Maria Beatrice Magnani

• Lithospheric Seismology
• Near-surface Seismology
• Reflection Seismology
• Tectonics

Research

I am currently looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on seismotectonics and paleoseismology in Patagonia.

Click here for more information and to apply, and please contact me with any questions.

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Teaching

• GEOL6396 - Exploration Seismology
• GEOL1301 - Earth Systems
• GEOL5320 - Dynamic Earth I
• GEOL6340 - Structural Interpretation of Seismic Reflection Profiles
• ESCI7702 - The continental lithosphere
• ESCI7205 - Data Analysis in Geophysics
• GEOL5310/5210 - Independent Studies in Geosciences
• GEOL428 - Exploration Geophysics
• GEOL442 - Introduction to Geophysics 

Publications

(Italics indicates name of student)

2023

Brandl C., L.L. Worthington, M. B. Magnani, D.J. Shillington,T.W. Luckie, Discontinuous Igneous Addition along the Eastern North American Margin beneath the East Coast Magnetic Anomaly,J. Geoph Res.,e2023JB026459. //doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026459.

2022

Arrowsmith, S. J., D. T. Trugman, K. Bergen, and B. Magnani (2022), The Big Data Revolution Unlocks New Opportunities for Seismology,Eos, 103,https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO225016.

Arrowsmith, S. J.,Trugman, D. T., MacCarthy, J., Bergen, K. J., Lumley, D., & Magnani, M. B.(2022).Big Data Seismology.Reviews of Geophysics,60, e2021RG000769.https://doi.org/10.1029/2021RG000769.

Mark, H. F., Wiens, D. A., Ivins, E. R., Richter, A., Ben Mansour, W., Magnani, M. B., et al. (2022). Lithospheric erosion in the Patagonian slab window, and implications for glacial isostasy.Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL096863. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096863.

2020

Lynner, C., Van Avendonk, H.J.A., Bécel, A., Benoit, M.H., Christeson, G.L., Dugan, B., Gaherty, J.B., Harder, S., Hornbach, M.J., Lizarralde, D., Long, M.D., Magnani, M.B., Shillington, D.J., Aderhold, K., Eilon, Z.C., Wagner, L.S., The Eastern North American margin Community Seismic Experiment: An Amphibious active- and passive-source dataset,Seism. Res. Lett.,91 (1): 533-540, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190142.

2018

DeShon, H.R., Hayward, C.T., Ogwari, P., Quinones, L., Sufri, O., Stump, B., Magnani, M.B., 2018, Summary of the North Texas Earthquake Study Seismic Networks, 2013-2018,Seism. Res Lett., doi:https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180269.

Sweet, J., Anderson, K.R., Bilek, S., Brudzinski, M., Chen. X., DeShon, H., Hayward, C., Karplus, M., Keranen, K., Langston, C., Lin, F., Magnani, M.B., Woodward, R.L., 2018, A Community Experiment to Record the Full Seismic Wavefield in Oklahoma,Seism. Res Lett.,doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180079.

Quinones, L.,H.R. DeShon, M.B. Magnani, C. Frohlich, 2018, Stress Orientations in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas, Determined from Earthquake Focal Mechanisms,Bull of the Seism. Soc. Of Am.,doi: 10.1785/0120170337.

2017

Magnani, M.B., Blanpied, M.L., Deshon, H.R., Hornbach, M., 2017, Discriminating between natural vs induced seismicity from long-term deformation history of intraplate faults, Science Advances, Vol. 3, no. 11, e1701593, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701593.

Scales, M., H.R. DeShon, M.B. Magnani, J.L. Walter, L. Quinones, C. Hayward, T.L. Pratt, M.J. Hornbach, 2017, A decade of induced slip on the causative fault of the 2015 Mw 4.0 Venus earthquake, northeast Johnson County, Texas, J. of Geoph. Res., Solid Earth, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014460.

2016

Hornbach, M.J., Jones, M., Scales, M., Deshon, H.R., Magnani, M.B., Frolich, C., Stump, B., Hayward, C. and Layton, M., 2016, Ellenburger wastewater injection and seismicity in North Texas, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2016.06.012.

2015

Hao, Y., McIntosh, K. M.B. Magnani, 2015, Long-lived deformation in the southern Mississippi Embayment revealed by high-resolution seismic reflection and sub-bottom profiler data. Tectonics, 34, 555–570. doi: 10.1002/2014TC003750.

Hornbach, M.J., Deshon, H., Ellsworth, W.L., Stump, B., Hayward, C., Frohlich, C., Oldham, R., Olson, J.E., Magnani, M.B., Brokaw, C., Luetgert, J.H., 2015, Causal factors for seismicity near Azle, Texas, Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6728 doi:10.1038/ncomms7728.

2014

Guo, L., M. B. Magnani, K. McIntosh, and B. Waldron, 2014, Quaternary deformation and fault structure in the Northern Mississippi Embayment as imaged by near-surface seismic reflection data, Tectonics, 33, doi:10.1002/2013TC003464.

2013

Hao, Y., M.B. Magnani, L. Guo, K. Mclntosh, and B. Waldron, High-Resolution Marine and Land Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Meeman-Shelby Fault, near Memphis, Tennessee, Tectonics, 32, doi:10.1002/tect.20042.

2012

Magnani, M.B., 2012, Characterizing the Geometry and Time of Deformation of the Meeman-Shelby Fault, near Memphis, TN, USGS OFR# G10AP00012. 

2010

Ge, J., Magnani, M.B., Waldron, B., 2010,Imaging a shallow aquitard with seismic reflection data in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Part I: source comparison, walk-away tests and the plus-minus method, Near Surface Geophysics, 8, 331-340, doi:10.3997/1873-0604.2010024.

Ge, J., Magnani, M.B., Waldron, B., 2010,Imaging a shallow aquitard with seismic reflection data in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Part II: data analysis, interpretation and travel time tomography, Near Surface Geophysics, 8,341-351, doi:10.3997/1873-0604.2010025.

Bezada, M.J., Magnani, M.B., Zelt., C.A., Schmitz, M., Levander, A., 2010, The Caribbean-South American plate boundary at 65W: results from wide-angle seismic data, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B08402, doi:10.1029/2009JB007070.

Langston, C. A., D.M. Rieger, M.B. Magnani, Unusual Microseisms Seen in the Reelfoot Fault Zone, Northern Tennessee, From a Reflection Experiment, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; February 2010; v. 100; no. 1; p. 377-383; DOI: 10.1785/0120090117.

2009

Magnani, M. B., C. A. Zelt, A. Levander, and M. Schmitz, 2009, Crustal Structure of the South America-Caribbean Plate Boundary at 67°W from controlled-source seismic data, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B02312, doi:10.1029/2008JB005817.

Magnani, M.B., McIntosh, K., 2009, Toward an Understanding of the Long-Term Deformation in the Mississippi Embayment, NEHRP report 08HQGR0089 and 08HQGR0090.

2008

Clark S. A., A. Levander, M. B. Magnani, C. A. Zelt, 2008, Negligible convergence and lithospheric tearing along the Caribbean–South American plate boundary at 64°W, Tectonics, 27, TC6013, doi:10.1029/2008TC002328.

Clark, S. A., M. Sobiesiak, C. A. Zelt, M. B. Magnani, M. S. Miller, M. J. Bezada, and A. Levander, 2008, Identification and tectonic implications of a tear in the South American plate at the southern end of the Lesser Antilles, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q11004, doi:10.1029/2008GC002084.

Schmitz M., Avila J., Bezada M., Vieira E., Yanez M., Levander A., Zelt C.A., Magnani M.B., Jacome, M.I. and the BOLIVAR active seismic working group, 2008, Crustal variations in Venezuela from deep seismic observations, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.072.

Clark, S. A., C. A. Zelt, M. B. Magnani, and A. Levander, 2008, Characterizing the Caribbean-South American plate boundary at 64°W using wide-angle seismic data, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B07401, doi:10.1029/2007JB005329.

2007

Gorney D., Escalona A., Mann P., Magnani M.B. and the BOLIVAR Study Group, 2007, Chronology of Cenozoic tectonic events in western Venezuela and the Leeward Antilles based on integration of offshore seismic reflection data and onland geology, AAPG Bull., 91, 5, p.1-31.

2006

Pauselli, C., Barchi M.R., Federico C., Magnani M.B. and Minelli G., 2006, The crustal structure of the Northern Apennines (Central Italy): an insight by the CROP03 seismic line, American Journal of Science, 306, p. 428 - 450.

Levander, A., Schmitz, M., Ave Lallemant, H., Zelt, C.A., Sawyer, D.S., Magnani, M.B., Mann, P., Christeson, G., Wright, J., Pavlis, G., Pindell, J., 2006, The BOLIVAR and GEODINOS Projects: Investigating Continental Growth and Deformation Along the SE Caribbean Plate Boundary, EOS, Trans., 87, 9, p. 97-100.

2005

Magnani M.B., Levander A., Miller K.C., Eshete T. and Karlstrom K.E., 2005 Seismic investigation of the Yavapai-Mazatzal Transition Zone and the Jemez Lineament in northeastern New Mexico, in The Rocky Mountain Region – An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry and Geophysics: American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 154, 227-238.

Magnani M.B., Levander A., Erslev E. Bolay-Koenig N., 2005, Listric thrust faulting in the Laramide front of north-central New Mexico guided by Precambrian basement structures, in The Rocky Mountain Region – An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry and Geophysics: American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 154, 239-251.

Levander A., Zelt C.A. and Magnani M.B., 2005, Crust and upper mantle velocity structure of the Southern Rocky Mountains from the Jemez Lineament to the Cheyenne belt, in The Rocky Mountain Region – An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry and Geophysics: American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 154, 293-308.

2004

Magnani M.B., Miller K.C., Levander A., Karlstrom K., 2004 The Yavapai-Mazatzal boundary: a long-lived assembly structure in the lithosphere of southwestern North America, Geol. Soc. of Am. Bull., 116, 9, 1137-1142.

2003

Barchi, M.R., Minelli, G., Magnani M.B. and Mazzotti, A., 2003, Line CROP03: Northern Apennines, in Scrocca D., Doglioni C., Innocenti F., Manetti P., Mazzotti A., Bertelli L., Burbi L. and D’Offizi S. eds, CROP Atlas: seismic reflection profiles of the Italian crust, Mem. Descr. Carta Geol. d’It., 62, p.127-136.

2002

CD-ROM Working Group, 2002, Structure and Evolution of the Lithosphere Beneath the Rocky Mountains: Initial Results from the CD-ROM Experiment, GSA Today, 12, 3, p. 4-10.

1998

*Barchi M.R., De Feyter A., Magnani M.B., Minelli G., Pialli G., Sotera B.M., 1998, Extensional tectonics in Northern Apennines (Italy): evidences from the Crop03 deep seismic reflection line, Mem. Soc. Geol. It., Vol. 52, p.572-538.

*Barchi M.R., De Feyter A., Magnani M.B., Minelli G., Pialli G., Sotera B.M., 1998, The structural style of the Umbria-Marche fold and thrust belt (Italy), Mem. Soc. Geol. It., Vol. 52, p.557-578.

1997

**Barchi M., Boncio P., Brozzetti F., Federico C., Lavecchia G., Magnani M.B., Minelli G., Pauselli C., Pialli G., Sotera B.M., 1997, Contributo del profilo di sismica a riflessione CROP03 alle conoscenze sismogenetiche e geotermiche dell'Appennino Settentrionale. - Atti del IX Congresso Nazionale dei Geologi, Roma, 17-20 Aprile 1997.

1996

**Barchi M.R., Magnani M.B., Minelli G., Pialli G., Sotera B.M., 1996, Il profilo sismico Crop03: risultati geofisici ed interpretazione geologica. Atti del 15° Convegno del Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra Solida.

1995

**Barchi M.R., Magnani M.B., Minelli G., Pialli G., Ponziani F., Sotera B.M., 1995, Osservazioni geofisiche sul basamento della regione Umbro-Marchigiana (Italia). Atti del 14° Convegno del Gruppo Nazionale di Geofisica della Terra Solida, Vol.II, 709-720.

**Federico C., Magnani M.B., Minelli G., 1995, Modellizzazione gravimetrica dei profili di sismica crostale DSS 1978. Studi Geologici Camerti, Vol Spec. 2, p.192-202.

 

*Note that for these publications the order of authors is alphabetical.

**In Italian