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Ronald M. Spelz

Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Geología
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Mexico)
Professor/Researcher

Expertise: Structural Geology, Geomorphology
 
 
About Me Publications
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
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
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
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
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
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

Last updated Mar 14, 2022.