Publications

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  1. KOUNOUDIS R., et al. Building an Earthquake Catalogue for Montserrat's Soufriere Hills Volcano and Associated Geothermal Field: Can Nodal Seismometers Improve Earthquake Detection Capabilities?
  2. KOUNOUDIS R., et al. Lithospheric Seismic Structure of the Uganda Craton.
  3. Scrivens B., R. KOUNOUDIS, et al. Upper-Mantle Seismic Structure of Zambia: Insights from P- and S-Wave Travel-Time Tomography.

    4. 2026

  4. KOUNOUDIS R., J-M. Kendall, J. Jenkins, T. Mackay-Champion, C. Chifwepa, M. Daly (2026) Seismological Constraints on Subduction and Suture Zone Architecture in the Central African Copperbelt. (in-review; Geophysical Journal International).
  5. Daly M., M. Moorkamp, P. Pare, R. KOUNOUDIS, J. Khunga, M. Chanda, B. Doerner (2026) Inter-cratonic Lithospheric Terranes and Orogenic Rift Basin Inversion: An Integrated Geophysical Analysis of the Central African Copperbelt. (in-review; Tectonics).
  6. Kettlety T, J. Asplet, T. Hudson, A. Butcher, A.M. Walker R. KOUNOUDIS, T. Yemane, S. Shams, J-M. Kendall (2026) North York Moors Array (NYMAR) for Enhancing Regional Background Montitoring of Southern North Sea CO2 Storage Sites. (in-review; Seismica).
  7. Curtis A., L. Karen, S. Hicks, L. Bie, D. Strutz, E. Chambers, UKI-Array contributors (2026) The UK and Ireland Geophysical Array. Astronomy & Geophysics, 67(3), pp.3.31-3.37.
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    8. 2025

  8. KOUNOUDIS R., I.D. Bastow, C.J. Ebinger, S. Goes, P. Zhou, M. Musila, C.S. Ogden, A. Ayele (2025) The Importance of Past Rifting on Large Igneous Province Development. Nature, 647, pp.115–120.
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  9. Musila M., F. Civilini, C.J. Ebinger, I.D. Bastow, R. KOUNOUDIS, C.S. Ogden (2025) Ambient Noise Crustal Imaging of a Heterogeneous Rift Linkage Zone: Turkana Depression, East Africa. Geophysical Journal International, 243(1), p.ggaf282.
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  10. Zhou P., I.D. Bastow, R. KOUNOUDIS, C.S. Ogden (2025) Crustal Seismic Structure of the Anatolian Plate and its Implications for Plateau Uplift: Evidence from Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Waves. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
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  11. Ogden C.S., R. KOUNOUDIS, S. Fishwick, C. Chifwepa, D. Holwell, J-M. Kendall, M. Daly (2025) Crustal Structure of the Katangan Basin in Zambia: Evidence from Receiver Functions. Geophysical Journal International, 241(2), pp.1132-1144.
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    12. 2024

  12. KOUNOUDIS R., J.M. Kendall, C.S. Ogden, S. Fishwick, C. Chifwepa and M.C. Daly (2024) The tectonic development of the Central African Plateau: evidence from shear-wave splitting. Geophysical Journal International, 239(3), pp.1694-1708.
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    13. 2023

  13. KOUNOUDIS R., I.D. Bastow, C.J. Ebinger, F. Darbyshire, M. Musila, C.S. Ogden, A. Ayele, G. Sullivan, F. Ugo, R. Bendick, N. Mariita, G. Kianji (2023) The Development of Rifting and Magmatism in the Multiply- Rifted Turkana Depression, East Africa: Evidence from Surface-Wave Analysis of Crustal and Mantle Structure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 621, p.118386.
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  14. Boyce A., R. KOUNOUDIS, I.D. Bastow, S. Cottaar, E.J. Ebinger, C.S. Ogden (2023) Mantle Wavespeed and Discontinuity Structure Below East Africa: Implications for Cenozoic Hotspot Tectonism and the Development of the Turkana Depression. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24(8), p.e2022GC010775.
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  15. Ogden C.S., I.D. Bastow, C.J. Ebinger, A. Ayele, R. KOUNOUDIS, M. Musila, R. Bendick, N. Mariita, G. Kianji, T. Rooney, G. Sullivan, and B. Kibret (2022) The Development of Multiple Phases of Superposed Rifting in the Turkana Depression, East Africa: Evidence from Receiver Functions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 609, p.118088.
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  16. Musila M., C.J. Ebinger, I.D. Bastow, G. Sullivan, S.J. Oliva, E. Knappe, M. Perry, R. KOUNOUDIS, C.S. Ogden, R. Bendick, S. Mwangi, N. Mariita, G. Kianji, E. Kraus, F. Illsley‐Kemp (2023) Active Deformation Constraints on the Nubia-Somalia Plate Boundary Through Heterogeneous Lithosphere of the Turkana Depression. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24(9), p. e2023GC010982.
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    17. 2021

  17. Boyce A., I.D. Bastow, S. Cottaar, R. KOUNOUDIS, J. Guilloud De Courbeville, E. Caunt, and S. Desai (2021) AFRP20: New P‐wavespeed Model for the African Mantle Reveals Two Whole‐Mantle Plumes below East Africa and Neoproterozoic Modification of the Tanzania Craton. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22(3), p.e2020GC009302.
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  18. KOUNOUDIS R., I.D. Bastow, C.J. Ebinger, C.S. Ogden, A. Ayele, R. Bendick, N. Mariita, G. Kianji, G. Wigham, M. Musila, and B. Kibret (2021). Body‐Wave Tomographic Imaging of the Turkana Depression: Implications for Rift Development and Plume‐Lithosphere Interactions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(8), p.e2021GC009782.
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  19. Merry T.A., I.D. Bastow, R. KOUNOUDIS, C.S. Ogden, R.E. Bell, and L. Jones (2021). The Influence of the North Anatolian Fault and a Fragmenting Slab Architecture on Upper Mantle Seismic Anisotropy in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(9), p.e2021GC009896.
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    20. 2020

  20. KOUNOUDIS R., I.D. Bastow, C.S. Ogden, S. Goes, J. Jenkins, B. Grant, and C. Braham (2020) Seismic Tomographic Imaging of the Eastern Mediterranean Mantle: Implications for Terminal‐Stage Subduction, the Uplift of Anatolia, and the Development of the North Anatolian Fault. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21(7), p.e2020GC009009.
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    21. 2019

  21. Venereau C.M.A., R. Martin‐Short, I.D. Bastow, R.M. Allen, and R. KOUNOUDIS (2019) The role of variable slab dip in driving mantle flow at the eastern edge of the Alaskan subduction margin: Insights from shear‐wave splitting. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20(5), pp.2433-2448.
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