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Hiroko Kitajima
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University College Station
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Effect on Pore Fluid Pressure on Extension-Shear Mix-Mode Fracture of Carrara Marble
ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF HETEROGENEITIES IN DRY AND FLUID-PRESSURIZED FAULT ZONES ACROSS SCALES I POSTER
tectonophysics | 15 december 2023
Cate Tilley, Hiroko Kitajima
Pore fluid pressure within rock formations varies temporally and spatially and elevated pore pressure leads to low effective stress conditions. Elevat...
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Strength and consolidation state of prism and incoming sediments at the Hikurangi Margin
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Catherine Lloyd, Jaden Swearingen, Hiroko Kitajima
The Hikurangi Margin, where the Pacific plate subducts beneath the Indo-Australian plate, hosts a range of seismic events and slip, including earthqua...
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Frictional behaviors of the serpentine-rich East Anatolian fault rocks recovered from the Kartal trench site
TECTONIC SETTING, GEOPHYSICS, SURFACE RUPTURES, AND SIGNIFICANCE OF 6 FEBRUARY 2023 EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE IN SOUTHERN TÜRKIYE AND NORTHWESTERN SYRIA II POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Hiroko Kitajima, Rodrigo Gomila, Telemaco Tesei, M...
The East Anatolian Fault (EAF) is one of the major strike-slip faults and has hosted devastating earthquakes including the Mw 7.8 earthquake in Februa...
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Experimental Investigation of Brittle-Ductile Transition within Bishop Tuff
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EARTH MATERIALS (PPEM): DEFORMATION ACROSS SCALES III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 12 december 2023
Dawson Mooney, Lydia Field, Hiroko Kitajima, Xiaof...
The Bishop tuff is a deposit of rhyolitic volcanic ash and pumice that was ejected during the formation of the Long Valley Caldera in eastern Californ...
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Deformation and loading history of sediments and rocks in subduction zones
2022 NEW GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS II
union sessions | 13 december 2022
Hiroko Kitajima
In a subduction zone, porous sediments are incorporated into a system with a subducting plate. They are subjected to complicated loading history due t...
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Velocity‐Porosity Relations in Carbonate and Siliciclastic Subduction Zone Input Materials
GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS
28 december 2021
Tamara Jeppson, Hiroko Kitajima

The mechanical, physical, and frictional properties of incoming materials play an important role in subduction zone structure and slip behavior bec...

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Effects of Pore Fluid Pressure on Extension and Hybrid Fractures in Berea Sandstone and Carrara Marble
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EARTH MATERIALS (PPEM): THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 16 december 2021
Casey Ruplinger, Hiroko Kitajima
Subduction zones are home to a wide range of seismic activity including large earthquakes, low frequency earthquakes, slow slip events, and tremors. S...
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Estimation of in-situ rock strength of input materials and prism sediments at the Hikurangi Margin
SZ4D: INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF SUBDUCTION ZONE HAZARDS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 15 december 2021
Catherine Lloyd, Hiroko Kitajima
At the Hikurangi Margin offshore New Zealand, where the Pacific plate subducts underneath the Indo-Australian plate, recurring slow slip events (SSEs...
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