Monthly Archives: June 2010

Creeping fault segments are showing their age

Do faults get weaker as they get older?
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Categories: earthquakes, geology, paper reviews, tectonics

Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week

A selection of the interesting things that I’ve found and shared on Twitter since I got back from my holidays. Earthquakes Analysis of samples from San Andreas Fault borehole suggest creeping sections lubricated by clays. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/uom-tcc062410.php (via @RonsGeoPicks) Rather impressive … Continue reading

Categories: links

Yellowstone it was

Give yourselves a pat on the back: virtually everyone guessed correctly that my fortnight away was chiefly spent exploring Yellowstone National Park, bookended by some time in Grand Teton National Park just next door. The first photo I showed you … Continue reading

Categories: geology, outcrops, photos, volcanoes

Old tectonic scars run deep: the magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Ontario

The location of yesterday’s earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Categories: deep time, earthquakes, geohazards, geology, structures, tectonics

Where on Earth was Chris?

My regular readers are probably quite used to my occasional bouts of silence on this blog, but my low internet profile in the past fortnight has been for the quite justifiable reason that I was away on holiday. I had … Continue reading

Categories: outcrops, photos