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Kimberly D. Blisniuk

San Jose State University
Associate Professor

Expertise: application of field investigations, high resolution digital topography data and Quaternary geochronologic techniques to study how evolution of earth’s surface on timescales from earthquakes to changes in climate
 
 
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About Me Publications
Yeager, S., Smith, C. I., OConnor, P., Washburn, H., Ladinsky, T., Rowe, C. D., & Blisniuk, K. (2023, 09). Recent Creep and Structural Evolution of the San Gregorio Fault at Pillar Point, California. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13141
Blisniuk, K. D. (2023, 09). New fault strands and slip rates on faults of the northern San Andreas Fault System: implications on kinematic and earthquake probability models for California. Oral Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12862
Blisniuk, K. D., Balco, G., Fosdick, J. C., & Waco, J. N. (2019, 08). Evidence for an alternative position for the primary active strand of the San Andreas Fault along its restraining bend in southern California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9521
Guns, K. A., Bennett, R. A., Blisniuk, K. D., & McGill, S. F. (2018, 08). Investigating strain transfer along faults in Joshua Tree National Park, CA, with possible implications for along strike variations in southern San Andreas Fault slip rate. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8490
Waco, J., Blisniuk, K. D., & Fosdick, J. C. (2017, 08). Evidence for an active and evolving left-stepping San Andreas fault (Mission Creek fault strand) from the Little San Bernardino Mountains to Yucaipa Ridge. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7849
Guns, K. A., Bennett, R. A., & Blisniuk, K. D. (2017, 08). Investigating strain transfer along the Southern San Andreas Fault: A geomorphic and geodetic study of block rotation in the Eastern Transverse Ranges, Joshua Tree National Park, CA. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7533
Emmons, B., Moon, S., Brown, N. D., Blisniuk, K. D., & Rhodes, E. J. (2016, 08). Applying newly developed luminescence dating to alluvial fans in the Anza Borrego Desert, southern California. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6949
Fosdick, J. C., Blisniuk, K. D., & Wersan, L. (2016, 08). Sedimentary provenance constraints on the Quaternary faulting history of the Mission Creek fault strand, southern San Andreas Fault Zone, CA. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6574
Fosdick, J. C., & Blisniuk, K. D. (2018). Sedimentary signals of recent faulting along an old strand of the San Andreas Fault, USA. Scientific Reports, 8(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30622-3. SCEC Contribution 8949
Johnson, K., Nissen, E., Saripalli, S., Arrowsmith, J. R., McGarey, P., Scharer, K. M., Williams, P. L., & Blisniuk, K. D. (2014). Rapid Mapping of Ultra-fine Fault Zone Topography with Structure from Motion. Geosphere, 10(5), 969-986. doi: 10.1130/GES01017.1. SCEC Contribution 1921
Blisniuk, K. D. (2013). Stable, rapid rate of slip since inception on the San Jacinto fault. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(16), 4209-4213. doi: 10.1002/grl.50819. SCEC Contribution 1847
Blisniuk, K. D., Oskin, M. E., Fletcher, K. E., & Rockwell, T. K. (2012). Assessing the Reliability of U-series and 10Be dating techniques on Alluvial Fans in the Anza Borrego Desert, California. Quaternary Geochronology, 13, 26-41. doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.08.004. SCEC Contribution 1646
Blisniuk, K. D., Rockwell, T. K., Owen, L. A., Oskin, M. E., Lippincott, C. K., & Caffee, M. (2010). Late Quaternary slip-rate gradient defined using high-resolution topography and 10Be dating of offset landforms on the southern San Jacinto fault, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115. doi: 10.1029/2009JB006346 . SCEC Contribution 1626
Ganev, P. N., Dolan, J. F., Blisniuk, K. D., Oskin, M. E., & Owen, L. A. (2010). Paleoseismologic evidence for multiple Holocene earthquakes on the Calico fault: Implications for earthquake clustering in the Eastern California Shear Zone. GSA Lithosphere, 2(4), 287-298. doi: 10.1130/L82.1. SCEC Contribution 1320
Blisniuk, K. D., Rockwell, T. K., Owen, L. A., Oskin, M. E., Lippincott, C. K., Caffee, M., & Dortch, J. (2010). Late Quaternary slip-rate gradient defined using high-resolution topography and 10Be dating of offset landforms on the southern San Jacinto Fault, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(B8). doi: 10.1029/2009JB006346. SCEC Contribution 1295
Oskin, M. E., Blisniuk, K. D., & Strane, M. D. (2007). Quantifying fault-zone activity in arid environments with high-resolution topography. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L23S05. doi: 10.1029/2007GL031295. SCEC Contribution 1096

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