Kat Sauer (@[email protected])

Structural geologist, interested in #faults, #earthquakes, and #shearzones. #USGS map editor. Love 🐕‍🦺, ✈️🌎, 📷, 🥾. Left my ♥️ in 🇳🇿. Views mine. She/her

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@NetflixIsAJoke My two favorite comedians and one of the most inspiring earthquake scientists and an always reliable voice after an earthquake...@DrLucyJones together with Bill Hader and John Mulaney is not something I ever even imagined happening, but it might be my favorite ensemble!

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@phaneritic Definitely keeping an eye on these, I think one would make all my usgs colleagues super jealous!!

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@MarsRoverMapper @AnnaGHughes I got a rejection recently from a Federal job that I applied to in late 2018 😂

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@phaneritic right back at ya!

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@jessphoenix2018 On Wednesday it was a beautiful 50F and we ate lunch outside in the sun. 7 hours later is was -8 and snowing, and yesterday our high was -2. My pups love the snow, but feel betrayed that it HURTS now and can't understand why. Thankful I get to WFH and haven't had to be out in it!

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@LathropBailey 2) fold in Fish Canyon Wash, Anza Borrego State Park, CA; I've read various interpretations of this (gravitational slump versus fault-bend fold); and 3) aerial view of the Sheep Mountain anticline, WY, a doubly-plunging, basement-cored anticline. (not my photo).

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@LathropBailey fun! Here are a few of my faves...
1) Isoclinal folds in amphibolites of lower Monarch Canyon,Death Valley, CA. The folds here are nicely highlighted by the folded leucogranite sills, with overthickening in the hinges.

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@hillman_jess @theAGU 3 talks?!? Jess, you're a superstar!

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

Very excited to see this finally published. The trenching on the Hundalee Fault with @faulty_Jack, @OtagoGeology, and @gnsscience was definitely a high point from my time in NZ🇳🇿. They did wonderful work on this paper, and I'm stoked I was a small part of it!

#NZJGG #NZgeology

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

🚨📢 New paper alert!
Focused on the #HundaleeFault, one of the faults involved in the complex rupture sequence from the 2016 #Kaikōura #earthquake.

"Hundalee Fault, North Canterbury, New Zealand: late Quaternary activity and regional tectonics"

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https://t.co/a6jBqjrUdv

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

We describe the structural characterisation of the Hundalee, the neotectonics based on our fault trenching, and tectonic geomorphology of the area, then use all this to evaluate the relationship between the Hundalee and other surface-rupture faults from the Kaikōura earthquake.

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@timblor interesting. Can you put it in your name, like mine has? It hasn't earned me a suspension (yet)

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@SpaceWhaleRider I didn't even finish and it took me months to recover after quitting! It's a huge and stressful life event, and you've had a wild ride. You will get there. Be kind to yourself, you will bounce back!

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@spaceandweather I prefer my 10 minute drive now, but my previous job I had a 45 minute light rail commute and except for dealing with crowds, I liked it for the same reason. Time to drink coffee & wake up on the way in, and time to read my book and decompress in the evening.

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@Xeno_lith I'm so sorry to hear this. At friendsgiving, we had someone about to travel abroad who was nervous about a gathering due to restrictions where they were headed; so we all tested unprompted just to be sure and put them at ease. It's not that hard to be a good person/friend 😔

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@KeepItRheol @Virtualgeol @seis_matters @therealtglotch It's been about 15 years since I worked on it and I was just describing samples, but IIRC shocked quartz is fairly common at Barringer (Meteor) Crater, in the Coconino Sandstone; or at least common enough that researchers were able to split samples up into 5 SQ categories

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@janinekrippner not me, but a friend's mom was on the toilet for the main Northridge quake, then again for the aftershock ~11 hours later, and again for one of the other smaller aftershocks. We were about 10-15 miles from the epicenter, so strong shaking! Poor thing.

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@Volcanologist Hi! I used to live in Dunedin and would be happy to share some ideas for Otago area and the West Coast, though I've never done any of it with little kids. Also have a ton of friends in both that area and a few up North and am happy to ask them for suggestions! Feel free to DM :)

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@spaceandweather this will vary by location of course, but many places have community-run programs for various types of labor. I did that when I moved here to CO and it worked well, and was inexpensive! Good luck, moving is so stressful (but worth it)!

[Kat Sauer (@[email protected]) @Gneiss_kitty]

@Ready_Northwest