[Tectonos] New Book "Active Faults of the World"

[Carlos Costa]

Dear colleagues,

A new book, Active Faults of the World, by Robert S. Yeats, sponsored by
the GEM (Global Earthquake Model)  Foundation, has just been published
(2012) by Cambridge University Press.  The book is accompanied by three
supplements available online.  These supplements are (1) an updated Table
of Historical Earthquakes with Surface Rupture, accompanied by Explanatory
Notes, included with permission of Oxford University Press, the publisher
of the original table in 1997, (2) images of exposures of active faults
from around the world, together with satellite images and digital elevation
models, in folders corresponding to the ten chapters in the book, and (3)
videos of the Holocene earthquake history of the Cascadia subduction zone
from Chris Goldfinger and the late Cenozoic tectonic history of western
North America from Tanya Atwater.

The set of images supports a vision of the late Bob Wallace of USGS that
the surface expression of active faults should be viewed by earthquake
geologists from around the world, especially those from developing
countries where the earthquake hazard is high.  This was a major objective
of Project 206 of the International Geological Correlation Program,
sponsored by UNESCO.  This project was followed by several task groups
under the International Lithosphere Program (ILP).  These task groups
organized field trips to critical active fault localities so that
participants could view faults directly rather than solely through the
lenses of individual publications and different cultures.  The set of
online images is the next best thing to studying faults in the field.

Bob Yeats is responsible for compiling both the revised table of historical
surface ruptures and the first set of photographs of active faults and
satellite images, but this is a work in progress for three reasons:  (1)
additional active faults are being described, (2) surface ruptures will
accompany future earthquakes, and (3) historical paleoseismologists will
continue to correlate historical earthquakes with active faults.
 Accordingly, both the earthquake table and the images will evolve over
time.

Although Yeats, as author of Active Faults of the World, has completed this
first compilation, future changes (new earthquake ruptures, new field
studies, correction of errors) must be made by the earthquake geology
community at large.  For this reason, and to encourage submissions, Yeats
asks that the author of the online resources be the community, not a single
person.  Reference to images in this compilation should be to the original
source as stated in the accompanying figure captions.  Both the table and
images comprise an updatable resource or wiki.  Cambridge University Press
will make updates periodically through Yeats, although a new, younger
person is needed to take over this task for the long term.

The online resources are available at www.cambridge.org/yeats.  No password
login is required, and it is not necessary to purchase the book to gain
access to these resources.  To view the images, click on Ancillary
Resources, then click on More resources: select to show/hide.  This brings
up the chapter headings.  Click on the chapter number, and folders will
appear with the images and a Word file containing figure captions.

On behalf of the earthquake geology community, Yeats thanks Cambridge
University Press for this service.

--

-- 
Este mensaje ha sido analizado por MailScanner
en busca de virus y otros contenidos peligrosos,
y se considera que está limpio.

------------ próxima parte ------------
Se ha borrado un adjunto en formato HTML...
URL: http://tango.gl.fcen.uba.ar/pipermail/tectonos/attachments/20121103/ba16f6f7/attachment.htm