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Lydia M. Staisch
recent and current projects.
My current research with the USGS is on active deformation, seismic hazard, subduction zone science, and landscape evolution in the US Pacific Northwest. Click on the pictures below to learn more about my ongoing work!
USGS Powell Center Cascadia Earthquake Hazards Working Group
Deformation history and earthquake hazard potential of the Doty fault zone
Uplift rates along coastal
southwestern Washington
Structure and geophysics of the Wallula fault zone and the KBL
Evolution of the ancestral rivers
in the Pacific Northwest
My postdoctoral research with the USGS is on active deformation, seismic hazard, and landscape evolution in the Yakima Fold Province, located in central Washington. Click on the pictures below to learn about these projects.
Tectonic geomorphology of the
Yakima folds
Structure and stratigraphy of the Saddle Mountains
Below are several projects from my PhD research on the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen. Click on the picures to learn more about individual studies.
Hoh Xil Basin deposition
Hoh Xil Basin deformation
Kunlun Fault initiation
Seismically induced landsliding
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