Peer-reviewed Key Publications List

 

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57. Lorenzo, J.M., Hubenthal, M., Benton, N., Vera, E. E.  (in press). Introducing novices to active-source seismology via SeismicUnixGui. Seismological Research letters

56. Haque, D. M. E., R. Roy, S. Tasnim, S. F. Sifa, S. Karunatillake, A. S. M. Maksud Kamal, and J. M. Lorenzo, 2025. Decoding dynamic landslide hazard processes for a massive refugee camp in Bangladesh, Environmental Challenges 19 101172.

55. Ali, T., Lorenzo, J.M., Clift, P. D., Brown, A., Konsoer, K., 2025 Quantitative Identification of Lithofacies by Integrating Diverse Geophysical Data in the Late Holocene False River Point Bar Complex, Louisiana, USA. Interpretation, 13(3), SC1-SC18.

54. Elgettafi, M., A. Elmandour, M. Himi, J. M. Lorenzo, and A. Casas, 2025. Application of 2D electrical resistivity tomography to recognize groundwater salinity sources relevant to the Messinian salinity crisis, Kert aquifer, NE of Morocco, Arabian Journal of Geosciences 18 138.

53. Elgettafi, M., Rochdane, S., Elmandour, A., Lorenzo, J. M., Himi, M., and Casas, A. 2025. Br-Li and stable isotopes to induce groundwater salinity in crystalline and detrital aquifers: Oriental Haouz Morocco, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 57 102123.

52. [pdf] Locci-Lopez, Daniel, and Juan M. Lorenzo. 2023 Seepage-Induced Pore Pressure Variations Beneath an Earthen Levee Measured with a Novel Seismic Tool. Geosciences 13, no. 1: 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13010020

51. [pdf] Elgettafi, M., M. Elmeknassi, A. Elmandour, M. Himi, J. M. Lorenzo, and A. Casas, 2022, d34S, d18O, and d2H-d18O as an Approach for Settling the Question of Groundwater Salinization in Neogene Basins: The North of Morocco in Focus: Water, 14, no. 21, 3404. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/21/3404

50.[pdf] Bates*, A., S. Goossens, J. M. Lorenzo, L. Ojha, D. R. Hood, S. Karunatillake, S. K. Nawotniak, and T. Paladino, 2022, Supervolcanic resurfacing in northwestern Arabia Terra, Mars: Icarus, 390, 115303. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115303. 

49. [pdf] Lorenzo, J. M., A. Bates*, D. A. Patterson, C. Sun, T. A. Douglas, S. Karunatillake, P. M. Bremner, M. R. Zanetti, H. F. Haviland, R. C. Weber, and A. J. Gemer, 2022, Evaluation of a wheel-based seismic acquisition system for a planetary rover: The Leading Edge, 41, no. 10, 681-689. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/tle41100681.1.

48.[pdf] Omale*, A.P., Lorenzo, J.M., AlDhamen, A., Clift, P.D. Webb, A.A.G, 2021 Fault kinematics: A record of tectono-climatically controlled sedimentation along passive margins, an example from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.; GSA Bulletin; doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B35623.1

47. [pdf] Crane J.H., Crane J.M.*, Lorenzo, J.M. 2020. The AVO Template: a tool for AVO interpretation Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting: Houston October 14 3:30 pm - 3:55 pm. (Oral-virtual) p. 265-269

46. [Book] Lorenzo, J. Doll, W. (Eds.) 2019 Levees and Dams: Advances in Geophysical Monitoring and Characterization. Springer-Verlag, 139 pp.

45. [pdf] Hayashi, K., Lorenzo , J.M., Gostic*, A., 2018. Application of 2D ambient noise tomography to levee safety assessment in New Orleans. The Leading Edge, v. 37, no. 10, p 740-745 .

44. [pdf] Clift, P. D., Olson*, E. D., Lechnowsky*j, A. , Moran*, M. G., Barbato*, A. and Lorenzo, J. M.., 2018. Grain size variability within a mega-scale point-bar system, False River, Louisiana. Sedimentology. . doi:10.1111/sed.12528

 43. [pdf] Crane*, J., Lorenzo , J.M., Shen*, J., White, C.D. 2018. The competing effects of stress and water saturation on in-situ Q for shallow (< 1 m), unconsolidated sand, evaluated with a modified spectral ratio method. Near Surface Geophysics.v. 16, no. 2, p 1-14.

42. [pdf]   Sun*, T., Shuai*, Y., White, C., Lorenzo, J., Chollett*. S. 2017. Integration of seismic first arrival times to estimate water-air contact and initial water saturation: Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, v 45., p. 391 - 398.

41. [pdf] Lorenzo , J.M., Watkins*, T., Dahi-Taleghani, A. 2017. Recommendations From Error Analysis of Single Well Microseismic Data With Full-Wavefield Moment Tensor Inversion: A Case Study. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, Austin, TX USA, 2426 July 2017. (Reviewed manuscript, est. 30 % acceptance).

40. [pdf] Shen*, J., Lorenzo , J.M., 2016. Seismic velocity inversion for patchy and homogeneous fluid-distribution conditions in shallow, unconsolidated sands: Geophysics, v. 81, no. 5, p. U51-U60.

39. [pdf] Shen*, J.; Crane*, J. M., Lorenzo, J. M., and White, C. D., 2016. Seismic Velocity Prediction in Shallow (<30 m) Partially Saturated, Unconsolidated Sediments Using Effective Medium Theory: Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, v. 21, no. 2, p. 67-78.

38. [pdf] Omale*, A.P. Lorenzo, J.M. 2015 Using Fault kinematics to evaluate the relationship between Cenozoic fault activity, sedimentation rates and salt movement: A comparison between southwestern and southeastern Louisiana. GCAGS Journal V. 4

37. [pdf] Shen*, J.; Lorenzo, J.; White, C.; Tsai, F. 2015 Soil density, elasticity and the soil water characteristic curve inverted from field-based seismic P- and S-wave velocity in shallow (< 25 m) near-saturated (> 99%) layered soils. Geophysics,  v. 80, p. WB11-WB19, published online May 8, 2015, doi:10.1190/geo2014-0119.1

36. [pdf] Taleghani, A.D., Gonzalez*, M., Puyang*, P., Lorenzo, J.M., 2014  Post-treatment assessment of induced fracture network Hydraulic Fracturing Journal. V1/3, 24-33.

35.[pdf] Lorenzo, J.M., Hicks*, J., Vera, E.E.,  2014  Integrated seismic and Cone Penetration Testing observations at a distressed earthen levee: Marrero, Louisiana, U.S.A. Engineering Geology. Journal of Engineering Geology 168C,  59-68 DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2013.10.019. Published online: 21-Nov-2013.

34.[pdf] Taleghani, A.D., Gonzalez*, M., Puyang*, P., Lorenzo, J.M., 2013 Post-treatment assessment of induced fracture networks SPE Annual Technical Conference and exhibition, Sept. 30- Oct. 2, New Orleans. 166354

33. [pdf]  Crane*, J.M., Lorenzo, J.M., and  Harris, J.B., 2013. A new electrical and mechanically detonatable shear wave source for near surface (0-30m) seismic acquisition. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 91,1-8.

32. [pdf] Lorenzo, J.M., Smolkin*, D.E., White, C., Chollett*, S.R., Sun*, T. 2013 Benchmark hydrogeophysical data from a physical seismic model Computers & Geosciences 50,44-51, DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2012.07.034 Published online: 19 August 2012  Data sets , downloadable from (http://github.com/cageo/Lorenzo-2012)

31. [pdf]  Londono*, J., Lorenzo, J., Ramirez, V.  2012. Lithospheric flexure an related base-level stratigraphic cycles in continental foreland basins: An example from the Putumayo Basin, Northern Andes. in D. Gao, ed., Tectonics and sedimentation: Implications for petroleum systems: AAPG Memoir 100, p. 357-375.

 30.[pdf] Taleghani, A.D., Lorenzo, J.M. 2011 An alternative interpretation of microseismic events during hydraulic fracturing SPE Hydraulic fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition The Woodlands, TX Jan 24-26, 2011 31.

29.[pdf]  Lorenzo, J.M., 2010. Seismology in Sport Seismological Research Letters.V 81/3, 526-529.

28. [pdf] Jeanloz, R., Beck, S.L., Lisowski, M., Lorenzo, J.M., Mora, C.I., Rimstidt, J.D., Shirey, S.B.S., S., and Wirth, K., 2008. Earth science instrumentation and facilities program review: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 89, p. 61-72.

27. [pdf]  Lorenzo , Juan M.   A. Saanumi* , Westbrook*, C. ,  Egnew , S., Bentley, S.  and Vera, E.E., 2006.  Extensive testing of sled‐mounted geophone arrays for near‐surface (0-4m) layers in floodplain sedimentary facies: Atchafalaya Basin, Indian Bayou, Louisiana. SEG, Expanded Abstracts, 25 , no. 1, 1495-1499.

26.  [pdf] Londono*, John, Lorenzo, Juan M. 2004. Geodynamics of continental plate collision during late Tertiary foreland basin evolution in the Timor Sea: constraints from foreland sequences, elastic flexure and normal faulting, Tectonophysics, V392/1-4, p.37-54.

25.[pdf]  Tandon*, K., Lorenzo, J.M., Widiyantaro, S. and O'Brien, G.W. 2002 Variations in inelastic failure of subducting continental lithosphere and tectonic development: Australia-Banda Arc Convergence. American Geophysical Union Geodynamic Series on Plate Boundary Zones, Vol. 30 Eds. Stein, S.A., Freymuller, J.T., p. 341-357.

24. [pdf] Tandon*, K., Lorenzo, Juan,M., O'Brien, G.W., 2000 Effective elastic thickness of the Australian continental lithosphere subducting beneath the Banda orogen (Indonesia): Inelastic failure at the start of continental subduction. Tectonophysics Vol. 329, 1-4, p.39-60.

23. [pdf] Clift, P. D.; Lorenzo, J. M. 1999 Flexural unloading and uplift along the C�te d'Ivoire--Ghana Transform Margin, equatorial Atlantic J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 104 , No. B11 , 25257-25274.

22. [pdf1, pdf2] Lorenzo, J.M., O'Bien, G.W., Stewart, J., & Tandon*, K., 1998. Inelastic yielding and forebulge shape across a modern foreland basin: North West Shelf of Australia, Timor Sea.,Geophys. Res. Lett., 25/9, 1455-1458. 

21.  [pdf] Tandon, K., Lorenzo, J.M. and de la Linde Rubio, J. 1998 Timing of rifting in the Alboran Sea Basin -- Correlation of borehole (ODP Leg 161 and Andalucia A-1) to seismic reflection data: implications for basin formation. Marine Geology. 144/4, p.275-294.

20. [pdf] Clift, P.D., Lorenzo, J.M., Carter, A., Hurford, A.J., & Bouillin, J.P. 1997 Transform tectonics and thermal rejuvenation on the C�te d'Ivoire margin, West Africa. Journal of the Geological Society of London. 154: 483-489. 

19. [pdf] Lorenzo, J.M. 1997 Sheared continent-ocean margins: An overview. Geo-Marine Letters 17:1-3. 

18.  [pdf] Lorenzo, J.M., Wessel P. 1997 Flexure across a continent-ocean fracture zone-- The northern Falkland Plateau, South Atlantic. Geo-Marine Letters. 17:110-118. 

17. [pdf] Lorenzo, J.M. & Hesselbo, S. 1996. Seismic-to-well correlation at ODP 150 continental slope sites. Proc. Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 150: 293-307. 

16. Mountain, G., Damuth, J., McHugh, C., Lorenzo;  J.M., & Fulthorpe, C. 1996 Origin, re-burial and significance of a mid-Miocene canyon, New Jersey continental slope. Proc. Ocean Drilling Program, Leg Scientific Results 150: 283-292 

15. [pdf] Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S. and Leg 150 Shipboard Scientific Party (Lorenzo, J.M.), 1996. Sequences of the New Jersey continental slope tied to glacioeustasy: A synthesis of ODP Leg 150 Science, 271 (5252), 1092-1095. 

14. [pdf] Mountain, G, Lorenzo, J.M. , McHugh, C., 1994 Underway Geophysics In Mountain, Miller, Blum., et al., Proc. ODP, Initial Scientific Results, 150, p.43-50. 

13. Leg 150 Shipboard Scientific Party (Lorenzo, J.M.), 1994. Sea-level changes and slope processes reflected off New Jersey EOS, American Geophysical Union Transactions, 75, 212-214. 

12. Leg 150 Scientific Party (Lorenzo, J.M.),1994. ODP cores "Icehouse" sediments, Leg 150 Geotimes, May, p.8-9. 

11. [pdf] Lorenzo, J.M. and Vera, E.E., 1992, Correlation between Diverse Seismic and Physical Properties Data Sets: ODP Leg 122, Site 763, Southern Exmouth Plateau, In von Rad, U., Haq, B.U., et al., Proc. ODP, Scientific Results, 122. 

10. [pdf] Swift, M., Boyd, R., O'Brien, D., Lorenzo, J. , 1992, Heat Flow and Thermal History of the Exmouth Plateau, In von Rad, U., Haq, B.U., et al., Proc. ODP, Scientific Results, 122. 

9. [pdf] Lorenzo, J. M. and Vera, E.E. 1992, Thermal Uplift and Erosion across the Continent-Ocean Transform Boundary of the Southern Exmouth Plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 108, 79-82. 

8. Hopper, J.C. and 10 others (Lorenzo, J.M.), 1992, Magmatism amd rift margin evolution: Evidence from northwest Australia, Geology, 20, 853-857. 

7. [pdf-text pdf-foldout] Lorenzo, J.M.and 10 others (Lorenzo, J.M.), 1991, Development of the Continent-Ocean Transform Boundary of the Southern Exmouth Plateau, North West Australia, Geology, 19, 843-846. 

6. Mutter, J.C. and 10 others (Lorenzo, J.M.), 1989, Extension of the Exmouth Plateau, offshore northwestern Australia: Deep seismic reflection/refraction evidence for simple and pure shear mechanisms. Geology, 17, pp. 15-18. 

5. Leg 122 Shipboard Scientific Party (Lorenzo, J.M.), 1989. Breakup of Gondwanaland. Nature, Jan., pp. 209-210. 

4.[pdf] Lorenzo, J.M., and Mutter, J.C., 1988. Seismic Stratigraphy and Tectonic Evolution of the Falkland/Malvinas Plateau, Revista Brasileira de Geociencias, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 191-200. 

3. ODP Leg 122 Scientific Party (Lorenzo, J.M.), 1988. ODP Leg 122 Looks at Exmouth Plateau. Geotimes, Dec., pp. 10-13. 

2. Lorenzo, J.M., 1983. Introducci�n a la Geolog�a de la Alta Cuenca de los R�os Sill y Luna. El Calecho, No. 0, pp. 12 -15. Le�n, Spain. 

1. Lorenzo, J.M., 1983. Introducci�n a la Geolog�a. Los F�siles. El Calecho, No. 1, pp. 1-2. Le�n, Spain. 

Book Review

[pdf] Lorenzo, Juan M. (2014) A book review of Near-Surface Applied Geophysics by Mark E. Everett, Letter to the Editor, Marine geophysical Researches Marine Geophysical Research: Volume 35, Issue 2 , Page 175