Earthquakes and Fault Zone Geology

  • Wechsler, N., Y. Ben-Zion and S. Christofferson Evolving Geometrical Heterogeneities of Fault Trace Data , submitted to Geophys. J. Int., 2009.

  • Wechsler, N., T. K. Rockwell and Y. Ben-Zion, Analysis of rock damage asymmetry from geomorphic signals along the trifurcation area of the San-Jacinto Fault , Geomorphology, 113, 82-96, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.007, 2009.

  • Rockwell, T., M. Sisk, G. Girty, O. Dor, N. Wechsler and Y. Ben-Zion, Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Pulverized Tejon Lookout Granite Adjacent to the San Andreas and Garlock Faults: Implications for Earthquake Physics , Pure Appl. Geophys., 166, 1725-1746, DOI: 10.1007/s00024-009-0514-1, 2009.

  • Dor, O., J. S. Chester, Y. Ben-Zion, J. N. Brune, T. K. Rockwell, Characterization of damage in sandstones along the Mojave section of the San Andreas Fault: implications for the shallow extent of damage generation , Pure Appl. Geophys., 166, 1747-1773, DOI: 10.1007/s00024-009-0516-z, 2009, 2009.

  • Dor, O., Yildirim, C., Rockwell, T.K., Ben-Zion, Y., Emre, O., Sisk, M., Duman, T. Y., Geologic and geomorphologic asymmetry across the rupture zones of the 1943 and 1944 earthquakes on the North Anatolian Fault: possible signals for preferred earthquake propagation direction , Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03709.x, 2008.

  • Rockwell, T. K. and Ben-Zion Y., High localization of primary slip zones in large earthquakes from paleoseismic trenches: Observations and implications for earthquake physics, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B10304, doi:10.1029/2006JB004764, 2007.

  • Dor O., Y. Ben-Zion, T. K. Rockwell and J. Brune, Pulverized Rocks in the Mojave section of the San Andreas Fault Zone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 245, 642-654, 2006.

  • Dor O., T. K. Rockwell and Y. Ben-Zion, Geologic observations of damage asymmetry in the structure of the San Jacinto, San Andreas and Punchbowl faults in southern California: A possible indicator for preferred rupture propagation direction, Pure Appl. Geophys., 163, 301-349, DOI 10.1007/s00024-005-0023-9, 2006.

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