Vernon F. Cormier

Complete CV


Selected Reprints for Downloading

Zou, Z., K. Koper, and V.F. Cormier (2008), The structure of the base of the outer core inferred from seismic waves diffracted around the inner core, J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi:10.1029/2007JB005316.

Cormier, V.F. (2007) Texture of the Uppermost Inner Core from Forward and Back Scattered Seismic Waves, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 258, 442-453, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.003.

Cormier, V.F., and A. Stroujkova, (2005) Waveform search for the innermost inner core, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 236, 96-105, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.016.

Stroujkova, A., and V.F. Cormier (2004) Regional variations in the uppermost 100 km of the Earth's inner core, J. Geophys. Res., 109(B10), doi: 10.129/2004JB002976.

Cormier, V.F., and T. S. Anderson, (2004) Efficiency of Lg propagation from SmS ray tracing in three-dimensionally varying crustal waveguides, Pure and Appl. Geophys. ,161(8), 1613-1633, doi:10.1007/s00024-004-2524-3.

Li, X., and V.F. Cormier, (2002) Frequency dependent attenuation in the inner core: Part I. A viscoelastic interpretation, J. Geophys. Res. 107(B12),  10.1029/2002JB001795.

Cormier, V.F., and X. Li, (2002) Frequency dependent attenuation in the inner core: Part II. A scattering and fabric interpretation, J. Geophys. Res .,   107(B12), 10.1029/2002JB1796.

Cormier, V.F ., (2000). D"  as a transition in the heterogeneity spectrum of the lowermost mantle, J. of Geophys. Res ., (2000), 105, 16,193-16,205.

Cormier, V.F., (1999). Anisotropy of heterogeneity scale lengths in the lower mantle from PKIKP precursors, Geophys. J. Int., 136, 373-384.

Courses


PHYS 4100/GEOL 4550/5550 Physics of the Earth

PHYS 4130/GEOL 4560/5560 Fundamentals of Planetary Science

GEOL 6510 Fundamentals of Seismology

GEOL 6520 Advanced Seismology

GEOL 6530 Geophysical Inverse Theory

Recent Seismograms from University of Connecticut's Seismic Station (UCCT)


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