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Geometric regulator of the seismic cycle: from decades to seconds

Jan. 6, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Christos Kyriakopoulos - UCR
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Geometric regulator of the seismic cycle: from decades to seconds

Monitoring surface kinematics from optical remote sensing

Jan. 13, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Francois Ayoub - Caltech
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Monitoring surface kinematics from optical remote sensing: Application to co-seismic ground deformation

A tectono-geomorphic study of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand

Jan. 20, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Nicolas Barth - UCR
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A tectono-geomorphic study of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand

This talk will encompass recent efforts to improve the understanding of California's sister plate boundary, the active continental strike-slip Alpine Fault in New Zealand. Topics covered include characterizing fault rocks to understand earthquake behavior, utilizing LiDAR data to reveal surface rupture distribution and slip partitioning, exploiting a unique regional 8km strike-slip offset to determine high-precision fault slip rates, and assessing the role very large landslides play on Alpine Fault seismic hazard. Together these studies paint a view of the Alpine Fault as a highly-localized, long-lived, very weak locus of plate boundary motion that has had relatively constant spatio-temporal displacement rates in the latter part of its history, ruptures in hazardous large-magnitude earthquakes with considerable coseismic geomorphic effects, and exerts a first-order control on landscape evolution of the South Island. Throughout the talk I will draw on comparisons to the San Andreas Fault System, highlighting what the comparatively simple Alpine Fault can possibly tell us about our messy, complex world in southern California.

Linking interseismic crustal deformation to long-term rock denudation and surface processing in ...

Jan. 27, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Mong-Han Huang - JPL
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Linking interseismic crustal deformation to long-term rock denudation and surface processing in Taiwan

Depth-Dependent Earthquake Properties Beneath Long-Beach, CA: Implications for the Rheology ...

Feb. 3, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Asaf Inbal - Caltech
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Depth-Dependent Earthquake Properties Beneath Long-Beach, CA: Implications for the Rheology at the Brittle-Ductile

The seismic mantle heterogeneities inferred by USArray data

Feb. 10, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Justin Yen-Ting Ko - Caltech
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Dynamic Earthquake and Tsunami Modeling Offshore Alaska and Southern California

Feb. 17, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Kenny Ryan - UCR
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Dynamic Earthquake and Tsunami Modeling Offshore Alaska and Southern California

Sedimentary transfer of tectonic and climate signals across a piedmont

Feb. 24, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Malatesta Luca - Caltech
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Sedimentary transfer of tectonic and climate signals across a piedmont

Jura-Cretaceous mid-crustal nappe tectonics in the Yanshan fold-thrust belt of northern China

March 2, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

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  • Greg Davis - USC
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Jura-Cretaceous mid-crustal nappe tectonics in the Yanshan fold-thrust belt of northern China: field work still matters!

Creating Zealandia: A Short History from Arc Flareup to Extensional Orogenic Collapse

March 9, 2016
noon - 1 p.m.
Geology 1707

Presented By:

  • Joshua Schwartz - CSU Northridge
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Creating Zealandia: A Short History from Arc Flareup to Extensional Orogenic Collapse