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George Backus

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Publications

26

Citations

5.1K

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21

Active since

1956

Affiliations

University of California San Diego(Current)

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Princeton University

Sandia National Laboratories

George Backus is an author at University of California San Diego specializing in natural sciences, earth sciences, and geophysics.

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Publications per year

1956–2018

26

Publications

26

The Resolving Power of Gross Earth Data

George Backus, Freeman Gilbert · Geophysical Journal International · 1968 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Uniqueness in the inversion of inaccurate gross Earth data

George Backus, Freeman Gilbert · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1970 · 1.3K citations

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Moment Tensors and other Phenomenological Descriptions of Seismic Sources--I. Continuous Displacements

George Backus, M. Mulcahy · Geophysical Journal International · 1976 · 373 citations

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A class of self-sustaining dissipative spherical dynamos

George Backus · Annals of Physics · 1958 · 329 citations

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A geometrical picture of anisotropic elastic tensors

George Backus · Reviews of Geophysics · 1970 · 224 citations

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