Spring 2013 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: Fridays, 9:00 am - 11:30 am (see schedule below).
Where: ISTB4 596 (see schedule below).

Schedule

Date	Topic(s)	Discussion leader(s)	Paper(s)
02/01	Discuss seminar format and papers to be covered	All	None
02/08	Earthquake cycle	David Haddad	Thatcher (1993), The earthquake cycle and its role in the long-term deformation of the continental lithosphere. Reid (1910), The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: the mechanics of the earthquake.
02/15	No seminar meeting	No seminar meeting	No seminar meeting
02/22	No seminar meeting	No seminar meeting	No seminar meeting
03/01	No seminar meeting	No seminar meeting	No seminar meeting
03/08	Earthquake empirical relationships	Barrett Salisbury	Wells and Coppersmith (1994), New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement. Wesnousky (2008), Displacement and geometrical characteristics of earthquake surface ruptures: issues and implications for seismic-hazard analysis and the process of earthquake rupture.
03/15	No seminar meeting (Spring Break)	No seminar meeting (Spring Break)	No seminar meeting (Spring Break)
03/22	Implications for measuring offset terrace risers (and other offset geomorphic features)	Wendy Bohon	Cowgill (2007), Impact of riser reconstructions on estimation of secular variation in rates of strike–slip faulting: Revisiting the Cherchen River site along the Altyn Tagh Fault, NW China.
03/29	Automated fault scarp identification and morphologic dating using lidar	George Hilley	Hilley, G. H., DeLong, S., Prentice, C., Blisniuk, K., and Arrowsmith, J R. (2010), Morphologic dating of fault scarps using airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM) data.
04/05	Seismic hazard assessment	Gayatri Marliyani	Field and Page (2011), Estimating earthquake-ruptures rates on a fault or fault system.
04/12	Comprehensive exam questions and review(?)	TBD	TBD
04/19	Fault creep	TBD	TBD
04/26	Physical modelling, inversions	TBD	TBD
04/26	TBD	TBD	TBD

TBD = to be determined.

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Last modified: April 2, 2013