Theme: Fault Mechanics

September 27 - Toshi Shimamoto (Kyoto University)
“Frictional Melting: Frictional Melting and Pseudotachylite Genesis; Implications to Fault Instability”

October 4 - Welcome Reception: wine and beer event

October 11 - Mark Zoback (Stanford University)
“Scientific Drilling into the San Andreas Fault”

October 18 - Vic Camp (San Diego State University)
“A Mantle Plume Origin for Mafic Rocks in the Inland Pacific Northwest”

October 25 - Sandra Wyld (University of Georgia)
“Early Cretaceous, Margin-Parallel Strike-Slip Faulting in the U.S. Cordillera: Implications for Terrane Translation and Paleogeographic Reconstructions”

November 1 - Basil Tikoff (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“The Life and Times of the Western Idaho Shear Zone, Idaho: A New Kind of Mountain Belt?”

November 8 - Jim Rice (Harvard University)
“Heating and Weakening of Fault Zones During Earthquake Slip”

November 15 - Jim Dieterich (USGS)
“Imaging stress changes at Kilauea volcano”

November 22 - Thanksgiving, no seminar

November 29 - Hiroo Kanamori (Caltech)
“The Diversity of the Energy Budget of Earthquakes”