Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2001/00917
Constraining rates and models of normal fault evolution using in-situ cosmogenic surface exposure dating of relic fluvial landforms.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor S Gupta, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr W Phillips, University of Idaho, Idaho Geological Survey
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor J Cartwright, University of Oxford, Earth Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Earth Surface Processes
- Tectonic Processes
- Abstract:
- This project aims to constrain the evolution of an active extensional fault population in the Canyonlands Graben system (SE Utah, USA) in order to improve our understanding of fault growth and linkage processes. The study will use cosmogenic surface exposure dating methods (10Be and 26Al) to date fluvially scoured bedrock surfaces preserved as windgaps in footwall fault blocks. These features indicate disruption of drainage in response to fault activity. Dating of successive windgaps will provide constraints on rates of drainage diversion due to fault propagation, and as a result provides data on the chronology and sequence of faulting in multi-segment fault arrays and parallel sets of faults. The study will provide useful data on rates of fault propagation in linked fault systems.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2001/00917
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £12,938
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs |
|---|---|
| £3,791 | £9,147 |
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