Hi all,
My name is Paul Wetmore. I'm a Ph.D. student under Scott Paterson at the U. of Southern California.
The primary focus of my research has been the Early Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the western half of
the Peninsular Ranges batholith. As such, I have been measuring the finite strain exhibited by a great
number of samples from the volcanic sequences of this part of the batholith. Additionally, and more to
the point of this email, I have been measuring the primary fabric exhibited by the volcanics and
volcaniclastics of rocks from undeformed portions of this ancient arc in order to account for that
contribution to the overall finite strain. I have thus far generated a very detailed data set on these
rocks including fabric ellipsoids for lithics, pumice and crystals. In addressing this aspect of my
research it has become apparent that there are very few such data sets out there in general
publication. Thus, I wonder if any of you in the tectonics/structure community have been working on
primary fabrics (preferably in volcanics, but other lithologies are also of interest) and have either
published your work in something relatively obscure (i.e. something I haven't been able to discover
through GeoRef) or it continues to reside in unpublished theses/dissertations. Either way, I'd be very
interested in getting in touch with you and discussing the topic with you.
cheers,
pw
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Paul H. Wetmore
Graduate Student
Strain Group
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
3651 University Ave. SCI 117
Los Angeles, CA
90089-0740
(213) 740-8261 (office)
(213) 740-8801 (fax)
http://earth.usc.edu/~wetmore/
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