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Projects in coastal California have focused on mountain building processes along the San Andreas fault system and their relations to earthquake hazards. Although the primary motion on the fault system is obviously strike-slip, important subsidiary vertical motions occur at bends and steps in the fault system, and these are the principle drivers of the mountain building in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our studies have used fission track, and geomorphic methods to analyze deformation histories on various time scales. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with former Stanford student Roland Burgmann, now at UC Berkeley.
