1. Introduction

   • Ren Wang
   • Keiiti Aki

   EditorialNotes Pages: 405 - 406

2. Seismic excitation of the polar motion, 1977–1993

   • Benjamin Fong Chao
   • Richard S. Gross
   • Yan-Ben Han

   OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 419

3. Faulting in zones of lithospheric extension: Quantitative analysis of natural and experimental data

   • S. I. Sherman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 446

4. Dynamic interactions between crustal shortening, extension, and magmatism in the North American Cordillera

   • Mian Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 447 - 467

5. Thermal modeling of the Southern Alps, New Zealand

   • Yaolin Shi
   • Rick Allis
   • Fred Davey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 469 - 501

6. Stress field and seismicity in the Indian shield: Effects of the collision between India and Eurasia

   • T. N. Gowd
   • S. V. Srirama Rao
   • K. B. Chary

   OriginalPaper Pages: 503 - 531

7. (ϖμ/ϖT) _P of the lower mantle

   • Yanbin Wang
   • Donald J. Weidner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 533 - 549

8. Thermal convection in a cylindrical annulus with a non-Newtonian outer surface

   • Stuart A. Weinstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 551 - 572

9. Mantle flow with existence of plates and generation of the toroidal field

   • Zheng-Ren Ye
   • Xin-wu Zhang
   • Chun-kai Teng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 573 - 587

10. Constraints on melt production rate beneath the mid-ocean ridges based on passive flow models

    • Yongshun John Chen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 589 - 620

11. Dynamics of the mid-ocean ridge plate boundary: Recent observations and theory

    • Yongshun John Chen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 621 - 648

12. The upper mantle flow beneath the North China Platform

    • Rong-Shan Fu
    • Jian-Hua Huang
    • Zhe-xun Wei

    OriginalPaper Pages: 649 - 659

13. Toward a physical undenstanding of earthquake scaling relations

    • Z. -M. Yin
    • G. C. Rogers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 661 - 675

14. Reflection of waves from the boundary of a random elastic semi-infinite medium

    • Rabindra Kumar Bhattacharyya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 677 - 688

15. An effective approach to determine the dynamic source parameters

    • Xiaofei Chen
    • Keiiti Aki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 689 - 696

16. Source process of the 1990 Gonghe, China, earthquake and tectonic stress field in the northeastern Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) plateau

    • Y. T. Chen
    • L. S. Xu
    • M. Zhao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 697 - 715

17. Aseismio fault slip and block deformation in North China

    • Lanbo Liu
    • Alan T. Linde
    • Shihai He

    OriginalPaper Pages: 717 - 740