Holocene slip rates along the Owens Valley fault, California: Implications for the recent evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone

Research Article| September 01, 2001 Holocene slip rates along the Owens Valley fault, California: Implications for the recent evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone Jeffrey Lee; Jeffrey Lee 1Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA, and Institute for Crustal Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Joel Spencer; Joel Spencer 2Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Lewis Owen Lewis Owen 3Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeffrey Lee 1Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA, and Institute for Crustal Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Joel Spencer 2Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA Lewis Owen 3Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 10 Nov 2000 Revision Received: 24 Apr 2001 Accepted: 21 May 2001 First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2682 Print ISSN: 0091-7613 Geological Society of America Geology (2001) 29 (9): 819–822. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0819:HSRATO>2.0.CO;2 Article history Received: 10 Nov 2000 Revision Received: 24 Apr 2001 Accepted: 21 May 2001 First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Lee, Joel Spencer, Lewis Owen; Holocene slip rates along the Owens Valley fault, California: Implications for the recent evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone. Geology 2001;; 29 (9): 819–822. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0819:HSRATO>2.0.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract One of the largest historical earthquakes in California occurred in 1872 along the Owens Valley fault located along the western margin of the Eastern California Shear Zone. New paleoseismic and optically stimulated luminescence data are the first to bracket the timing of the pre-1872 rupture to between 3.3 ± 0.3 and 3.8 ± 0.3 ka. These data yield an earthquake recurrence interval between 4100 and 3000 yr, under the assumption of uniform return, and indicate a Holocene slip rate between 1.8 ± 0.3 and 3.6 ± 0.2 mm/ yr. Our data are broadly consistent with a model proposed for the space-time evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone. Our Holocene slip-rate estimates for the Owens Valley fault are slower than present-day slip rates determined from elastic half-space models of geodetic data. This discrepancy is reduced by using the recurrence interval estimated here and a viscoelastic model of geodetic data or by including geologic slip rates from adjacent faults. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.