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

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    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]

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    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
    Discipline:
    Science

  • The orographic influence on storm variability, extreme rainfall characteristics and rainfall-triggered landsliding

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    Creator:
    Hille, Madeline M., Clark, Marin K., Gronewold, Andrew D., West, A. Joshua, Zekkos, Dimitrios , and Chamlagain, Deepak
    Description:
    This dataset supports the findings of Hille et al. (2021, in review) in Geophysical Research Letters. In this article, we present a multivariate analysis of extreme storm events that occur during the Indian summer monsoon over the Himalayan Range in central Nepal. We resolve storm events at sub daily durations by merging NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) 30-minute, gridded 0.1x0.1-degree precipitation product with local rain gauges operated by the Nepal Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). We quantify spatial variability in extreme rainfall by isolating storms over a specific intensity threshold and pairing a principal components analysis with a K-means clustering approach to group storms of similar characteristics. and We find that frequent and intense storms occur over the forefront of the central Himalayan range and coincide with a locus of monsoon-driven landslide density. This pattern agrees with observations of elevated annual precipitation volumes near the Himalayan physiographic transition from low to high relief (Bookhagen and Burbank, 2010), and is consistent with orographically-influenced rainfall over other mountain ranges (Marra et al., 2021). In addition to presenting novel methodology to quantifying storm variability, our results highlight the strong orographic effect on precipitation intensity and duration, as well as an association of shallow bedrock landsliding frequency with intense precipitation.
    Keyword:
    orographic rainfall, multivariate analysis, extreme rainfall events, and rainfall-triggered landslides
    Citation to related publication:
    Hille et al. (2021, in review). The orographic influence on storm variability, extreme rainfall characteristics and rainfall-triggered landsliding. Geophysical Research Letters. Forthcoming
    Discipline:
    Science