Major Publications – Seiichi Nagihara

Nagihara, S., and K. O. Jones, 2005, Geothermal heat flow in the northeast margin of the Gulf of Mexico: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., v. 89, p. 821-831.

Nagihara, S., and M. A. Smith, 2005, Geothermal gradient and temperature of hydrogen sulfide-bearing reservoirs in the continental shelf off Alabama: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. v. 89, p. 1451-1458.

Nagihara, S., K. R. Mulligan, and W. Xiong, 2004, Use of a three-dimensional laser scanner to digitally capture the topography of sand dunes in high spatial resolution: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 29, p. 391-398.

Nagihara, S., 2003, Three-dimensional inverse modeling of refractive heat flow anomaly associated with salt diapirism: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 87, p. 1207-1222.

Nagihara, S., and K. Wang, 2001, Century-scale variation of seafloor temperatures inferred from offshore borehole geothermal data, in L. C. Gerhard, W. E. Harrison, and B. M. Hanson, eds., Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change, Tulsa, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 121-136.

Nagihara, S., and S. A. Hall, 2001, Three-dimensional gravity inversion using simulated annealing: Constraints on the diapiric roots of allochthonous salt structures: Geophysics, v. 66, p. 1438-1449.

Von Herzen, R. P., C. Ruppel, P. Molnar, M. Nettles, S. Nagihara, and G. Ekstrom, 2001, A constraint on the shear stress at the Pacific-Australia plate boundary from heat flow and seismicity at the Kermadec forearc: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p. 6817-6833.

Nagihara, S., and K. Wang, 2000, Geothermal regime of the western margin of the Great Bahama bank: Proc. Ocean Drill. Prog., Scientific Results, v. 166, p. 113-120.

Nagihara, S., K. H. Griffiths, A. Roberts, and S. C. Urizar, 1999, Development of cost-effective geothermal probes for use in shallow seas and lakes: Measurements in Lake Travis, Central Texas: J. Environmental and Engineering Geophys., v. 4, p. 185-194.

Nagihara, S., 1996, Seepage-induced erosion of submarine carbonate escarpments: a numerical simulation: Earth Planet. Sci. Let., v. 144, p. 263-271.

Nagihara, S., C.R.B. Lister, and J.G. Sclater, 1996, Reheating of old oceanic lithosphere: Deduction from observations: Earth Planet. Sci. Let., v. 139, p. 91-104.

Nagihara, S., J. G. Sclater, J. D. Phillips, E. W. Behrens, T. Lewis, L. A. Lawver, Y. Nakamura, J. Garcia-Abdeslem, and A. E. Maxwell, 1996, Heat flow in the western abyssal plain of the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for thermal evolution of the old oceanic lithosphere: J. Geophys. Res., v. 101, p. 2895-2913.

Nagihara, S. and C.R.B. Lister, 1993, Accuracy of marine heat flow instrumentation: numerical studies on the effects of probe construction and the data reduction scheme: Geophys. J. Int., v. 112, p. 161-177.

Nagihara, S., J.G. Sclater, L.M. Beckley, E.W. Behrens, and L.A. Lawver, 1992, High heat flow anomalies over salt structures on the Texas continental slope, Gulf of Mexico: Geophys. Res. Let., v. 19, p. 1687-1690.

Davis, E.E., D.S. Chapman, M.J. Mottl, W.J. Bentkowski, K. Dadey, C. Forster, R. Harris, S. Nagihara, K. Rohr, G. Wheet, and M. Whiticar, 1992, FlankFlux: an experiment to study the nature of hydrothermal circulation in young oceanic crust: Canadian J. Earth Sci., v. 29, p. 925-952.

Lister, C.R.B., J.G. Sclater, E.E. Davis, H. Villinger, and S. Nagihara, 1990, Heat flow maintained in ocean basins of great age: investigations in the north-equatorial West Pacific: Geophys. J. Int., v. 102, p. 603-630.

Nagihara, S., H. Kinoshita, and M. Yamano, 1989, On the high heat flow in the Nankai Trough area --- a simulation study on a heat rebound process: Tectonophys., v. 161, p. 33-41.

Nagihara, S., M. Kinoshita, H. Fujimoto, H. Katao, H. Kinoshita, and Y. Tomoda, 1989, Geophysical observations around the northern Yap Trench: seismicity, gravity and heat flow: Tectonophys., v. 163, p. 93-104.