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Quantifying near-surface rock strength on a regional scale from hillslope stability models - dataset

Creator:

Townsend, Kirk F., Gallen, Sean F., and Clark, Marin K.

Description:

These datasets support the findings of Townsend et al. (2020). In this article, we quantify rock strength using two novel applications of hillslope stability models, resulting in estimates of cohesive and frictional strength at the spatial scale of small watersheds. We compare these results against the direct-shear test dataset here for validation of our approach. We find that cohesive strength is dependent on the original burial depth of the sedimentary rocks studied here. The low-temperature thermochronometry data was used to assess the magnitude of burial.

Keyword:

Thermochronology, Thermochronometry, Direct-Shear, Landslides, Rock Strength, Landscape Evolution, and Geomorphology

Citation to related publication:

Townsend, K.F., Gallen, S.F., & Clark, M.K., in press, Quantifying near-surface rock strength on a regional scale from hillslope stability models: Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JF005665

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Science
Reverse faulting within a continental plate boundary transform system [Data set]

Creator:

Townsend, Kirk F., Clark, Marin K., and Niemi, Nathan A.

Description:

These datasets support the findings of Townsend et al. (in review) investigating the timing of faulting relative to changes in the orientation of the North American-Pacific plate boundary. Coeval with development of an oblique plate boundary segment (i.e. the “Big Bend” of the San Andreas fault), active shortening is inferred to have initiated at ~5 Ma in the Western Transverse Ranges (WTR). However, new low-temperature thermochronometric transects yield Miocene to Pleistocene apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He cooling ages and partially reset zircon (U-Th)/He ages. Inverse thermal modelling indicate that reverse faulting initiated as early as 10 Ma, several million years prior to our current understanding of the timing of the Big Bend. New and existing thermochronometry data delineate the WTR as the locus of rapid post-Miocene exhumation, and demonstrate that similar exhumation is not present in the broader region surrounding the Big Bend. We posit that reverse faulting is localized in the WTR because of a weak underlying lithosphere and predates the more recent geometric anomaly of the restraining bend in the transform margin.

Keyword:

Reverse faults, Fault initiation, Fault propagation, Low-temperature thermochronometry, Western Transverse Ranges, and San Andreas Fault

Citation to related publication:

Townsend, K. F., Clark, M. K., & Niemi, N. A., in review, Reverse faulting within a continental plate boundary transform system. Tectonics

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Science

Quantifying near-surface rock strength on a regional scale from hillslope stability models - dataset

Reverse faulting within a continental plate boundary transform system [Data set]

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