Nicholas Hayman

Nick studies faults and fault rocks, the latter the geologic record of faulting and related processes such as earthquakes and hydrothermal fluid flow. He is also interested in general problems in structural geology, tectonics, and lithospheric dynamics.

Aside from the projects listed below, Nick is developing several field and laboratory based programs, including:

- Laboratory approaches to imaging forces in deforming shear zones (see Daniels and Hayman, in press at JGR)

- Structure of the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center

- Off and on-shore geology of the Japan margin: East of Nankai to the Boso Peninsula

- Post-Cretaceous Gulf of Mexico-margin evolution

- Tertiary evolution of the Pacific Northwest (Cheney and Hayman, in revision for GSA Bulletin)

Please contact Nick if:

-       you are a student looking for a research-driven graduate experience that combines geological and geophysical techniques to understand the most impressive plate boundaries

-       you require assistance with the characterization of geologic materials, mapping of structurally complex areas, or the integration of off- and on-shore geological or geophysical data

Active or Recently Completed Research Projects
Collaborative Research: Structure and Composition of Fast-Spread EPR (East Pacific Rise) Oceanic Crust Exposed at Pito Deep (PIs E. Klein and J. Karson; NSF-OCE 0222154)

Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 3. Nick participated in IODP Expedition 312.

Oceanic Core Complex Formation, Atlantis Massif 1. Nick participated in IODP Expedition 304.

Publications

Daniels, K.E., and Hayman, N.W. in press at Journal of Geophysical Research, Force Chains in seismogenic faults visualized with photoelastic granular shear experiments.

Hirose, T., Hayman, N.W., 2008, Structure, permeability, and strength of a fault zone in the footwall of an oceanic core complex, the Central Dome of the Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30, pp.1060-1071; doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2008.04.009

Hayman, N.W., Karson, J.A., (2007), Faults and damage zones in fast-spread crust exposed on the north wall of the Hess Deep Rift: Conduits and seals in seafloor hydrothermal systems, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q10002, doi:10.1029/2007GC001623.

Hayman, Nicholas W., 2006, Shallow crustal fault rocks from the Black Mountain detachments, Death Valley, CA, Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 28, Issue 10, pp. 1767-1784

Hayman, N.W., Housen, B.A., Cladouhos, T.T., and Livi, K., Magnetic and clast fabrics as measurements of grain-scale processes within the Death Valley shallow-crustal detachment faults, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 109 (2004), pp. B05409 (doi: 10.1029/2203JB02902.).

Hayman, N.W., Knott, J., Cowan, D.S., Nemser, E., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Quaternary low-angle slip on detachment faults in Death Valley, California, Geology, vol. 31 no. 4 (2003), pp. 343-346 .

Hayman, N.W., and Kidd, W.S.F., 2002. Reactivation of prethrust, synconvergence normal faults within the Champlain-Taconic thrust system, west-central Vermont, U.S.A.: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, pp. 476-489.