Publications
Publications
* indicates student author
Williams, R T; Kirkpatrick, J D. (2021), 'Are low-frequency earthquake moments area- or slip-limited? A rock record examination', submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Fagereng, Å., and Shelly, D. R. (2021), ‘Geological constraints on the mechanisms of slow earthquakes’, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2, 285–301, Doi:10.1038/s43017-021-00148-w PDF
Seyler*, C. E., Kirkpatrick, J. D., Savage, H. M., Hirose, T., and Faulkner, D. R. (2020), 'Rupture to the trench? Frictional properties and fracture energy of incoming sediments at the Cascadia subduction zone', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 546(116413), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116413. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Edwards*, J. H., Verdecchia, A., Kluesner, J. W., Harrington, R. M., Silver, E. A. (2020), Subduction megathrust heterogeneity characterized from 3-D seismic data, Nature Geoscience, 13(5), 369-374, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0562-9. PDF
Rabinowitz, H. S., Savage, H. M., Polissar, P. J., Rowe, C. D., and Kirkpatrick, J. D. (2020), Earthquake slip surfaces identified by biomarker thermal maturity within the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake fault zone, Nature Communications, 11:553,
doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14447-1. PDF
Brodsky, E. E., et al. (2020), 'The State of Stress on the Fault Before, During, and After a Major Earthquake', Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 48:2.1–2.26, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060507 PDF
Dascher-Cousineau*, K., Kirkpatrick, J. D., and Cooke, M. (2018), ‘Smoothing of Fault Slip Surfaces by Scale-Invariant Wear’, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 123, doi:10.1029/2018JB015638. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Shervais*, K. A. H., and Ronayne, M. J. (2018), 'Spatial variation in the slip zone thickness of a seismogenic fault', Geophysical Research Letters, 45(18), 7542-7550, doi: 10.1029/2018GL078767. PDF
Hartman*, S. M., Paterson, S. R., Holk, G. J., and Kirkpatrick, J. D. (2018), ‘Structural and hydrothermal evolution of a strike-slip shear zone during a ductile-brittle transition, Sierra Nevada, CA’, Journal of Structural Geology, 113, 134-154, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2018.05.010. PDF
Edwards*, J. H., Kluesner, J. W., Silver, E. A., Brodsky, E. E., Brothers, D. S., Bangs, N. L., Kirkpatrick, J. D., Wood, R., Okamoto, K. (2018), Corrugated megathrust revealed offshore Costa Rica, Nature Geoscience, 11, 197–202, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0061-4. PDF
Savage, H. M., Kirkpatrick, J. D., Mori, J. J., Brodsky, E. E., Ellsworth, W. L., Carpenter, B. M., Chen, X., Cappa, F., and Kano, Y. (2017), ‘Workshop report: Scientific Exploration of Induced Seismicity and Stress (SEISMS)’, Scientific Drilling, 23, 57-63, doi: 10.5194/sd-23-57-2017. PDF
Compton*, K. E., Kirkpatrick, J. D., & Holk, G. J. (2017), ‘Cyclical shear fracture and viscous flow during transitional ductile-brittle deformation in the Saddlebag Lake Shear Zone, California’, Tectonophysics, 708, 1-14, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.04.006. PDF
Shervais*, K. and Kirkpatrick, J. D., ‘Smoothing and re-roughening processes: The geometric evolution of a single fault zone’, (2016), Journal of Structural Geology, 91, 130-143, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2016.09.004 PDF
** Awarded Journal of Structural Geology student research paper of the year, 2016 **
Keren*, T. T., and J. D. Kirkpatrick (2016), The damage is done: Low fault friction recorded in the damage zone of the shallow Japan Trench décollement, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 121, doi:10.1002/2015JB012311. PDF
Keren*, T. K. and Kirkpatrick, J. D. (2016), Tectonic and induced structures in the JFAST core, in Chester, F.M., Mori, J., Eguchi, N., Toczko, S., and the Expedition 343/343T Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 343/343T. PDF
Brodsky, E.E., Kirkpatrick, J.D., and Candela. T. (2016), Constraints from fault roughness on the scale-dependent strength of rocks, Geology, 44(1), 19–22, doi:10.1130/G37206.1 PDF
Bose S., Saha P., Mori J. J., Rowe C., Ujiie K., Chester F. M., Conin M., Regalla C., Kameda J., Toy V., Kirkpatrick J. D., Remitti F., Moore J. C., Wolfson-Schwehr M., Nakamura Y., and Gupta A. (2015), ‘Deformation structures in the frontal prism near the Japan Trench: Insights from Sandbox Models’, Journal of Geodynamics, 89, 29–38, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2015.06.002. PDF
Rabinowitz*, H., Savage, H. M., Plank, T., Polissar, P. J., Kirkpatrick, J. D. and Rowe, C. D. (2015), ‘Multiple major faults at the Japan Trench: Chemostratigraphy of the plate boundary at IODP Exp. 343: JFAST’, Earth & Planetary Science Letters., 423, 57-66, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.04.010. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Strasser, M., Kodaira, S., Sample, J. C., Mori, J. and Saito, S., ‘IODP Workshop: Tracking the Tsunamigenic slips Across and Along the Japan Trench (JTRACK)’, Scientific Drilling, 19, 27–32, doi:10.5194/sd-19-27-2015. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Rowe, C. D., Ujiie, K., Moore, J. C., Regalla, C. A., Remitti, F., Toy, V., Wolfson-Schwehr, M., Kameda, J., Bose, S., and Chester, F. M. (2015), ‘Structure and lithology of the Japan Trench subduction plate boundary fault’, Tectonics, 34, doi:10.1002/2014TC003695. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D. and Brodsky, E. E. (2014), ‘Slickenline orientations as a record of fault rock rheology’, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 408, 24-34, doi10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.040. PDF
Shervais, J., J. Evans, V. Toy, J. D. Kirkpatrick, A. Clarke, and J. Eichelberger (2014), ‘Drilling to investigate processes in active tectonics and magmatism: Volcanics, Geoprisms, and Fault Zones Post-SAFOD’, Scientific Drilling, 18, 19–33, doi:10.5194/sd-18-19-2014. PDF
Soden, A. M., Shipton, Z. K., Lunn, R. J., Pytharouli, S. I., Kirkpatrick, J. D., do Nascimento, A. F., Bezerra, F. H. R. (2014), ‘Brittle structures focused on subtle crustal heterogeneities: implications for flow in fractured rocks’, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 171, 509-524, doi:10.1144/jgs2013-051. PDF
Fulton, P. M., Brodsky, E., Kano, Y., Mori, J., Chester, F., Ishikawa, T., Harris, R., Lin, W., Eguchi, N., Toczko, S., and Expedition 343/343T Science Party (2013), ‘Low coseismic friction on the Tohoku-oki fault determined from temperature measurements’, Science, 342 (6163), 1214-1217, doi: 10.1126/science.1243641. PDF
Ujiie, K., Tanaka, H., Saito, T., Tsutsumi, A., Mori, J. J., Kameda, J., Brodsky, E., Chester, F. M., Eguchi, N., Toczko, S., and Expedition 343/343T Scientists (2013), ‘Low coseismic friction on the Tohoku megathrust determined from laboratory experiments’, Science, 342 (6163), 1211-1214, doi: 10.1126/science.1243485. PDF
Chester, F. D., Rowe, C. D., Ujiie, K., Kirkpatrick, J. D., Regalla, C., Remitti, F., Moore, J. C., Toy, V., Wolfson-Schwehr, M., Bose, S., Kameda, J., Mori, J. J., Brodsky, E., Eguchi, N., Toczko, S., and Expedition 343 and 343T Scientists (2013), ‘A thin and weak plate-boundary decollement in the region of maximum slip, 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake’, Science, 342 (6163), 1208-1211, doi:10.1126/science.1243719. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Rowe, C. D., White, J. C., and Brodsky, E. E. (2013), ‘Silica gel formation during fault slip: Evidence from the rock record’, Geology, 41(9), 1015-1018, doi:10.1130/G34483.1. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D. and Rowe, C. D. (2013), 'Disappearing ink: How pseudotachylytes are lost from the rock record', Journal of Structural Geology, 52, 183-198, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2013.03.003. PDF
Chester, F.M., Mori, J., Eguchi, N., Toczko, S. (2013), and the Expedition 343/343T Scientists, ‘Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST)’, Proceedings of the IODP, 343/343T: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.343343T.2013. PDF
Lin, W., Conin, M., Moore, J. C., Chester, F. M., Nakamura, Y., Mori, J. J., Anderson, L., Eguchi, N., and the Expedition 343 Scientists (2013), 'Stress state in the largest displacement area of the 2011 Tohoku- Oki Earthquake', Science, 339, 687-690, doi:10.1126/science.1229379. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Bezerra, F. H. R., Shipton, Z. K., do Nascimento, A. F., Pytharouli, S. I., Lunn, R. J. and Soden, A. M. (2013), ‘Scale-dependent influence of pre-existing basement shear zones on rift faulting: a case study from northeast Brazil’, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 170, 237-247, doi: 10.1144/jgs2012-043. PDF
Chester, F. M., Mori, J. J., Toczko, S., Eguchi, N. and the Expedition 343/343T Scientists (2012), ‘Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343/343T Preliminary Report, Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), 1 April–24 May 2012 and 5–19 July 2012’, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc. PDF
Sherry*, T. J., Rowe, C. D., Kirkpatrick, J. D., and Brodsky, E. E. (2012), ‘Emplacement and dewatering of the world’s largest exposed sand injectite complex’, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13, Q08008, doi:10.1029/2012GC004157. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Dobson, K. J., Mark, D., Shipton, Z. K., Brodsky, E. E. and Stuart, F. M. (2012), ‘The depth of pseudotachylyte formation from detailed thermochronology and constraints on coseismic stress drop variability', Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B06406, doi:10.1029/2011JB008846. PDF
Rowe, C. D., Kirkpatrick, J. D., and Brodsky, E. E. (2012), ‘Fault rock injections record paleo-earthquakes’, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 335-336, 154-166, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.015. PDF
Pytharouli S. I., Lunn R. J., Shipton Z. K., Kirkpatrick J., D., and do Nascimento A. F. (2011), ‘Microseismicity illuminates fluid pathways in the shallow crust’, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L02402, doi: 10.1029/2010GL045875. PDF
Moir, H., Lunn, R. J., Shipton, Z. K., and Kirkpatrick, J. D. (2010), Simulating brittle fault evolution from networks of pre-existing structures, Journal of Structural Geology, 1742–1753, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.08.016. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., and Z. K. Shipton (2009), Geologic evidence for multiple slip weakening mechanisms during seismic slip in crystalline rock, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B12401, doi:10.1029/2008JB006037. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Shipton, Z. K, and Persano, C. (2009), Pseudotachylytes; rarely generated, rarely preserved or rarely reported? Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v.99, p. 382-388. doi:10.1785/0120080114. PDF
Kirkpatrick, J.D., Shipton Z.K., Evans J.P., Micklethwaite S., Lim S.J. and McKillop P. (2008), Strike-slip fault terminations at seismogenic depths; the structure and kinematics of the Glacier Lakes fault, Sierra Nevada, U.S.A., Journal of Geophysical Research, 113(B4), B04304 doi:10.1029/2007JB005311. PDF
Shipton, Z.K., Soden, A.M., Kirkpatrick J.D., Bright, A.M., and Lunn, R.J. (2006), ‘How thick is a fault? Fault displacement-thickness scaling revisited’, in 'Earthquakes, Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting', Abercrombie, R., McGarr, A., Kanamori, H., and Di Toro, G., (eds), AGU Geophysical Monograph, number 170. PDF