Validation Exercise for Two Southern California Earthquakes
William H. Savran and Kim B. Olsen’s poster presentation at the 2014 SCEC Annual Meeting. Validation Exercise for Two Southern California Earthquakes William H. Savran and […]
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High-Complexity Deterministic Simulation of the 1994 Northridge Mw 6.7 Quake
Kyle Withers, Kim Olsen, Zheqiang Shi and Steve Day’s poster presentation at the 2014 SCEC Annual Meeting. High-Complexity Deterministic Q(f) Simulation of the 1994 Northridge Mw […]
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Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) 2014 Annual Meeting SDSU Abstract
The Bimaterial Effect on the Earthquake Cycle Brittany A. Erickson and Steven M. Day Both laboratory studies and dynamic rupture simulations on a bimaterial fault […]
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ABSTRACTS: 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia (19–22 October 2014)
Department Abstracts submitted to the 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia (19–22 October 2014) MIDDLE MIOCENE HIGH-MAGNESIUM ANDESITE AND HIGH-SILICA ADAKITE IN […]
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Timing and significance of gabbro emplacement within two distinct plutonic domains of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California
Dr. David Kimbrough’s new paper published on zircon U-Pb ages for the gabbro from the PRB. It establishes a chronological framework for understanding the role of mafic intrusions in the […]
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Detrital zircon provenance of the Late Cretaceous–Eocene California forearc: Influence of Laramide low-angle subduction on sediment dispersal and paleogeography
Dr. David Kimbrough’s new paper published using the California forearc to provide a case study of the utility of detrital zircon geochronology in resolving landscape evolution in an active margin setting. Particularly […]
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Sourcing sandstone cobble grinding tools in southern California using petrography, U–Pb geochronology, and Hf isotope geochemistry
Dr. David Kimbrough and Dr. Pat Abbott’s new paper where the authors investigated the geological origins and sources of sandstone cobble grinding tools. This paper is […]
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Helium Isotope Variations and Mantle Plume-Spreading Ridge Interactions Along the Galápagos Spreading Center
Dr. Barry Hanan’s new paper published as chapter 18 in the “The Galapagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences”. Collectively, The Galápagos presents case studies illustrating the […]
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Assembly of a large earthquake from a complex fault system: Surface rupture kinematics of the 4 April 2010 El Mayor–Cucapah (Mexico) Mw 7.2 earthquake
A new paper from Dr. Tom Rockwell and others that discusses the complex rupture dynamics of the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake on April 4th 2010. The primary multifault rupture […]
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A Paleoseismic Record of Earthquakes for the Dead Sea Transform Fault between the First and Seventh Centuries C.E.: Nonperiodic Behavior of a Plate Boundary Fault
A new paper from Dr. Tom Rockwell and others present evidence for eight events that pre-date the 1202 and 1759 C.E. for the Dead Sea Transform Fault. In […]
