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Lecture 6 Normal faults 2. Normal faults Tectonic environments (5) Landscapes (6) Coseismic structures and patterns (6) –Case history from Nevada, 1954.

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1 Lecture 6 Normal faults 2

2 Normal faults Tectonic environments (5) Landscapes (6) Coseismic structures and patterns (6) –Case history from Nevada, 1954 –Case history from Idaho, 1983

3 from MacQuarrie and Wernicke (2005)

4 Some landforms: Triangular facets, alluvial aprons, wineglass canyons, and turtlebacks

5 Fault ribbons, alluvial aprons and triangular facets

6 Triangular facets, wine-glass canyons, and slumps

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8 Turtlebacks

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12 Sparta

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16 Mani

17 A “brick” (or two) The “Building” Mani peninsula, Greece

18 Mycenae

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20 Orem Ephesus

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22 Faulting versus dike intrusion in the Mono Basin, eastern California

23 Calculation of slip rates ~25m/15,000 years McGee Creek, eastern Sierra Nevada

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29 A Case History: Ruptures of the Dixie Valley and Fairview Peak earthquakes, 1954

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31 Historical ruptures in the Central Nevada Seismic Zone Irregularity of fault plane in direction perpendicular to slip vector

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33 Stillwater rangefront

34 A Case History: Rupture of the Lost River Range fault during the Borah Peak earthquake, Idaho, 1983

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36 Geometry of the fault rupture

37 A detail of the rupture

38 Coseismic slip function

39 Vertical coseismic deformation

40 Coseismic vertical deformation profile Aftershock cross-section Geologic cross-section


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