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• Giletycz, S., Kot-Giletycz, O., Brown, D., Regional geology, extreme weather events and natural disasters: Environmentally-forced, involuntary settlement migrations of the indigenous people of southern Taiwan. Tectonophysics, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228796      
• Zhang, Y., Kuo-Chen, H., Alvarez-Marron, J., Brown, D., Lin, A., Xie，Z., Jin, X., Imaging active faulting in the western Taiwan Strait. Nature Scientific Reports, 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60666-3.
• Biete, C.,  Brown, D., Lund, B., Alvarez-Marron, Wu, Y-M., Kuo-Chen, H., Ho, C-W., The influence of inherited continental margin structures on the stress and strain fields of the south-central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt. Geophysical Journal International, 219, 430-448, 2019. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggz296
• Kuo-Chen, H.,  Guan, Z.-K., Sun, W.-F., Jhong, P.-Y., Brown, D., Aftershock sequence of 2018 Mw6.4 Hualien earthquake in eastern Taiwan from dense seismic array data set. Seismological Research Letters, 2019. doi: 10.1785/0220180233.
• Biete, C., Alvarez-Marron, J., Brown, D., Kuo-Chen, H., The structure of the southwest Taiwan: the development of a fold-and-thrust belt on a margins outer shelf and slope. Tectonics, 37, 1973-1993, 2018. doi: 10.1029/2017TC004910
• Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Biete, C., Kuo-Chen, H., Camanni, G., Ho, C.-W., How the structural architecture of the Eurasian continental margin affects the structure, seismicity, and topography of the south-central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt. Tectonics, 36, 1275-1294, 2017.doi:10.1002/2017TC004475         
• Doo, W.-B., Kuo-Chen, H., Brown, D., Lo, C.-L., Hsu, S.-K., Huang, Y.-S., Serpentinization of the fore-arc mantle along the Taiwan arc-continent collision of the northern Manila subduction zone inferred from gravity modeling. Tectonophysics, 691, 282-289, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.10.019
• Chen, K.-X, Kuo-Chen, H., Brown, D., Li, Q., Ye, Z., Liang, W.-T., Wang, C.-Y., Yao, H., Three-dimensional ambient noise tomography across the Taiwan Strait: the structure of a magma-poor rifted margin. Tectonics, 35, 1782-1792, 2016. doi:10.1002/2015TC004097 
• Camanni, G., Alvarez-Marron, J., Brown, D., Ayala, C., Wu, Y.-M., Hsieh, H.-H., The deep structure of south-central Taiwan illuminated by seismic tomography and earthquake hypocenter data. Tectonophysics, 679, 235-245, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.09.016
• Doo, W.-B., Lo, C.-L., Kuo-Chen, H., Brown, D., Hsu, S.-K., Exhumation of serpentinized peridotite in the northern Manila subduction zone inferred from forward gravity modeling. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 7977-7982, 2015. doi:10.1002/2015GL065705
• Brown, D., Wu, Y.-M., Feng, K.-F., Chao, W.-A., Huang, H.-H., Imaging high-pressure rock exhumation in eastern Taiwan, Geology, 43, 651-654, 2015. doi:10.1130/G36810.1
• Alvarez-Marron, J., Brown, D., Camanni, G., Wu, Y.-M., Kuo-Chen, H., Structural complexities in a foreland thrust belt inherited from the shelf-slope transition: Insights from the Alishan area of Taiwan, Tectonics,33, 1322-1339, 2014. doi:10.1002/2014TC003584
• Camanni, G., Chen, C.-H., Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Wu, Y.-M., Chen, H.-A., Huang, H.-H., Chu, H.-T., Chen, M.-M., Chang, C.-H., Basin inversion in central Taiwan and its importance for seismic hazard, Geology; 42, 147-150, 2014.
• Camanni, G., Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Wu, Y.-M., Chen, H.-A., The Shuilikeng fault in central Taiwan: the transpressional reactivation of a basement fault, Journal of the Geological Society of London; 171, 117-130, 2014.
• Brown, D., Zhang, X., Palomeras, I., Simancas, F., Carbonell, R., Juhlin, C., Salisbury, M., Petrophysical analysis of a mid-crustal reflector in the IBERSEIS profile, SW Spain, Tectonophysics; 550-553, 35-46, 2012.
• Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Schimmel, M., Wu, Y.-M., Camanni, G., The structure and kinematics of the central Taiwan mountain belt derived from geological, GPS, and seismicity data, Tectonics; 31, TC5013, doi:10.1029/2012TC003156, 2012.
• Llana-Fúnez, S., Brown, D., Contribution of crystal-preferred orientation to seismic anisotropy across the surface analog ot the continental Moho at Cabo Ortegal, Spain, Geological Society of America Bulletin; 124, 1495-1513, 2012.
• Zhang, X., Brown, D., Deng, Y., Crustal composition model derived from the INDEPTH III velocity data, Journal of Geophysics and Engineering; doi:10.1088/1742-2132/8/4/007, 2011.
• Palomeras, I., Carbonell, R., Ayarza, P., Marti, D., Brown, D., Simancas, J.F., Shear-wave modeling and Poission’s Ratio in the Variscan Belt of SW-Iberia, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; 9, 549-559, 2011.
• Brown, D., Ryan, P., Arc-Continent Collision: The Making of an Orogen. In: Arc-Continent Collision: The Making of an Orogen (D. Brown y P. Ryan, eds), Springer Frontiers in Earth Science Series, 2011.
• Herrington, R.J., Brown, D., The generation and preservation of mineral deposits in arc-continent collision environments. In: Arc-Continent Collision: The Making of an Orogen (D. Brown y P. Ryan, eds), Springer Frontiers in Earth Science Series, 2011.
• Brown, D., Herrington, R.J., Alvarez-Marron, J., Processes of arc-continent collision in the Uralides, In: Arc-Continent Collision: The Making of an Orogen (D. Brown y P. Ryan, eds), Springer Frontiers in Earth Science Series, 2011.
• Brown, D., Llana-Funez, S., Carbonell, R., Alvarez-Marron, J., Marti, D., Salisbury, M., Laboratory measurements of P-wave and S-wave velocities across a surface analog of the continental crust-mantle boundary: Cabo Ortegal, Spain, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 210, 333-349, 2009.
• Brown, D., The growth and destruction of continental crust during arc-continent collision in the Southern Urals, Tectonophysics, 433, 39-51, 2009.
• Brown, D., Juhlin, C., Ayala, C., Tryggvason, A., Bea, F., Alvarez-Marron, J., Carbonell, R., Seward, D., Glasmacher, U., Puchkov, V., Perez-Estaun, A., Mountain building processes during continent-continent collision in the Uralides, Earth-Science Reviews, 89, 177-195, 2008, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.05.001.
• Saura, E., Verges, J., Brown, D., Lukito., P., Soriano, S., Garcia, R., Sanchez, J.R., Sosa, C., Tenreyro, R., Tectonic evolution of western Cuba fold and thrust belt, Tectonics, 27, TC4002, doi:10.1029/2007TC002237, 2008.
• Juhlin, C., Brown, D., Rybalka, A., Petrov, G., Moho imbrication in the Middle Urals, Terra Nova, 19, 189-194, 2007.
• Brown, D., Modal mineralogy and chemical composition of the Uralide lower crust determined from physical properties data, Tectonophysics, 433, 39-51, 2007.
• Brown, D., Puchkov, V., Alvarez-Marron, J., Bea, F., Perez-Estaun, A., Tectonic processes in the South and Middle Uralides: An overview, In: European Lithosphere Dynamics, D. Gee, R. Stephenson (eds.), Geological Society Memoir, pp. 409-419, 2006.
• Brown, D., Spadea, P., Puchkov, V., Alvarez-Marron, J., Herrington, R., Willner, A.P., Hetzel, R., Gorozhanina, Y., Arc-continent collision in the Southern Urals, Earth-Science Reviews, 79, 261-287, 2006.
• Herrington, R., Zaykov, V., Maslennikov, V., Brown D., Puchkov, V., Mineral deposits of the Urals and links to geodynamic evolution, In: Economic Geology 100 Anniversery Volume, J.W. Hedenquist, J.F.H. Thompson, R.J. Goldfarb, and J.P. Richards, (eds.), pp. 1069-1095, 2005.
• Brown D., Juhlin, C., Tryggvason, Friberg, M., Rybalka, A., Puchkov, V., Petrov, G., Structural architecture of the Southern and Middle Urals foreland from reflection seismic profiles, Tectonics, 25, TC1002, doi:10.1029/2005TC001834, 2006.
• Brown D., Juhlin, C., A lower crustal flow channel in the Middle Urals based on reflection seismic data, Terra Nova, 18, 1-8, 2006.
• Alvarez-Marron J., Rodriguez-Fernandez R., Heredia N., Busquets P., Colombo F., Brown D., Neogene structures overprinting Palaeozoic thrust systems in the Andean Precordillera at 30º S latitude, Journal of the Geological Society, 163, 949-964, 2006.
• Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Perez-Estaun, A., Gorozhanina, Y., Puchkov, V., The structure of the south Urals foreland thrust and fold belt at the transition to the Precaspian Basin, Journal of the Geological Society, 161, 813-822, 2004.
• Brown, D., Echtler, H., The structure and evolution of the Uralides, In: Encyclopedia of Geology. R.C. Selley, L.R. Cocks, I.R. Plimer (eds.), Elsevier, v. 2, pp. 86-95, 2004.
• Brown, D., Carbonell, R., Kukkonen, I, Ayala, C., Golovonova, I., Composition of the Uralide crust from seismic velocity (Vp, Vs), heat flow, gravity, and magnetic data, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 210, 333-349, 2003.
• Fernández, F.J., Brown, D., Alvarez-Marrón, J., Prior, D.J., Pérez-Estaún, A., Microstructure and crystallographic fabric of calcite mylonites at the base of the southern Urals accretionary prism, Journal of the Geological Society, 161, 67-79, 2004.
• Brown, D., Juhlin, C., Puchkov, V., Introduction: Mountian Building in the Uralides, In: Mountain Building in the Uralides: Pangea to the Present. D. Brown, C. Juhlin, V. Puchkov (eds.), American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 132, pp. 1 – 8, 2002.
• Seward, D., Brown, D., Hetzel, R., Freiburg, M., Gerdes, A., Perez-Estaun, A., Petrov, G. A., The late- to post-orogenic low temperature thermochronological history of the southern and central Uralides: Evidence from fission-track analysis, In: Mountain Building in the Uralides: Pangea to the Present. D. Brown, C. Juhlin, V. Puchkov (eds.), American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 132, pp. 257-272, 2002.
• Brown, D., Juhlin, C., Tryggvason, A. Steer, D., Ayarza, P., Beckholmen, M., Rybalka, A., Bliznetsov, M., The Crustal Architecture of the Southern and Middle Urals from the URSEIS, ESRU, and Alapaev Reflection Seismic Profiles, In: Mountain Building in the Uralides: Pangea to the Present. D. Brown, C. Juhlin, V. Puchkov (eds.), American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 132, pp. 33-48, 2002.
• Spadea, P., D’Antonio, M., Kosarev, A., Gorozhanina, Y., Brown, D., Arc-continent collision in the southern Urals: petrogenetic aspects of the fore-arc complex, In: Mountain Building in the Uralides: Pangea to the Present. D. Brown, C. Juhlin, V. Puchkov (eds.), American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 132, pp. 101-134, 2002.
• Brown, D., Tryggvason, A., Ascent mechanism of the Dzhabyk batholith, southern Urals: constraints from URSEIS reflection seismic profiling, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 58, 881-884, 2001.
• Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Perez-Estaun, A., Puchkov, V., Ayarza, P., Gorozhanina, Y., Structure and evolution of the Magnitogorsk forearc basin: Identifying upper crustal processes during arc-continent collision in the southern Urals, Tectonics, 20, 364-375, 2001.
• Tryggvason, A., Brown, D., Pérez-Estaún, A., Crustal architecture of the southern Uralides from true amplitude processing of the URSEIS vibroseis profile, Tectonics, 20, 1040-1052, 2001.
• Brown, D., Spadea, P., Anmo, R., Preface: Processes of arc-continent collision, Tectonophysics, 325, p. vii-viii., 2000.
• Ayarza, P., Brown, D., Alvarez-Marrón, J., Juhlin, C., Contrasting tectonic history of the arc-continent suture in the Southern and Middle Urals: Implications for the evolution of the orogen, Journal of the Geological Society of London 157, 1065-1076, 2000.
• Ayala, C., Kimbell, G.S., Brown, D., Ayarza, P., Menshikov, Y.P., Magnetic evidence for the geometry and evolution of the eastern margin of the East European Craton in the southern Urals, Tectonophysics, 320, 31-44, 2000.
• Ayarza, P., Juhlin, C., Brown, D., Beckholmen, M., Kimbell, G., Pechning, R., Pevzner, L., Pevzner, R., Ayala, C., Bliznetsov, M., Glushkov, A., Rybalka, A., Integrated geological and geophysical studies in the SG4 borehole area (Tagil volcanic arc-middle Urals): location of seismic reflectors and source of the reflectivity, Journal of Geophysical. Research, 105, 21,333-21,352, 2000.
• Alvarez-Marron, J., Brown, D., Perez-Estaun, A., Puchkov, V., Gorozhanina, Y., Accretionary complex structure and kinematics during Paleozoic arc-Continent collision in the southern Urals, Tectonophysics, 325, 175-191, 2000.
• Brown, D., Hetzel, R. Scarrow, J.H., Tracking arc-continent collision subduction zone processes from high pressure rocks in the southern Urals, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 157, 901-904, 2000.
• Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Perez-Estaun, A., Puchkov, V., Ayala, C., Basement influence on foreland thrust and fold belt development: An example from the southern Urals, Tectonophysics, 308, 459-472, 1999.
• Brown, D., Spadea, P., Processes of forearc and accretionary complex formation during arc-continent collision in the southern Urals, Geology, 27, 649-652, 1999.
• Carbonell, R., Lecerf, D., Itzin, M., Gallart, J., Brown, D., Mapping the Moho Beneath the Southern Urals, Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 4229 - 4233, 1998.
• Hardy, S., Duncan, C., Masek, J., Brown, D., Minimium work, fault activity and the growth of orogenic wedges, Basin Research, 10, 365-373, 1998.
• Steer, D.N., Knapp, J.H., Brown, L.D., Echtler, H., Brown, D., Berzin, R., Deep structure of the contiental lithosphere in an unextended orogen: an explosive source seismic reflection profile across the Urals (URSIES 1995), Tectonics, 17, 143-137, 1998.
• Brown, D., Juhlin, C., Alvarez-Marron, J., Perez-Estaun, A., Oslianski, A., Crustal-scale structure and evolution of an arc-continent collision zone in the southern Urals, Russia, Tectonics, 17, 158-170, 1998.
• Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Perez-Estaun, A., Preservation of a subcritical wedge in the south Urals foreland thrust and fold belt, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 154, 593-596, 1998.
• Brown, D., McClay K.R., Sulfide textures in the active TAG massive sulfide deposit, 26°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 158: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), pp. 193-200, 1998.
• Perez-Estaun, A., Alvarez-Marron, J., Brown, D., Puchkov, V., Gorozhanina, Y., Baryshev, V., Along-strike structural variations in the foreland thrust and fold belt of the southern Urals, Tectonophysics. 276, 265-280, 1997.
• Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Perez-Estaun, A., Gorozhanina, Y., Baryshev, V. Puchkov, V., Geometric and kinematic evolution of the foreland thrust and fold belt in the southern Urals, Tectonics, 16, 551-562 1997.
• Knapp, J.H., Steer, D.N., Brown, L.D., Berzin, R., Suleimanov, A., Stiller, M., Luschen, E., Brown, D., Bulgakov, R., Rybalka, A.V., A lithosphere-scale image of the Southern Urals from explosion-source seismic reflection profiling in URSEIS ’95, Science, 274, 226-228, 1996.
• Brown, D., Puchkov, V., Alvarez-Marron, J., Perez-Estaun, A., The structural architecture of the footwall to the Main Uralian Fault, Southern Urals, Earth-Science Reviews, 40, 125-147, 1996.
• Humphris, S., Herzig, P., Miller, J., Alt, J., Becker, K., Brown, D., Brugmann, G., Chiba, H., Fouquet, Y., Gemmel, B., Guerin, G., Hannington, M., Holm, N., Honnorez, J., Itturino, G., Knott, R., Ludwig, Nakamura, K., Petersen, S., Reysenbach, A-L., Rona, P., Smith, S., Sturz, A., Tivey, M., Zhao, X., The internal structure of a sea floor massive-sulfide deposit, Nature, 377, 713-716, 1995.
• Brown, D., Mason, R., An occurrence of sectored birefringence in almandine from Gagnon terrane, Labrador, Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 105-110, 1994.
• Brown, D., Low temperature, low pressure deformation and metamorphism of the Vangorda massive sulphides, Yukon, Canada, Mineralium Deposita, 29, 330-340, 1994.
• Brown, D., McClay R., Structural geology of the Vangorda Pb - Zn orebody, Yukon, Canada, Ore Geology Reviews, 9, 61-78, 1994.
• Brown, D., McClay, K.R., Deformation textures in pyrite from the Vangorda Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Yukon, Canada, Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 55-66, 1993.
• Brown, D., Rivers, T., Calon, T., A structural analysis of a metamorphic fold and thrust belt, northeast Gagnon terrane, Grenville Province, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 29, 1915-1927, 1992.
• Brown, D., van Gool, J., Calon, T., Rivers, T., The geometric and kinematic development of the Emma Lake thrust stack, Grenville Front zone, southwestern Labrador, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28, 136-144, 1991.

Other Publications

• Fernández, F. J., Brown, D., Álvarez-Marrón, J., Pérez-Estaún, A., Menéndez-Duarte, R., Discriminación de mecanismos de deformación dominantes en las calizas milonítas del Zilair thrust (sur de Urales), mediante el análisis de paleoesfuerzos, Geo-Temas, 6, 41-44, 2004.
• Fernández, F. J., Brown, D., Álvarez-Marrón, J., Pérez-Estaún, A., Menéndez-Duarte, R., Fábricas constrictivas de ejes-c de cuarzo en arcosas deformadas por disolución por presión, Geo-Temas, 6, 37-40, 2004.
• Gorozhanina, E.N., Kulagnina, E.I., Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Pazukin, J., Lithofacial and paleontological characteristics of the Lower and Middle Carboniferous sediments in the Kuruil River region (Southern Urals) (In Russian), In: Geology and Perspectives of the Resource Base Widening of Bashkortistan and Neighbouring Territories, Ufimian Geoscience Centre, RAS, UFA, 130-140, 2001.
• Perez-Estaun, A., Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., Puchkov, V., Carbonell, R., La evolutión tectónica del Sur de los Urales, Trabajos de Geologia Univ. Oviedo, 21, 265-281, 1999.
• Puchkov, V.N., Perez-Estaun, A., Brown, D., Alvarez-Marron, J., The marginal foreland thrust and fold belt of an orogen: The structure and origin (the example of the Bashkirian Urals), Herald of the Department of Geological Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1, 70–99, 1998.
• Perez-Estaun, A., Brown, D., A key to understanding collisional orogenesis, EUROPROBE Brochure, European Science Foundation, 1996.
• Humphris, S., Herzig, P., Miller, J., Alt, J., Becker, K., Brown, D., Brugmann, G., Chiba, H., Fouquet, Y., Gemmel, B., Guerin, G., Hannington, M., Holm, N., Honnorez, J., Itturino, G., Knott, R., Ludwig, Nakamura, K., Petersen, S., Reysenbach, A-L., Rona, P., Smith, S., Sturz, A., Tivey, M., Zhao, X., Active hydrothermal system drilled at the Mid-Atlantic ridge, EOS, 36, 361, 1995.
• Humphris, S., Herzig, P., Miller, J., Alt, J., Becker, K., Brown, D., Brugmann, G., Chiba, H., Fouquet, Y., Gemmel, B., Guerin, G., Hannington, M., Holm, N., Honnorez, J., Itturino, G., Knott, R., Ludwig, Nakamura, K., Petersen, S., Reysenbach, A-L., Rona, P., Smith, S., Sturz, A., Tivey, M., Zhao, X., The TAG Hydrothermal Mount, 26° N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Initial Results, ODP Leg 158, 1995.
• Brown, D., McClay, K.R., The Vangorda Deposit, Yukon Exploration and Geology, 25-32, 1993.
• Brown, D., McClay, K.R., Structure of the Vangorda Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, Anvil Range, Yukon, Canada, Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 92-1A, 121-128, 1992.
• van Gool, J., Brown, D., Calon, T., Rivers, T., The Grenville Front thrust belt in western Labrador, Current Research, Part C, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 88-1C, 245-253, 1998.