H. Paul Johnson

Professor
Marine Geology and Geophysics

UW School of Oceanography


H. Paul Johnson, Ph.D. (Univ. of Washington), Professor.

johnson@ocean.washington.edu. Formation and evolution of the oceanic crust, rock magnetism, heat flow and gravity studies of the seafloor, and paleomagnetism. Adjunct Professor of Geological Sciences.

Johnson, H.P., D. Van Patten, M.A. Tivey and M.J. Pruis (submitted) Density of upper oceanic crust from seafloor gravity measurements. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Bowles, J. and H.P. Johnson (in press) Behavior of oceanic crustal magnetization at high temperatures: Viscous magnetization and the marine magnetic anomaly source layer. Geophysical Research Letters.

Johnson, H.P. and M. Hutnak (1998) Measuring conductive heat flow. Sea Technology 39: 23-28.

Pruis, M.J. and H.P. Johnson (1998) Porosity of very young oceanic crust from sea floor gravity measurements. Geophysical Research Letters 25: 1959-1962.

Tivey, M.A., H.P. Johnson, A. Bradley and D. Yoerger (1998) Thickness of submarine lava flow determined from near-bottom magnetic field mapping by autonomous underwater vehicle. Geophysical Research Letters 25: 805-808.

Tivey, M.A., H.P. Johnson and the BLANCOVIN Scientific Party (1998) Direct measurement of magnetic reversal polarity boundaries in a cross-section of oceanic crust. Geophysical Research Letters 25: 3631-3634.

Sager, W.W., C.J. Weiss, M.A. Tivey and H.P. Johnson (1998) Geomagnetic polarity reversal model of deep-tow profiles from the Pacific Jurassic Quiet Zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 5269-5286.

Johnson, H.P. and M. Hutnak (1997) Conductive heat loss in recent eruptions at mid-ocean ridges. Geophysical Research Letters 24: 3089-3092.

Johnson, H.P., et al. (1997) New developments in the study of the magnetization of oceanic crust. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 78: 199-200.

Delaney, J.R., D.S. Kelley, M.D. Lilley, D.A. Butterfield, R.E. McDuff, J.A. Baross, J.W. Deming, H.P. Johnson and V. Robigou (1997) The Endeavour Hydrothermal System I: Cellular circulation above an active cracking front yields large sulfide structures, "fresh" vent water, and hyperthermophilic archaea. RIDGE Events 8: 11–19.


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