Photo location: Rainbow Basin, Mojave Desert, CA
Erin R. Burkett
Postdoctoral Scholar in Geophysics, Seismo Lab, Caltech
Ph.D. in Geology, University of California, Davis
Education
Ph.D.
in Geology (Geophysics), University of California, Davis (June 2010).
B.S.
in Physics, University of Delaware (June 2004)
Minor in Art, UD (concentration
in Painting...see Artwork).
Postdoctoral Research (current)
- Click here
for my Caltech Seismo Lab webpage
Ph.D. Research (2004-2010) Advisor: Dr. Magali I. Billen
My Ph.D. research
involves the use of 2-D and 3-D dynamic numerical models to study Slab
Detachment, a subduction zone process during which part of a subducting plate
detaches. The main focus has been to
understand the controls on and effects of detachment due to the approach of a
spreading ridge to the trench and comparing results to observations in such
locations as Baja California, where detachment may have caused abandonment of
segments of the East Pacific Rise and anomalous (slab gap) volcanism along the
peninsula. Links to presented
results can be found below.
Poster presentations:
- 2005 AGU Fall Meeting: 2005 Poster
- 2006 AGU Fall Meeting: 2006 Poster
- 'Interior of the Earth' Gordon Research Conference, Mount Holyoke
College, MA, 2007 GRC Poster
- Subduction Zones Geodynamics Conference, Montpellier, France, 2007 (see
GRC poster above)
- 2007 AGU Fall Meeting: 2007 AGU
Poster
- 2008 Numerical Modeling Workshop (UCD): 2008 Workshop Poster
- MARGINS Workshop, Charleston, SC, April 29-May 3, 2009: MARGINS 2009 Poster
- Mantle/Lithosphere Dynamics
Workshop, Braunwald, Switzerland, June 28-July 3, 2009, Poster: PDF
- 2009 AGU Fall Meeting, T31A-1782: 2009
AGU Poster
Seminars/Talks:
- Invited seminar at CICESE in Ensenada, Mexico, June 13, 2008:
"2D Numerical Models of Ridge-Trench Collision: Implications for Slab
Detachment Beneath Baja California"
- Oral Presentation, 2008 UGM Meeting (October 26-31), Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico: PDF, Movie1,
Movie2, Movie3
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Oral Presentation, 2008 AGU Fall Meeting, T13E04: 2008 AGU PPT, & Movies 1 and 2
above
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Invited seminar, Caltech (Seismo Lab), Nov 7, 2008: PDF, Movie1, Movie2, Movie3,
Movie 4
"2D Numerical Models of Ridge-Trench Collision: Implications for Slab Detachment Beneath Baja California"
Manuscripts:
Andrews
(Burkett), Erin R., and Magali I. Billen (2009), Rheologic controls on the dynamics
of
slab detachment, Tectonophysics, 464, 60-69,
doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2007.09.004. pdf
Burkett, E. R., and M. I. Billen (2009), Dynamics and
implications of slab detachment due
to ridge-trench collision, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B12402, doi:10.1029/2009JB006402. online link
Burkett, E. R., and M. I. Billen (2010), Three-Dimensionality
of Slab Detachment Due to Ridge-Trench
Collision:
Laterally Simultaneous Boudinage Versus Tear Propagation, submitted to
G-Cubed, June 2010.
Movie 1,
Movie 2, Movie
3, Movie 4, pdf
- Completion of Ph.D.
Dissertation (June 2010): "Dynamics of the Detachment of Subducted
Tectonic Plates: Rheologic controls and Ridge-Trench Interactions" PDF
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Sayulita & Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2008