Acknowledging using our iris-related facilities and Data as of December 2016, updated August 2017

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Berrocal, J., Y. Marangoni, N.C. de Sa, R. Fuck, J.E.P. Soares, E. Dantas, F. Perosi, and C. Fernandes (2004), 'Deep seismic refraction and gravity crustal model and tectonic deformation in Tocantins Province, Central Brazil', Tectonophysics, 388(1-4), p. 187-199

Berry, M.A., A.R. Lowry, D. Schutt, and R.V.S. Kanda (2014), 'Crustal Geothermal Properties and Evidence of Laramide Thermal Perturbation of the Western United States', AGU Fall Meeting 2014, abstract #T22B-04, 22, p. 04

Bertrand, E.A., T.G. Caldwell, G.J. Hill, E.L. Wallin, S.L. Bennie, N. Cozens, S. A. Onacha, G.A. Ryan, C. Walter, A. Zaino, P. Wameyo (2012), 'Magnetotelluric imaging of upper-crustal convection plumes beneath the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand', Geophysical Research Letters, 39(2), p. n/a doi: 10.1029/2011GL050177

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Biryol, C.B., L.S. Wagner, K.M. Fischer, and R.B. Hawman (2014), 'Imaging a Remnant Slab Beneath Southeastern US: New Results from Teleseismic, Finite-frequency Tomography', AGU Fall Meeting 2014, abstract #S31B-4396, 31, p. 4396

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Blacic, T.M. (2014), 'Seismic Images of the Gulf Stream Front off the Coast of North Carolina from the 2014 ENAM Community Seismic Experiment', AGU Fall Meeting 2014, abstract #OS43B-1277, 43, p. 1277

Blackburn, T.J., S.A. Bowring, J.T. Perron, K.H. Mahan, F.O. Dudas, and K.R. Barnhart (2012), 'An Exhumation History of Continents over Billion-Year Time Scales', Science, 335(6064), p. 73-76 doi: 10.1126/science.1213496

Blackman, B., E. Lee, and M. Jackson (2007), 'EarthScope Website Revised', AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 13, p. 1229

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Blewitt, G., W.C. Hammond, and C. Kreemer (2013), 'EarthScope's Plate Boundary Observatory as the Mother of Invention (Invited)', AGU Fall Meeting 2013, abstract #S24A-01, 24, p. 01

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