SoCal Active Tectonics

Papers by the UMass Geomechanics group that investigate active tectonics of Southern California

  • Elston, Hanna M., Michele L. Cooke, Jack Loveless, Jack and Scott T. Marshall, 2024,  A New Method to Invert for Interseismic Deep Slip Along Closely Spaced Faults using Surface Velocities and Subsurface Stressing-Rate Tensors, Earth and Space Sciences, http://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003069.
  • Hatch, Jennifer L., Michele L. Cooke and Hanna M. Elston, 2023. Mechanical analysis of slip rate sites within the San Gorgonio Pass region, Southern California, USA, Tektonika. (1) 127-145, https://doi.org/10.55575/tektonika2023.1.1.38.
  • Tarnowski, Jennifer, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, David. D. Oglesby,  Michele L. Cooke, and Aviel Stern, 2022. The effects of pre-stress assumptions on dynamic rupture with complex fault geometry in the San Gorgonio Pass, CA region, Geosphere. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02511.1
  • Hatch, Jennifer L., Michele L. Cooke, Aviel R. Stern, Roby Douilly and David D. Oglesby, 2020, Considering fault interaction in estimates of absolute stress along faults in the San Gorgonio Pass region, southern California. Geosphere Special Issue on the San Gorgonio Pass Region. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02153.1.
  • Douilly, Roby, David D. Oglesby, Michele L. Cooke and Jennifer Hatch, 2020. Dynamic models of earthquake rupture along branch faults of the Eastern San Gorgonio Pass Region in CA using Complex Fault Structure. Geosphere Special Issue on the San Gorgonio Pass Region. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02192.1.
  • Dorsett, Jacob H., Elizabeth H. Madden, Scott T. Marshall, Michele L. Cooke, 2019. Mechanical Models Suggest Fault Linkage through the Imperial Valley, California, USABulletin of the Seismological Society of America. doi: 10.1785/0120180303.
  • Beyer, Jennifer, Michele L. Cooke and Scott T. Marshall, 2018. Sensitivity of deformation to activity along the Mill Creek and Mission Creek strands of the San Andreas fault. Geosphere special issue on Seismotectonics of the San Gorgonio Pass Region. doi: 10.1130/GES01666.1.
  • Cooke, Michele L., Jennifer L. Beyer, 2018. Off-fault Focal Mechanisms not Representative of Interseismic Fault Loading Suggest Deep Creep on the Northern San Jacinto Fault, Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2018GL078932
  • Fattaruso, Laura, Michele L. Cooke, Rebecca J. Dorsey and Bernard Housen, 2016. Response of deformation patterns to reorganization of the southern San Andreas fault system since ca. 1.5 Ma, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.05.035
  • Fattaruso, Laura A., Michele L. Cooke and Rebecca J. Dorsey, 2014. Sensitivity of uplift patterns to dip of the San Andreas fault in the Coachella Valley, CA, Geosphere, v. 10; no. 6; p. 1235–1246; doi:10.1130/GES01050.1.
  • Herbert, Justin W., Michele L. Cooke and Scott T. Marshall, 2014. Influence of fault connectivity on slip rates in southern California: Potential impact on discrepancies between geodetic derived and geologic slip rates, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, doi:10.1002/2013JB010472
  • Herbert, Justin W., Michele L. Cooke, Michael E. Oskin and Ohilda Difo, 2014. How much can off-fault deformation contribute to the slip rate discrepancy within the Eastern California Shear Zone?, Geology. doi:10.1130/G34738.1
  • Herbert, Justin W. and Michele L. Cooke, 2012. Sensitivity of the southern San Andreas fault system to tectonic boundary conditions, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 105, 2046-2062, doi: 10.1785/0120110316.
  • Cooke, Michele L., and Laura C. Dair, 2011. Simulating the recent evolution of the southern big bend of the San Andreas fault, Southern California, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 116, B04405, doi:10.1029/2010JB007835.
  • Marshall, Scott T, Michele L. Cooke and Susan E. Owen, 2009. Interseismic Deformation Associated with Three-Dimensional Faults in the Greater Los Angeles Region, California, Journal of Geophysical Research, v, 114, B12403, doi:10.1029/2009JB006439.
  • Dair, Laura and Michele L. Cooke, 2009. San Andreas Fault Topology Through the San Gorgonio Pass, California, Geology, v 37, p. 119-122; doi:10.1130/G25101A.1
  • Marshall, Scott T, Michele L. Cooke, and Susan E Owen, 2008. Effects of Non-Planar Fault Topology and Mechanical Interaction on Fault Slip Distributions in the Ventura Basin, CA, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 1113-1127, doi: 10.1785/0120070159
  • Meigs, Andrew, Michele L. Cooke and Scott Marshall, 2008. Validation of fault configuration in the Los Angeles basin from vertical uplift, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. pp. 106-123.
  • Plesch, A., J. H. Shaw, C. Benson, W. A. Bryant, S. Carena, M. Cooke, J. Dolan, G. Fuis, E. Gath, L. Grant, E. Hauksson, T. H. Jordan, Marc Kamerling, Mark Legg, Scott Lindvall, Harold Magistrale, C. Nicholson, N. Niemi, M. Oskin, S. Perry, G. Planansky, T. Rockwell, P. Shearer, C. Sorlien, M. P. Süss, J. Suppe, J. Treiman, and R. Yeats,  2007, Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 97, pp. 1793-1802.
  • Cooke, Michele L., and Scott T. Marshall, 2006. Fault slip rates from three-dimensional models of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L21313, doi:10.1029/2006GL027850.
  • Griffith, W. Ashley and Michele L. Cooke, 2005. How sensitive are fault slip rates in the Los Angeles to tectonic boundary conditions? Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 95, pp. 1263-1275.
  • Olson, Erik and Michele L. Cooke, 2005. Application of Three Fault Growth Criteria to the Puente Hills Thrust System, Los Angeles, California, USA, Journal of Structural Geology, vol. 27, 1765-1777.
  • Griffith, W. Ashley and Michele L. Cooke, 2004. Mechanical validation of the three-dimensional intersection geometry between the Puente Hills blind-thrust system and the Whittier fault, Los Angeles, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol 94 pp. 493-505.
  • Cooke, Michele L. and Ayako Kameda 2002, Mechanical Fault Interaction within the Los Angeles Basin: A Two-Dimensional Analysis using Mechanical Efficiency, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 107, doi:10.1029/2001JB000542

Not specifically southern California but still related to active tectonics

  • Resor, Phillip G., Michele L. Cooke, Scott T. Marshall and Elizabeth H. Madden, 2018. Influence of fault geometry on the spatial distribution of long-term slip with implications for determining representative fault slip rates, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, doi: 10.1785/0120170332.
  • Maerten, Franz, Laurent Maerten and Michele L. Cooke, 2010, Solving 3D boundary element problems using constrained iterative approach, Computational Geosciences, vol. 14, no. 4. p. 551-564, doi:10.1007/s10596-009-9170-x.
  • Savage, Heather M. and Michele L. Cooke, 2010. Unlocking the effects of friction on fault damage zones, Journal of Structural Geology, 1732-1741, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.08.014.
  • Cooke, Michele L., 1997.  Fracture localization along faults with spatially varying friction, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 102, pp. 22,425-22,434.
  • Roering, Joshua J., Michele L. Cooke and David D. Pollard, 1997. Why blind thrust faults don’t propagate to the earth’s surface: Numerical modeling of coseismic deformation associated with thrust-related anticlines, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, vol. 102, B6, pp. 11,901-11,912.
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