Publications

Marine hydrogeology publications

Brown, K.M., M.D. Tryon, H.R. DeShon, S. Schwartz, and L.M. Dorman, Correlated Transient Fluid Pulsing and Seismic Tremor in the Costa Rica Subduction Zone, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 238, 189-203, 2005.

Tryon, M.D. and K.M. Brown, Fluid and chemical cycling at Bush Hill: Implications for gas- and hydrate-rich environments, Geology, Geophysics, and Geosystems (G-Cubed), 5 (12), 1-7, 2004.

Tryon, M.D., K.M. Brown, M.E. Torres, Fluid and chemical fluxes in and out of sediments hosting hydrate deposits on Hydrate Ridge, OR, II: Hydrological processes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 201 (3-4), 541-557, 2002.

Torres, M.E., J. McManus, D. Hammond, M.A de Angelis, K. Heeschen, S.L. Colbert, M.D. Tryon, K.M. Brown, and E. Suess, Fluid and chemical fluxes in and out of sediments hosting hydrate deposits on Hydrate Ridge, OR, I: Hydrological provinces, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 201 (3-4), 525-540, 2002.

Tryon, M.D., The Development and Application of a New Benthic Aqueous Flux Meter for Very Low to Moderate Discharge Rates, Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2002.

Tryon, M.D., K.M. Brown, L. Dorman, and A. Sauter, A new benthic aqueous flux meter for very low to moderate discharge rates, Deep-Sea Research, Part I, 28 (9), 2121-2146, 2001.

Tryon, M.D., and K.M. Brown, Complex flow patterns through forearc gas hydrates and their impact on seep biota, Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (14), 2863-2866, 2001.

Tryon, M.D., K.M. Brown, M.E. Torres, A.M. Trehu, J. McManus, and R.W. Collier, Measurements of transience and downward fluid flow near episodic methane gas vents, Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia, Geology, 27 (12), 1075-1078, 1999.

Sediment physical properties publications

Brown, K.M., A. Kopf, M.B. Underwood, and J.L. Weinberger, Compositional and fluid pressure controls on the state of stress on the Nankai subduction thrust: A weak plate boundary, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 214, 589-603, 2003.
 
Kopf, A; Brown, K M, Friction experiments on saturated sediments and their implications for the stress state of the Nankai and Barbados subduction thrust Marine Geology, 202 (3-4), 193-210, 2003.

Brown, K.M., D. M. Saffer, B. A. Bekins, Smectite diagenesis, pore-water freshening,and fluid flow at the toe of the Nankai wedge, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 194, 97-109, 2001.

Fitts, T.G. and K. M. Brown, Eath. Sci. Lett., Stress induced smectite dehydration: ramifications for patterns of fresheneing and fluids expulsion in the N. Barbados accretuionary wedge., Earth and Science Planetary Science Letters, 172, 179-197, 1999.