Ongoing Projects

Long term slip rate of the Banning strand of the southern San Andreas fault.

Offset geomorphic features along the San Andreas fault in southern California record the fault’s rate of motion averaged over the past 50,000-150,000 years.

Funding: Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

Collaborators: Peter Gold, Dylan Rood, Warren Sharp, Tom Rockwell, Katherine Kendrick

 

Timing of subduction and high pressure metamorphism in the western Mediterranean.

High pressure subduction complexes in the Betic Cordillera of southern Spain record different stages of oceanic and continental subduction in the western Mediterranean region.

Funding: (pending)

Collaborators: Kory Kirchner, John Platt

 

Present-day rheology of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Mojave region from naturally deformed peridotite xenoliths.

Xenoliths erupted from young volcanoes in the Basin and Range are clues to understanding the present-day rheology of the lithospheric mantle and the nature of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary.

Funding: NSF Tectonics

Collaborators: Greg Hirth, Rick Hervig, Karen Fischer, Don Forsyth