While we were at sea offshore Sumatra, there was a CBC (Canada) film maker aboard recording material for a film on Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes. This is a dity that he made for us. Here are a couple videos completed…
Updated Dissertation Files
I have organized my three papers. These are in a state of flux and I hope to submit them to my committee shortly. Here is the draft of my first paper, I will be submitting this to Geosphere shortly. Here…
Update on Sumatra Correlations
Here are two figures that go together. The first figure displays some cores in the region of the 2004 Sumatra Andaman subduction zone earthquake. The map shows their locations. The core figure shows the correlations I made using green lines…
M 6.1 in northern Sumatra
nice strike slip earthquake here in northern sumatra. pretty big, hope not many people were hurt. but, much smaller than could be observed on this fault system. the sumatra fault system is a right lateral strike slip fault system that…
Draft Dissertation is online
I have placed my dissertation online here The main dissertation is a single document, but there are additional appendices that are separate links. I will defend my work at 2PM on Wed. May 29, 2013 in Burt Hall Room 193.…
4/29/31 HSU Dept. Geology Student Colloquium
Here is the page for this presentation, though the links below work also. PowerPoint: Here is the PowerPoint from this talk about Seismoturbidite Chronostratigraphy and Slope Stability offshore Sumatera, Indonesia: HSU Student Colloquium PowerPoint (110 MB) These videos are in…
Paper Published: Seismoturbidite record as preserved at core sites at the Cascadia and Sumatra–Andaman subduction zones”
My paper has recently been published online and open source. Please find this here. This paper is part of a Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences special issue on submarine paleoseismology. Seismoturbidite record as preserved at core sites at the…
new paper on dynamic controls of seismicity
here’s an interesting publicy available summary of a new paper (today) that discusses how our views of fault zone properties are changing. kelin wang (and others) have discussed this before (theory and model), but now we have a large earthquake…
nhess sumatra and cascadia paper
Here is the latest revision to my paper: Patton et al., 2012 I discuss how the different margin settings led to different sedimentary systems. Jason R Patton1, Chris Goldfinger1, Ann E. Morey1, Chris Romsos1, Brandi Black1, Yusuf Djadjadihardja2, Udrekh Udrekh2…
press release for Sumatra volcanism paper
Greetings all, here is the press release for our paper on Sumatra Late Pleistocene to Holocene deep-sea tephra (volcanic ash) deposits. Thanks go out to Morgan Salisbury for being so diligent as to result in this publication. For more information…