Dr. Craig Grimes and graduate student Cody MacDonald record GPS position, structural data, and geologic context of a sample before collecting it in the Chemehuevi Wilderness Area, CA.
October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter
Members of Dr. Craig Grimes’ lab are creating a web-hosted outreach portal stemming from their NSF-funded project to investigate the initiation of low-angle normal faults in the Colorado River Extensional Corridor.
The focus of the outreach portal—Constraints on the initiation of low angle normal faults in the Chemehuevi Wilderness Area, CA— is to make the project, and geology of the region in general, more accessible to the public while also providing information about the biology, history, and geography of the Colorado River Extensional Corridor in southern California.
The scientific aspects of the project joins field, microstructural, and geochemical observations to investigate the deformation mechanisms of low-angle normal faults that have slipped in the seismogenic regime.
The field area, located in the Chemehuevi Wilderness area (CA), is an awesome desert landscape, but it is quite inaccessible except by boat along the Colorado River. Though still under development, the portal provides imagery, videos, and a Google Earth virtual tour down this section of the Colorado River (http://chemehuevioutreach.weebly.com/). Graduate students involved in the research have also initiated a blog about their experiences at http://ougeology.tumblr.com.
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