Andreas Plesch

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Essential Information:

Contact:

Harvard University
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
20 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Tel.: +1-617-496-4421(l)/495-0367(o)
Fax.: +1-617-495-7660
email: andreas_plesch@harvard.edu

Research interests:

3d kinematics and geometry of faults and their interaction
connecting geological observation on a larger scale (10-1000km) with first order mechanics
initiation and evolution of convergent and transform continental margins

Additional Material:

Professional situation:

During the course of a Post-Doc position with J. Shaws group I am currently focussing on the reconstruction of a seismogenic fold and thrust belt in the northern LA basin. Due the blind (non-outcropping) nature of this belt, this involves to a large degree the interpretation and validation of industrial seismic reflection lines and bore hole data. For geo-referencing, reconstruction and deformation modelling we use a variety of advanced hard- and software .
Please see my very outdated former homepage for my Ph.D. work at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam .
C.V.
selected publications (some reprints still available).

Data:

compiled map of the Rhernohercynian fold and thrust belt in Central Europe in dxf format (coordinates for utm zone 3) and as a CorelDraw5 drawing .
topography of the northern LA-Basin in a 30m resolution offered as xyz ascii format and standard usgs dem (coordinates for utm zone 11). For this I processed 18 SDTS transfers (archives) of the usgs with arcinfo (email for detailed procedure) mainly for getting to know the area and having available a nice and exactly geo-referenced base map.
my complete Ph.D. thesis (!), also available as reprint.
beach balls in gocad: a presentation.
425 (!) professional geologic map patterns for Canvas and Illustrator

Software:

12/4/01