Publications

Publications

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Journal Articles

Vilacis, B., Carena, S., Hayek, J.N., Robl, G., Bunge, H.-P., and Ma, J. (2025) - Comparative analysis of manual and digital approaches for extracting geological hiatuses. A case study from China. J. Struct. Geol., 202, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105565
Hayek, J.N., Stotz, I.L., Bunge, H.-P., Carena, S. (2025) - First-order global stress patterns inferred from upper mantle flow models . Proc. Royal Soc. A, 481, 20240969. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0969
Stotz, I.L., Carena, S., Vilacis, B., Hayek, J.N., and Bunge, H.-P. (2024) - Kerguelen Plume Drives the Eocene Directional Change in Australian Plate Motion. Lithosphere, 2024 (3). https://doi.org/10.2113/2024/lithosphere_2023_289
Vilacis, B., Brown, H., Bunge, H.-P., Carena, S., Hayek, J.N., Stotz, I.L.,Wang, Z.R., and Friedrich, A.M. (2024) - Dynamic topography and the planform of mantle convection since the Jurassic inferred from global continental hiatus maps. Proc. R. Soc. A, 480: 20240311. DOI10.1098/rspa.2024.0311
Carena, S., Friedrich, A.M., Verdecchia, A., Kahle, B., Rieger, S., and S. Kuebler (2023) - Identification of source faults of large earthquakes in the Turkey-Syria border region between 1000 CE and present, and their relevance for the 2023 Mw 7.8 Pazarcik earthquake. Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007890.
Taufiqurrahman T., Gabriel A.-A., Li, D., Ulrich, T., Li, B., Carena, S. , Verdecchia, A., and F. Gallovic (2023) - Dynamics, interactions and delays of the 2019 Ridgecrest rupture sequence . Nature, 618, 308-315. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05985-x
Stotz, I.L., Vilacis, B., Hayek, J.N., Carena, S., Bunge, H.-P. (2023) - Plume driven plate motion changes: New insights from the South Atlantic realm Journal of South American Earth Sciences 124, 104257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104257
Vilacis, B., Hayek, J.N., Stotz, I.L., Bunge, H.-P., Friedrich, A.M., Carena, S., and S. Clark (2022) - Evidence for active upper mantle flow in the Atlantic and Indo-Australian realms since the Upper Jurassic from hiatus maps and spreading rate changes. Proc. R. Soc. A, 478: 20210764. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0764
Plattner, C., Parizzi, A., Carena, S., Rieger, S., Friedrich, A.M., Abolghasem, A., DeZan, F. (2021) - Long-lived afterslip of the 2013 Mw 6.1 Minab earthquake detected by Persistent Scatterer Interferometry along the Irer fault (western Makran-Zagros transition zone, Iran). Geophys. J. Int., 229 (1), 171-185.
J.N. Hayek, B. Vilacis, H.-P. Bunge, A.M. Friedrich, S. Carena, and Y. Vibe (2020). Continent-scale Hiatus Maps for the Atlantic Realm and Australia since the Upper Jurassic and links to mantle flow induced dynamic topography. Proc. R. Soc. A, 476: 20200390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0390
Carena, S., Bunge, H.-P., and Friedrich, A.M. (2019) - Analysis of geological hiatus surfaces across Africa in the Cenozoic and implications for the timescales of convectively-maintained topography. Can. J. Earth Sci., https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0329.
Verdecchia, A., Carena, S., Pace, B., and DuRoss, C.B. (2019) - The effects of stress changes on time-dependent earthquake probabilities for the central Wasatch fault zone, Utah, USA. Geophys. J. Int., 219, 1065-1081. doi:10.1093/gji/ggz336.
Carena, S., and Friedrich, A.M. (2018) - Vertical-displacement history of an active Basin and Range fault based on integration of geomorphologic, stratigraphic, and structural data. Geosphere, 14 (4), 1657-1676. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01600.1
Catlos, E.J., Friedrich, A.M., Lay, T., Elliott, J.R., Carena, S., Upreti, B.N., DeCelles, P., Tucker, B., Bendick, B. (2016) - Nepal at Risk: Interdisciplinary Lessons Learned from the April 2015 Nepal (Gorkha) Earthquake and Future Concerns. GSA Today, 26 (6), doi: 10.1130/GSATG278GW.1
Verdecchia, A., and Carena, S. (2016): Coulomb stress evolution in a diffuse plate boundary: 1400 years of earthquakes in eastern California and western Nevada, USA, Tectonics, 35. DOI: 10.1002/2015TC004091
Verdecchia, A., and Carena, S. (2015): One hundred and fifty years of Coulomb stress history along the California-Nevada border, USA, Tectonics, 34(2), 213-231. doi:10.1002/2014TC003746
Ustaszewski, K., Wu, Y.-M., Suppe, J., Huang, H.-H., Huang, C.-H., Carena, S. (2012): Crust-mantle boundaries in the Taiwan–Luzon arc-continent collision system determined from layered Vp models and local earthquake tomography, Tectonophysics, 578, 31-94 , doi 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.029 .
Carena, S. (2011) - Subducting-plate topography and nucleation of great and giant earthquakes along the South America trench. Seismol. Res. Lett., 82 (5) 629-637, doi:10.1785/gssrl.82.5.629.
Carena, S., and Moder, C. (2009) - The strength of faults in the crust in the western United States. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 287, 373-384, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.021.
Suppe, J., Huang, M.-H., and Carena, S. (2009) - Mechanics of thrust belts and the weak-fault/strong-crust problem. Trabajos de Geologia, 29, 61-65. PDF 1.8MB
Plesch, A., Shaw J.H., Benson C., Bryant W.A., Carena S., Cooke M., Dolan J., Fuis G., Gath E., Grant L., Hauksson E., Jordan T., Kamerling M., Legg M., Lindvall S., Magistrale H., Nicholson C., Niemi N., Oskin M., Perry S., Planansky G., Rockwell T., Shearer P., Sorlien C., Suess M.P., Suppe J., Treiman J., and R. Yeats (2007) - Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 97, 1793-1820, doi: 10.1785/0120050211.
Carena, S. (2007) - Using Earthquake Data to Map Faults in 3-D with Gocad: Examples at Different Scales. – Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 35: 193-200, 4 Abb.; Freiberg. PDF
Carena S., Suppe J., Kao H. (2004) - Lack of Continuity of the San Andreas Fault in southern California: 3-D fault models and earthquake scenarios. J. Geophys. Res., 109, B04313, doi:10.1029/2003JB002643.
Carena S., Suppe J., Kao H. (2002) - The active detachment of Taiwan illuminated by small earthquakes and its control of first-order topography. Geology, 30 (10), 935-938. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2002) 030<0935:ADOTIB>2.0.CO;2
Carena S., Suppe J. (2002) - 3-D Imaging of Active Structures Using Earthquake Aftershocks: the Northridge Thrust, California. J. Struct. Geol., 24, 887-904. doi:10.1016/S0191-8141(01)00110-9
Carena S., Borgia A., Battaglia A., Pasquare' G., Ferraris M., Martelli L., De Nardo M. T. (2000) - Gravity Synclines. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 21819-21833. DOI: 10.1029/2000JB900206
Borgia A., Carena S., Battaglia A., Pasquare' G., Ferraris M., Martelli L., De Nardo M. T. (1997) - Genesis of Isolated Synclines: is Gravitational Stress Sufficient to Create Them? Il Quaternario, 10(2), 529-534.
Carena S., Ricci S., Chiesa S., Vezzoli L. (1996) - Stratigraphic and Paleogeographic Reconstruction of Mount Arcuentu-Funtanazza Tertiary Succession (Central-Western Sardinia, Italy). Geogaceta, 20 (3), 518-520. PDF

Monographs

Sara Carena, Anke M. Friedrich, and Bernd Lammerer, eds. (2011) - Geological Field Trips in Central Western Europe: Fragile Earth International Conference, Munich, September 2011. Field Guide 22, Geological Society of America. ISBN: 0813700221

Selected abstracts

Carena, S. and Friedrich, A. (2025) - Mapping fractures in 3D from airborne LiDAR: comparison with field mapping, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-2144, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-2144, 2025
Carena, S., Suppe, J., Wu, Y.-M., Kanda, R.S., & Hsieh, Y.-H. (2023) - Architecture and Kinematics of the Taiwan Arc-Continent Collision. Abstract (T21D-0219) presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, 11-15 December 2023.
Carena, S. Avasthy, A., Aristou, A., and Friedrich, A. (2022) - Virtual rocks, virtual outcrops, and virtual field trips. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 54, No. 5, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-376738.
Hsieh, Y.-H., Suppe, J., Liu, C.-S., Huang, H.-H., and Carena, S. (2022) - Multiscale retrodeformable transect of the actve Taiwan arc-continent collision: strategies and results. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 54, No. 5, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-383291.
A.A. Gabriel, T. Taufiqurrahman, S. Carena, A. Verdecchia, B. Li, D. Li, T. Ulrich, F. Gallovic, S. A. Wirp (2020) - Untangling the dynamics of the 2019 Ridgecrest sequence by integrated dynamic rupture and Coulomb stress modeling across an immature 3D conjugate fault network. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 15268.
S. Carena, A Verdecchia, A Valentini, B Pace (2020) - The impact of the 2019 Ridgecrest sequence on time-dependent earthquake probabilities for the Garlock fault, California, USA. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 5523.
Carena, S., Suppe, J., Wu, Y.-M., and Kanda, R.S. (2019) - Lithospheric scale and upper-crustal-scale geometry and kinematics of the Taiwan arc-continent collision. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5, doi:10.1130/abs/2019AM-335653.
Verdecchia, A., Friedrich, A.M., and Carena, S. (2019) - How 1000 years of earthquakes have shaped the stress distribution in the Eastern California Shear Zone: seismic hazards before and after the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2019, abstract #S31G-0509..
Carena, S., and A. Friedrich (2016): Slip History of the Dixie Valley Fault System (NV, USA) Based on Integration of Geomorphologic, Stratigraphic, and Structural Data. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7. doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-277187
Carena, S., Suppe, J., Wu, Y.-M. (2013) - Contrasting lithospheric-scale and crustal-scale architecture and kinematics of the Taiwan arc-continent collision. GSA Denver Annual Meeting, October 27-30, 2013, Paper #379-8. Link.
Carena, S., (2011) - Subducting-plate topography and nucleation of great and giant earthquakes along the South America trench. FRAGILE EARTH: Geological Processes from Global to Local Scales and Associated Hazards (Munich, Germany, 4-7 September 2011), Paper #18-3.
Carena, S., Suppe, J. and Wu, Y.-M. (2010) - Lithospheric structure of Taiwan from seismicity and crustal tomography. GSA Denver Annual Meeting, October 31 - November 3, 2010, Paper #24-5.
Suppe, J., Wu, Y.-M., Carena, S., and Ustaszewski, K. (2009) - Deep and shallow structure of Taiwan arc-continent collision. GSA Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October 18-21, 2009. PDF
Carena, S., and C. Moder (2008) - Fault strength in California and western Nevada. Geophys. Res. Abstracts, 10, EGU2008-A-01703.
Moder C. and Carena S. (2007) - Investigating Lithosphere Strength With Thin-Shell Tectonic Modeling. Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract DI21A-0341. PDF
Carena S., Suppe J., and Kao H. (2007) - Using Earthquake Data to map Faults in 3-D: Applications and Results. Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U31A-0003. PDF
Carena S. (2006) - 3-D Geometry of Active Deformation East of the San Andreas Fault Near Parkfield, California. Eos Trans. AGU, Eos Trans. AGU, 87 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S23C-0178. PDF
Carena S. and L. Yue (2006) - Imaging faults in 3D from earthquakes: the Crafton Hills Fault Zone and the geometry of the San Andreas Fault near San Bernardino, Southern California. Geophys. Res. Abstracts, 8, 03808. PDF
Carena S. and L. Yue (2005) - 3D Images of Faults Within the Crafton Hills Fault Zone From the June 16th, 2005, Yucaipa, California, Earthquake: Implications for the Geometry of the San Andreas Fault. Eos Trans. AGU, 86 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T51D-1366. Poster PDF 14.5MB
Carena S. and Suppe J. (2002) - Continuity of the San Andreas fault at San Gorgonio Pass. Eos Trans. AGU, 83 (47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T62F-01. PDF
Carena S., Suppe J., Kao H. (2002) - The active detachment of Taiwan: its interaction with large-scale topography gives insight into Taiwan wedge mechanics. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 4.
Carena S., Suppe J., Kao H. (2002) - The active detachment of Taiwan illuminated by small earthquakes: critical-taper wedge mechanics and control of first-order topography. GSA Meeting, Denver, October 27-30, 2002. PDF
Carena S., Suppe J., Kao H. (2001) - Imaging the Main Detachment under Taiwan: Implications for the Critical-Taper Mechanics and Large-Scale Topography. Eos Trans. AGU, 82 (47), Suppl., 1176.
Carena S., Suppe J., Kao H. (2001) - Structure of the Upper Crust Beneath Central Taiwan as Illuminated by 35,000 small earthquakes. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 3, 977.
Carena S., Suppe J., Kao H. (2000) - How the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake Helped Reveal the Structure Beneath Central Taiwan. Eos Trans. AGU, 81(48), Fall Meet. Suppl., 883.
Carena S., Suppe J. (2000) - Imaging Faults in 3-D with Microearthquakes. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society in Taiwan (March 30-31). PDF
Carena S. and Suppe J. (1999) - The Importance of Small Earthquakes and Good Locations in the Hunt for Blind Faults: the Example of Northridge. Eos, Transactions, American Gephysical Union. 80; 46, Suppl., 644.
Carena S. and Suppe J. (1999) - 3D Structure of the Northridge area. GSA Meeting, Denver, October 25-28, 1999.
Carena S. (1999) - 3D Imaging of Faults Using Aftershocks of Large Earthquakes. EUG 10. J. Conf. Abs. 4, 455.
Erickson, G., Ford, M., Suppe, J., Strayer, L., and Carena, S. (1998) - Sequential restoration of folds using growth strata; an example from Sant Llorenc de Morunys, Southeast Pyrenees. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, vol.30, no.7, pp.42. PDF
Carena S. (1998) - Modeling Fault Surfaces from Earthquake Hypocenters with Gocad. GOCAD ENSG Conference. 3D Modeling of Natural Objects: A Challenge for the 2000's. Nancy, France, 4-5 June 1998.
Carena S., Borgia A., Battaglia A., Pasquare' G., Tibaldi A., Martelli L., De Nardo M. T. (1996) - Genesis of isolated synclines; is gravitational stress sufficient to create them? Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union.77; 46, Suppl., Pages 643.

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