Current Events in Active Tectonics: Journal Club and Research Updates
 

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Wednesday 3:10 pm, 404 McCone Hall

Journal Club Papers


November 18, 2009

Kelly Grijalva
H. Sone and T. Shimamoto Frictional resistance of faults during accelerating and decelerating earthquake slip, Nature Geoscience. [Online article]

Max Rudolph
S. Carena and C. Moder. The strength of faults in the crust in the western United States ,EPSL. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.021
and a brief summary of:
L. Senft and S. Stewart. Dynamic fault weakening and the formation of large impact craters EPSL. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.033

Ling Lei
Zhenhong Li, Eric J.Fielding, and Paul Cross Integration of InSAR Time-Series Analysis and Water-Vapor Correction for Mapping Postseismic Motion After the 2003 Bam (Iran) Earthquake, IEEE TGARS. [Online article]

October 28, 2009

Mong-Han Huang
Erosional control on the dynamics of low-convergence rate continental pateau margins GJI, 179, 763-777, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04324.x [Online article]

Colin Amos
Nicol et al., Earthquake histories and Holocene acceleration of fault displacement rates, Geology, v. 37, no. 10, p. 911-914, doi:10.1130/G25765A. [Online article]

October 21, 2009

Pascal Audet
Nishida et al., Global Surface Wave Tomography Using Seismic Hum, Science, 326, 112, doi:10.1126/science.1176389 [Online article]

September 30, 2009

Amanda
Fulton & Saffer, Potential role of mantle-derived fluids in weakening the San Andreas Fault, JGR-SE, 114, B07408, doi:10.1029/2008JB006087. [Abstract and PDF]


Pascal Audet
Nabelek et al., Underplating in the Himalaya-Tibet Collision Zone Revealed by the Hi-CLIMB Experiment, Science, 325, 1371, doi:10.1126/science.1167719. [Online article]

Colin Amos
Geoffrey A. Abers, Slip on shallow-dipping normal faults, Geology, v. 37, no. 8, p. 767-768, doi:10.1130/focus082009.1. [Online article]

Hreinsdottir, S., and Bennett, R.A. , Active aseismic creep on the Alto Tiberina low-angle normal fault, Italy, Geology, v. 37, no. 8, 683-686, doi:1-.1130/G30194A.1. [Online article]

September 9, 2009

Your Name
Lomax & Michelini, Tsunami early warning using earthquake rupture duration, GRL, v. 36, L09306 [online article]

Max Rudolph
Fulton, Saffer, and Bekins A critical evaluation of crustal dehydration as the cause of an overpressured and weak San Andreas Fault, EPSL v. 284 no. 3-4 Link

Mong Han
Wang et al., Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation following the 1999 M 7.4 Izmit earthquake from GPS measurements, GJI, v. 178, 1220-1237 [online article]

Colin Amos
Cowgill et al., 2009, Low Quaternary slip rate reconciles geodetic and geologic rates along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwestern Tibet , Geology, v. 37, 647-650 [online article]


Mackey et al., 2009, Long-term kinematics and sediment flux of an active earthflow, Eel River, California , Geology, v. 37, 803-806 [online article]



Kelly Grijalva
Hino et al., Insight into complex rupturing of the immature bending normal fault in the outer slope of the Japan Trench from aftershocks of the 2005 Sanriku earthquake (Mw = 7.0) located by ocean bottom seismometry , G3, v. 10, no. 7 Link


     Topics of Interest:

  • Rheology 
  • Fault Mechanics 
  • Earthquake Triggering 
  • Aseismic Faulting 
  • Transient Deformation 
  • Fault Geometry 
  • Earthquake Cycle Deformation 
  • Volcano Deformation 
  • GPS 
  • InSAR

Pascal
 Science & Nature

Amanda
 JGR-SE

Mong-Han
 GJI

Peter
 Tectonophysics

Colin
 Geology & GSA Bulletin

Max
EPSL

Aurelie
GRL

Bob
BSSA

Kelly
 Nature-Geo G-Cubed

Ling
 IEEE TGARS

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