- Experiment Name: Pitaycachi Fault Zone Investigation and Pilot Study
- PI: Johnson
- Email: johnson@geo.arizona.edu
- Sponsor: U of A
- Inst: U of Ariz
- Start_Date: 10/27/2001
- End_Date: 11/20/2001
- Lat: 31.0
- Long: -109.25
- Multi_Chan: 2
- Descr: This project is designed as a hands-on training and educational
experience for undergraduates and graduate students in the Department
of Geosciences with the goal of encouraging scientific investigations
using controlled-source seismic techniques. The target of the study
is the Pitaycachi fault zone in northern Mexico (south of Douglas, AZ),
which last ruptured with a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in 1887. Students
will have an opportunity to collect high-resolution reflection data
across this fault zone to help characterize the subsurface geometry
of the fault and perhaps evaluate previous fault movements. This work
will be incorporated into class discussions and independent-study exercises
and and may serve as a pilot study for additional future work.
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