Showing posts with label Carrizo Plain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carrizo Plain. Show all posts
Friday, June 5, 2026

San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain Field trips

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Recently, I pulled together some notes for the SCEC UNREST Field trip in the Carrizo Plain. It was a great conversation to share with the e...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Eminent earthquake scientists: Clarence Allen and Robert Wallace oral histories

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For some "light reading" over the winter break, I have enjoyed a read of oral histories of Clarence Allen (Caltech) and Robert Wal...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Idea for an earthquake intensity exercise based on 1857 Ft. Tejon earthquake data

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I was cleaning some files yesterday and I found an old exercise I had deployed when I was first teaching Introductory Geology. It was inten...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Some new San Andreas Fault tour videos of 1 m bare earth hillshades

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I have been preparing a lecture and I built some new simple videos flying along the San Andreas Fault. The videos are made by me flying alon...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Mapping landforms with applications to geomorphology and earthquake geology EXERCISE

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I wanted to share a project I have developed on and off for about 10 years. It is a classroom exercise for Mapping landforms with applicatio...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Southern California Earthquake Center 2014 meeting group picture

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Many of my students and colleagues and I just returned from the 2014 Southern California Earthquake Center meeting . It was really great: so...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Exploring topographic response to interacting surface processes and rock uplift: the Dragon's Back Pressure Ridge along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, CA

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The Dragon's Back Pressure Ridge is an amazing landform along the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain of California. A recent paper ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

How the Earth Was Made - S01E01 San Andreas Fault (Documentary)

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This is a cool San Andreas Fault documentary: http://watchdocumentary.com/watch/how-the-earth-was-made-s01e01-san-andreas-fault-video_202fae...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Wallace Creek: New radiocarbon results and slip rate estimates of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain

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Our team along with Sinan Akciz and Lisa Grant-Ludwig from UC Irvine just finished a SCEC -supported project to re excavate a few of the tre...