- Alex Copley
- Research Fellow
- Pembroke College and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
- Publications
- Copley, A., J. Hollingsworth, and E. Bergman, Constraints on fault and lithosphere rheology from the coseismic slip and postseismic afterslip of the 2006 Mw7.0 Mozambique earthquake Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, doi:10.1029/2011JB008580, 2012 PDF version
- Copley, A., J-P. Avouac, J. Hollingsworth, and S. Leprince, The 2001 Mw 7.6 Bhuj earthquake, low fault friction, and the crustal support of plate driving forces in India, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, doi:10.1029/2010JB008137, 2011 PDF version
- Copley, A., J-P. Avouac and B.P. Wernicke, Evidence for mechanical coupling and strong Indian lower crust beneath southern Tibet, Nature, 472, p.79-81, doi:10.1038/nature09926, 2011 Link to journal website
- Copley, A., J-P. Avouac and J-Y. Royer, The India-Asia collision and the Cenozoic slowdown of the Indian plate; implications for the forces driving plate motions, Journal of Geophysical Research 115, doi:10.1029/2009JB006634, 2010 PDF version
- Hollingsworth, J., M. Fattahi, R. Walker, M. Talebian, A. Bahroudi, M.J. Bolourchi, J.Jackson, and A. Copley, Oroclinal bending, distributed thrust and strike-slip faulting, and the accommodation of Arabia-Eurasia convergence in NE Iran since the Oligocene, , Geophysical Journal International, 2010 PDF version
- Copley, A., F. Boait, J. Hollingsworth, J. Jackson and D. McKenzie, Sub-parallel thrust and normal faulting in Albania and the role of gravitational potential energy and rheology contrasts in mountain belts, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, doi:10.1029/2008JB005931, 2009 PDF Version
- Copley, A., Kinematics and dynamics of the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Geophys. J. Int. , 174, 1081-1100, 2008 PDF Version
- Copley, A. and D. McKenzie, Models of crustal flow in the India-Asia collision zone, Geophys. J. Int. , 169, 683-698, 2007 PDF Version
- Copley, A. and J. Jackson, Active Tectonics of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau, Tectonics , TC6006, doi:10.1029/2005TC001906, 2006 PDF Version
- Talebian M., J. Biggs, M. Bolourchi, A. Copley, A. Ghassemi, M. Ghorashi, J. Hollingsworth, J.A. Jackson, E. Nissen, B. Oveisi, B.E. Parsons, and K. Priestley. The Dahiuyeh (Zarand) earthquake of 2005 February 22 in central Iran: reactivation of an intramountain reverse fault, Geophys. J. Int. , 164, 137-148, 2006 PDF Version
I am an Earth Scientist working in the University of Cambridge, studying active tectonics from the scale of individual fault systems to large mountain ranges. My work spans observations of active deformation (using seismology, InSAR, remote sensing observations of geomorphology, etc.), and numerical modelling to understand the underlying forces at work. Areas of particular interest include the active deformation of the continents and the rheology of the lithosphere.
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