To the users of:

Exercises in Active Tectonics

Prentice Hall, 1996
I thank those of you who have taken the time to call or write to me regarding Exercises in Active Tectonics. The compliments have been appreciated, and the suggestions have been most welcome. Many of you sensed the same void in the areas of earthquake hazard and tectonic geomorphology that led me to compile these exercises. Hopefully, this exercise manual helps to fill that void. Many of you also have asked me to compile a solutions manual for these exercises, and that has now been completed. Your suggestions have helped me to clear up a number of typographical errors, ambiguities, as well as a few substantive errors scattered through the text. I did all of the page layout and final composition for this manual myself, and this was the principal tool for keeping the books price down (2/3 or less of the price of some comparable manuals). But excuses aside, I do apologize for these glitches, and Ive rushed to prepare this list of errata to fix the problems. Nicholas Pinter ERRATA Exercise 1 p. 5 and p. 10 Figures 1.5b and 1.8 suggest P and S velocities that are too high for Southern California. The correct velocities are VP = 5.4 km/sec and VS = 3.2 km/sec. A Corrected version of the travel-time curve is shown below:
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Exercise 3 p. 39, Question 3 Exercise 4 p. 59, Question 4 Exercise 5 p. 62, Step 1 Students have less trouble if they measure the long axis of the basin first and then define the short axis as the maximum width of the basin perpendicular to the long axis. Also, note that the outline of the basin must be drawn on the larger photo of the air-photo pair. Clarification: The trunk stream is defined as the highest order stream that runs through the basin. Replace 1.0 km-long segments with three or four 500 m-long segments The 250 x 250 m grid in Figure 5.8 is too coarse for accurate area measurements. Use the 100 x 100 m grid below instead. The actual age of this sample is 34,380 yrs (6 half lives), and not 5730 yrs. Clarification: Contour interval of the map is 50 feet.

p. 66, Question 4 p. 67, Question 5 p. 69, Fig. 5.8

Exercise 6 p. 80, Table 6.1 P. 83, Example 6.2 Typographical Error. Column 2 for T2 should be 3 m, and not 7 m as printed. This correction is important in order to make the correlations work. The elevation data is correct in the table, but incorrect in the Hypothesis. The Hypothesis should read: T1: 2 m; T2: 29 m; T3: 75 m; T4: 183 m.

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The figure works as originally printed, but a more accurate solution is possible with the enlarged version given below.
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Exercise 7 p. 91, Question 4 Exercise 9 p. 116, Fig. 9.5 Clarification: Feature F-7-1 is the filled crater and sand apron of a paleoliquefaction feature (sand volcano). Students see this much better if the feature is cross-hatched as illustrated below: Replace the phrase where the words Fault B are printed with where the fault intersects the present-day ground surface

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p. 118, Fig. 9.6.

Note that the caption incorrectly reads Figure 8.6. More importantly, Features T-2-1 and T-2-2 are more clearly identifiable if cross-hatched as illustrated below. Feature N-2-1 refers to the faults that rupture up through Layer 52.

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Regional Focus D p. 123-126 Exercise 10 p. 130, Exple 10.1 Note that the headers on the even-numbered pages incorrectly read The Cascadia Subduction Zone. Whoops.

The correct expression for calculating the standard deviation () of n values (y1 ... yn ) is: = ( (yi - )2 (n-1))0.5, where is the mean of the sample, n is the number of values, and (yi - )2 is the sum of (yi - )2 from i=1 to i=n. In the example, = 19.1 yrs and not 13.2 years; The correct expression is: P[27-52] = (P(27) P(52) ) P(27). Therefore, the solution to Example 10.1 is a likelihood of 51.7%, not 56.2%. N(52) = 0.21 and not 0.30; N(27) = -1.10 and not -1.59; P(T) = 1.000 0.136 = 0.864; P[27-52] P(27) = (0.864 0.417) 0.417 = 0.517.

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Exercise 11 p. 141, Eq. 11.2 p. 143 p. 147., Fig. 11.6 Exercise 12 p. 157 In both Questions 2 and 3, 5800 m should be replaced by 4800 m. A is calculated in cm/sec2 , not m/sec2 . Strike the last two sentences of the paragraph. Note that the overlay is slightly offset from the air photo. This makes the figure unsuitable as a San Francisco street map, but it does not affect the exercise.