strike slip faulting day 2 - university of colorado...

StrikeSlipFaultingDay2

Today

• Warm-up:Andersonian faulting• Review:FlowerStructures• Reoccurence intervals• GreatDebate

Warm-Up

• Pleasedrawsigma1,2and3forstrikeslip-faultsinbothmapview andcrosssection

Remember:sigma1isthemostcompressivestress,sigmathreeistheleastcompressivestress

Now….extendyourwarmup

Wherearesigma1,2and3forapositive flowerstructure

Again!Whatistheorientationofthe3principalstressesfor

anegative flowerstructure(i.e.SaltonSea)

Okay,nowcheckyourwork!

Greatwork!Movingon.

Greatwork!Movingon.

•Pleasemakeorganizeyourselvesintogroupsof4.

Greatwork!Movingon.

•Pleasemakeorganizeyourselvesintogroupsof4.•Pickoneofthefollowing:• TrenchingandElasticReboundTheory• ForecastmodelsbasedonCoulombstresschanges• Earthquakesimulatorstounderstandpredictabilityincomplexfaultnetworks

GreatDebate• Younowhave20minutestolearnasmuchasyoucanaboutyourgroupsmethod• Then!WewillbreakupgroupsandyouwillberesponsibleforarguingthatyourmethodistheBEST

Debateformat:Allthreepeoplewilldelivera3minuteopeningstatementonwhytheirmethodisthebest

Youwillthenhave4minutestowritea1minuterebuttal

We’llspendthelast5minutesofclassdebriefing