Group A, Poster #091, Earthquake Geology
A record of past earthquakes along the Northern San Andreas Fault from subsidence events within Tomales Bay
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2024 SCEC Annual Meeting, Poster #091, SCEC Contribution #13608 VIEW PDF
s within the cores were identified including those representing bay deposits, marsh deposits, transitional deposits, terrestrial deposits, fluvial deposits, and the mouthbar of the Lagunitas creek bayhead delta. In several of the cores we identified a sharp contact between underlying marsh deposits capped by bay deposits, which may represent co-seismic subsidence of the delta during a past earthquake. The age of the candidate subsidence event was constrained using radiocarbon dating to within the last 800-1300 years, and paleo-enviornmental changes generated by the model were used to solidify the event. This event may correlate with a similar record found in neighboring Bolinas Lagoon thought to represent a past earthquake along the northern San Andreas Fault. The use of sediment cores and foraminifera to identify coseismic subsidence will allow us to add to existing records of past earthquakes along the Northern San Andreas Fault and provide a more complete picture of past earthquake periodicity within the Northern San Andreas Fault Zone.
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