Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method (SLAM) and the search for the Dog Valley Fault
Intellectual Property and Copyright
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Abstract Presented at 2017 Fall AGU
Cronin, V.S., and Strasser, M.P., 2017, Proximity of the seismogenic Dog Valley Fault to Stampede and Prosser Creek Dams near Truckee, California: Abstract [NH33B-0252], AGU Fall Meeting, available via https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/275367
The copyright poster file is located at http://CroninProjects.org/DVFZ/AGU2017-poster.html
Intro to SLAM
The seismo-lineament analysis method is a tool to spatially correlate a shallow-focus earthquake to the surface trace of the fault that generated it. SLAM is the intellectual property and work product of Vince Cronin, and has been developed with assistance from Matthew Strasser, Brandon Rasaka, Victoria Worrell, Jeremy Ashburn, Brian Bayliss, Chris Breed, Bruce Byars, Ryan Campbell, David Cleveland, Jon Cook, Kelly Cronin, Jordan Dickinson, Daniel Lancaster, Ryan Lindsay, Mark Millard, Shane Prochnow, Tyler Reed, Stephen Secrest, Lauren Seidman Robinson, Keith Sverdrup and Lisa Zygo, with funds from AAPG, Baylor University, Colorado Scientific Society, Ellis Exploration, Ft. Worth Geological Society, Geological Society of America, GCAGS, Samson Resources, Roy Shlemon Scholarship Fund, Sigma Xi, and SIPES.
Full papers describing SLAM
- Cronin, V.S., 2014, Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method (SLAM), using earthquake focal mechanisms to help
recognize seismogenic faults, in Grutzner, C., Choi, J-H., Edwards, P., and Kim, Y-.S., [editors], Proceeding of the 5th International INQUA Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archeoseismology, 21-27 September 2014, p. 28-31, ISBN 9791195344109 93450; available via http://CroninProjects.org/Vince/SLAM/CroninINQUA_PATA14.pdf
- Cronin, V.S., Millard, M., Seidman, L, and Bayliss, B., 2008, The Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method (SLAM) -- A Reconnaissance Tool to Help Find Seismogenic Faults: Environmental and Engineering Geology, v. 14, no. 3, p. 199-219.
If you do not have access to the paper online, please contact Vince Cronin directly for a copy: Vince_Cronin@baylor.edu
SLAM codes and necessary datasets used to produce 2017 AGU presentation
Important Note: The documents linked to this page that are the original work product of Vince Cronin are copyright © 2017 by Vincent S. Cronin.
- SLAMcode in Mathematica: http://croninprojects.org/DVFZ/SLAM-code-2017.nb; PDF of that code at http://croninprojects.org/DVFZ/SLAM-code-2017.pdf
- Low-resolution (thin), cropped DEM of the area from latitude 39.370 to 39.544, longitude -120.211 to -120.037: http://croninprojects.org/DVFZ/thinDVFZCrop.dat
- Excel spreadsheets
- Mathematica code that computes the best-fit plane (total-least-squares approach, using principal component analysis and singular value decomposition) through a point cloud: http://croninprojects.org/DVFZ/Best-fit-plane.nb; PDF file of that code at http://croninprojects.org/DVFZ/Best-fit-plane.pdf
- Mathematica code that projects a plane across a DEM, given one point along the plane: http://croninprojects.org/DVFZ/Plane-Projected-Across-Hillshade-Map.nb; PDF of that code at http://croninprojects.org/DVFZ/Plane-Projected-Across-Hillshade-Map.pdf
- Mathematica code that generates focal mechanism diagrams -- Scherbaum, F., Kuehn, N., and Zimmermann, B., 2013, Earthquake focal mechanism: Wolfram Demonstration Project, available via http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/EarthquakeFocalMechanism/ or http://croninprojects.org/DVFZ/EarthquakeFocalMechanism.nb
- NOAA's online converters from NAD27 to NAD83 and vice versa: https://beta.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nadcon.prl or https://beta.ngs.noaa.gov/gtkweb/.
Some SLAM Thesis References
- Ashburn, Jeremy, 2015, Investigation of a lineament that might mark the ground-surface trace of the Dog Valley fault, Truckee area, northern California: B.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://CroninProjects.org/Vince/AshburnBSThesis2015.pdf
- Bayliss, Brian, 2007, Test of a method for recognizing unmapped seismogenic faults: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5035
- Dickinson, Jordan, 2015, A seismo-lineament study of magnitude 3.3-5.3 earthquakes near Trinidad, Colorado: B.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://CroninProjects.org/Dickinson/Dickinson.pdf
- Lancaster, Daniel, 2011, Correlation of earthquakes with seismogenic faults along the Northern Arizona Seismic Belt, southwestern margin of the Colorado Plateau: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8228
- Lindsay, Ryan, 2012, Seismo-lineament analysis of selected earthquakes in the Tahoe-Truckee area, California and Nevada: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8441
- Millard, Mark, 2007, Linking onshore and offshore data to find seismogenic faults along the Eastern Malibu coastline: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5109
- Rasaka, Brandon, 2016, Correlation of selected earthquakes with seismogenic faults, central Oklahoma: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://CroninProjects.org/Rasaka/Rasaka-MS-Thesis-2016.pdf
- Reed, Tyler, 2014, Spatial correlation of earthquakes with two known and two suspected seismogenic faults, north Tahoe-Truckee area, California: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://hdl.handle.net/2104/9097
- Seidman, Lauren, 2007, Seismo-lineament analysis of the Malibu Beach quadrangle, Southern California: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5108
- Strasser, Matthew P., 2017, Spatial Correlation of Selected Earthquakes with the Dog Valley Fault in Northern California using LiDAR and GPS Data: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, available via http://croninprojects.org/Strasser/Matthew_Strasser_Masters.pdf -- 23.2 MB
- Worrell, Victoria E., 2016, The Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method (SLAM) applied to the South Napa Earthquake and antecedent events: M.S. thesis, Baylor University, available via http://hdl.handle.net/2104/9796
DVFZ References
- Ashburn, J., 2015, Investigation of a lineament that might mark the ground-surface trace of the Dog Valley fault, Truckee area, northern California: B.S. thesis, Baylor University, accessible via http://CroninProjects.org/Vince/AshburnBSThesis2015.pdf
- Ashburn, J.A., Cronin, V.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., 2014, In search of the surface trace of the Dog Valley Fault near Truckee, California: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, accessible online via https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper248200.html
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- Cronin, V.S., 2014, Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method (SLAM), using earthquake focal mechanisms to help
recognize seismogenic faults, in Grutzner, C., Choi, J-H., Edwards, P., and Kim, Y-.S., [editors], Proceeding of the 5th International INQUA Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archeoseismology, 21-27 September 2014, p. 28-31, ISBN 9791195344109 93450; accessible online at http://CroninProjects.org/Vince/SLAM/CroninINQUA_PATA14.pdf
- Cronin, V.S., Ashburn, J.A., and Sverdrup, K.A., 2014, Using SLAM to look for the Dog Valley Fault, Truckee Area, California: American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, December 2014
- Cronin, V.S., and Cronin, K.E., 2014, Revised geometry of nodal-plane uncertainty volume used in the seismo-lineament analysis method to locate seismogenic faults: Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, http://www.seismosoc.org/meetings/2014/app/index.html#_14-698
- Cronin, V.S., and Dickinson, J., 2014, Finding active faults using earthquake focal mechanisms, geomorphic analysis and field work (SLAM): Structural Geology & Tectonics Forum, Colorado School of Mines, accessible via https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/structure/2014forumabstracts/82870.html
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- Cronin, V.S., Reed, T.H., and Sverdrup, K.A., 2013, Using SLAM to search for seismogenic faults, north Tahoe-Truckee area, California: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Denver, Colorado, October 2013), Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013AM/finalprogram/abstract_233387.htm
- Cronin, V.S., Reed, T.H., and Sverdrup, K.A., 2013, Including nodal-plane orientation uncertainty in the Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method for finding seismogenic faults: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, 2013 Annual Meeting, Program with Abstracts v. 56, p. 53, http://www.aegweb.org/docs/default-source/events/aeg_seattle13_program.pdf
- Cronin, V.S., and Strasser, M.P., 2017, Proximity of the Seismogenic Dog Valley Fault to Stampede and Proser Creek Dams Near Truckee, California: American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, submission proof accessible via http://croninprojects.org/Strasser/Cronin-Strasser-AGU-abs2017.pdf
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