Jeff Babcock

Research Project Scientist

Room: Revelle Lab 1112

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, USA.

Telephone: (858) 534-5223

Email: jbabcock@ucsd.edu

Research Summary for 2006: Download PDF (1.650MB)

Research Interests:

• Continental Margins
• Oceanic Crustal Structure
• Marine Seismology
• Tectonics
• Geophysical Instrumentation

Recent publications: ^†

• Van Ark, E.M., R.S. Detrick, J.P. Canales, S.M. Carbotte, A.J. Harding, G.M. Kent, M.R. Nedimovic, W.S.D. Wilcock, J.B. Diebold, J.M. Babcock, Seismic structure of the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge: Correlations with seismicity and hydrothermal activity, J. Geophys. Res., 112: B02401, 2007.
• Simons, F.J., G. Nolet, J.M. Babcock, R.E. Davis, J.A. Orcutt. A future for drifting Seismic Networks, EOS, 87(31): 305-307, 2006.
• Nedimovic, M.R., S.M. Carbotte, A.J. Harding, R.S. Detrick, J.P. Canales, J.B. Diebold, G.M. Kent, M. Tischer, and J.M. Babcock, Frozen magma lenses below oceanic crust, Nature, 436: 1149-1152, 2005.
• Kent, G.M., J.M. Babcock, N.W. Driscoll, A.J. Harding, G.G. Seitz,, J.A. Dingler, J.V. Gardner, C.R. Goldman, A.C. Heyvaert, R. Karlin, L.A. Mayer, C.W. Morgan, R.C. Richards, P.T. Gayes and L..A. Owen. A 60 k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe, Geology, 33, 365-368, 2005.
• Kent, G.M., J.M. Babcock, N.W. Driscoll, A.J. Harding, G.G. Seitz,, J.A. Dingler, and R. Karlin,. A 60 k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe – Geology Online Form, e115-116, doi:10.1130/G23127Y.1, Geology, 2006.
• Hogarth, L.J., J. Babcock, N.W. Driscoll, N. Le Dantec, J.K. Haas, D.L. Inman, and P.M. Masters, Long-term tectonic control on Holocene shelf sedimentation offshore La Jolla, California. Geology, 35: 275-278, 2007.
• Dartnell, P. Normark, W.R., Driscoll, N.W., Babcock, J., Gardner, J.V., Kvitek, R.G., and Iampietro, P.J. Multibeam Bathymetry and Selected Perspective Views Offshore San Diego, California. USGS Scientific Investigations Map 2959, Sheets 1 & 2, 2007. NEW
• Crocket, J., C. Nittrouer, A. Ogston, R. Sternberg, N. Driscoll, J. Babcock, J. Milliman, R. Slingerland, D. Naar, B. Donahue, J. Walsh, W. Dietrich, G. Parker, M. Bera, H. Davies, P. Harris, M. Goni, R. Aller, J. Aller. Where rivers and oceans collide. EOS, 86(3): 25-32, 2005.
• Carbotte, S. M., R.S. Detrick, A. Harding, J.P. Canales, J. Babcock, G. Kent, E. Van Ark, M. Nedimovic, J. Diebold. Rift topography linked to magmatism at the intermediate spreading Juan de Fuca Ridge, Geology, 33: 209-212, 2006.
• Canales, J.P., S.C. Singh, R.S. Detrick, S.M. Carbotte, A. Harding, G.M. Kent, J.B. Diebold, J. Babcock, M.R. Nedimovic, Seismic evidence for variations in axial magma chamber properties along the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 246, 353-366, 2006.
• Canales, J.P., R.S. Detrick, S.M. Carbotte, G.M. Kent, J.B. Diebold, A. Harding, J. Babcock, M. Nedimovic, E. van Ark, Upper Crustal Structure and Axial Topography at Intermediate-Spreading Ridges: Seismic Constraints from the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 110: B12104 (27 pages), 2005.
• Brothers, D.S., G.M. Kent, N.W. Driscoll, S.B. Smith, G.G. Seitz, J.A. Dingler, R. Karlin, A. J. Harding, J.M. Babcock. Late Pleistocene-Holocene earthquake history and slip-rate estimates for the West Tahoe-Dollar Point Fault, Lake Tahoe Basin, California. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., accepted July, 2008. NEW - ACCEPTED
• Babcock, J. M., B. A. Kirkendall, and J. A. Orcutt. Relationships between ocean bottom noise and the environment, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 85: 1991-2007, 1994.
• Babcock, J. M., A. J. Harding, G. M. Kent, and J. A. Orcutt. An examination of along-axis variation of magma chamber width and crustal structure on the East Pacific Rise between 12°20'N and 13°30'N, J. Geophys. Res., 103: 30451-30467, 1998.