Reply to Comment on Late Holocene Rupture of the Northern San Andreas Fault and Possible Stress Linkage to the Cascadia Subduction Zone by Chris Goldfinger, Kelly Grijalva, Roland Brgmann,Ann E. Morey, Joel E. Johnson, C. Hans Nelson, Julia Gutirrez-Pastor,Andrew Ericsson, Eugene Karabanov, Jason D. Chaytor, Jason Patton,and Eullia Grcia by Ganapathy Shanmugam

摘要

Goldfinger et al. (2008) primarily relate the paleoseismic histories of the Cascadia subduction zone and northern San Andreas fault (NSAF), which is why we chose to publish the work in BSSA. The evidence for paleoseismic triggering of turbidity currents in both Cascadia and along the NSAF has been published previously (Adams, 1990; Goldfinger et al.,2003, 2007). Shanmugam (2009) has commented on a variety of sedimentological issues, many of which would be of interest to the sedimentology and sediment dynamics communities but are out of place in BSSA. We focus our reply only on those comments that have a bearing on the paleoseismic investigation in Goldfinger et al. (2008), specifically,(1) turbidite triggering mechanisms, (2) sedimentological concepts and criteria, and (3) correlation methodologies.