PUBLICATIONS

Camelia C. Knapp and James H. Knapp, South Caspian Sea: a Unique Setting to Evaluate Proposed Mechanisms for Late-Pleistocene Large-Scale Submarine Slope Failure, AAPG Bulletin (submitted)

B. M. Battista, Camelia C. Knapp, Tom McGee, Application of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and Hilbert-Huang Transform to Seismic Reflection Data, Geophysics (in press).

D. M. Mucuta, Camelia C. Knapp, and J. H. Knapp, Constraints from Moho Geometry and Crustal Thickness on the Geodynamic Origin of the Vrancea Seismogenic Zone (Romania), Tectonophysics, 420, 23–36, 2006.

J. H. Knapp, Camelia C. Knapp, V. Raileanu, L. Matenco, V. Mocanu, C. Dinu, Crustal Constraints on the Origin of Mantle Seismicity in the Vrancea Zone, Romania: The Case for Active Continental Lithospheric Delamination, Tectonophysics Special Issue on “The Carpathians-Pannonian Basin System - Natural Laboratory for Coupled Lithospheric-Surface Processes”, Tectonophysics, 410, 311 –323, 2005.

I. Panea, R. Stephenson, Camelia C. Knapp, V. Mocanu, G. Drijkoningen, L. Matenco, J. Knapp, K. Prodehl, Near-vertical seismic reflection image using a novel acquisition technique across the Vrancea Zone and Foscani Basin, south-eastern Carpathians (Romania), Special Issue on “The Carpathians-Pannonian Basin System - Natural Laboratory for Coupled Lithospheric-Surface Processes”, Tectonophysics, 410, 293– 309, 2005.

Camelia C. Knapp, J. H. Knapp, and John A. Connor, Crustal-Scale Structure of the South Caspian Basin Revealed by Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling,  Marine and Petroleum Geology, 21, 1073–1081, 2004.

Camelia C. Knapp and J.H. Knapp, Absheron Allochton of the South Caspian Sea: evidence for slope instability in response to gas hydrate dissociation. South Caspian Basin: Geology, Geophysics, Oil and Gas Content. Baku. Nafta Press. 257-268, 2004.

S. Cloetingh, F. Horvath, C. Dinu, R. A. Stephenson, G. Bertotti, G. Bada., L. Matenco. D. Garcia-Castellanos, P. Andriessen, R. Wortel, W. Spakman, V. Mocanu, C. Langereis, W Krijgsman, J. Fokkema, G. Drykoningen, B. Ambrosius, F. Neubauer, L. Fodor, T. Dunai, E. Willingshofer, A. Nador, K. Leever, M. Tarapoanca, I. Panea, I Vasiliev, G. Paicu, A. van der Hoeven, J. Knapp., Camelia C. Diaconescu, and St. Freimueller, 2003, Probing Tectonic Topography in the Aftermath of Continental Convergence in Central Europe, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 84 (10), 89, 93, 2003.

Camelia C. Diaconescu and J. H. Knapp, Role of a Phase-Change Moho in Stabilization and Preservation of the Southern Uralian Orogen, Russia, in Mountain Building in the Uralides: Pangea to Present, eds. D. Brown, C. Juhlin, and V. Puchkov, AGU Monograph Series, Vol. 132, 67-82, 2002.

F. Hauser, C. Prodehl, M. Landes, A. Bala, V. Raileanu, J. Bribach, J. Knapp, Camelia C. Diaconescu, C. Dinu, V. Mocanu, W. Fielitz, S. Harder, G. R. Keller, E. Hegedues, R.A. Stephenson, Seismic Experiments Target Earthquake-prone Region in Romania, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 83 (41), 2002.

Camelia C. Diaconescu and J. H. Knapp, Gas Hydrates of the South Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan: Drilling Hazards and Sea Floor Destabilizers, OTC Special Publication, 2002.

Camelia C. Diaconescu, R. M. Kieckhefer, and J. H. Knapp, Geophysical Evidence for and Thermobaric Modeling of Gas Hydrates in the Deep Water of the South Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 209-221, 2001.

Camelia C. Diaconescu and J. H. Knapp, Buried Gas Hydrates in the Deepwater of the South Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan: Implications for Geo-Hazards, Energy Exploration and Exploitation,vol. 18, no. 4, p. 385-4000, 2000.

Camelia C. Diaconescu, J. H. Knapp, L. D. Brown, D. N. Steer, M. Stiller, Precambrian Moho offset and tectonic stability of the East European platform from the URSEIS deep seismic profile, Geology, vol. 26, no. 3, p. 211-214, 1998.

Camelia C. Diaconescu, Deep seismic studies of the Central Eurasian lithosphere: Southern Uralian orogen and South Caspian basin, Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, 129 pp, 2000.

J. H. Knapp, Camelia C. Diaconescu, M. A. Bader, V. B. Sokolov, S. Kashubin, Seismic reflection fabrics of continental collision and post-orogenic extension in the Middle Urals, Central Russia, Tectonophysics, vol. 288, p. 115-126, 1998.

V. Raileanu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, Some seismic signatures in the Romanian lithosphere, Tectonophysics, vol. 288, p. 127-136, 1998.

V. Raileanu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, D. Mateciuc, M. Diaconescu, Velocity crustal models under the Romanian telemetered seismological network, Rom. Rep. in Physics, vol. 50 (1-2), p. 123-141, 1998.

Camelia C. Diaconescu, V. Raileanu, M. Diaconescu, F. Radulescu, A. Pompilian, M. Biter, Seismic data of the Carpathian foredeep basement (Romania), Basement Tectonics, vol. 11, p. 125-140, 1996.

F. Radulescu, V. Mocanu, V. Nacu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, Study of recent crustal movements in Romania: a Review, J. Geodynamics, vol. 22 (1/2), p. 33-50, 1996.

V. I. Mocanu, C. Dinu, F. Radulescu, M. Diaconescu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, A. Pompilian, Seismogeological features of the crust in Romania, Wessely, G. and Liebl, W. (eds), Oil and gas in Alpidic thrustbelts and basins of central and eastern Europe, EAGE Special Publication, no. 5, p. 289-299, 1996.

M. Diaconescu, V. Raileanu, Camelia C. Diaconescu , C. Dinu, V. Mocanu, Deep seismic image of the southern Carpathian Foreland, Revue Roumaine de Geophysique, vol. 39, p. 72-73, 1995.

Camelia C. Diaconescu, V. Raileanu, M. Diaconescu, M. Andreescu, C. Demetrescu, M. Ene, F. Radulescu, A. Pompilian, D. Enescu, Complex geophysical study in the western part of the Moesian Platform and Carpathian Foredeep, Revue Roumaine de Geophysique, vol. 38, p. 57-72, 1994.

V. Raileanu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, and F. Radulescu, Characteristics of Romanian lithosphere from deep seismic reflection profiling, Tectonophysics, vol. 239, p. 165-185, 1994.

F. Radulescu, V.Nacu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, Geodetic contributions to the geodynamic studies, in The Gruiu - Caldarusani Test Polygon Romania, Eds. M. Bonatz, D. Gitau and F. Radulescu, Mitteilungen aus den Geodaetischen Instituten der Rheinischen Friederich-Wilhelms-Universitat, vol. 82, p. 4-10, Bonn 1994.

F. Radulescu, M. Biter, Camelia C. Diaconescu, V. Nacu, Geological structure and seismicity of Romania, in The Gruiu - Caldarusani Test Polygon Romania, Eds. M. Bonatz, D. Gitau and F. Radulescu, Mitteilungen aus den Geodaetischen Instituten der Rheinischen Friederich-Wilhelms-Universitat, vol. 82, p. 10-20, Bonn, 1994.

F. Radulescu, M. Biter, M.N. Popescu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, V. Nacu, Geological, and geodynamic peculiarities of the Gruiu-Caldarusani polygon zone, in The Gruiu -Caldarusani Test Polygon Romania, Eds. M. Bonatz, D. Gitau and F. Radulescu, Mitteilungen aus den Geodaetischen Instituten der Rheinischen Friederich-Wilhelms-Universitat, vol. 82, p. 20-27, Bonn 1994.

F. Radulescu, M. Biter, Camelia C. Diaconescu, General considerations on the geodetic results in the Gruiu-Caldarusani geodynamic polygon (1982-1989), Eds. M. Bonatz, D. Gitau and F. Radulescu, Mitteilungen aus den Geodaetischen Instituten der Rheinischen Friederich-Wilhelms-Universitat, vol. 82, p. 79-82, Bonn, 1994.

D. Enescu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, M. Diaconescu, Lithosphere structure in Romania III. Results on the deep structure of the Vrancea zone, Revue Roumaine de Geophysique, vol. 37, p. 51-60, 1993.

M. Anghel, F. Radulescu, Camelia C. Diaconescu, V. Smalbergher, Seismic velocity distribution in the Vrancea zone, Rom.Rep.in Phys. vol. 45 (7-8), p. 623-631, 1993.

Camelia C. Diaconescu, Acquisition and processing of the deep seismic reflection data, B.T.S. of I.P.G.G., vol. XXI (3-4), 95-126, 1991 (in Romanian).

Camelia C. Diaconescu, Interpretation of the deep seismic reflection data, B.T.S. of I.P.G.G., vol. XXII (1), 102-123, 1991 (in Romanian).