Classical field-based structural geology surveys on meso-scale fault planes have been widely used to characterize fault systems (e.g., kinematics, slip rates evolutionary stages). In support of these approaches, recent advances in quantitative geomorphology, numerical modelling, source-to-sink systems analyses, facies analysis combined with micropaleontology, and geochronological techniques are revealing the potential that geomorphic and stratigraphic data can have in providing information on fault systems’ geometry, kinematics, strain partitioning, deformation onset, fault system propagation, fault slip rates, earthquakes recurrence times, etc.
Advances in these emerging topics produce new insights to structural geology, active tectonics and geodynamics questions, also with important implication on natural hazards assessments and landscape evolution studies.
In this session we welcome studies addressing fault systems characterization, evolution, and hazard assessments using a combination of geomorphic, sedimentologic/stratigraphic, and/or geochronological data. In more detail, the session aims to host contributions dealing with, but not limited to:
- Fault activity and sedimentation;
- Inversion of fluvial topography;
- fault-slip signal propagation through the landscape;
- Connections between stratigraphic and geomorphic records;
- Fault control on sediment dynamics in source-to-sink systems;
- Cyclostratigraphy applied in natural, analog, and numerical environments;
- Fault-controlled spatio-temporal distribution of various depositional facies;
- Tectonically-driven environmental signals encoded into stratigraphic records.