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Evidence for coseismic subsidence events in a southern California coastal saltmarsh

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, March 2017
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Title
Evidence for coseismic subsidence events in a southern California coastal saltmarsh
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Scientific Reports, March 2017
DOI 10.1038/srep44615
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Robert Leeper, Brady Rhodes, Matthew Kirby, Katherine Scharer, Joseph Carlin, Eileen Hemphill-Haley, Simona Avnaim-Katav, Glen MacDonald, Scott Starratt, Angela Aranda

Abstract

Paleoenvironmental records from a southern California coastal saltmarsh reveal evidence for repeated late Holocene coseismic subsidence events. Field analysis of sediment gouge cores established discrete lithostratigraphic units extend across the wetland. Detailed sediment analyses reveal abrupt changes in lithology, percent total organic matter, grain size, and magnetic susceptibility. Microfossil analyses indicate that predominantly freshwater deposits bury relic intertidal deposits at three distinct depths. Radiocarbon dating indicates that the three burial events occurred in the last 2000 calendar years. Two of the three events are contemporaneous with large-magnitude paleoearthquakes along the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault system. From these data, we infer that during large magnitude earthquakes a step-over along the fault zone results in the vertical displacement of an approximately 5-km(2) area that is consistent with the footprint of an estuary identified in pre-development maps. These findings provide insight on the evolution of the saltmarsh, coseismic deformation and earthquake recurrence in a wide area of southern California, and sensitive habitat already threatened by eustatic sea level rise.

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Country Count As %
Japan 1 4%
Estonia 1 4%
Unknown 21 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 7 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 12 52%
Environmental Science 3 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Unknown 7 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 233. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 March 2023.
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#162,963
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#1,961
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#71
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