intruduction: red beds have been widely studied by palaeomagnetic methods for what they can tell us about the history of sedimentary basins and their subsequent deformation (collinson, 1974, turner, 1979a,b and 1981, mccabe and elmore, 1989, elmor, et al., 1993 and 2000). this study has investigated the palaeomagnetism of the cambrian red sediments (dezou and dahou formation) of the eastern mar...

S U M M A R Y Geophysical inversion is often ill-posed because of inaccurate and insufficient data. Regularization is often applied to the inversion problem to obtain a stable solution by imposing additional constraints on the model. Common regularization schemes impose isotropic smoothness on solutions and may have difficulties in obtaining geologically reasonable models that are often suppose...

published in: Lunar and Planetary Science XL, CD-ROM, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston (2009). 1073.pdf 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2009)

To investigate the architecture of transpressional deformation and its long-term relationship to plate motion in southern California, we have studied the deformation pattern and structural geometry of orogeny within the San Andreas fault system. The San Bernardino Mountains have formed recently at the hub of several active structures that intersect the San Andreas fault east of Los Angeles. Thi...

Fissured rock masses tend to dilate as they are deformed inelastically toward failure. When the rock is fluid saturated and the time scale does not allow drainage, suctions are induced in the pore fluid, and by the effective stress principle the rock is dilatantly hardened over the resistance that it would show to a corresponding increment of drained deformation. This paper considers a compress...