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Gleeson, T. and Ingebritsen, S. (2016)
​Crustal permeability
co-published by ​Wiley-Blackwell & AGU
472 page
see review in Groundwater

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peer-reviewed articles (supervised students or postdocs  are underlined)

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IN THE OVEN

Gleeson, T. and Richter, B., How much groundwater can we pump and protect environmental flows through time? Presumptive standards for conjunctive management of aquifers and rivers.

Cuthbert, M.O., Gleeson, T., Moosdorf, N., Schneider, A., Hartmann, J., Befus, K.M. and Lehner, B. Global interactions between climate and groundwater
 
Huscroft, J., Gleeson, T., Hartmann, J., Börker, J. Compiling and mapping global permeability of the unconsolidated and consolidated Earth: GLobal HYdrogeology MaPS 2.0 (GLHYMPS 2.0).
 
Luijendijk, E., Gleeson, T. and Moosdorf, N. The flow of fresh groundwater, solutes and nutrients to the world’s oceans and coastal ecosystems
 
Gleeson, T., Manning, A.H., Popp, A., Zane, J. and Clark, J.F The suitability of using dissolved gases to determine groundwater discharge to high gradient rivers. Journal of Hydrology
 
Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Eckstrand, H. and Kerr, B.. Streamflow Depletion Modeling: Methods for an Adaptable and Conjunctive Water Management Decision Support Tool.
 
Smilovic, M., Gleeson, T., Adamowski, J. and Langhorn, C. – Optimizing agricultural water use with supplemental irrigation.

2017

61) Ingebritsen, S. and Gleeson, T., (2017) Crustal permeability. Hydrogeology Journal. 25: 2221-222415: 1-10 doi: 10.1007/s10040-017-1663-4
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60) Befus, K., Jasechko, S., Luijendijk, E., Gleeson, T., Cardenas, M.B. (2017) The rapid yet uneven turnover of Earth's groundwater. (2017) Geophysical Research Letters 11: 5511-5520 doi: 10.1002/2017GL073322
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59) Jasechko, S., Perrone, D., Befus, K., Cardenas, M.B., Ferguson,G., Gleeson, T., Luijendijk,E., McDonnell, J., Taylor, R., Wada, Y., Kirchner, J. (2017) Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination. Nature Geoscience: 10: 425-429 doi:10.1038/ngeo2943
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58) Cuthbert, M. O., Gleeson, T., Reynolds, S. C., Bennett, M. R., Newton, A. C., McCormack, C. J. and Ashley, G.M. (2017) Modelling the role of groundwater hydro-refugia in East African hominin evolution and dispersal.  Nature Communications 8: 15696 doi:10.1038/ncomms15696
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57) de Graaf, I.E.M., van Beek, L.P.H., Gleeson, T., Moosdorf, N., Schmitz, O, and Bierkens, M.F.P. (2017) A global-scale two-layered transient groundwater model: development and application to groundwater depletion. Advances in Water Resources 102: 53-67 doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.01.011
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56) Hartmann, A., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Wagener, T. (2017)  Enhanced groundwater recharge rates and altered recharge sensitivity to climate variability through subsurface heterogeneity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 115: 2842-2847. doi:10.1073/pnas.1614941114. Highlighted in Nature Climate Change.
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55) Asoka, A., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., and Mishra, V. (2017) Relative contribution of monsoon precipitation and pumping in groundwater storage in India. Nature Geoscience 10: 109-117 doi:10.1038/ngeo2869
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54) Mundy, E., Gleeson, T., Roberts, M., Baraer, M. and McKenzie, J. M. (2017) Thermal imagery of groundwater seeps: possibilities and limitations. Groundwater 55: 160-170 doi: 10.1111/gwat.12451.
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2016

53)    Scibek, J., Gleeson, T. and McKenzie, J.M. (2016) The biases and trends in fault zone hydrogeology conceptual models: global compilation and categorical data analysis. Geofluids 6: 782–798 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12188
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52)    Mundy, E., Dascher-Cousineau, K., Gleeson, T., Rowe, C., Allen, D.M. (2016) Complexity of hydrogeologic regime around an ancient low-angle thrust fault revealed by multi-disciplinary field study. Geofluids 6: 673–687 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12200
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51)    Beebe, B., Ferguson, G., Gleeson, T., Morgan, L., and Werner, A. (2016) Application of an analytical solution as a screening tool for seawater intrusion. Groundwater. 54: 709–718 doi: 10.1111/gwat.12411
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50) Smilovic, M., Gleeson, T., and Adamowski, J. (2016) Crop kites: determining crop-water production functions using crop coefficients and sensitivity indices. Advances in Water Resources 97: 193-204 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.09.010
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49) Van Loon, A.F., Stahl, K., Di Baldassarre, G., Clark, J., Rangecroft, S., Gleeson, T., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Tallaksen, L.M., Hannaford, J., Teuling, A.J.,  Uijlenhoet, R., Hannah, Wanders, N., D.M., Sheffield, J., Svoboda, M., Verbeiren, B., Wagener,T., Van Lanen, H.A.J.  (2016) Drought in a human-modified world: reframing drought definitions, understanding and analysis approaches. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 3631-3650, 2016 doi: 10.5194/hess-20-3631-2016
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48) Bresciani,E., Gleeson, T., Goderniaux, P., de Dreuzy, J.-R., Werner, A. D., Wörman, A., Zijl, W., and Batelaan, B. (2016) Groundwater flow systems theory: research challenges beyond the specified-head top boundary condition. Hydrogeology Journal. 24: 1087. doi: 10.1007/s10040-016-1397-8
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47) Currell, M., Gleeson, T., Dahlhaus, P. (2016) A framework for assessing the importance of transience in groundwater management. Groundwater 54: 4-14 doi: 10.1111/gwat.12300.
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2015

46) Gleeson, T., Befus, K., Jasechko, S., Luijendijk, E. Cardenas, M.B. (2015) The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater. Nature Geoscience 9: 161-167 doi:10.1038/ngeo2590. Recommended by the editors as an article that could help ‘change the world, one article at a time’
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45) Van Loon, A.F., Gleeson, T., Clark, J., Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Stahl, K., Hannaford, J., Di Baldassarre, G., Teuling, A.J.,  Tallaksen, L.M., Uijlenhoet, R., Hannah, D.M., Sheffield, J., Svoboda, M., Verbeiren, B., Wagener,T., Rangecroft, S., Wanders, N., Van Lanen, H.A.J. Drought in the Anthropocene. Nature Geoscience 9: 89-91 doi: 10.1038/ngeo2646.
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44) Doyle, J.M., Gleeson, T., Manning, A.H. and Mayer, U. (2015) Using noble gas tracers to constrain a groundwater flow model with recharge elevations: a novel approach for mountainous terrain. Water Resources Research 51: 8094- 8113 doi: 10.1002/2015WR017274.
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43) Jasechko, S., Lechler, A., Pausata, F.S.R., Fawcett, P.J., Gleeson, T., Cendón, D.I., Galewsky, J., LeGrande, A.N., Risi, C., Sharp, Z.D., Welker, J.M., Werner, M., Yoshimura, K. (2015) Late-glacial to late-Holocene shifts in global precipitation δ18O, Climate of the Past. 11, 1375-1393,doi:10.5194/cp-11-1375-2015.
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42) Smilovic, M., Gleeson, T., and Siebert, S. (2015) The limits of increasing food production on non-irrigated fields in India. Food Security, 7, 4: 835-856.
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41) Hartmann, A., Gleeson, T., Rosolem,R., Prianosi,F., Wagener, T. (2015) A large-scale simulation model to assess karstic groundwater recharge over Europe and the Mediterranean. Geoscientific Model Development, 8: 1729-1746, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1729-2015
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40) Lefebvre, R., Gleeson, T., McKenzie, J., and Gassiat, C. (2015) Reply to comment by Flewelling and Sharma on “Hydraulic fracturing in faulted sedimentary basins: Numerical simulation of potential contamination of shallow aquifers over long time scales”. Water Resources Research 51: 1877-1882 doi: 10.1002/2014wr016698
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39) Ingebritsen, S. and Gleeson, T., (2015) Crustal permeability: Introduction to the special issue. Geofluids. 15: 1-10 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12118
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38) Ranjram, M., Gleeson, T., Luijendijk, E. (2015) Is the permeability of crystalline rock in the shallow crust related to depth, lithology, or tectonic setting? Geofluids. 15: 106-119 doi 10.1111/gfl.12098 
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37) Luijendijk, E. and Gleeson, T. (2015) How well can we predict permeability in sedimentary basins? Deriving and evaluating porosity-permeability algorithms for noncemented sand and clay mixtures.Geofluids.15: 67-83 doi:10.1111/gfl.12115
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36) Fan, Y., Richard, S., Bristol, S., Peters, S., Ingebritsen, S., Moosdorf, N., Packman, A., Gleeson, T., Zaslavsky, I., Peckham, S., Murdoch, L., Fienen, M., Cardiff, M., Tarboton, D., Jones, N., Hooper, R., Arrigo, J., Gochis, D., Olson, J., Wolock, D. (2015) DigitalCrust - A 4D data system of material properties for transforming research on crustal fluid flow. Geofluids. 15: 372-379 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12114
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2014

35) Jasechko, S., Birks, S.J., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Sharp, Z.D., Fawcett, P.J., McDonnell, J.J., Welker, J.M. (2014) Pronounced seasonality in the global groundwater recharge. Water Resources Research. 50, 8845–8867 doi: 10.1002/2014WR015809
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34) Milly, P. C. D., Malyshev, S.L., Shevliakova, E., Dunne, K.A., Findell, K.L., Gleeson, T., Liang, Z., Phillips, P., Stouffer, R.J. and Swenson, S. (2014) An enhanced model of land water and energy for global hydrologic and earth-system studies. Journal of Hydrometerology, 15, 1739–1761. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0162.1.
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33) Wada, Y., Gleeson, T. and Esnault, L. (2014) Wedge approach to water stress. Nature Geoscience, 7: 615-617 doi:10.1038/ngeo2241
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32) Niazi, A., Prasher, S.O, Adamowski, J. and Gleeson, T. (2014) A system dynamics model to conserve arid region water resources through aquifer storage and recovery in conjunction with a dam, Water, 6: 2300-2321 doi:10.3390/w6082300
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31) Kim, J., Ryan, R., Klepeis, K., Gleeson, T., North. K., Bean, J., Davis, L. and Filoon, J. (2014) Tectonic evolution of a Paleozoic thrust fault influences the hydrogeology of a fractured rock aquifer, northeastern Appalachian foreland. Geofluids, 14: 266-290 doi: 10.1111/gfl.12076.
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30) Esnault, L., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Flanary, E., Bierkens, M.F.P. and van Beek, L.P.H. Heinke, J. and Gerten, D. (2014)  Linking groundwater use and stress to specific crops using the groundwater footprint in the Central Valley and High Plains aquifer systems, USA. Water Resources Research, 50: 4953-4973 doi: 10.1002/2013wr014792
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29) Gleeson, T., Moosdorf ,N., Hartmann,J. and van Beek, L.P.H.(2014) A glimpse beneath earth’s surface: GLobal HYdrogeology MaPS (GLHYMPS) of permeability and porosity. Geophyscial Research Letters, 41: 2014GL059856 doi: 10.1002/2014gl059856
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28) McDonald, R.I., Weber, K., Padowski, J., Flörke, M., Schneider, C., Green, P.A., Gleeson, T., Eckman, S., Lehner, B., Balk, D., Boucher, T., Grill, G., Montgomery, M. (2014) Water on an urban planet: urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure. Global Environmental Change, 27(0), 96-105 doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.022.
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27) Voss, C., Currell, M. and Gleeson, T. (2014), Editors’ Message: The 2013 Editors’ Choice articles, a new editor, and the 2013 ‘Coolest Paper’ award, Hydrogeology Journal, 22(2), 293-294. doi:10.1007/s10040-014-1111-7.
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26) Malgrange, J. and Gleeson, T. (2014) Shallow, old and hydrologically insignificant fault zones in the Appalachian orogeny. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119 (1), 346-359 doi:10.1002/2013JB01035.
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25) Gleeson, T. and Paskowski, D. (2014) Perceptions of scale in hydrology: what do you mean by regional scale? Hydrological Sciences Journal. doi:10.1080/02626667.2013.797581.
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2013

24) Gassiat, C., Gleeson, T., Lefebvre, R. and McKenzie, J. (2013) Hydraulic fracturing in faulted sedimentary basins: numerical simulation of potential long term contamination of shallow aquifers. Water Resources Research , 49, 8310–8327, doi:10.1002/2013WR014287.
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23) Sharpe, D.R., Russell, H.A.J., Dyke, L., T., Grasby, S., Gleeson, T., Michaud, Y., Savard, M.M., Wei, M., and Wozniak, P. (2013) Hydrogeological Regions of Canada in Canada's Groundwater Resources, A.Riveria, ed. Fitzhenry &Whiteside Ltd, Markham, p. 265-299

22) Bense, V.F., Gleeson, T., Loveless, S.E., Bour, O., and Scibek, J. (2013) Fault zone hydrogeology. Earth-Science Reviews 127 (2013) 171–192.doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.09.008.
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21) Gleeson,T., Wada, Y., (2013) Assessing regional groundwater stress for nations using multiple data sources with the groundwater footprint. Environmental Research Letters. 8 044010 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044010 .
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20) Gleeson,T. and Cardiff, M., (2013) The return of groundwater quantity: a mega-scale and interdisciplinary “future of hydrogeology”? Hydrogeology Journal. 21: 1169-1171 doi 10.1007/s10040-013-0998-8
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19) Ferguson, G. and Gleeson, T. (2013) Reply to 'Threats to coastal aquifers', Nature Climate Change, 3(7): 605-606, doi:10.1038/nclimate1930.
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18) Gassiat, C., Gleeson, T., Luijendijk, E. (2013) The location of old groundwater in hydrogeologic basins and layered aquifer systems. Geophysical Research Letters, 40: 1–6, doi:10.1002/grl.50599.
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17) Priyanka, P., Gleeson, T. and Baraer, M. (2013) Towards quantifying discrete groundwater discharge from frozen seepage faces using thermal infrared images. Geophysical Research Letters, 40: 123–127, doi:10.1029/2012GL054315.
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2012

16) Aeschbach-Hertig, W. and Gleeson, T., (2012) Regional strategies for the accelerating global problem of groundwater depletion. Nature Geoscience, 5: 853-861. doi:10.1038/ngeo1617.
see editorial in Nature Geoscience or web focus Nature Geoscience & Climate Change
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15) Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Bierkens, M.F.P. and van Beek, L.P.H. (2012) Sustainable water balance of global aquifers revealed by groundwater footprint. Nature, 488: 197–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11295.
pdf or see highlight in Nature Geoscience

14) Gleeson, T., Allen, D.M. and Ferguson, G. (2012) Teaching hydrogeology: a review of current practice. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 16: 2159-2168. doi:10.5194/hess-16-2159-2012.
pdf or overview on science education website

13) Dugan, H., Gleeson, T., Lamoureux,S. and Novakowski, K., (2012) Radon-222 as a groundwater tracer in a high arctic lake. Environmental Earth Sciences, 66:1385-1392 .
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12) Ferguson, G. and Gleeson, T. (2012) Vulnerability of coastal aquifers to climate change and groundwater use, Nature Climate Change, 2: 342-345. doi:10.1038/nclimate1413 .
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11) Gleeson, T., Alley, W.M., Allen, D.M., Sophocleous, M.A., Taniguchi, T., VanderSteen, J. and Zhou,Y. (2012) Towards sustainable groundwater use: setting long-term goals, backcasting and managing adaptively. Ground Water, 50: 19-26. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00825.x
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2011 and before

10) Gleeson, T., Marklund, L., Smith. L. and Manning, A.H., (2011) Classifying the water table at regional to continental scales. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L05401, doi:10.1029/2010GL046427
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9) Gleeson, T., Smith. L., Jansen, N., Hartmann, J., Dürr, H., Manning, A.H.,van Beek, R. and A.M. Jellinek (2011) Mapping permeability over the surface of the earth. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L02401, doi:10.1029/2010GL045565.
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8) Gleeson, T., VanderSteen, J., Sophocleous, M.A., Taniguchi, T., Alley, W.M., Allen, D.M., and Zhou,Y. (2010) Groundwater sustainability strategies. Nature Geoscience, 3:378-379.
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7) Gleeson, T., Novakowski, K., Cook, P.G. and Kyser, T.K. (2009a) Constraining groundwater discharge in a large watershed: integrated isotopic, hydraulic and thermal data. Water Resources Research, 45, W08402, doi:10.1029/2008WR007622.
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6) Gleeson, T., Novakowski, K. and Kyser, T.K. (2009b) Extremely rapid and localized recharge to a bedrock aquifer. Journal of Hydrology, 396: 496-509.
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5) Gleeson, T., and Novakowski, K. (2009) Identifying watershed-scale barriers to groundwater flow: lineaments in the Canadian Shield. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, no. 3/4, p. 333-347; doi: 10.1130/B26241.1
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4) Gleeson, T. & Manning, A.H. (2008) Regional groundwater flow in mountainous terrain: simulating topographic and hydrogeologic controls. Water Resources Research, 44, W10403, doi:10.1029/2008WR006848.
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3) Gleeson, T. and Godin, L. (2006) The Chako Antiform: a folded segment of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Nar valley, central Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Asian Earth Science, 27: 717-734, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.06.011
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2) Godin, L., Gleeson, T., Searle, M.S., Ullrich, T.D. and Parrish, R.R. (2006) Locking of southward extrusion in favor of rapid crustal-scale buckling of the Greater Himalayan Sequence, Nar Valley, Central Nepal, in "Continental Collision Zones: Extrusion, Channel Flow and Exhumation" edited by R. Law, M.S. Searle, and L. Godin, Geological Society of London, Special Volume 268, 268-292.
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1) Gillis, K.M., Muehlenbachs, K., Stewart, M., Gleeson, T. and Karson, J.(2001). Fluid flow patterns in fast-spreading East Pacific Rise crust exposed at Hess Deep. Journal of Geophysical Research 106: 26,311-26,329.
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​​I have lots of other non-refereed articles, abstracts and old thesis
but ​this page is long enough, as is! So contact me if you want more info!

Dept. of
Civil Engineering
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
University of Victoria
tgleeson@uvic.ca
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