Associate Professor
Education:
- B.S., University of Vermont—Geology
- M.S., University of Tennessee—Geology
- Ph.D., University of Connecticut—Geology
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Davis—Neotectonics
Courses Taught:
Dynamic Earth, GEOS101
Dynamic Earth Lab, GEOS102
Environmental Geology, GEOS310
Structural Geology, GEOS325
Field Geology, GEOS326
Plate Tectonics, GEOS362
Research Methods, GEOS380
Professional Interests:
Structural geology, earthquake geology, plate boundary deformation, neotectonics
Current Projects:
Costa Rica—contemporary crustal deformation constrained by tectonic geomorphology, geochronology and earthquake modeling
SW Japan—controls on Great Earthquakes: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NantroSEIZE) (IUP Magazine Article)
Taiwan—the neotectonics of arc-continent collision constrained by modeling outcrop-scale faults and earthquakes
Eastern California—the growth of continental strike-slip fault systems
Selected Publication:
(*indicates students)
2008
Lewis, J.C., A.C. Boozer*, A. López and W. Montero, Collision versus sliver transport in the hanging wall at the Middle America subduction zone: Constraints from background seismicity in central Costa Rica, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9. Q07S06, doi:10.1029/2007GC001711.
Link to citation and abstract
2007
Lewis, J. C., Fine-scale partitioning of contemporary strain in the southern Walker Lane: Implications for accommodating divergent strike-slip motion, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 29, p. 1201-1215, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2007.02.015.
Lewis, J. C., R. J. Twiss, C. J. Pluhar and F. C. Monastero, Multiple constraints on divergent strike-slip deformation along the eastern margin of the Sierran microplate, SE California, in: Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-Slip Systems, eds: Till, A. B., S. M. Roeske, J. C. Sample, and D. A. Foster, Geological Society of America Special Paper 434, p. 107-128.
2006
Pluhar, C. J., R. S. Coe, J. C. Lewis, F. C. Monastero and J. M. G. Glen, Fault block kinematics at a releasing stepover of the Eastern California shear zone: Partitioning of rotation style in and around the Coso geothermal area and nascent metamorphic core complex, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 250, p. 134-163, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.07.034.
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