Katherine J . Kendrick
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1999
Specialty: Tectonic Geomorphology
Email: Kendrick@gps.caltech.edu
Phone: (951) 827-4418
Office: Geology 1345C
Research Interests:
Tectonic geomorphology; fault activity and interactions in Southern California; pedogenic processes as applied to neotectonics; paleoseismicity.
Recent Projects:
Tectonic deformation surrounding a restraining fault bend, northern San Jacinto fault, southern California; fault rupture associated with the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, southern California; uplift and fault history of the Gurvan Bulag and Bogd faults, Mongolia.
Selected Publications
Kendrick, K.J., Graham, R.C., 2004, Pedogenic Silica Accumulation in Chronosequence Soils, Southern California. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 68, 1295-1303.
Kendrick, K.J., Morton, D.M., Wells, S.G., and Simpson, R.W., 2002, Spatial and temporal deformation along the northern San Jacinto fault, southern California; Implications for slip rates; Bull. Seis. Soc. Am. vol.92, no.7, pp.2782-2802.
Treiman, J.A., Kendrick, K.J., Bryant, W.A., Rockwell, T.K., McGill, S.F., 2002, Primary surface rupture associated with the Mw7.1 16 October, 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, San Bernardino County, California; Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., vol.92, no.4, pp.1171-1191, May 2002
Prentice, C.S., Kendrick, K.J., Berryman, K., Ritz, J.R., and Spencer, J., 2002, Prehistoric ruptures of the Gurvan Bulag fault, Gobi Altay, Mongolia; Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, no. B12.
Ritz, J-F, Bourlès, D., Brown, E.T., Carretier, S., Chery, J., Enhtuvshin, B., Galsan, P., Finkel, R.C., Hanks, T.C., Kendrick, K.J., Philip, H., Raisbeck, G., Schlupp, A., Schwartz, D.P., and Yiou, F., 2003, Late Pleistocene to Holocene slip rates for the Gurvan Bulag thrust fault estimated with 10Be dates; Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 108, no. B3, pp
Hecker, S., Kendrick, K.J., Ponti, D.J., and Hamilton, J., 1998, Digital Fault and Fold Map and Database for Southern California: Phase I - Faults of Long Beach 30' x 60' quadrangle; U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 98-129.
Kendrick, K.J., and McFadden, L.D., 1996, Comparison and contrast of processes of soil formation in the San Timoteo Badlands with chronosequences in California; Quaternary Research, v. 46, p. 149-160.