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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...
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Michael J. Rymer, Stephen H. Hickman, Philip W. Stoffer
History and pre-history of earthquakes in wine and redwood country, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, California History and pre-history of earthquakes in wine and redwood country, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, California
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Suzanne Hecker, Harvey Kelsey
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...
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Carol S. Prentice, Greg W. Bartow, N. Timothy Hall, Michele Liapes
On the mechanical work absorbed on faults during earthquake ruptures On the mechanical work absorbed on faults during earthquake ruptures
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M. Cocco, Paul A. Spudich, Elisa Tinti
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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M. Liu, Walter D. Mooney, S. Li, N. Okaya, Shane T. Detweiler
Continuous borehole strain and pore pressure in the near field of the 28 September 2004 M 6.0 Parkfield, California, earthquake: Implications for nucleation, fault response, earthquake prediction and tremor Continuous borehole strain and pore pressure in the near field of the 28 September 2004 M 6.0 Parkfield, California, earthquake: Implications for nucleation, fault response, earthquake prediction and tremor
Near-field observations of high-precision borehole strain and pore pressure, show no indication of coherent accelerating strain or pore pressure during the weeks to seconds before the 28 September 2004 M 6.0 Parkfield earthquake. Minor changes in strain rate did occur at a few sites during the last 24 hr before the earthquake but these changes are neither significant nor have the form...
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M.J.S. Johnston, R. D. Borcherdt, A. T. Linde, M. T. Gladwin
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...
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C.A. Langston, P. Bodin, C. Powell, M. Withers, S. Horton, Walter D. Mooney