Active Faulting in Baja California, Mexico

During the summer of 2008 graduate students, Sean Callihan and Adam Springer, with undergraduate assistants Jeff Beeson and James Wilson and collaborators John Fletcher (CISESE), Oscar Gonzalez (UABC), and Helge Alsleben (TCU), and I began an investigation of the western half of the active Agua Blanca Fault. We focused on the Maneadero and Valle Santo Tomas segments of the fault using original field mapping and various geophysical surveys including gravity, magnetics, and ground penetrating radar.

Stay tuned for upcoming theses and publications.

Stranded strath terraces on the east side of Mexico Hiway 1 north of Santo Tomas.

Southwest side of Valle Santo Tomas looking southeast.

John Fletcher standing infront of an exposure of the Agua Blanca Fault north of Santo Tomas.