SCEC Award Number 15196 View PDF
Proposal Category Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products)
Proposal Title Collaborative Research: Paleoseismology of the central Garlock fault at the Christmas Canyon West incremental slip rate site: Towards a dated path of fault slip along a major strike-slip fault
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
James Dolan University of Southern California Edward Rhodes University of California, Los Angeles Sally McGill California State University, San Bernardino
Other Participants
SCEC Priorities 1a, 2a, 2d SCEC Groups Geology, WGCEP, SDOT
Report Due Date 03/15/2016 Date Report Submitted 05/13/2016
Project Abstract
 For 2015, we proposed to re-excavate and deepen a proven paleo-earthquake trench at our Christmas Canyon West (CCW) incremental slip rate site along the central Garlock fault. Our award was contingent upon submission of a proposal to another funding agency to help cover the costs of the larger project. Consequently, we spent April and May 2015 composing a proposal to the National Science Foundation for our continued paleoseismic work on the Garlock fault. At the same time, USC graduate student Alex Hatem began the process of requesting permission for our proposed Christmas Canyon trench, first seeking permission from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). After a month or two into this process, it was discovered that our proposed trench location, although previously under jurisdiction of BLM, is on proper- ty that is now owned by China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station. Alex then began the permitting process through China Lake NAWS, which is nearly complete, with excavation planned for Fall 2016.
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Broader Impacts N/A
Exemplary Figure Figure 2. Paleoseismic events at the Christmas Canyon West paleoseismic site from McGill (1992). Re-excavation of this site in Fall 2016 will allow us to use the newly developed postIR-IRSL225 luminescence dating technique pioneered by Co-PI Ed Rhodes.