Fall 2012 SESE Active Faulting Seminar

Active Tectonics, Quantitative Structural Geology, and Geomorphology

Welcome to the SESE Active Faulting seminar! This web page lists the schedule, updates, and information about our reading group.
Themes to be covered this semester include the latest thinking in the earthquake cycle, fundamental concepts of faulting, and linking actual rocks to the mechanics of faulting and earthquakes.

When: Wednesdays, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm.
Where: ISTB4 596.

Note: If you plan to attend the seminar regularly you can register for this as a 1-credit class (GLG 591 #89844).

Schedule

Date	Topic(s)	Discussion leader(s)	Paper(s)
08/29	Discuss seminar format and papers to be covered	All	None
09/05	Overview concepts of strike-slip faulting	Wendy Bohon	Sylvester (1988), Strike-slip faults. Hill (1981), San Andreas fault: history of concepts.
09/12	No seminar (SCEC!!)	No seminar (SCEC!!)	No seminar (SCEC!!)
09/20	Special seminar (technical talk by Harmony Colella) Slow-slip events	All (talk by Harmony Colella)	Colella's dissertation, Complex Characteristics of Slow Slip Events and Their Influence on Subduction Zone Dynamics Based on Multi-Cycle Simulations.
09/26	Analog models of strike-slip transfer zones	David Haddad	McClay and Bonora (2001), Analog models of restraining stepovers in strike-slip fault systems. Mitra and Paul (2011), Structural geometry and evolution of releasing and restraining bends: insights from laser-scanned experimental models.
10/03	Friction laws	Ramón Arrowsmith & Barrett Salisbury	Scholz (1998), Earthquakes and friction laws. Zielke and Arrowsmith (2008), Depth variation of coseismic stress drop explains bimodal earthquake magnitude-frequency distribution.
10/10	Specific strike-slip examples: Karakoram fault (Pangong Range)	Wendy Bohon	Searle (1998), Transpressional tectonics along the Karakoram fault zone, northern Ladakh: constraints on Tibetan extrusion.
10/17	Stress transfer, fault interaction, and earthquake triggering	Ramón Arrowsmith	Stein, Barka, and Dieterich (2007), Progressive failure on the North Anatolian fault since 1939 by earthquake stress triggering Ramón's Coulomb lecture Ramón's Structural Geology course (undergraduate level) Coulomb lectures and MATLAB code (under Week 7) Ramón's Advanced Structural Geology course (graduate level) Coulomb lectures and MATLAB code (under Weeks 13,14, and 15)
10/24	Strike-slip faults in Eastern Himalaya	Byron Adams	Li and Yin (2008), Orogen-parallel, active left-slip faults in the Eastern Himalaya: Implications for the growth mechanism of the Himalayan Arc
10/31	Strike-slip faulting in northwest Tibet (Altyn Tagh fault)	Wendy Bohon & others	Cowgill et al. (2004), The Akato Tagh bend along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwest Tibet 1: smoothing by vertical-axis rotation and the effect of topographic stresses on bend-flanking faults
11/07	No seminar (GSA meeting)	No seminar (GSA meeting)	No seminar (GSA meeting)
11/14	Prediction and hazard assessment strategies for earthquakes	Gayatri Marliyani	Bakun et al. (2005), Implications for prediction and hazard assessment from the 2004 Parkfield earthquake Kagan et al. (2012), Characteristic earthquake model, 1884-2011, R.I.P. (SRL Opinion)
11/21	Special seminar (technical talk by Jonathan Weiss) Eastern Bolivian foreland active shortening	All (talk by Jonathan Weiss)	Brooks et al. (2011), Orogenic-wedge deformation and potential for great earthquakes in the central Andean backarc Weiss and Brooks (editorial), Find faults and funds
11/28	Special seminar (technical talk by Angela Landgraf) Paleoseismology of the Tien Shan thrust fault	All (talk by Angela Landgraf)	Thompson et al. (2002), Late Quaternary slip rates across the central Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, central Asia Landgraf et al. (2012), Paleoseismological investigations in the northern Tien Shan near Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)

TBD = to be determined.

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Last modified: November 23, 2012