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Remnant damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake Remnant damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

This field trip consists of two stops at locations where it is possible to see damage from the 1906 earthquake and to gauge the intensity of the ground shaking that caused the damage. The first stop is at a cemetery in Colma, where the damage to monuments and headstones was photographed and roughly quantified in the Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, Lawson (1908)...
Authors
John Boatwright

A field guide to the central, creeping section of the San Andreas fault and the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth A field guide to the central, creeping section of the San Andreas fault and the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

This field trip is along the central section of the San Andreas fault and consists of eight stops that illustrate surface evidence of faulting, in general, and features associated with active fault creep, in particular. Fault creep is slippage along a fault that occurs either in association with small-magnitude earthquakes or without any associated large-magnitude earthquakes. Another...
Authors
Michael J. Rymer, Stephen H. Hickman, Philip W. Stoffer

The San Andreas fault on the San Francisco peninsula The San Andreas fault on the San Francisco peninsula

This field trip consists of stops in four locations that provide insight into the San Andreas fault along the San Francisco peninsula. The first two stops provide an overview and close-up look at the fault where no urbanization has occurred. The last two stops are examples of areas where urbanization occurred directly over the fault prior to current regulations. The field trip also...
Authors
Carol S. Prentice, Greg W. Bartow, N. Timothy Hall, Michele Liapes

The San Andreas fault in Sonoma and Mendocino counties The San Andreas fault in Sonoma and Mendocino counties

This two-day trip explores the northern San Andreas fault in the Gualala area between Fort Ross and Point Arena (Fig. 1). The first stop overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge and includes a discussion of its in-progress seismic retrofit. Several subsequent stops are at paleoseismic sites on the San Andreas fault. The stop at Annapolis Road includes a short hike along the fault through the...
Authors
Carol S. Prentice, Keith I. Kelson

Source scaling telationships of microearthquakes at Parkfield, CA, determined using the SAFOD pilot hole seismic array Source scaling telationships of microearthquakes at Parkfield, CA, determined using the SAFOD pilot hole seismic array

Weestimate thesourceparametersof34microearthquakes at Parkfield,CA,ranginginsizefromM-0.2 toM2.1, byanalyzingseismogramsrecorded bythe32-level, 3-componentseismic arrayinstalled in theSAFODPilotHole. Wesucceeded in obtainingstablespectral ratios by stacking theratioscalculatedfromthemovingwindowstakenalongtherecordfollowingthedirectwaves.Thesespectral ratios were modeledtodetermine...
Authors
Kazutoshi Imanishi, William L. Ellsworth

Earthquake Trail, Sanborn County Park: A geology hike along the San Andreas fault Earthquake Trail, Sanborn County Park: A geology hike along the San Andreas fault

On the southern part of the San Francisco Peninsula, the San Andreas fault traverses the actively uplifting Santa Cruz Mountains. The field guide is comprised of a hiking tour along the fault in Sanborn County fault, a visit to a winery and vineyards traversed by the fault, and visits to two wineries that provide vistas of the San Andreas Rift Valley and surroundings.
Authors
Philip W. Stoffer

Crustal structure and tectonics of the northern part of the Southern Granulite Terrane, India Crustal structure and tectonics of the northern part of the Southern Granulite Terrane, India

Deep seismic reflection studies investigating the exposed Archean lower continental crust of the Southern Granulite Terrane, India, yield important constraints on the nature and evolution of the deep crust, including the formation and exhumation of granulites. Seismic reflection images along the Kuppam–Bhavani profile reveal a band of reflections that dip southward from 10.5 to 15.0 s...
Authors
V.V. Rao, K. Sain, P.R. Reddy, Walter D. Mooney

Crustal structure of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau from the Songpan-Ganzi terrane to the Ordos basin Crustal structure of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau from the Songpan-Ganzi terrane to the Ordos basin

The 1000-km-long Darlag–Lanzhou–Jingbian seismic refraction profile is located in the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau. This profile crosses the northern Songpan-Ganzi terrane, the Qinling-Qilian fold system, the Haiyuan arcuate tectonic region, and the stable Ordos basin. The P-wave and S-wave velocity structure and Poisson's ratios reveal many significant characteristics in the profile...
Authors
M. Liu, Walter D. Mooney, S. Li, N. Okaya, Shane T. Detweiler

Explosion source strong ground motions in the Mississippi embayment Explosion source strong ground motions in the Mississippi embayment

Two strong-motion arrays were deployed for the October 2002 Embayment Seismic Excitation Experiment to study the spatial variation of strong ground motions in the deep, unconsolidated sediments of the Mississippi embayment because there are no comparable strong-motion data from natural earthquakes in the area. Each linear array consisted of eight three-component K2 accelerographs spaced...
Authors
C.A. Langston, P. Bodin, C. Powell, M. Withers, S. Horton, Walter D. Mooney
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