Research

 

Faculty


 
    Ralph Archuleta
    Nonlinear site response and nonlinear soil dynamics.
Ralph Archuleta

    The dynamics of dip-slip faulting.
Ralph Archuleta

 
    Garner Valley downhole seismic array.
Ralph Archuleta
 
    Strong motion database.
Ralph Archuleta

 
    Empirical time-series simulation of phase III scenario earthquakes.
Ralph Archuleta
 
    Estimation of the ground motion exposure from large earthquakes at four UC campuses in southern California.
Ralph Archuleta

 
    Crustal structure and three dimensional ground motion modeling in the San Francisco Bay region.
Ralph Archuleta
 

 
    Tanya Atwater
    Fine-scale tectonic and magnetic studies of spreading centers.
Tanya Atwater
 
  link Animations of the tectonic history of western North America.
Tanya Atwater
 
  link Neogene plate kinematics of the eastern Pacific.
Tanya Atwater
 
    Recalibration of the Cenozoic time scale.
Tanya Atwater
 

 
    Stanley Awramik
    Non-marine stromatolites and the search for past life on Mars.
Stanley Awramik
 
    Integrated Chemo-, Bio-, and Lithostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic and Lower Cambrian Strata, Eastern California and Western Nevada: Age Constraints on the Death Valley-White/Inyo Sequence with Comments on the Origin of "Grand Cycles".
Stanley Awramik, Frank Corsetti (Grad)
 

 
    James Boles
    Diagenetic and depositional controls on permeability in the Miocene Oficina Formation, Eastern Venezuela Basin.
James Boles, Melissa Morse (Grad)
 
    Subsurface fluid compositions and the origin of organic acids in Tertiary basins of Southern California.
James Boles, Steve Franks (ARCO, AEPT)
 
    Constraints on quartz, feldspars, carbonates, and clay diagenesis in Tertiary basins of California and Texas.
James Boles
 
    Paleohydrogeology and diagenesis of the San Joaquin Basin, CA.
James Boles, Alicia Wilson (Grad, Johns Hopkins University), Grant Garven (Johns Hopkins University),
 
    The nature of the interface between dissimiliar mineral surfaces in fluid: applications to quartz-clay (pressure solution) and precipitation of carbonates on mica.
James Boles, Jacob Israelachvili (UCSB, Chemical Engineering), Patty McGuiggan (NIST)
 
    The origin of the San Onofre Breccia, Southern California: evidence for crustal deformation.
James Boles
, Martha Wulftange (Undergrad)
 
    Cementation related to fluid flow in faults and fractures, Southern Califoria: constraining the timing, duration, magnitude, and origin of calcite cements.
James Boles

 
    Fluid/rock interaction in the Mission and Tecolote Tunnels: a 40 to 80 year record of carbonate cementation.
James Boles
, James Kennett
 
    Diagenesis of Mesozoic sandstone reservoirs, North Slope Alaska: the influence of meteoric water on marine sandstones.
James Boles, Jim Hicker (ARCO, AEPT)
 
    Effect of hydrocarbon gas and oil emplacement on sandstone diagenesis.
James Boles

 
    Evidence for bacterial mediated processes in hydrocarbon reservoirs.
James Boles, Vicki Orphan (UCSB Biology and Molecular Science)
 

 
   

    Interactions of tectonics, erosion, and climate in shaping the Himalaya, central Nepal
Douglas Burbank
 
    Measurement of modern climate across the Nepalese Himalaya
Douglas Burbank
 
    Differential uplift and landscape responses, Transverse Ranges, DEM and fission-track dating
Douglas Burbank
 
    Steady-state and pre-steady-state topographic characteristics of collisional orogens
Douglas Burbank
 
    Scaling and displacement in thrust fault systems (New Zealand and Kyrgyzstan)
Douglas Burbank
 
    Intracontinental deformation in the Tien Shan, Kyrgystan and China
Douglas Burbank
 
    Continental transtension in the Owens Valley and White Mtns., California & Nevada
Douglas Burbank
 
    Reconstruction of sequential fold growth in the Catalan Coastal Ranges, NE Spain
Douglas Burbank
 
    Syntectonic deposition in collisional mountain belts, Spain, Kyrgyzstan, China
Douglas Burbank
 
    Depositional response to transtension in the Owens Valley, California
Douglas Burbank
 

 
    Cathy Busby
    Depositional Setting and Stratigraphy of Highly-Confined Marine Turbidites in Outcrop and Subsurface, Rosario Embayment, Coastal Baja Mexico.
Cathy Busby, Michael Richey (Grad)
 
    Correlation of 3-D Architecture and Sequence Stratigraphy of Upper-Fan Turbidite Deposits in Outcrop to Subsurface & Republic and Stevens Sandstones, Kern & San Luis Obispo Counties, California.
Cathy Busby, Michael Richey (Grad)
 
    Facies Modeling and process volcanological studies in an oceanic arc terrane.
Cathy Busby
 
    Development of basins and calderas in extensional and transtentional arc settings.
Cathy Busby
 

 
    Jordan Clark
    Sulfur hexafluoride tracer studies in Mono and Clear Lakes to estimate rates of vertical and lateral mixing.
Jordan Clark, Sally MacIntyre (UCSB Marine Science Institute), Bob Jellison (UCSB Marine Science Institute), Geoff Schladow (UC Davis)
 
  The impact of natural marine hydrocarbon seeps on ozone formation in the regional air near Santa Barbara.
Jordan Clark, Bruce Luyendyk, Thor Egland (Grad), Libe Washburn (UCSB Geography)
 
    Development of methods to use sulfur hexafluoride to trace artificial recharge in managed groundwater basins.
Jordan Clark
 
    Determination of a paleoclimate record from Iowa using groundwater proxies (dissolved noble gases, stable isotopes, and 36Cl).
Jordan Clark, Laura Rademacher (Grad), Bryant Hudson (LLNL), Lee Davison (LLNL)
 

 
    John Crowell
    Pre-Mesozoic ice ages throughout geological time.
John Crowell
 
    Geology and tectonics of the Central Transverse Ranges, southern California.
John Crowell
 

 
    M. DeNiro
    Investigations of fundamental processes affecting hydrogen and oxygen isotopic ratios of tree ring wood cellulose.
Mic DeNiro
 
    Silicon isotope variation and the cycling of biogenic silica.
Mic Deniro
 

 
     Thomas 
      Dunne
    A stochastic sediment delivery model for a semi-arid, mountainous landscape.
Thomas Dunne, Emmanuel Gabet (Grad)
 

 
    Phillip Gans
    Geometry and kinematics of extensional fault systems - including detachment faults.
Phillip Gans
 
    Interplay between extension and magmatism.
Phillip Gans
 
    Driving forces for continental extension.
Phillip Gans
 
    Spatial and temporal patterns of extension and magmatism in western North America.
Phillip Gans
 
    Exhumation of high grade metamorphic rocks (gneiss domes) in orogenic belts.
Phillip Gans, Andy Calvert (Grad)
 
    40Ar/39Ar geochronology and thermochronology.
Phillip Gans
 
    Cenozoic extension and magmatism in Sonora, Mexico.
Phillip Gans
 
    The lower Colorado River extensional corridor -
a failed Miocene rift.
Phillip Gans
 
    Cretaceous crustal evolution of Arctic Alaska and Northeast Russia.
Phillip Gans
 
    Origin of gneiss domes in southern Tibet.
Phillip Gans
 
    Cenozoic-Mesozoic evolution of the eastern Great Basin.
Phillip Gans
 
    40Ar/39Ar geochronology of mafic lavas.
Phillip Gans
 
    Dating very young (<50 KA) volcanics using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology.
Phillip Gans
 
    Thermal evolution of extensional fault blocks.
Phillip Gans
 
    Middle Miocene Tectonism and Volcanism, Santa Monica Mountains, California.
Phillip Gans, Ivan Kozak (Grad)
 
     


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