History of Late Holocene Earthquakes at the Willow Creek Site and on the Nephi Segment, Wasatch Fault Zone, Utah

History of Late Holocene Earthquakes at the Willow Creek Site and on the Nephi Segment, Wasatch Fault Zone, Utah
Author: Anthony J. Crone
Publisher: Utah Geological Survey
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: CD-ROMs
ISBN: 1557918945

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This 43-page report presents new data from the Willow Creek site that provides well-defined and narrow bounds on the times of the three youngest earthquakes on the southern strand of the Nephi segment, Wasatch Fault zone, and refines the time of the youngest earthquake to about 200 years ago. This is the youngest surface rupture on the entire Wasatch fault zone, which occurred about a century or less before European settles arrived in Utah. Two trenches at the Willow Creek site exposed three scarp-derived colluvial wedges that are evidence of three paleoearthquakes. OxCal modeling of ages from Willow Creek indicate that paleoearthquake WC1 occurred at 0.2 ± 0.1 ka, WC2 occurred at 1.2 ± 0.1 ka, and WC3 occurred at 1.9 ± 0.6 ka. Stratigraphic constraints on the time of paleoearthquake WC4 are extremely poor, so OxCal modeling only yields a broadly constrained age of 4.7 ± 1.8 ka. Results from the Willow Creek site significantly refine the times of late Holocene earthquakes on the Southern strand of the Nephi segment, and this result, when combined with a reanalysis of the stratigraphic and chronologic information from previous investigations at North Creek and Red Canyon, yield a stronger basis of correlating individual earthquakes between all three sites.

Survey Notes

Survey Notes
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Total Pages: 64
Release: 2008
Genre: Geology
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Paleoseismology of Utah

Paleoseismology of Utah
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Total Pages:
Release: 2006
Genre: Faults (Geology)
ISBN:

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Survey Notes

Survey Notes
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Total Pages: 302
Release: 2003
Genre: Geology
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Paleoseismology

Paleoseismology
Author: James P. McCalpin
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 916
Release: 2009-07-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080919987

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Paleoseismology has become an important component of seismic risk analysis, which is mandated for nuclear power plants, dams, waste repositories, and other critical structures. This book is the first in the English language to be devoted solely to paleoseismology. It summarizes the development of the field from the 1960s to the present, encompassing material that is currently widely dispersed in journal articles. Includes a comprehensive review of the techniques currently used in paleoseismology Emphasizes practical methods of data collection and field studies Covers interpretation of field data based on current theory concerning fault segmentation and recurrence cycles Contains more than 170 line drawings and 50 photographs of paleoseismic phenomena

Special Studies

Special Studies
Author: Utah Geological and Mineral Survey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1996
Genre: Geology
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Alluvial Fan Flooding

Alluvial Fan Flooding
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1996-10-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309185491

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Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West. Floods on alluvial fans, although characterized by relatively shallow depths, strike with little if any warning, can travel at extremely high velocities, and can carry a tremendous amount of sediment and debris. Such flooding presents unique problems to federal and state planners in terms of quantifying flood hazards, predicting the magnitude at which those hazards can be expected at a particular location, and devising reliable mitigation strategies. Alluvial Fan Flooding attempts to improve our capability to determine whether areas are subject to alluvial fan flooding and provides a practical perspective on how to make such a determination. The book presents criteria for determining whether an area is subject to flooding and provides examples of applying the definition and criteria to real situations in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, and elsewhere. The volume also contains recommendations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is primarily responsible for floodplain mapping, and for state and local decisionmakers involved in flood hazard reduction.

Compilation of U.S. geological survey national earthquake hazards reduction program final technical reports for Utah

Compilation of U.S. geological survey national earthquake hazards reduction program final technical reports for Utah
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Release: 2013
Genre: Earthquake hazard analysis
ISBN: 9781557918789

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As part of the Paleoseismology of Utah series, the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) has acquired, scanned, and released in digital format previously hard-to-access legacy reports of paleoseismic fault investigations conducted in Utah. This compilation includes 20 reports pertaining to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-funded National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) paleoseismic investigations conducted between 1978 and 2012.