Do faults preserve a record of seismic slip: A second opinion

CD Rowe, WA Griffith - Journal of Structural Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Exhumed fault zones offer insights into deformation processes associated with earthquakes
in unparalleled spatial resolution; however it can be difficult to differentiate seismic slip from …

Rheology Dependent on the Distance to the Propagating Thrust Tip—(Ultra‐) Mylonites and Pseudotachylytes of the Silvretta Basal Thrust

LM Brückner, CA Trepmann, M Kaliwoda - Tectonics, 2023 - epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de
To evaluate how the presence of pseudotachylytes affects the strength of crustal rocks,
deformed pseudotachylytes and their relationship with pristine pseudotachylytes at the base …

Evidence for the∼ 1.4 Ga Picuris orogeny in the central Colorado Front Range

AA Mahatma, YD Kuiper, CS Holm-Denoma - Precambrian Research, 2022 - Elsevier
We present the first evidence for sedimentation and new evidence for penetrative
deformation and metamorphism in the central Colorado Front Range associated with the∼ …

Seismogenic structure of a crystalline thrust fault: Fabric anisotropy and coeval pseudotachylyte–mylonitic pseudotachylyte in the Grizzly Creek shear zone, Colorado

JL Allen, CA Shaw - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2011 - lyellcollection.org
Field and microstructural observations from the Proterozoic Grizzly Creek Shear Zone
suggest that crustal-scale fabric anisotropy exerted a significant control on earthquake …

Proterozoic metamorphism and deformation in the northern Colorado Front Range

KH Mahan, JM Allaz, GB Baird, NM Kelly - 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Paleoproterozoic supracrustal rocks in the region near Big Thompson Canyon, northern
Colorado, have long been recognized as a spectacularly exposed example of regionally …

To reactivate or not to reactivate—Nature and varied behavior of structural inheritance in the Proterozoic basement of the eastern Colorado Mineral Belt over 1.7 …

JS Caine, J Ridley, ZR Wessel - 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The eastern central Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado has long
been a region of geologic interest because of Laramide-age hydrothermal polymetallic vein …

Strain partitioning in the mid-crust of a transpressional shear zone system: Insights from the Homestake and Slide Lake shear zones, central Colorado

PE Lee, MJ Jessup, CA Shaw, GL Hicks III… - Journal of Structural …, 2012 - Elsevier
Kinematic analysis and field mapping of the Homestake shear zone (HSZ) and Slide Lake
shear zone (SLSZ) in central Colorado may provide insight into the interaction between …

Shear zone evolution and the path of earthquake rupture

EM Young, CD Rowe, JD Kirkpatrick - Solid Earth, 2022 - se.copernicus.org
Crustal shear zones generate earthquakes, which are at present unpredictable, but
advances in mechanistic understanding of the earthquake cycle offer hope for future …

Seismogenic fault-zone processes and heterogeneity recorded by pseudotachylyte: New insights from the Homestake shear zone, Colorado

JL Allen, CA Shaw - 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This one-day field trip will examine Proterozoic pseudotachylyte and ultramylonite in the
Homestake shear zone (HSZ) in the northeastern Sawatch Range of central Colorado. Our …

[PDF][PDF] Detrital zircon U-Pb ages and trace element compositions from Cambrian rocks of western North America

LI Madronich - 2019 - prism.ucalgary.ca
The evolution of the western margin of Laurentia (present coordinates), associated with the
disassembly of supercontinent Rodinia, comprises a greater than 200 Myr rift history …