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Amotz Agnon   אמוץ עגנון
Associate Professor in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute of Earth Sciences.
Research interests: Earthquake geology and mechanics, mid-ocean ridge and ophiolite dynamics, paleomagnetism, sea-level change and glaciation


Email: amotz@cc.huji.ac.il
Link: http://earth.huji.ac.il/staff-main.asp?id=216


Scientific Publications:
Lyakhovsky, V; Ben-Zion, Y; Agnon, A. 2005. A viscoelastic damage rheology and rate- and state-dependent friction. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL 161 (1): 179-190.
Kagan, EJ; Agnon, A; Bar-Matthews, M; Ayalon, A. 2005. Dating large infrequent earthquakes by damaged cave deposits. GEOLOGY 33 (4): 261-264.

Shaked, Y; Lazar, B; Marco, S; Stein, M; Tchernov, D; Agnon, A. 2005. Evolution of fringing reefs: space and time constraints from the Gulf of Aqaba. CORAL REEFS 24 (1): 165-172.

Hamiel, Y; Lyakhovsky, V; Agnon, A. 2005. Poroelastic damage rheology: Dilation, compaction, and failure of rocks. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS 6: art. no.-Q01008.

Hazan, N; Stein, M; Agnon, A; Marco, S; Nadel, D; Negendank, JFW; Schwab, MJ; Neev, D. 2005. The late quaternary limnological history of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel. QUATERNARY RESEARCH 63 (1): 60-77.

Shaked, Y; Agnon, A; Lazar, B; Marco, S; Avner, U; Stein, M. 2004. Large earthquakes kill coral reefs at the north-west Gulf of Aqaba. TERRA NOVA 16 (3): 133-138.

Migowski, C; Agnon, A; Bookman, R; Negendank, JFW; Stein, M. 2004. Recurrence pattern of Holocene earthquakes along the Dead Sea transform revealed by varve-counting and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine sediments. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 222 (1): 301-314.

Bookman, R; Enzel, Y; Agnon, A; Stein, M. 2004. Late Holocene lake levels of the Dead Sea. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN 116 (5-6): 555-571.

Weber, M; Ayyash, KA; Abueladas, A; Agnon, A; Al-Amoush, H; Babeyko, A; Bartov, Y; Baumann, M; Ben-Avraham, Z; Bock, G; Bribach, J; El-Kelani, R; Forster, A; Forster, HJ; Frieslander, U; Garfunkel, Z; Grunewald, S; Gotze, HJ; Haak, V; Haberland, C; Hassouneh, M; Helwig, S; Hofstetter, A; Jackel, KH; Kesten, D; Kind, R; Maercklin, N; Mechie, J; Mohsen, A; Neubauer, FM; Oberhansli, R; Qabbani, I; Ritter, O; Rumpker, G; Rybakov, M; Ryberg, T;Scherbaum, F; Schmidt, J; Schulze, A; Sobolev, S; Stiller, M; Thoss, H; Weckmann, U; Wylegalla, K. DESERT Grp. 2004. The crustal structure of the Dead Sea Transform. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL 156 (3): 655-681.

Hamiel, Y; Lyakhovsky, V; Agnon, A. 2004. Coupled evolution of damage and porosity in poroelastic media: theory and applications to deformation of porous rocks. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL 156 (3): 701-713.

Sagy, A; Reches, Z; Agnon, A. 2003. Hierarchic three-dimensional structure and slip partitioning in the western Dead Sea pull-apart. TECTONICS 22 (1): art. no.-1004.

Kagan, EJ; Bar-Matthews, M; Ayalon, A; Agnon, A. 2002. A wiggle-matching technique applied to the dating of damaged cave deposits and compilation of a longterm paleoseismic record, Soreq Cave, Israel. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 66 (15A): A377-A377, Suppl. 1.

Marco, S; Weinberger, R; Agnon, A. 2002. Radial clastic dykes formed by a salt diapir in the Dead Sea Rift, Israel. TERRA NOVA 14 (4): 288-294.

Abelson, M; Baer, G; Agnon, A. 2002. Fossil ridge-transform intersection in theTroodos ophiolite: New perspectives from rock magnetism in the gabbro suite and fracture mechanics analysis. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS 3: art. no.-1046.

Ken-Tor, R; Stein, M; Enzel, Y; Agnon, A; Marco, S; Negendank, JFW. 2001. Precision of calibrated radiocarbon ages of historic earthquakes in the Dead Sea Basin. RADIOCARBON 43 (3): 1371-1382, Part 3.

Bartov, Y; Stein, M; Enzel, Y; Agnon, A; Reches, Z. 2002. Lake levels and sequence stratigraphy of Lake Lisan, the late Pleistocene precursor of the Dead Sea. QUATERNARY RESEARCH 57 (1): 9-21.

Bachrach, R; Nur, A; Agnon, A. 2001. Liquefaction and dynamic poroelasticity in soft sediments. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 106 (B7): 13515-13526.

Abelson, M; Agnon, A. 2001. Hotspot activity and plume pulses recorded by geometry of spreading axes. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 189 (1-2): 31-47.

Lyakhovsky, V; Ben-Zion, Y; Agnon, A. 2001. Earthquake cycle, fault zones, and seismicity patterns in a theologically layered lithosphere. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 106 (B3): 4103-4120.

Ken-Tor, R; Agnon, A; Enzel, Y; Stein, M; Marco, S; Negendank, JFW. 2001. High-resolution geological record of historic earthquakes in the Dead Sea basin. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 106 (B2): 2221-2234.

Abelson, M; Baer, G; Agnon, A. 2001. Evidence from gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite for lateral magma transport along a slow-spreading mid-ocean ridge. NATURE 409 (6816): 72-75.

Stein, M; Starinsky, A; Agnon, A; Katz, A; Raab, M; Spiro, B; Zak, I. 2000. The impact of brine-rock interaction during marine evaporite formation on the isotopic Sr record in the oceans: Evidence from Mt. Sedom, Israel. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 64 (12): 2039-2053.

Ziv, A; Rubin, AM; Agnon, A. 2000. Stability of dike intrusion along preexisting fractures. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 105 (B3): 5947-5961.

Weinberger, R; Lyakhovsky, V; Baer, G; Agnon, A. 2000. Damage zones around en echelon dike segments in porous sandstone. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 105 (B2): 3115-3133.

Ben-Zion, Y; Dahmen, K; Lyakhovsky, V; Ertas, D; Agnon, A. 1999. Self-driven mode switching of earthquake activity on a fault system. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 172 (1-2): 11-21.

Lioubashevski, O; Hamiel, Y; Agnon, A; Reches, Z; Fineberg, J. 1999. Oscillons and propagating solitary waves in a vertically vibrated colloidal suspension. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 83 (16): 3190-3193.

Meriaux, C; Lister, JR; Lyakhovsky, V; Agnon, A. 1999. Dyke propagation with distributed damage of the host rock. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 165 (2): 177-185.

Meriaux, C; Agnon, A; Lister, JR. 1998. The thermal signature of subducted lithospheric slabs at the core-mantle boundary. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 160 (3-4): 551-562.

Thomas, C; Weber, M; Agnon, A; Hofstetter, A. 1998. A low-velocity lamella in D ''. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 25 (15): 2885-2888.

Ellenblum, R; Marco, S; Agnon, A; Rockwell, T; Boas, A. 1998. Crusader castle torn apart by earthquake at dawn, 20 May 1202. GEOLOGY 26 (4): 303-306.

Lyakhovsky, V; Ben-Zion, Y; Agnon, A. 1997. Distributed damage, faulting, and friction. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 102 (B12): 27635-27649.

Marco, S; Agnon, A; Ellenblum, R; Eidelman, A; Basson, U; Boas, A. 1997. 817-year-old walls offset sinistrally 2.1 m by the Dead Sea transform, Israel. JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS 24 (1-4): 11-20.

Abelson, M; Agnon, A. 1997. Mechanics of oblique spreading and ridge segmentation. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 148 (3-4): 405-421.

Marco, S; Stein, M; Agnon, A; Ron, H. 1996. Long-term earthquake clustering: A 50,000-year paleoseismic record in the Dead Sea Graben. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 101 (B3): 6179-6191.

AGNON, A; RECHES, Z. 1995. FRICTIONAL RHEOLOGY - HARDENING BY ROTATION OF ACTIVE NORMAL FAULTS. TECTONOPHYSICS 247 (1-4): 239-254.

MARCO, S; AGNON, A. 1995. PREHISTORIC EARTHQUAKE DEFORMATIONS NEAR MASADA, DEAD-SEA GRABEN. GEOLOGY 23 (8): 695-698.

WEINBERGER, R; AGNON, A; RON, H; GARFUNKEL, Z. 1995. ROTATION ABOUT AN INCLINED AXIS - 3-DIMENSIONAL MATRICES FOR RECONSTRUCTING PALEOMAGNETIC AND STRUCTURAL DATA. JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY 17 (6): 777-782.

AGNON, A; LYAKHOVSKY, V. 1995. OCEANIC TOPOGRAPHY AND HEATFLOW - INDICATIONS FOR A SILENT DISCHARGE OF COLD ROCK INTO THE CONVECTING EARTH. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 22 (10): 1273-1276.

AGNON, A; EIDELMAN, A. 1991. LITHOSPHERIC BREAKUP IN 3 DIMENSIONS - NECKING OF A WORK-HARDENING PLASTIC PLATE. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH 96 (B12): 20189-20194.

AGNON, A. 1991. COMMENT ON THERMODYNAMIC AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF A MANY-BODY MODEL FOR SIMPLE OXIDES - REPLY. PHYSICAL REVIEW B 44 (13): 7108-7110.

AGNON, A; BUKOWINSKI, MST. 1990. DELTA-S AT HIGH-PRESSURE AND DLNVS/DLNVP IN THE LOWER MANTLE. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 17 (8): 1149-1152.
 
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