I am interested in how we can integrate field observations of faults with geophysical studies in order to better understand faults and fault related deformation over time scales from single earthquakes (seconds) to millions of years. My research thus bridges traditional fields of structural geology, geophysics, and geomechanics.
Abstracts
Geometry and Kinematics of a Corrugated Fault Surface, Arkitsa, Greece (with Vanessa E. Meer), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (2009)
Fault surface geometry plays a critical role in fault and earthquake mechanics. We have quantified...
Toward Predictive Models of Early-Formed Fractures in Steep-Sloped Carbonate Systems (with E Flodin and G Bennum), AAPG Abstracts with Programs (2009)
Integrating Geomechanical modeling and Three-dimensional Mapping to Constrain Deformation Associated with Growth of the Permian Capitan Reef Complex (with Eric Flodin), AAPG Abstracts with Programs (2008)
The stratal geometry of the Permian Capitan Reef Complex has been influenced by syn-sedimentary deformation...
Photogrammetric 3D Mapping of the Permian Reef, NM and TX, USA (with George Bennum, Eric Flodin, and Jeremy Fairbanks), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (2008)
Although the Permian Capitan depositional system is perhaps one of the best-exposed and most thoroughly...
Teaching Structural Geology through Integrated Field Observation and Modeling, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (2008)
Research in Earth and Environmental Sciences is becoming increasingly quantitative and process-based. This trend is...
Articles
Deformation associated with a continental normal fault system, western Grand Canyon, Arizona, Geological Society of America Bulletin (2008)
Reverse-drag folds are often used to infer subsurface fault geometry in extended terrains, yet details...
Integrating high-precision aftershock locations and geodetic observations to model coseismic deformation associated with the 1995 Kozani-Grevena earthquake, Greece (with David Pollard, T J. Wright, and G C. Beroza), Journal Of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth (2005)
We integrate high-precision aftershock locations with geodetic inverse modeling to create a more complete kinematic...
Inverting for slip on three-dimensional fault surfaces using angular dislocations (with David Pollard, Frantz Maerten, and Laurent Maerten), Bulletin Of The Seismological Society Of America (2005)
The increasing quality of geodetic data (synthetic aperture radar interferometry [INSAR] dense Global Positioning System...
Laramie Peak shear system, central Laramie Mountains, Wyoming, USA: Regeneration of the Archean Wyoming province during Palaeoproterozoic accretion (with Arthur W. Snoke), Geological Society, London, Special Publication (2005)
The Laramie Peak shear system (LPSS) is a 10 km-thick zone of heterogeneous general shear...
Direct dating of deformation; U-Pb age of syndeformational sphene growth in the Proterozoic Laramie Peak shear zone (with Kevin R. Chamberlain, Carol D. Frost, B Ronald Frost, and Arthur W. Snoke), Geology (1996)
In this paper, we show that deformation can be dated by combining mesoscopic and microscopic...