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John M. Fletcher
Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada (Mexico)
Professor
Expertise: Active faulting in northern Baja California. Tectonic evolution of the Pacific-North American plate margin.
About Me
Publications
John Fletcher obtained his PhD from the University of Utah in 1994 in Geology and is a faculty member in the Earth Sciences Division of (CICESE) in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. He specializes in faulting and plate tectonics and has studied mountain belts in many parts of the world. Fletcher has been associate editor of two important journals in Earth Sciences (Geology and Geological Society of America Bulletin) and has led several international consortia including the recent effort to study the surface rupture of the Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake that struck northern Baja California on April 4, 2010.
Bazán Flores, L. I., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Meltzner, A. J., Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., & Brothers, D. S. (2023, 09). Normal Fault Displacement History Provides Clues on Ruptures Along the Southern San Andreas Fault . Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12988
Bazán Flores, L. I., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Meltzner, A. J., Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., & Brothers, D. S. (2022, 09). Exploring the Dynamic Interactions Between the Southern San Andreas Fault and Normal Faults under the Salton Sea. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12565
BAZAN FLORES, L. I., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Meltzner, A. J., Rockwell, T. K., & Fletcher, J. M. (2021, 08). Dynamic Interactions Between the Southern San Andreas Fault and Normal Faults in the Brawley Seismic Zone . Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11420
Dorsey, M. T., Rockwell, T. K., Girty, G. G., Ostermeijer, G. A., Browning, J., Mitchell, T. M., & Fletcher, J. M. (2020). Evidence of hydrothermal brine circulation driving elemental mass redistribution in an active fault zone. J. Structural Geology, (accepted). SCEC Contribution 10037
Fletcher, J. M., Gonzalez-Ortega, A., Rockwell, T. K., Gold, P. O., & Oskin, M. E. (2019, 08). Active faulting south of the border; the other half of the big bend domain of the Pacific-North American plate margin. Oral Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9769
Karlsson, K. W., Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., Gontz, A. M., Figueiredo, P. M., & Owen, L. A. (2018, 08). Paleoseismology and Neotectonics of the Southern Sierra El Mayor, Baja California, Mexico. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8410
Dorsey, M. T., Rockwell, T. K., Girty, G. H., Ostermeijer, G., Mitchell, T. M., & Fletcher, J. M. (2017, 08). Evidence of Na- and Mg-rich Hydrothermal Brines Driving Chloritization and Albitization in an Active Fault Zone: Case Study of the Borrego Fault, Baja CA, Mexico. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7839
Gontz, A. M., Rockwell, T. K., Karlsson, K. W., Fletcher, J. M., & Cambron, J. F. (2017, 08). GPR imagery and identification of neotectonic features of the Chupamiertos Fault System, Baja California, Mexico. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7804
Fletcher, J. M., Cambron, J. F., Rockwell, T. K., Karlsson, K. W., Figueiredo, P. M., Spelz, R. M., Lachan, P. G., Peña Villa, I., Leon Loya, A., Hinojosa, A., Prasanajit Naik , S., & Owen, L. A. (2017, 08). Do low-angle normal faults produce large earthquakes? A case study of the Cañada David Detachment of northern Baja California, Mexico. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7649
Gold, P. O., Behr, W. M., Rockwell, T. K., & Fletcher, J. M. (2017, 07). Quaternary Slip History for the Agua Blanca Fault, northern Baja California, Mexico. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7360
Spelz, R. M., Fletcher, J. M., Rockwell, T. K., Hinojosa, A., Oskin, M. E., Owen, L. A., Cambron, J. F., Villaverde, V. H., Vallin, L. V., Gutierrez, A. A., & Karlsson, K. W. (2016, 08). Modern earthquake ruptures on contrasting fault systems in the Laguna Salada region of northwestern Mexico.. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6966
Fletcher, J. M., Oskin, M. E., & Teran, O. J. (2016, 08). The mechanics of multifault ruptures and the keystone fault hypothesis. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6870
Fletcher, J. M., Oskin, M. E., & Teran, O. J. (2015). The role of a keystone fault in triggering the complex El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake rupture. Nature, (accepted). SCEC Contribution 1962
Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., Teran, O. J., Mueller, K. J., Salisbury, J. B., Akciz, S. O., Stepancikova, P., & Hough, S. E. (2014). Reassessment of the 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake - fault kinematics and rupture patterns. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, (submitted). SCEC Contribution 1961
Karlsson, K. W., Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., Figueiredo, P. M., Cambron Rosas, J., Gontz, A. M., Prasanajit Naik, S., Lacan, P., Spelz, R. M., Owen, L. A., Peña Villa, I. A., & Loya, R. (2021). Large Holocene ruptures on the Cañada David detachment, Baja California, Mexico; implications for the seismogenesis of low-angle normal faults. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 570. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117070. SCEC Contribution 10217
Gold, P. O., Behr, W. M., Fletcher, J. M., Rockwell, T. K., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2020). Time‐Invariant Late Quaternary Slip Rates Along the Agua Blanca Fault, Northern Baja California, Mexico. Tectonics, 39(9). doi: 10.1029/2019TC005788. SCEC Contribution 9240
Fletcher, J. M., Teran, O. J., Rockwell, T. K., Oskin, M. E., Hudnut, K. W., Spelz, R. M., Lacan, P., Dorsey, M. T., Ostermeijer, G., Mitchell, T. M., Akciz, S. O., Hernandez-Flores, A., Hinojosa, A., Peña-Villa, I., & Lynch, D. K. (2020). An analysis of the factors that control fault zone architecture and the importance of fault orientation relative to regional stress. GSA Bulletin, 132(9-10), 2084-2104. doi: 10.1130/B35308.1. SCEC Contribution 10004
Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Rockwell, T. K., Meltzner, A. J., Barall, M., Fletcher, J. M., & Tulanowski, D. (2019). Dynamic rupture scenarios in the Brawley seismic zone, Salton Trough, southern California.. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth,. SCEC Contribution 8889
Kyriakopoulos, C., Funning, G. J., Oglesby, D. D., Fletcher, J. M., & Ryan, K. J. (2015). Dealing With The Complexity of The M7.2 2010 El - Mayor Cucapah Earthquake. Poster Presentation at 2015 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7076
Teran, O. J., Fletcher, J. M., Oskin, M. E., Hudnut, K. W., Spelz, R. M., Akciz, S. O., Hernández Flores, A. P., & Morelan, A. E. (2015). Geologic and structural controls on rupture zone fabric: A field-based study of the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake surface rupture. Geosphere, 11(3), 899-920. doi: 10.1130/GES01078.1. SCEC Contribution 1963
Gonzalez-Ortega, A. A., Fialko, Y., Sandwell, D. T., Gonzàlez-Garcìa, J., Nava-Pichardo, F., Fletcher, J. M., Gonzàlez-Garcìa, J., Lipovsky, B. P., Floyd, M., & Funning, G. J. (2014). El Mayor-Cucapah (Mw 7.2) earthquake: Early near-field postseismic deformation from InSAR and GPS observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(2), 1482-1497. doi: 10.1002/2013JB010193. SCEC Contribution 6241
Gonzalez-Ortega, J. A., Fialko, Y., Sandwell, D. T., Nava, A., Fletcher, J. M., Gonzàlez-Garcìa, J., Lipovsky, B. P., Floyd, M., & Funning, G. J. (2014). El Mayor-Cucapah (Mw 7.2) earthquake: Early near-field postseismic deformation from InSAR and GPS observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(2), 1482–1497. doi: 10.1002/2013JB010193. SCEC Contribution 2014
Gonzalez-Ortega, J. A., Sandwell, D. T., Fialko, Y., Nava, A., Fletcher, J. M., Gonzàlez-Garcìa, J., Lipovsky, B. P., Floyd, M., & Funning, G. J. (2014). El Mayor-Cucapah (Mw 7.2) earthquake: Early postseismic deformation from InSAR and GPS observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 119(2), 1482-1497. doi: 10.1002/2013JB010193. SCEC Contribution 1750
Fletcher, J. M., Teran, O. J., Rockwell, T. K., Oskin, M. E., Hudnut, K. W., Mueller, K. J., Spelz, R. M., Akciz, S. O., Masana, E., Faneros, G., Stock, J. M., Elliott, A. J., Gold, P. O., Liu, J., Gonzalez-Ortega, A. A., & Lynch, D. K. (2014). Assembly of a large earthquake from a complex fault system: surface rupture kinematics of the April 4, 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah Mw7.2 earthquake . Geosphere, 10(4), 797-827. doi: 10.1130/GES00933.1 . SCEC Contribution 1697
Oskin, M. E., Arrowsmith, R. R., Hinojosa-Corona, A., Elliott, A. J., Fletcher, J. M., Fielding, E. J., Gold, P. O., Gonzàlez-Garcìa, J., Hudnut, K. W., Liu-Zeng, J., & Teran, O. J. (2012). Near-field deformation from the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake revealed by differential LIDAR. Science, 335(6069), 702-705. doi: 10.1126/science.1213778. SCEC Contribution 1486
Last updated Mar 08, 2024.
