics, 155, 101958.

Zhang C, Gu Y J, Chen Y, Dokht R. (2023). Recovery of the Alberta Basin sedimentary structures in southern-central Alberta using Nonlinear Inversions of Receiver Functions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 128, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024813.

Wang J, Gu Y J. (2022). Slab stagnation vs. penetration of Nazca subduction inferred from shear wave reflectivity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 599, 117867.

Wang J, Gu Y J. (2022). Global Variability of Density Contrast Across the 660-km Discontinuity. Geophysical Research Letters,28 February 2023, 50(4), DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101213.

Li T-Y, Gu Y J, Lawton D, Gilbert H, Macquet M, Genevieve S, *Wang J, Innanen K, *Yu N. (2022). Monitoring CO2 Injection at the CaMI Field Research Station Using Microseismic Noise Sources. Journal of Geophysical Research, December 2022, 127(12), DOI: 10.1029/2022JB024719.

Wu L, Huang W, Li H, Murphy J, Kirscher U, Mitchell R N, Hawkins M A, Halverson G P, Gu Y J, Zhang J, Liu X. (2022). Paleomagnetism of the Guanyang Devonian sedimentary successions in Guangxi province, South China. Gondwana Research. 105: 143-159.

Chen Y, Gu Y J, Mohammed F, Wang J, Sacchi M, Wang R, Nguyen B. (2021). Crustal attenuation beneath North America: Implications for slab subduction, terrane accretion and arc magmatism of the Cascades. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 560(116783): DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl..

Li T-Y, Gu Y J, Wang J, Wang R, Yusifbayov J, Canales M R, Shipman T. (2021). Earthquakes induced by wastewater disposal near Musreau Lake, Alberta, 2018¿2020. Seismological Research Letters. 93(2A): 727-738.

Rubio G, Chen Y, Sacchi, M, Gu Y J. (2020). 3D and 5D reconstruction of receiver functions using multichannel singular spectrum analysis. Geophysical Journal International. 225(2): 1010-1028.

Chen, Y., Y. J. Gu, L. Heaman, L. Wu, E. Saygin, Shu-Huei Hung, Reconciling seismic structures and Late Cretaceous kimberlite magmatism in northern Alberta, Canada, Geology, v. 48, https://doi.org/10.1130/G47163.1, 2020. [PDF]

Wang, J., Y. J. Gu, Y. Chen, Shear velocity and radial anisotropy beneath southwestern Canada: Evidence for crustal extensition and thick-skinned tectonics, J. Geophys. Res, 125, e2019JB018310, 2020. [PDF]

Li, T., Y. J. Gu, Z. Wang, R. Wang, Y. Chen, T.-R. Song, R. Wang, Spatiotemporal variations in crustal seismic anisotropy surrounding induced earthquakes near Fox Creek, Alberta, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 5180-5189, 2019. [PDF]

Li, T., Z. Wang, Y. J. Gu, R. Wang, Y. Wang, Experiment study of fracture structure effects on acoustic logging data using a synthetic borehole model,Experiment study of fracture structure effects on acoustic logging data using a synthetic borehole model, J. Petroleum Sci. Engineer., 183, 106433, 2019. [PDF]

Wu, Lei, Y. J. Gu, and Y. Chen, Shear wave splitting discloses two episodes of collision-related convergence in western North America, J. Geophys. Res: Solid Earth, 124, http://doi.org/10.1029/2018B016352, 2019. [PDF]

Chen, Y, Y. J. Gu, C. Currie, S. Johnston, A. Schaefer, and P. Audet, Seismic evidence for a mantle suture and imp.ications for the origin of the Canadian Coerdillera, Nature Communications, 10, 2249, 2019. [PDF]
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Chen, Y, Y. J. Gu, and S.-H. Hung, A new appraisal of lithospheric structures of the Cordillera-craton boundary region in western Canada, Tectonics,37, http://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC004956, 2018. [PDF]

Wang, R, Y. J. Gu, R. Schultz, and Y. Chen, non-double-couple components for induced earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079027, 2018. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., Y. Chen, R. Dokht and R. Wang, Precambrian tectonic discontinuities in western Laurentia: Broadband seismological perspectives on the Snowbird and Great Falls tectonic zones, Tectonics, 37, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017TC004843, 2018. [PDF]

Dokht, R., Y. J. Gu and M. Sacchi, Migration imaging of the Java subduction zones. J. Geophys. Res.,123, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014524, 2018. [PDF]

Schultz, R., G. Atkinson, D. Eaton, Y. J. Gu and H. Kao. Hydraulic fracturing volume is associated with induced earthquake productivity in the Duvernay play. Science, 359, 304-308, 2018.

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Schneider, S., T. Thomas, R. Dokht, Y. J. Gu and Y. Chen, Improving coda phase detectability in global seismic data using frequency-wavenumber methods , Geophys. J. Int., 212, 1288-1301, 2018. [PDF]

Wu, L., V. Kravchinsky, Y. J. Gu and D. Potter, Absolute reconstruction of the closing of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean in the Mesozoic elucidates the genesis of the slab geometry underneath Eurasia, J. Geophys. Res., 122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014261, 2017. [PDF]

Wang, R., Y. J. Gu, R. Schultz, M. Zhang and A. Kim, Source characteristics and geological implications ofthe January 2016 induced earthquake swarm near Crooked Lake, Alberta. Geophys. J. Int., 210, 979-988, 2017. [PDF]

Liu, Q., Y. J. Gu and H. Yao, Probing the Earth's internal structure and earthquake source mechanisms -- the seminal contribution of Adam Dziewonski, Scentia Sinica Terrae, 47, 509-517 2017. [PDF]

Chen, Y., Y. J. Gu, and S. Hung, Finite-frequency P-wave tomography of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Implications for the lithospheric evolution in Western Laurentia, J. Geophys. Res., Tectonophysics, 698, 79-90, 2017. [PDF]

Dohkt, R., Y. J. Gu, and M. Sacchi, Singular Spectrum Analysis method and its application in mapping mantle seismic structure, Geophys. J. Int., 208, 1430-1442, 2017. [PDF]

Schultz, R., R. Wang, Y. J. Gu, C. Haug, and , A seismological overview of the induced earthquakes in the Duvernay play near Fox Creek, Alberta, J. Geophysic. Res., Solid Earth, 122, 492-505, doi:10.1002/2016JB013570, 2016. [PDF]

Dokht, R., Y. J. Gu, and M. Sacchi, Waveform inversions of SS precursors: An investigation of the northwestern Pacific subduction zones and intraplate volcanoes in China, Gondwana Research,40, 77-90, 2016. [PDF]

Clerc, F., R. M. Harrington, Y. Liu, and Y. J. Gu, Stress drop estimates and hypocenter relocations of indued seismicity near Crooked Lake, Alberta, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43 , doi:10.1002/2016GL069800, 2016. [PDF]

Atkinson, Gu et al., Hydraulic fraturing and seismicity in the western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Seism. Res. Lett., 87, doi:10.1785/0220150263, 2016. [PDF]

Bao, X., D. Eaton, and Y. J. Gu, Rayleigh-wave azimulthally anisotropic phase-velocity map beneath western Canada. J. Geophys. Res., 121, issue 3, 1821-1834, 2016. [PDF]

Wang, R., Y. J. Gu, R. Schultz, A. Kim, G. Atkinson, Souce analysis of a potentially hydraulic fracturing induced earthquake near Fox Creek, Alberta. Geophys. Res. Lett, 43, issue 2, 564-573,doi:10.1002/2015GL066917, 2016. [PDF]

Schultz, R., S. Mei, D. Pana, V. Stern, Y. J. Gu, A. Kim and D. Eaton, The Cardston earthquake swarm and hydraulic fracrurering of the Exshaw formation, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 105, 2871-2884, doi:10.1785/0120150131, 2015. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., Y. Zhang, M. Sacchi, and Y. Chen, S. Contenti, Sharp mantle transition from cratons to Cordillera in southwestern Canada, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 5051-5069, doi:10.10002/2014JB011802, 2015. [PDF]

Chen, Y., Y. J. Gu, R. Dokht, and M. Sacchi, Crustal imprints of Proterozoic Orogenesis in western Laurentia, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 6993-7012, doi:10.10002/2014JB011802, 2015. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J. and L. Shen, Noise correlation tomography of Southwest Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Geophys. J. Int., 202, 142-162, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv100, 2015. [PDF]

Schultz, R., V. Stern, Y. J. Gu, M. Novakovic, G. Atkinson, Y. J. Gu, Hydraulic fracturing and the Crooked Lake Sequences: Insights gleaned from regional seismic networks, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1002/2015GL063455, 2015. [PDF]

Schultz, R., V. Stern, Y. J. Gu, D. Eaton, Detection threshold and location resolution of the Alberta Geological Survey Earthquake Catalogue, S. Res. Lett., 86, doi:10.1785/0220140203, 2015. [PDF]

Schultz, R., V. Stern, Y. J. Gu, An investigation of seismicity clustered near the Cordel Field, west central Alberta, and its relation to a nearby disposal well, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 3410-3423, DOI:10.1002/2013JB010836, 2014. [PDF]

Schultz, R., Y. J. Gu, Multi-resolution imaging of mantle reflectivity structures using SS and P'P' precursors, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1093/gji/ggt266, 2013. [PDF]

Contenti, S., Y. J. Gu, M. Sacchi, Upper mantle transition from cratons to terranes in western Canada, J. Geophys. Res., in revision, 2013.

Tran, T., Stiglitz, L., Y. J. Gu, L. Le, Propagation of Ultrasound Guided waves in a bone plate with and without overlying soft tissue, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.06.007, 2013. [PDF]

Schultz, R., Y. J. Gu, Flexible, inversion-based Matlab implementation of the Radon transform, Compu. Geosci., 52, 437-442, 2013. [PDF]

Rodriguez, I. V., M. Sacchi, Y. J. Gu, Compressed domain inversion of the seismic source parameters, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05659.x, 2012. PDF

Gu, Y., A. Okeler, R. Schultz, Tracking Slabs in Western Pacific Subduction Zones, Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett., 331-332, 269-280, 2012. [PDF]
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Liu, Q., Y. J. Gu, Seismic imaging: from classical to adjoint tomography, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.07.006, 2012. [PDF]

Contenti, S., Y. J. Gu, A. Okeler, M. Sacchi, Shear wave reflectivity imaging of Nazca-South America subduction zone: stagnant slab in the mantle transition zone? Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L02310, doi:10.1029/2011GL050064, 2012. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., L. Shen, Microseismic noise from large ice-covered lakes, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 102, doi:10.1785/0120100010, 2012. [PDF]

Rodriguez, I. V., M. Sacchi, Y. J. Gu, Simultaneous recovery of origin time, hypocenter location, and seismic moment tensor using sparese representation theory, Geophys. J. Int., 188, 1188-1202, 2012. PDF

Gu, Y. J., A. Okeler, L. Shen, and S. Contenti, The Canadian Rockies and Alberta Network (CRANE): New constraints on the Rockies and Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Seism. Res. Lett.,82, 575-588, 2011. [PDF]

Rodriguez, I. V., Y. J. Gu, and M. Sacchi, Resolution of seismic-moment tensor inversions from a single array of receivers, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 101, 2634-2642, doi:10.1785/0120110016, 2011. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J. (Eds.), Arrays and array methods in global seismology, 273 pages, Springer, Netherland, 2010. [Google Books]

Le, L., Y. J. Gu, Y. Li, and C. Chan, Probing long bones with ultrasonic body waves, Appl. Phys. Lett., 96, 114102, 2010.

Rodriguez, I.V., M. Sacchi, and Y. J. Gu, Continuous hypocenter and source mechanism inversion via a Green's function based matching pursuit algorithm, The Leading Edge, 29, 334-347, doi:10.1190/1.3353731, 2010. [PDF] .

Gu, Y. J., A. Okeler, S. Contenti, K. Kocon, L. Shen, and K. Brzak, Broadband seismic array deployment and data analysis in Alberta, CSEG Recorder, September, 33-40, 2009. [PDF] .

Gu, Y. J., M. J. Rycroft, PDF Arrays and array methods in global seismology, Eds., Surv. Geophys., 30, 404, 269-523, 2009. Click here to access the volume.
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Okeler, A., Y. J. Gu, A. Lerner-Lam, and M. Steckler, Seismic structure of the southern Apennines as revealed by waveform modelling of regional surface waves, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04229.x, 2009. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., Y. An, M. Sacchi, R. Schultz, J. Ritsema, Mantle reflectivity structure beneath oceanic hotspots, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04042.x, 2009. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J. and M. Sacchi, Radon transform methods and their applications in mapping mantle reflectivity structure, Surv. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s10712.009-9076-0, 2009. [PDF]

Brzak, K., Y. J. Gu, A. Okeler, M. Steckler, and A. Lerner-Lam, Migratino imaging and forward modeling of microseismic noise sources near southern Italy, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 10 , Q01012, doi:10.1029/2008GC002234, 2009. [PDF]

Gu. Y., C. Dublanko, A. Lerner-Lam, K. Brzak, M. steckler, Probing the sources of ambient seismic noise beneath Southern Italy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34 , L22315, doi:10.1029/2007GL031967, 2007. [PDF]

An Y., Y. J. Gu, and M. Sacchi, Imaging mantle discontinuities using least-squares Radon transform. J. Geophys. Res., 112, doi:10.1029/2007JB005009, 2007. [PDF]

Escalante, C., Y. J. Gu, and M. Sacchi, Simultaneous iterative time-domain deconvolution to teleseismic receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246x.2007.03511.x , 2007. [PDF]

Y. J. Gu, and Y. An, Searching for mantle plumes using high-resolution Radon transforms, published at www.mantleplumes.org, 2007. [Link Here]

Y. J. Gu, Discussion of Seismic observations of transition zone discontinuities beneath hotspot locations by Deuss , [PDF], GSA Special Issue: Plates, Plumes, and Planetary processes, , ED. G. R. Foulger and D. M. Jurdy, in press , 2007.
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Y. J. Gu, Special Issue on 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Tsunami, Preface, [PDF] , Eds. by Y. J. Gu, Surveys in Geophysics, 27 , November, ISSN 0169-3298, 2006.
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Gu, Y. J., Probing the history of the Mathematician Paleoplate using surface waves, [PDF] Tectonophysics , 424 , 41-51, 2006.

Yang, X., Y. J. Gu, P. Shen, X. Liu, and Z. Zheng, A study of the adaptive method for decoupling overlapped seismic records, Pure and Appl. Geophys,, 163 , 8, 1515-1536, 2006. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., S. Webb, A. Lerner-Lam, and J. B. Gaherty, Upper mantle structure beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean riges, J. Geophys. Res. , 110, B06305, doi:10.1029/2004JB003381 , 2005. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., A. Lerner-Lam, A.. M. Dziewonski, and G. Ekström, Seismic evidence for deep anisotropy beneath the East Pacific Rise, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. , 232, 3-4, 259-272, , 2005. [PDF] [HTML]

Gu, Y. J., A.. M. Dziewonski, and G. Ekström, Simultaneous inversion for mantle shear velocity and topography of transition zone discontinuities, Geophys. J. Intl. , 154, 559-583, 2003. [PDF] [Plate 2 and 3 PDF files]

Antolik, M., Y. J. Gu, Adam M. Dziewonski, and G. Ekström, a new joint model of compressional and shear velocity in the mantle, Geophys. J. Intl. ,153 , 443-466, 2003. [PDF]

Li, X., R. Kind, X. Yuan, S. V. Sobolev, W. Hanka, D.S. Ramesh, Y. J. Gu, and A. M. Dziewonski, Seismic detection of narrow strong oceanic plumes and relation to mantle transition zone temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 28 , 4655-4658, 2003. [HTML] [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., and A. M. Dziewonski, Global variability of transition zone thickness, J. Geophys. Res., 107(B7), 2135 , doi:10.1029/2001JB000489, 2002. [HTML] [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., A.. M. Dziewonski, and G. Ekström, Preferential detection of the Lehmann discontinuity beneath continents, Geophys. Res. Lett. , vol. 28, no. 24 , 4655-4658, 2001. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., and A.. M. Dziewonski, Variables in thickness of the upper mantle transition zone, 2nd OHP/ION Joint Sym. Contribution , edited by B. Romanowicz, K. Suyehiro, and H. Kawakatsu, pp175-180 , 2001. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., A.. M. Dziewonski, W.-J. Su, and G. Ekström, Models of the mantle shear velocity and discontinuities in the pattern of lateral heterogeneities, J. Geophys. Res. , 106 , 11169-11199, 2001. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., Upper mantle transition zone: structure and topography of discontinuities , Thesis , 227pp, Harvard University, 2001.

Antolik, M., G. Ekström , A. M. Dziewonski, Y. J. Gu, J. Pan, and L. Boschi, A new joint P and S velocity model of the mantle parameterized in cubic B-splines , 22nd Ann. DoD/DoE Seism. Res. Sym. Proc., 2, 15-23, 2000. [PDF]

Gu, Y. J., A. M. Dziewonski, and C. B. Agee, Global de-correlation of the topography of transition zone discontinuities , Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 157, 57-67, 1998. [PDF]

Extended Abstracts

Ridriguez, I. V., M. D. Sacchi, Y. J. Gu, Toward a near real-time system for event hypocenter and source mechanism recovery via compressive sensing. SEG, Expanded Abstract, 29, no 1, 2140-2145, 2010.

Kind, R., X. Li, X. Yuan, S. Sobolev, W. Hanka, D. S. Ramesh, Y. Gu, and A. M. Dziewonski, Seismic detection of narrow oceanic plumes and relation to mantle transition zone temperature, Superplume, 139-142, 2002.

Gu, Y. J., A. M. Dziewonski, and G. Ekstrom, Joint modeling of mantle shear velocity and boundary topography, Superplume Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 124-128, 2002 Phys. Earth Planet. Int. , in preparation , 2004.

Gu, Y. J., Y. Li, A. Lerner-Lam, Modeling of the Effective Temperatures in the Upper Mantle Transition Zone, J. Geophys. Res , in preparation , 2004.

Gu, Y. J., A.. M. Dziewonski, and G. Ekström, Radial anisotropy of the upper mantle from waveform and travel time inversions, J. Geophys. Res. , in preparation , 2004.

Agee, C. B., Y. J. Gu, and A. M. Dziewonski, Topography of transition zone

Agee, C. B., Y. J. Gu, and A. M. Dziewonski, Topography of transition zone discontinuities: a measure of "olivine" content and evidence for deep cratonic roots, LPI Contribution , 921 , 1-2, 1997. discontinuities: a measure of "olivine" content and evidence for deep cratonic roots, LPI Contribution , 921 , 1-2, 1997.