EPSS Colloquium Winter-2018
Surface processes reveal hidden active faults in the Himalaya and Cascadia
Jan. 16, 2018,
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
geology 3656
Presented By:
Kristin Morell
UCSB
In this presentation I will describe how coupling landscape processes to active tectonics can constrain the dynamics of crustal deformation in active mountain ranges. In particular, I will show examples of 1) how river profiles elucidate along-strike and across-strike variations in strain accumulation in the NW Himalaya; and 2) how lidar topography combined with paleoseismic trenching reveals previously unidentified active faults in the Canadian forearc of the Cascadia subduction zone.