Browsing Capstone reports of the Masters in Earth & Space Sciences - Applied Geosciences by Subject "Seattle Fault zone"
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Evidence for liquefaction and flooding in the past 1,000 years along the Duwamish River, Seattle, Washington
(2018-06)Geology along the Duwamish waterway, south of downtown Seattle, provides preliminary clues to the city’s earthquake and tsunami hazards. The banks of the dredged waterway expose the muddy deposits of an estuary that ... -
Geomorphic Reconstruction of Alki Point in West Seattle Based on Chronostratigraphic Relationships of Mid-Late Holocene-Aged Intertidal Deposits
(2019-12)A tombolo may have tied a bedrock knoll at the western tip of Alki Point to the mainland before a large magnitude 7 or greater earthquake ruptured within the Seattle fault zone, resulting in ~23 ft of uplift at Alki Point ... -
Geophysical Investigation of a Geologic Unconformity at Seward Park - Seattle, WA
(2018-06)This report presents the results of field and geophysical analyses of a geologic unconformity located within Seattleís Seward Park. The unconformity consists of an apparently abrupt contact between Quaternary Vashon till ... -
Investigating the Eastern Extent of the Seattle Fault Zone through Depth to Bedrock and Borehole Analysis in Bellevue, Washington
(2014-12)This study identifies lineaments that indicate fault activity and strengthens previous interpretations of structures within the eastern extent of the Seattle Fault zone in Bellevue, WA. My investigation has compiled ... -
Locating a strand of the Seattle Fault Zone in southeast Seattle, Washington through topographic analysis, borehole analysis and ground penetrating radar
(2014-12)Contributing to the evaluation of seismic hazards, a previously unmapped strand of the Seattle Fault Zone (SFZ), cutting across the southwest side of Lake Washington and southeast Seattle, is located and characterized on ... -
Locating the Seattle Fault in Bellevue, WA: Combining geomorphic indicators with borehole data
(2014-12)The Seattle Fault is an active east-west trending reverse fault zone that intersects both Seattle and Bellevue, two highly populated cities in Washington. Rupture along strands of the fault poses a serious threat to ... -
The Lost Lake Landslide: Evidence for an Earthquake-Triggered Landslide Vashon Island, Washington
(2020-03)I address the large-scale stability and potential past and future triggers of the Lost Lake Landslide on Vashon Island, one of the largest mapped landslides in the Puget Lowland. I focus on three landslide triggers; ... -
Modeled tsunami in Lake Washington from hypothetical ruptures on the Seattle Fault
(2020-03)Tsunami deposits from an earthquake on the Seattle fault have been found around the Puget Sound area. Tsunami modeling has been conducted in Puget Sound with the Seattle fault as the initiating event, however published ... -
Predicting the Position of Fault Strands through Borehole Correlation of the Top of Tertiary Bedrock in the Seattle Fault Zone, Seattle, Washington
(2019-12)Only a few strands of the Seattle Fault Zone have been identified on land in Seattle, Washington due to heavy manipulation of the landscape by repeat glaciations, geomorphic reworking, and the interference of the growing ...