A new paper from Brian Rockwell, Dr. Gary Girty, and Dr. Tom Rockwell looks at the San Jacinto fault zone architecture and linear compositional trends with alteration intensity factors. […]
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Testing Models of the Oceanside Blind Thrust through High-Resolution Mapping and Age Control on Marine Terrace Deformation, Coastal Southern California
Erik Haaker and Dr. Tom Rockwell’s poster presentation for the Rocky Mountain (66th Annual) and Cordilleran (110th Annual) Joint Meeting, Bozeman Montana Rocky Mountain (66th […]
Assessing volumetric strains and mass balance relationships resulting from biotite-controlled weathering: Implications for the isovolumetric weathering of the Boulder Creek Granodiorite, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
A new paper from Jason Parizek and Dr. Gary Girty where they investigate volumetric strains associated with saprock development at two sites. They found biotite in saprock […]
Structure and Seismic Hazard of the Ventura Avenue Anticline and Ventura Fault, California: Prospect for Large, Multisegment Ruptures in the Western Transverse Ranges
A new paper from Tom Rockwell and others model a 3D fault model of the western Transverse Ranges, linking the Ventura–Pitas Point fault to the Red […]
Helium isotopic textures in Earth’s upper mantle
A new paper from Dr. Barry Hanan and others that shows show that the MORB He variability are dominantly controlled by folding and stretching of heterogeneities […]