Gary Carver
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Contact Information
- Office: CARVER
GEOLOGIC Inc.
PO Box 52
12021 Middle Bay Drive
Kodiak, AK 99615 - Phone: 907-487-4551
- Email:
- cgeol@acsalaska.net
- Personal Web Site: N/A
Research Interests
- Paleoseismology, Neotectonics, Geo-archaeology
Education History
- Ph.D, Geology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1972
- M.S., Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, 1969
- B.A., Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, 1967
Professional Background
Emeritus Professor of Geology, Humboldt State University, 1998
Humboldt Medal, 1995 Scholar of the Year
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOK CHAPTERS
Saltonstall, P. and Carver, G. A., 2002, Earthquakes, subsidence, prehistoric site attrition and the archaeological record: a view from the Settlement Point site, Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska, Chapter 10, in Grattan, John and Torrence, Robin (eds.) Natural Disasters, and Cultural Change. Routledge, London: p. 172-193.
Carver, G. A., and McCalpin, J. P., 1996, Paleoseismology of Compressional Tectonic Environments - Chapter 5, in J. P. McCalpin, ed., Paleoseismology, Academic press, p. 183-270.
This book awarded: 2000 E. B. Burwell Award, Engineering Geology Division, Geological Society of America.
1999 Clair P. Holdredge Award, Association of Engineering Geologists.
SCIENTIFIC/PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL ARTICLES
Carver, G., Sauber, J., Lettis, Wm., Witter, R., and Whitney, B., (in press), Active Faults on Northeastern Kodiak Island, Alaska, in American Geophysical Union Monograph "Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska".
Carver, G., and Plafker, G., (in press), Paleoseismicity and Neotectonics of the Aleutian Subduction Zone – An Overview, in American Geophysical Union Monograph “Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska”.
Sauber, J., Carver, G., Cohen, S., and King, R., 2006 Crustal Deformation and the Seismic Cycle across the Kodiak Islands, Alaska, Jour. Geophy. Res. v. 111, B02403.
Carver, G., Plafker, G., Metz, M., Cluff, L., Slemmons, B., Johnson, E., Roddick, J., Sornsen, S., 2004, Surface Rupture on the Denali Fault Interpreted from Tree Damage during the 1912 Delta River M w 7.2-7.4 Earthquake: Implications for the 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake Slip Distribution, in: The 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake Sequence, Dedicated Issue, eds: Rowe, C.A., D. Christensen and G. Carver, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94B, S58-S71.
Rowe, C.A., D. Christensen and G. Carver, 2004, Preface to the 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake Sequence Dedicated Issue, in: The 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake Sequence, Dedicated Issue, eds: Rowe, C.A., D. Christensen and G. Carver, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94B, S1-S4.
Kayen, R., Thompson, E., Minasian, D., Moss, R., Collins, B., Sitar, N., Dreger, D., and Carver, G., 2004, Geotechnical Reconnaissance of the 2002 Denali Fault, Alaska, Earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, v. 20, no. 3, p. 639-667.
Harp, E. L., Jibson, R. W., Kayen, R. E., Keefer, D. K., Sherrod, B. S., Carver, G. A., Collins, B. D., Moss, E. S., and Sitar, N., 2004, Landslides and Liquefaction triggered by the M 7.9 Denali Fault earthquake of 3 November 2002, GSA Today, v. 13, no. 8, p.4-10.
Eberhart-Phillips, D., Haeussler, P. J., Freymueller, J. T., Frankel, A. D. Rubin, C. M., Craw, P., Ratchkovski, N. A., Anderson, G., Carver, G. A., Crone, A. J., Dawson, T. E., Fletcher, H., Hansen, R., Harp, E. L., Harris, R. A., Hill, D. P., Hreinsdóttir, S., Jibson, R. W., Jones, L. M., Kayen, R., Keefer, D. K., Larsen, C. F., Moran, S. C., Personius, S. C., Plafker. G., Sherrod, B., Sieh, K., Sitar, N., Wallace, W. K., 2003, The 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake, Alaska: A Large Magnitude, Slip-Partitioned Event; Science v. 300, p. 1113-1118.
Knudson, K. L., Witter, R. C., Garrison-Laney, C. E., Baldwin, J. N., and Carver, G. A., 2002, Past earthquake-induced rapid subsidence along the northern San Andreas fault: A paleoseimological method for investigating strike-slip faults, Bull. Seismological Soc. America, v. 92, no. 7, p. 2612-2636.
Suleimani, E. N., Combellick, R. A., Hansen, R. A., and Carver, G. A., 2002, Tsunami Hazard Mapping of Alaska Coastal Communities, Alaska Geological News, State of Alaska Geological and Geophysical Surveys, v. 6, no, 2, 1-5.
Knecht, R. A., Davis, R. S., and Carver, G. A., 2001, The Margaret Bay Site and Eastern Aleutian prehistory, in Dumond (ed.), Archaeology in the Aleut Zone of Alaska, Some Recent Research; University of Oregon Anthropological Papers v.58, 35 p.
Plafker, G., Carver, G. A., and Clarke, S. H. Jr., 2000, Seismotectonics of the 1964 Alaska earthquake as an analog for future tsunamigenic southern Cascadia subduction earthquakes, in Clague, J., Atwater, B., Wang, K., Wang, M. M., and Wong, I., eds., Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Penrose Conference, Great Cascadia Earthquake Tricentennial: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Special Paper 33, p. 96-97.
Carver, G. A., 2000, Paleoseismic geology of the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone, in John Clague, Brian Atwater, Kevin Wang, Mei Mei Wang, and Ivan Wong, eds., Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Penrose Conference: Great Cascadia Earthquake Tercentennial, Oregon Dept. Geology and Mineral Industries p. 26-27.
Hemphill-Haley, M. A., Page, W. D., Carver, G. A., and Burke, R. M., 2000, Paleoseismicity of the Alvord Fault, Steens Mountain, southeastern Oregon, in Noller, J.S., Sowers, J. M., and Lettis, W. R., eds., Quaternary Geochronology, Methods and Applications, AGU Reference Shelf 4, p. 537-540.
Hemphill-Haley, M. A., Page, W. D., Carver, G. A., and Burke, R. M., 1998, Paleoseismicity of the Alvord Fault, Steens Mountains, southeast Oregon, in Sowers, J. M., Noller, J. S., and Lettis, W. R., eds., Dating and Earthquakes: Review of Quaternary Geochronology and its Application to Paleoseismology, Volume NUREG/CR-5562, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, p. 3.89-3.95.
Nelson, A., Atwater, B., Benson, B., Bobrowsky, P., Bradley, L., Clague, J., Carver, G., Darienzo, M., Grant, W., Krueger, H., Sparks, R., Stafford, T., and Stuiver, M., 1995, Radiocarbon evidence for extensive plate-boundary rupture about 300 years ago at the Cascadia subduction zone, Nature, v.378, no. 6555, p. 371-374.
Aalto, K. R., McLaughlin, R. J., Carver, G. A., Barron, J. A., Sliter, W. V., and McDougall, K., 1995, Uplifted Neogene margin, southernmost Cascadia-Mendocino triple junction region, California, Tectonics, v. 32, no. 1, p. 1104-1116.
Bickner, F., Chaney, R., Lindberg, D., Carver, G., Conversano, G., Williston, G., Willcox, C., and Gervan, D., 1995, Site specific seismic/geologic hazards risk zoning, Paper no. 7.06, Proceedings, Third International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, April 4-7, 1995, St. Louis, Missouri, 4 p.
Atwater, B. F., Nelson, A. R., Clague, J. J., Carver, G. A., Bobrowsky, P. T., Bourgeois, J., Darienzo, M. E., Grant, W. C., Hemphill-Haley, E., Kelsey, H. M., Jacoby, G. C., Nishenko, S. P., Palmer, S. P., Peterson, C. D., Reinhart, M. A., and Yamaguchi, D. K., 1995, Summary of coastal geologic evidence for past great earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone, Earthquake Spectra. v. II.1, 23 P.
Jacoby, G., Carver, G., and Wagner, W., 1995, Trees and herbs killed by an earthquake ~300 yrs ago at Humboldt Bay, California, Geology, v. 23, no. 1, p. 77-80.
Carver, G. A., Jayko, A. S., Valentine, D. W., and Li, W. H., 1994, Coastal uplift associated with the 1992 Cape Mendocino earthquake, northern California, Geology, v. 22, p. 195-198.
Gilpin, L. M., Carver, G. A., Ward, S. Anderson, R.S., 1994, Tidal benchmark readings and post-seismic rebound of the Kodiak Islands, SW extent of the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake rupture: Seismological Research Letters, v. 65, no.1, p. 68.
Carver, G. A., 1993, Paleoseismology of the Gorda Segment of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, in Frizzell, V. A. Jr., Proceedings of the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-333, p. 36-40.
Oppenheimer, D., Beroza, G., Carver, G., Dengler, L., Eaton, J., Gee, L., Gonzalz, A., Jayko, A., Li, W. H., Lisowski, M., Magee, M., Marshall, G., Murray, R., McPherson, R., Romanowicz, B., Satake, K., Simpson, R., Somerville, P., Stein, R., Valentine, D., 1993, The Cape Mendocino, California Earthquake Sequence of April, 1992: Subduction at the Triple Junction, Science v.261, p. 433-438.
Clarke, S. H., and Carver, G. A., 1992, Late Holocene tectonics and paleoseismicity, southern Cascadia subduction zone, Science, 255, p. 188-191.
MAPS
Slemmons, D. B., Vittori, E., Jayko, A. S., Carver, G., and Bacon, S.N., 2008, Quaternary fault and lineament map of Owens Valley, Inyo County, eastern California: Geological Society of America Map and Chart Series MCH096, 25p. and map, scale 1:100,000.
Slemmons, D. B., Vittori, E., Jayko, A. S., Carver, G., and Glass, C. E., 2007, Quaternary fault map of Owens Valley, Eastern California,: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Map, scale 1:200,000.
Suleimani, E. N., Hansen, R. A., Combellick, R. A., Carver, G. A., Kamphaus, R. A., Newman, J. C., and Venturato, A. J., 2002, Tsunami hazard maps of the Kodiak area, Alaska, Report of Investigation 2002-1, State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, maps and report, 16 p.
Robert J. McLaughlin, S.D. Ellen, M.C. Blake, Jr., Angela S. Jayko, W.P. Irwin, K.R. Aalto, G.A. Carver, and S.H. Clarke Jr., 2000, Geology of the Cape Mendocino, Eureka, Garberville, and Southwestern Part of the Hayfork 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangles and Adjacent Offshore Area, Northern California, U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Field Studies MF 2336.
Professor Carver is the author or co-author of over 100 additional peer reviewed journal articles, reports, and abstracts. Details provided on request.
