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Richard Walker

Richard Walker

Professor of Tectonics
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 282115
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7551-4124
Email: richard.walker@earth.ox.ac.uk
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My research combines remote sensing, detailed field investigation, earthquake studies, and Quaternary dating methods to quantify the distribution, rates, and evolution of active faulting within deforming parts of the continents.

My approach is to combine the use of remote-sensing data with field-based observations for identifying and studying active faults. I have extensive experience of working in actively deforming areas (e.g. China, the Tien Shan, Iran, Mongolia) and have investigated Earth deformation ranging in scale from individual earthquakes through to the evolution of entire mountain ranges.

Teaching

I am involved in teaching in organised lecture and practical courses, tutorials in small groups, field courses, and independent research projects.

At present, I teach a course of lectures in structural geology, remote-sensing, and geological mapping to the 2nd-year undergraduates. I have accompanied fieldtrips to Pembrokeshire (1st-year) and Greece (4th-year).

I supervise final-year undergraduate research projects and D.Phil reseach projects. Please see my CV for a full list of completed and in-progress thesis titles. Research topics typically combine remote-sensing, field-based investigation/survey, and quaternary dating. If you are interested in joining the group please get in touch.

You can download my CV using this link:

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Publications of last three years shown. Updated September 2019.

  • McNab, F., Sloan, R.A., Walker, R.T., 2019. Simultaneous orthogonal shortening in the Afghan-Tajik depression. Geology.
  • Rizza. M., Abdrakhmatov, K., Walker R., Braucher R., Campbell G., McKenzie D., Guillou V., Carr, A., Jackson J., Ali-Hadji H. and ASTER Team, 2019. Rate of slip from multiple quaternary dating methods and paleoseismic investigations along the Talas-Fergana Fault: tectonic implications for the Western Tien Shan Range. Tectonics
  • Grützner, C., Campbell, G., Walker, R.T., Jackson, J., Mackenzie, D., Abdrakhmatov, K., 2019. Shortening accommodated by thrust and strike-slip faults in the Ili Basin, northern Tien Shan, Tectonics
  • Grützner, C., Walker, R., Ainscoe, E., Elliott, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., 2019. Earthquake environmental effects of the 1992 Ms7.3 Suusamyr earthquake, Kyrgyzstan, and their implications for palaeo-earthquake studies. Geosciences, 9, 271.
  • Day, C.C., Carolin, S.A., Walker, R.T., Ersek, V., Sloan, R.A., Dee, M.W., Talebian, M. and Henderson, G.M., 2019. Reply to Jaffe et al.: Paleoscience precision in an archeological or historical context. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
  • Mosca, I., Baptie, B., Sargeant, S. and Walker, R.T., 2019. Integrating Outcomes from Probabilistic and Deterministic Seismic Hazard Analysis in the Tien Shan. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109(2), pp.688-715.
  • Carolin, S.A., Walker, R.T., Day, C.C., Ersek, V., Sloan, R.A., Dee, M.W., Talebian, M. and Henderson, G.M., 2019. Precise timing of abrupt increase in dust activity in the Middle East coincident with 4.2 ka social change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(1), pp.67-72.
  • Ainscoe, E.A., Abdrakhmatov, K.E., Baikulov, S., Carr, A.S., Elliott, A.J., Grützner, C. and Walker, R.T., 2018. Variability in surface rupture between successive earthquakes on the Suusamyr Fault, Kyrgyz Tien Shan: implications for palaeoseismology. Geophysical Journal International, 216(1), pp.703-725.
  • Zhou, Y., Parsons, B. and Walker, R.T., 2018. Characterising complex surface ruptures in the 2013 Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake using three‐dimensional displacements. Journal of Geophysical Research, 123(11).
  • Mackenzie, D., Walker, R., Abdrakhmatov, K., Campbell, G., Carr, A., Gruetzner, C., Mukambayev, A. and Rizza, M., 2018. A creeping intracontinental thrust fault: past and present slip-rates on the Northern edge of the Tien Shan, Kazakhstan. Geophysical Journal International, 215(2), pp.1148-1170.
  • Gregory, L.C., Mac Niocaill, C., Walker, R.T., Bayasgalan, G. and Craig, T.J., 2018. Vertical axis rotation (or lack thereof) of the eastern Mongolian Altay Mountains: Implications for far-field transpressional mountain building. Tectonophysics, 736, pp.31-46.
  • Zhou, Y., Thomas, M.Y., Parsons, B. and Walker, R.T., 2018. Time-dependent postseismic slip following the 1978 M w 7.3 Tabas-e-Golshan, Iran earthquake revealed by over 20 years of ESA InSAR observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 483, pp.64-75.
  • Ainscoe, E.A., Elliott, J.R., Copley, A., Craig, T.J., Li, T., Parsons, B.E. and Walker, R.T., 2017. Blind Thrusting, Surface Folding, and the Development of Geological Structure in the Mw 6.3 2015 Pishan (China) Earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(11), pp.9359-9382.
  • Middleton, T.A., Parsons, B. and Walker, R.T., 2017. Comparison of seismic and geodetic strain rates at the margins of the Ordos Plateau, northern China. Geophysical Journal International, 212(2), pp.988-1009.
  • Grützner, C., Walker, R.T., Abdrakhmatov, K.E., Mukambaev, A., Elliott, A.J. and Elliott, J.R., 2017. Active tectonics around Almaty and along the Zailisky Alatau rangefront. Tectonics, 36(10), pp.2192-2226.
  • Walker, R.T., Wegmann, K.W., Bayasgalan, A., Carson, R.J., Elliott, J., Fox, M., Nissen, E., Sloan, R.A., Williams, J.M. and Wright, E., 2017. The Egiin Davaa prehistoric rupture, central Mongolia: a large magnitude normal faulting earthquake on a reactivated fault with little cumulative slip located in a slowly deforming intraplate setting. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, SP432-4.
  • Middleton, T.A., Elliott, J.R., Rhodes, E.J., Sherlock, S., Walker, R.T., Wang, W., Yu, J. and Zhou, Y., 2017. Extension rates across the northern Shanxi Grabens, China, from Quaternary geology, seismicity and geodesy. Geophysical Journal International, 209(2), pp.535-558.

Updated September 2019

  • McNab, F., Sloan, R.A., Walker, R.T., 2019. Simultaneous orthogonal shortening in the Afghan-Tajik depression. Geology.
  • Rizza. M., Abdrakhmatov, K., Walker R., Braucher R., Campbell G., McKenzie D., Guillou V., Carr, A., Jackson J., Ali-Hadji H. and ASTER Team, 2019. Rate of slip from multiple quaternary dating methods and paleoseismic investigations along the Talas-Fergana Fault: tectonic implications for the Western Tien Shan Range. Tectonics
  • Grützner, C., Campbell, G., Walker, R.T., Jackson, J., Mackenzie, D., Abdrakhmatov, K., 2019. Shortening accommodated by thrust and strike-slip faults in the Ili Basin, northern Tien Shan, Tectonics
  • Grützner, C., Walker, R., Ainscoe, E., Elliott, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., 2019. Earthquake environmental effects of the 1992 Ms7.3 Suusamyr earthquake, Kyrgyzstan, and their implications for palaeo-earthquake studies. Geosciences, 9, 271.
  • Day, C.C., Carolin, S.A., Walker, R.T., Ersek, V., Sloan, R.A., Dee, M.W., Talebian, M. and Henderson, G.M., 2019. Reply to Jaffe et al.: Paleoscience precision in an archeological or historical context. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
  • Mosca, I., Baptie, B., Sargeant, S. and Walker, R.T., 2019. Integrating Outcomes from Probabilistic and Deterministic Seismic Hazard Analysis in the Tien Shan. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109(2), pp.688-715.
  • Carolin, S.A., Walker, R.T., Day, C.C., Ersek, V., Sloan, R.A., Dee, M.W., Talebian, M. and Henderson, G.M., 2019. Precise timing of abrupt increase in dust activity in the Middle East coincident with 4.2 ka social change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(1), pp.67-72.
  • Ainscoe, E.A., Abdrakhmatov, K.E., Baikulov, S., Carr, A.S., Elliott, A.J., Grützner, C. and Walker, R.T., 2018. Variability in surface rupture between successive earthquakes on the Suusamyr Fault, Kyrgyz Tien Shan: implications for palaeoseismology. Geophysical Journal International, 216(1), pp.703-725.
  • Zhou, Y., Parsons, B. and Walker, R.T., 2018. Characterising complex surface ruptures in the 2013 Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake using three‐dimensional displacements. Journal of Geophysical Research, 123(11).
  • Mackenzie, D., Walker, R., Abdrakhmatov, K., Campbell, G., Carr, A., Gruetzner, C., Mukambayev, A. and Rizza, M., 2018. A creeping intracontinental thrust fault: past and present slip-rates on the Northern edge of the Tien Shan, Kazakhstan. Geophysical Journal International, 215(2), pp.1148-1170.
  • Gregory, L.C., Mac Niocaill, C., Walker, R.T., Bayasgalan, G. and Craig, T.J., 2018. Vertical axis rotation (or lack thereof) of the eastern Mongolian Altay Mountains: Implications for far-field transpressional mountain building. Tectonophysics, 736, pp.31-46.
  • Zhou, Y., Thomas, M.Y., Parsons, B. and Walker, R.T., 2018. Time-dependent postseismic slip following the 1978 M w 7.3 Tabas-e-Golshan, Iran earthquake revealed by over 20 years of ESA InSAR observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 483, pp.64-75.
  • Ainscoe, E.A., Elliott, J.R., Copley, A., Craig, T.J., Li, T., Parsons, B.E. and Walker, R.T., 2017. Blind Thrusting, Surface Folding, and the Development of Geological Structure in the Mw 6.3 2015 Pishan (China) Earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(11), pp.9359-9382.
  • Middleton, T.A., Parsons, B. and Walker, R.T., 2017. Comparison of seismic and geodetic strain rates at the margins of the Ordos Plateau, northern China. Geophysical Journal International, 212(2), pp.988-1009.
  • Grützner, C., Walker, R.T., Abdrakhmatov, K.E., Mukambaev, A., Elliott, A.J. and Elliott, J.R., 2017. Active tectonics around Almaty and along the Zailisky Alatau rangefront. Tectonics, 36(10), pp.2192-2226.
  • Walker, R.T., Wegmann, K.W., Bayasgalan, A., Carson, R.J., Elliott, J., Fox, M., Nissen, E., Sloan, R.A., Williams, J.M. and Wright, E., 2017. The Egiin Davaa prehistoric rupture, central Mongolia: a large magnitude normal faulting earthquake on a reactivated fault with little cumulative slip located in a slowly deforming intraplate setting. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, SP432-4.
  • Middleton, T.A., Elliott, J.R., Rhodes, E.J., Sherlock, S., Walker, R.T., Wang, W., Yu, J. and Zhou, Y., 2017. Extension rates across the northern Shanxi Grabens, China, from Quaternary geology, seismicity and geodesy. Geophysical Journal International, 209(2), pp.535-558.
  • Middleton, T.A., Walker, R.T., Rood, D.H., Rhodes, E.J., Parsons, B., Lei, Q., Zhou, Y. and Ren, Z., 2016.The tectonics of the western Ordos Plateau, Ningxia, China: slip rates on the Luoshan and East Helanshan Faults. Tectonics, 35, 2754-2777
  • Gruetzner, C., Carson, E., Walker, R. T., Rhodes, E.J., Mukambayev, A., Mackenzie, D., Elliott, J.R., Campbell, G., Abdrakhmatov, K., 2016. Assessing the activity of faults in continental interiors: palaeoseismic insights from SE Kazakhstan. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.025.
  • Walker, R.T., Telfer, M., Kahle, R.L., Dee, M.W., Kahle, B., Schwenninger, J.-L., Sloan, R.A., Watts, A.B., 2016. Rapid mantle-driven uplift along the Angolan margin in the late Quaternary. Nature Geosciences, 9, 909-914.
  • Talebian, M., Copley, A. C., Fattahi, M., Ghoraishi, M., Jackson, J. A., Nazari, H., Sloan, R. A., Walker R. T., 2016. Active faulting within a megacity: the geometry and slip rate of the Pardisan thrust in central Tehran, Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 207, 1688-1699.
  • Zhou, Y., Walker, R.T., Hollingsworth, J., Talebian, M., Song, X., Parsons B. (2016). Coseismic and postseismic displacements from the 1978 M w 7.3 Tabas-e-Golshan earthquake in eastern Iran. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 452, 185-196
  • Zhou, Y., Walker, R.T., Elliott, J.R., Parsons B., (2016). Mapping 3D fault geometry in earthquakes using high‐resolution topography: Examples from the 2010 El Mayor‐Cucapah (Mexico) and 2013 Balochistan (Pakistan) earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters 43 (7), 3134-3142
  • Mackenzie, D Elliott, JR Altunel, E Walker, RT Kurban, YC (2016). Seismotectonics and rupture process of the MW 7.1 2011 Van reverse-faulting earthquake, eastern Turkey, and implications for hazard in regions of distributed shortening. Geophysical Journal International 206 (1), 501-524
  • Abdrakhmatov, K.E., Walker, R.T., Campbell, G.E., Carr, A.S., Elliott, A., Hillemann, C., Hollingsworth, J., Landgraf, A., Mackenzie, D., Mukambayev, A. and Rizza, M., 2016. Multi‐segment rupture in the July 11th 1889 Chilik earthquake (Mw 8.0‐8.3), Kazakh Tien Shan, interpreted from remote‐sensing, field survey, and palaeoseismic trenching. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
  • Middleton, T.A., Walker, R.T., Parsons, B., Lei, Q., Zhou, Y. and Ren, Z., 2016. A major, intraplate, normal‐faulting earthquake: The 1739 Yinchuan event in northern China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
  • England, P.C., Walker R.T., (2016). Comment on:“Crustal strength in central Tibet determined from Holocene shoreline deflection around Siling Co” by Xuhua Shi, Eric Kirby, Kevin P. Furlong, Kai Meng, Ruth Robinson and Erchie Wang. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 433, 393-395
  • Zhou, Y., Parsons, B., Elliott, J.R., Barisin, I. and Walker, R.T., 2015. Assessing the ability of Pleiades stereo imagery to determine height changes in earthquakes: A case study for the El Mayor‐Cucapah epicentral area. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(12), pp.8793-8808.
  • Zhou, Y., Elliott, J.R., Parsons, B. and Walker, R.T., 2015. The 2013 Balochistan earthquake: An extraordinary or completely ordinary event?. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(15), pp.6236-6243.
  • Mousavi, Z., Pathier, E., Walker, R.T., Walpersdorf, A., Tavakoli, F., Nankali, H., Sedighi, M. and Doin, M.P., 2015. Interseismic deformation of the Shahroud fault system (NE Iran) from space‐borne radar interferometry measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(14), pp.5753-5761.
  • Campbell, G.E., Walker, R.T., Abdrakhmatov, K., Jackson, J., Elliott, J.R., Mackenzie, D., Middleton, T. and Schwenninger, J.L., 2015. Great earthquakes in low strain rate continental interiors: An example from SE Kazakhstan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(8), pp.5507-5534.
  • Walker, R.T., Wegmann, K.W., Bayasgalan, A., Carson, R.J., Elliott, J., Fox, M., Nissen, E., Sloan, R.A., Williams, J.M. and Wright, E., 2015. The Egiin Davaa prehistoric rupture, central Mongolia: a large magnitude normal faulting earthquake on a reactivated fault with little cumulative slip located in a slowly deforming intraplate setting. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 432, pp.SP432-4.
  • R.T. Walker, M.M. Khatib, A. Bahroudi, C. Schnabel, A. Rodes, M. Fattahi, M. Talebian, E. Bergman 2015. Co-seismic, geomorphic, and geologic fold growth associated with the 1978 Tabas earthquake fault in eastern Iran. Geomorphology.
  • L.C. Gregory, A.L. Thomas, R.T. Walker, R. Garland, C. MacNiocaill, C. Fenton, C. Schnabel, A. Bayasgalan, T. Amgaa, B. Gantulga (2014). Combined uranium series and 10Be cosmogenic exposure dating of surface abandonment: a case study from the Olgiy strike-slip fault in western Mongolia. Quaternary Geochronology, 24, 27-34
  • Nazari, J-F. Ritz, R.T. Walker, R. Salamati, M. Rizza., R. Patnaik, J. Hollingsworth, H. Alimohammadian, A. Jalili, A. Kaveh Firouz A. Shahidi (2014) Palaeoseismic evidence for a medieval earthquake, and preliminary estimate of late Pleistocene slip-rate, on the Firouzkuh strike-slip fault in the central Alborz region of Iran. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 82, 124-135.
  • Fattahi, R.T. Walker, M. Talebian, R.A. Sloan, A Rasheedi, (2014). Late Quaternary active faulting and landscape development in the South Golbaf Basin, Gowk Fault, E. Iran. Geomorphology, 204, 334-343.
  • G.E. Campbell, R.T. Walker, K. Abdrakhmatov, J.L. Schwenninger, J. Jackson, J.R. Elliott, A. Copley, (2013). The Dzhungarian fault: Late Quaternary tectonics and slip rate of a major right‐lateral strike‐slip fault in the northern Tien Shan region. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 5681-5698
  • P.C., England, R.T. Walker, B.H., Fu. M.A., Floyd, (2013). A bound on the viscosity of the Tibetan crust from the horizontality of palaeolake shorelines. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 375, 44-56.
  • Mousavi, A. Walpersdorf, R.T. Walker, F. Tavakoli, E. Pathier, H. Nankali, F. Nilforoushan, A. Jadidi, A. Aghamohammadi, Y. Djamour (2013). Global Positioning System constraints on the active tectonics of NE Iran and the South Caspian. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 377, 287-298.
  • A.J. West, M. Fox, R.T. Walker, A. Carter, T. Harris, A. Watts, B. Gantulga (2013). Links between climate, erosion, uplift, and topography during intra-continental mountain building of the Hangay Dome, Mongolia. G3, 14, 5171-5193.
  • R.T. Walker and others (2013). The 2010-2011 South Rigan (Baluchestan) earthquake sequence and its implications for distributed deformation and earthquake hazard in southeast Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 193, 349-374.
  • R.T. Walker, E.A. Bergman, W. Szeliga, E.J. Fielding (2011). Insights into the 1968-1997 Dasht-e-Bayaz and Zirkuh earthquake sequences, eastern Iran, from calibrated relocations, InSAR, and high-resolution satellite imagery. Geophysical Journal International, 187, 1577-1603
  • Fattahi, R.T. Walker, M. Talebian, R.A. Sloan, A. Rasheedi (2011). The structure and Late Quaternary slip-rate of the Rafsanjan strike-slip fault, SE Iran. Geosphere, 7, 1159-1174.
  • R.T. Walker, M. Fattahi (2011). A framework of Holocene and Late Pleistocene environmental change in eastern Iran inferred from the dating of periods of alluvial fan abandonment, river terracing, and lake deposition. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 1256-1271
  • Elliott, B.E. Parsons, J. Jackson, X. Shan, R. Sloan, R. Walker. (2011) Depth Segmentation of the Seismogenic Continental Crust: the 2008 and 2009 Qaidam Earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L06305, 10.1029/2011GL046897
  • R.T. Walker, L.A. Ramsey, J. Jackson (2011). Geomorphic evidence for ancestral drainage patterns in the Zagros Simple Folded Zone and growth of the Iranian plateau. Geological Magazine, 148, 901-910.
  • Fu, R. Walker, M. Sandiford (2011). Editorial: The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and active tectonics of Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 40, 797-804.
  •  Hollingsworth, H. Nazari, J-F. Ritz, R. Salamati, M. Talebian, A. Bahroudi, R. Walker, M. Rizza, J. Jackson (2010). Active tectonics of the East Alborz mountains, NE Iran: rupture of the left-lateral Astaneh fault system during the great 856AD Qumis earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, B12313, doi:10.1029/2009JB007185.
  • K.L. Frankel, K.W. Wegmann, A. Bayasgalan, R.J. Carson, N.E. Bader, T. Adiya, E. Bolor, C.C. Durfey, J. Otgonkhuu, J. Sprajcar, K.E. Sweeney, R.T. Walker, T.L. Colbert, L. Gregory (2010). Late Pleistocene slip rate of the Hoh Serh-Tsagaan Salaa fault system, Mongolian Altai and intracontinental deformation in central Asia. Geophysical Journal International, 183, 1134-1150.
  • R.T. Walker, M. Talebian, S. Saiffori, R.A. Sloan, A. Rasheedi, N. MacBean, A. Ghassemi (2010). Active faulting, earthquakes, and restraining bend development near Kerman city in southeastern Iran. Journal of Structural Geology, 32, 1046-1060.
  • Berberian, R.T. Walker (2010). The Rudbar Mw 7.3 earthquake of June 20 1990: Seismotectonics, coseismic and geomorphic displacements, and historic earthquakes of the western ‘High-Alborz’, Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04705.x.
  • R.T. Walker, S. Claisse, M. Telfer, E. Nissen, P. England, C. Bryant, R. Bailey (2010). Preliminary estimate of Holocene slip-rate on active normal faults bounding the southern coast of the Gulf of Evia, central Greece. Geosphere, 6, 583-593.
  • Hollingsworth, M. Fattahi, R.T. Walker, M. Talebian, A. Bahroudi, M.J. Bolourchi, J. Jackson, A. Copley (2010). Oroclinal bending, distributed thrust and strike-slip faulting, and the accommodation of Arabia-Eurasia convergence in NE Iran since the Oligocene. Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04591.x
  • R.T. Walker, M. Talebian, R.A. Sloan, A. Rasheedi, M. Fattahi, C. Bryant (2010). Holocene slip-rate on the Gowk strike-slip fault and implications for the distribution of tectonic strain in eastern Iran. Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04538.x
  •  Nissen, R. Walker, A. Bayasgalan, A. Carter, M. Fattahi, E. Molor, C. Schnabel, A.J. West, S. Xu (2009). The late Quaternary slip-rate of the Har-Us-Nuur fault (Mongolian Altai) from cosmogenic 10Be and luminescence dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286, 467-478.
  • R.T. Walker, P. Gans, M.B. Allen, J. Jackson, M. Khatib, N. Marsh, M. Zarrinkoub (2009). Late Cenozoic volcanism and rates of active faulting in eastern Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 177, 783-805.
  • Nissen, R. Walker, E. Molor, M. Fattahi, A. Bayasgalan (2009). Late Quaternary rates of uplift and shortening at Baatar Hyarhan (Mongolian Altai) with Optically Stimulated Luminescence. Geophysical Journal International, 177, 259-278.
  • Hollingsworth, J. Jackson, R. Walker, H. Nazari (2009). Extrusion tectonics and subduction in the eastern South Caspian region since 10 Ma: Reply to comment. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G30529Y.1., e199-e200.
  • Hollingsworth, J. Jackson, R. Walker, H. Nazari (2008). Extrusion tectonics and subduction in the eastern South Caspian region since 10 Ma. Geology, 36, 763-766. doi: 10.1130/G25008A.1.
  • R.T. Walker, E. Molor, M. Fox, A. Bayasgalan (2008). Active tectonics of an apparently aseismic region: distributed active strike-slip faulting in the Hangay Mountains of central Mongolia. Geophysical Journal International, 174, 1121-1137. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03874.x.
  • L.A. Ramsey, R.T. Walker, J.A. Jackson (2008). Fold evolution and drainage development in the Zagros mountains of Fars province, SE Iran. Basin Research, 20, 23-48.
  • L.A. Ramsey, R.T. Walker, J.A. Jackson (2007). Geomorphic constraints on the active tectonics of southern Taiwan. Geophysical Journal International, 170, 1357-1372.
  • R.T. Walker, E. Nissen, E. Molor, A. Bayasgalan (2007). A re-interpretation of the active faulting in central Mongolia. Geology, 35, 759-762
  • Fattahi, R. Walker (2007). Luminescence dating of the last earthquake of the Sabzevar thrust fault, NE Iran. Quaternary Geochronology, 2, 284-289
  • Fattahi, R. Walker, M.M. Khatib, A. Dolati, A. Bahroudi. (2007). Past earthquakes and slip-rate estimate on the Doruneh fault, NE Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 168, 691-709.
  • Pathier, E.J. Fielding, T.J. Wright, R. Walker, B.E. Parsons, S. Hensley (2006). Displacement field and slip distribution of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake from SAR imagery. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L20310, 10.1029/2006GL027193.
  • R.T.Walker and M.M. Khatib (2006). Active faulting in the Birjand region of eastern Iran. Tectonics, 25, 10.1029/2005TC001871.
  • R.T.Walker, A. Bayasgalan, R. Carson, R. Hazlett, L. McCarthy, J. Mischler, E. Molor, P. Sarantsetseg, L. Smith, B. Tsogtbadrakh, G. Tsolmon (2006). Geomorphology and Structure of the Jid right-lateral strike-slip fault in the Mongolian Altay Mountains. Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 1607-1622.
  • Fattahi, R. Walker, J. Hollingsworth, A. Bahroudi, M. Talebian, S. Stokes (2006). Holocene slip-rate on the Sabzevar thrust fault, NE Iran, determined using Optically-stimulated Luminescence (OSL). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 245, 673-684.
  • Hollingsworth, J. Jackson, R. Walker, M.R. Gheitanchi, M.J. Bolourchi (2006). Strike-slip faulting, rotation, and along-strike elongation in the Kopeh Dagh mountains, NE Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 166, 1161-1177.
  • Jackson, M. Bouchon, E. Fielding, G. Funning, M. Ghorashi, D. Hatzfeld, H. Nazari, B. Parsons, K. Priestley, M. Talebian, M. Tatar, R. Walker, T. Wright (2006). Seismotectonic, rupture-process, and earthquake-hazard aspects of the 26 December 2003 Bam, Iran, earthquake. Geophysical Journal International, 163, 90-105.
  • M.B. Allen, R. Walker, J. Jackson, E.J-P, Blanc, M. Talebian, M.R. Ghassemi (2006). Contrasting styles of convergence in the Arabia-Eurasia collision: Why escape tectonics does not occur in Iran. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 409, 579-589.
  • Parsons, T. Wright, P. Rowe, J. Andrews, J. Jackson, R. Walker, M. Khatib, M. Talebian, E. Bergman, E.R. Engdahl (2006). The 1994 Sefidabeh (eastern Iran) earthquakes revisited: new evidence from satellite radar interferometry and carbonate dating about the growth of an active fold above a blind thrust fault. Geophysical Journal International, 164, 202-217.
  • R.T.Walker (2006). A remote sensing study of active folding and faulting in southern Kerman province, S.E. Iran. Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 654-668.
  • R.T. Walker, M.J. Andalibi, M.R. Gheitanchi, J.A. Jackson, S. Karegar, K. Priestley (2005). Seismological and field observations from the 6 November 1990 Furg (Hormozgan) earthquake: a rare case of surface rupture in the Zagros mountains of Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 163, 567-579.
  • R.T. Walker, E. Bergman, J. Jackson, M. Ghorashi and M. Talebian (2005). The 22 June 2002 Changureh (Avaj) earthquake in Qazvin province, NW Iran: Epicentral re-location, source parameters, surface deformation and geomorphology. Geophysical Journal International, 160, 707-720.
  • E.J. Fielding, M. Talebian, P.A. Rosen, H. Nazari, J.A. Jackson, M. Ghorashi, R. Walker (2005). Surface ruptures and building damage of the 2003 Bam, Iran, earthquake mapped by satellite synthetic aperture radar interferometric correlation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, 10.1029/2004JB003299
  •  Talebian, E.J. Fielding, G.J. Funning, M. Ghorashi, J. Jackson, H. Nazari, B. Parsons, K. Priestley, P.A. Rosen, R. Walker, T.J. Wright (2004). The 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquake: rupture of a blind strike-slip fault. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L11611, 10.1029/2004GL02005
  • Walker and J. Jackson (2004). Active tectonics and late Cenozoic strain distribution in central and eastern Iran, Tectonics, 23, 10.1029/2003TC001529.
  • M.B. Allen, J.A. Jackson, R. Walker (2004). Pliocene-Quaternary re-organization of the Arabia-Eurasia collision: matching short-term and long-term deformation rates: Reply to Comment, Tectonics, 23, TC5007, 10.1029/2004TC001695
  • M.B. Allen, J.A. Jackson, R. Walker (2004). Pliocene-Quaternary re-organization of the Arabia-Eurasia collision: matching short-term and long-term deformation rates, Tectonics, 23, TC2008, 10.1029/2003TC001530
  • E.J. Fielding, T.J. Wright, J. Muller, B.E., Parsons, R. Walker (2004). Aseismic deformation of a fold-and-thrust belt imaged by synthetic aperture radar interferometry near Shahdad, southeast Iran. Geology, 32(7), 577-580.
  • Walker, J. Jackson and C. Baker (2004). Active faulting and seismicity of the Dasht-e-Bayaz region, eastern Iran, Geophysical Journal International, 157, 265-282.
  •  Walker, J. Jackson and C. Baker (2003). Thrust faulting in eastern Iran: source parameters and surface deformation of the 1978 Tabas and 1968 Ferdows earthquake sequences, Geophysical Journal International, 152, 749-765.
  • Walker and J. Jackson (2002). Offset and evolution of the Gowk fault, S.E. Iran: a major intra-continental strike-slip system, Journal of Structural Geology, 24, 1677-1698.
  • Berberian, C. Baker, E. Fielding, J.A. Jackson, B.E. Parsons, K. Priestley, M. Qorashi, M. Talebian, R. Walker, T.J. Wright (2001). The March 14 1998 Fandoqa earthquake (Mw6.6) in Kerman province, SE Iran: Re-rupture of the 1981 Sirch earthquake fault, triggering of slip on adjacent thrusts, and the active tectonics of the Gowk fault zone, Geophysical Journal International, 146, 371-398.
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