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Geologic Research in the Carrizo Plain


(Prepared 1999, with minor edits in 2007)


Current Geologic Research Proposals

> A permanent GPS station was installed near the Carrizo Plain Visitor Center.  This station is part of the Southern California Integrated GPS Network. It is funded jointly by the Southern California Earthquake Survey, the US Geological Survey, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and planetary physics. The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is a community of scientists and  specialists who actively coordinate research on earthquake hazards at nine core Institutions,  and communicate earthquake information to the public. SCEC is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center and is co-funded by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

                
Selected Geologic References Carrizo Plain and Vicinity

 

The San Andreas Fault

Sandra S. Schulz and Robert E. Wallace

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/index.html


USGS Professional Paper 1515 ON LINE

Wallace, Robert (editor), 1990, The San Andreas Fault of California: USGS Professional Paper 1515

http://www.johnmartin.com/eqsafs/index.htm


1857 Ft. Tejon Earthquake
http://gldss7.cr.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/USA/1857_01_09.html


Arrowsmith, J.R., Rhodes, D.D., and Pollard, D.D, 1998, Morphologic dating of scarps formed by repeated slip events along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p. 10,141-10,160.

J Ramon Arrowsmith, Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Dallas D. Rhodes, Department of Geology, Whittier College, Whittier, California
David D. Pollard, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodes/abstracts/JGR_98.html


Paleoseismic Studies of the San Andreas Fault, Southern California Earthquake Center, Annual Report 1997

Thomas Rockwell, San Diego State University
Scott Lindvall, Harza Engineering Company
Tim Dawson, San Diego State University

http://www.scec.org/research/97research/97rockwelletal/
http://www.scec.org/research/97research/97lindvall/


Historic and paleoseismic behavior of the south-central San Andreas Fault between Cholame
and the Carrizo Plain, Southern California Earthquake Center, Annual Report, 1997

Ramón Arrowsmith, Department of Geology Arizona State University
Dallas D. Rhodes, Department of Geology Whittier College

http://www.public.asu.edu/~arrows/scec98/AnnualReport1997.html


Proposal for scientific research to the Southern California Earthquake Center: Historic and paleoseismic behavior of the south-central San Andreas Fault between Cholame and the Carrizo Plain

Ramón Arrowsmith, Department of Geology Arizona State University
Lisa Grant, Division of Natural Sciences, Chapman University

http://www.public.asu.edu/~arrows/SCECproposal.html


The San Andreas Fault Zone in the Carrizo Plain, California: review of Quaternary Geologic investigations, landforms, and fault activity

[Author not cited, but most likely Ramon Arrowsmith - an excellent overview]

http://pangea.stanford.edu/~geomech/carrizo/cargeo.html


Selected images and captions from research in active tectonics and tectonic geomorphology [Carrizo Plain]

Ramon Arrowsmith, Department of Geology Arizona State University

http://www.public.asu.edu/~arrows/images.html


Morphologic dating of scarps along the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California and Progressive deformation along the Big Bend. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 76 (46), F575. (1995)

Arrowsmith, J.R., Pollard, D.D., Hilley, G., and Rhodes, D.D.

http://pangea.stanford.edu/~geomech/references/abstracts/ramon95abs.html


Climate Change Recorded by Sedimentary Organic Matter in Soda Lake, Southern California, 1997 GSA Abstract

Jennifer Eigenbrode, Cara Davis, Lisa M. Pratt: Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
J Ramon Arrowsmith: Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Dallas D. Rhodes: Department of Geology, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
Lisa A. Rossbacher: Department of Geology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodes/abstracts/GSA97_2.html


Fault Zone Geometry and Historic Displacement Along the Cholame Segment of the San Andreas Fault, Southern California

STONE, Elizabeth M, ARROWSMITH, J Ramon: Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
RHODES, Dallas D.: Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
GRANT, Lisa: Department of Environmental Analysis and Design, 262 Social Ecology I, University of California, Irvine, California

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodes/abstracts/SCEC98_1.html


Fault Zone Geometry and Historic Displacement Along the Cholame Segment of the San Andreas Fault, Southern California

STONE, ELIZABETH M., Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, emstone@asu.edu;
ARROWSMITH, J RAMON, Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, ramon.arrowsmith@asu.edu;
RHODES, DALLAS D., Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, DRhodes@GaSoU.edu;
GRANT, LISA B., Department of Environmental Analysis and Design, University of California, Irvine, 262 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697-7070.

http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/Beth/AGUposter/index.html


Fault segmentation and properties modeled from  paleoseismic data

STONE, ELIZABETH M., Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, emstone@asu.edu;

http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/Beth/Structureposter/index.html


The Temporal and Spatial Development of Deformation and Degradation along Strike-slip Fault Bends Final Technical Report, (This report summarizes research from 2/1/94 to 1/31/97, USGS Award No. 1 434-94-G-2464)

David D. Pollard,  Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences,  Stanford University,  Stanford CA
Ramon Arrowsmith: Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
George Hilley: Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

http://erp-web.er.usgs.gov/reports/fintech/g2464.htm


Historic and paleoseismic behavior of the south-central San Andreas fault between Cholame and the Carrizo Plain, Southern California Earthquake Center,1998 Annual Report

Ramon Arrowsmith, Elizabeth Stone, Depart of Geology, Arizona State University
Lisa Grant, University of California, Irvine

http://www.scec.org/research/98research/98SAFarrowgrant.pdf


Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain research project aka Soda Lake Interdisciplinary Project (SLIP)

http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/carrizo/sodalake/


Sedimentological and Carbon-Isotopic Records of Late Holocene Climate in the Sediments of Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain, California, 1999 GSA Abstract 50545

EIGENBRODE, Jennifer L.: Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
PRATT, Lisa M.: Biogeochemical Labs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
RHODES, Dallas D.: Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
ARROWSMITH, J Ramon: Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
MORA, German: Biogeochemical Labs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodesabstracts/GSA99.html


Clay Dunes at Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain, California, 1998 GSA Abstract 51288

Dallas D. Rhodes: Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro
J Ramon Arrowsmith: Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Jeffrey P. Kilpatrick: Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
Jennifer Eigenbrode: Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
 

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodes/abstracts/GSA98.html

http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/carrizo/sodalake/51288.html

CLAY DUNES AT SODA LAKE, CARRIZO PLAIN, CALIFORNIA

RHODES, Dallas D., Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University,
ARROWSMITH, J Ramon, Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
KILPATRICK, Jeffrey P., Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
EIGENBRODE, Jennifer, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodes/abstracts/GSA98.html

Biogeochemical Dynamics and Evolution of gypsiferous soils in the Carrizo Plain, California
GSA 1998 Annual Meeting Abstact

Mora, German; Pratt, Lisa M., Eigenbrode, Jennifer, Dept. of Geol. Sci., Indiana Univ., Bloomington IN.
Rhodes, Dallas, Dept of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA

http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/carrizo/sodalake/08853.gif

Eigenbrode, Jennifer L., 1999, Sedimentological, carbon-isotopic, and molecular records of late Holocene climate in the sediments of Soda Lake, Carrizo plain, California. Masters Thesis Indiana University (IUL Call number: QE1000 .E34)

Tensor Electromagnetic Profiling of the San Andreas fault Jan. 1, 1993 - Jun. 14, 1995 Martyn Unsworth and John Booker, Geophysics Program, University of Washington Seattle, Washington

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/REPTS/mt.html
http://erp-web.er.usgs.gov/reports/VOL37/NC/g2423.htm

 


Electromagnetic imaging of fluids in the San Andreas Fault,  Oct. 1, 1997 - Sept. 30, 1998 Martyn Unsworth and John Booker, Geophysics Program, University of Washington,  Seattle, WA

 

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SolidEarth/Magnetotellurics/san_andreas/san_andreas.html
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SolidEarth/Magnetotellurics/san_andreas/reports/1998/r03157.htm


A magnetotelluric investigation of the San Andreas fault at Carrizo Plain, California Mackie, R.L., D.W. Livelybrooks, T.R. Madden, and J.C. Larsen Geophysical Research Letters, 24(15), 1847-1850 (1997)

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/pub-bin/pub_spec/home/hilo/web/htdocs/pubs/1997abs/1847.html


http://www.er.doe.gov/production/bes/geo/FY96SUM/sect10.htm 

Rhodes, D.D., Arrowsmith, J.R., Eigenbrode, J.L., Liu, J., Pratt, L.M., 2002, Synchronous geomorphic response to Holocene climate change in the Carrizo Plain, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34., p. 246.

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodes/abstracts/GSA02.html 

 Rhodes, D. D., and Rich, F. J., 2004, Luminescence dating and palynology of the Soda Lake clay dune complex, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 513. 

Rhodes, D.D., Negrini, R., Arrowsmith, JR., and Noriega, G., 2005, New evidence for the age and extent of lake deposits and the role of tectonic warping in late Pleistocene drainage reorganization, Carrizo Plain: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, p. 255.

http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodes/abstracts/GSA05.html 

Negrini, R., Rhodes, D.D., Stephenson, R., Noriega, G., Grant, L., Baron, D., Wigand, P.E., and Rich, F.J., 2007, Evidence for a long-lived Pleistocene lake, Carrizo Plain, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p.

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007AM/finalprogram/abstract_124945.htm


Some Researchers Webpages

Kerry Sieh
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~suefawn/sieh/kerry.page.html

Dr. Sieh's testimony before Chairman Schiff and members of the House Subcommittee on Basic Research April 24, 1997
http://www.house.gov/science/sieh_4-24.html
http://www.house.gov/science/hearing_105.htm

Ramon Arrowsmith
http://www.public.asu.edu/~arrows/

Dallas Rhodes
http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~drhodes/

Lisa Pratt
http://www.geology.indiana.edu/faculty/pratt.html

Martyn Unsworth
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/People/Faculty/unsworth/m_unsworth.html

Lisa Grant
http://www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/grant.html

Charlie Rubin
http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/charlier/rubin.html

Elizabeth Stone
http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/Beth/index.html

German Mora
http://php.indiana.edu/~gmora/
 
 

   
Last updated: 02-19-2008