Earthquake histories of major faults in southern and Baja California
Research Projects:
Understanding Rock Pulverization Along Faults
Holocene Surface Uplift of the Ventura Avenue Anticline: A Record of Large Blind Thrust Events in the Transverse Ranges
Late Holocene Earthquake History of the Imperial Fault: A Test of Earthquake Recurrence Models
Slip Rate for the Central and Southern San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California: Toward Understanding Variations in Rate
Selected Publications:
Recent and long-term behavior of the Brawley fault zone, Imperial Valley, California; an escalation in slip rate? , Meltzner, Aron J. In: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, December 2006, Vol. 96, Issue 6, pp.2304-2328
The long record of San Jacinto Fault paleoearthquakes at Hog Lake; implications for regional patterns of strain release in the southern San Andreas Fault system , Rockwell, T. In: Seismological Research Letters, April 2006, Vol. 77, Issue 2, pp.270
Strain transfer across the transtensive Imperial and Mexicali valleys of Southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico; transition from extension to strike-slip domains and implications for patterns of earthquake generation , Rockwell, Thomas K. In: Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, April 2003, Vol. 35, Issue 4, pp.22
3,000 years of ground-rupturing earthquakes in the Anza Seismic Gap, San Jacinto Fault, Southern California; time to shake it up? , Rockwell, T. K. In: Seismological Research Letters, April 2003, Vol. 74, Issue 2, pp.236-237
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