Paula Marques Figueiredo

Also known as: Paula Marques Figueiredo

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5625-9295

Active Tectonics, Neotectonics, Geology, Geomorphology, Quaternary

Works (30)

Updated: July 5th, 2023 14:33

2023 journal article

New developments in onshore paleoseismic methods, and their impact on Quaternary tectonic studies

QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL, 664, 59–76.

co-author countries: Australia 🇦🇺 Czechia 🇨🇿 Germany 🇩🇪 Italy 🇮🇹 Poland 🇵🇱 United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Quaternary tectonics; Paleoseismology; Methods; Review
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: April 3, 2023

2022 chapter

Application of Coastal Landforms to Active Tectonic Studies

In J. J. F. Shroder (Ed.), Treatise of Geomorphology, 2nd edition (Vol. 2, pp. 443–476).

By: P. Figueiredo n & T. Rockwell*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸

Ed(s): J. Shroder

Source: ORCID
Added: March 8, 2022

2022 chapter

Paleoseismological Studies

In J. J. F. Shroder (Ed.), Treatise of Geomorphology, 2nd edition (Vol. 2, pp. 495–562).

By: H. Kondo*, L. Owen n & P. Figueiredo n

co-author countries: Japan 🇯🇵 United States of America 🇺🇸

Ed(s): J. Shroder

Source: ORCID
Added: March 8, 2022

2022 chapter

Tectonic Geomorphology of Normal Faults and Their Scarps

In J. J. F. Shroder (Ed.), Treatise of Geomorphology, 2nd edition (Vol. 2, pp. 404–428).

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸

Ed(s): J. Shroder

Source: ORCID
Added: March 8, 2022

2022 journal article

The Mw 5.1, 9 August 2020, Sparta Earthquake, North Carolina: The First Documented Seismic Surface Rupture in the Eastern United States

GSA Today.

Source: ORCID
Added: March 8, 2022

2021 journal article

Large Holocene ruptures on the Canada David detachment, Baja California, Mexico; implications for the seismogenesis of low-angle normal faults

EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 570.

By: K. Karlsson*, T. Rockwell*, J. Fletcher*, P. Figueiredo n, J. Cambron Rosas*, A. Gontz*, S. Naik*, P. Lacan* ...

co-author countries: Korea (Republic of) 🇰🇷 Mexico 🇲🇽 United States of America 🇺🇸

Contributors: K. Karlsson*, T. Rockwell*, J. Fletcher*, P. Figueiredo n, J. Rosas*, A. Gontz*, S. Naik*, P. Lacan* ...

author keywords: coseismic scarps; surface rupture; paleoseismic trenching; fault mechanics; recurrence interval; earthquake magnitude
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: July 15, 2021

2021 journal article

Late Quaternary Intraplate Deformation Defined by the Las Chacras Fault Zone, West-Central Argentina

TECTONICS, 40(4).

co-author countries: Argentina 🇦🇷 Canada 🇨🇦 United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: active faults; cosmogenic dating; intraplate faults; neotectonics; seismic hazards; thick‐ skinned deformation
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: April 14, 2021

2020 journal article

Cosmogenic Be-10 and Cl-36 geochronology of cryoplanation terraces in the Alaskan Yukon-Tanana Upland

QUATERNARY RESEARCH, 97, 157–166.

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Cryoplanation terraces; Nivation; Cosmogenic exposure dating; Beringia; Alaska
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: September 14, 2020

2020 journal article

Geomorphometry and Statistical Analyses of Landslides Triggered by the 2015M(w)7.8 Gorkha Earthquake and theM(w)7.3 Aftershock, Nepal

FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE, 8.

co-author countries: China 🇨🇳 United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: 2015 Gorkha earthquake; landslides; Himalaya; geometry; planar geomorphometric shapes; spatial distribution
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: October 26, 2020

2020 journal article

Landslide development within 3 years after the 2015 M-w 7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

LANDSLIDES, 17(5), 1251–1267.

co-author countries: Canada 🇨🇦 China 🇨🇳 Nepal 🇳🇵 United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: 2015 Gorkha earthquake; Nepal; Himalaya; Landsliding; Ground-based investigation; UAV photography; Remote sensing
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: March 16, 2020

2020 journal article

Time‐Invariant Late Quaternary Slip Rates Along the Agua Blanca Fault, northern Baja California, Mexico

Tectonics, 39(9).

co-author countries: Switzerland 🇨🇭 Mexico 🇲🇽 United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Agua Blanca Fault; geologic slip rates; fault slip history; slip rate variability; cosmogenic dating; luminescence dating
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2019 journal article

A new geological slip rate estimate for the Calico Fault, eastern California: implications for geodetic versus geologic rate estimates in the Eastern California Shear Zone

International Geology Review, 61(13), 1613–1641.

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Calico Fault; geological slip rate; geodetic slip rate; Eastern California Shear Zone; displacement; surface exposure dating
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2019 journal article

Active tectonics in the Cheb Basin: youngest documented Holocene surface faulting in Central Europe?

Geomorphology.

author keywords: Tectonic geomorphology; Shallow geophysics; Marianske Lazne Fault; Cheb Basin; Bohemian Massif
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2019 journal article

Morphotectonics in a low tectonic rate area: Analysis of the southern Portuguese Atlantic coastal region

Geomorphology.

Contributors: P. Figueiredo*, T. Rockwell*, J. Cabral* & C. Ponte Lira

author keywords: Portugal; Uplift; Morphotectonic analysis; Low tectonic rate
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2018 journal article

Late Quaternary slip rates for faults of the central Walker Lane (Nevada, USA): Spatiotemporal strain release in a strike-slip fault system

Geosphere.

Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2017 journal article

Active tectonics in Southern Portugal (SW Iberia) inferred from GPS data. Implications on the regional geodynamics

Journal of Geodynamics.

Contributors: J. Cabral*, V. Mendes*, P. Figueiredo*, A. Silveira*, J. Pagarete*, A. Ribeiro*, R. Dias*, R. Ressurreição*

author keywords: Crustal deformation; Global positioning system (GPS); Plate boundary; Slow tectonics environment; Seismotectonics; SW Iberia
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2015 thesis

Neotectonic and Seismotectonic Studies along the Southwest Portugal sector: Implications for the regional seismicity

https://repositorio.ul.pt/bitstream/10451/18382/1/ulsd070757_td_Paula_Figueiredo.pdf

Source: ORCID
Added: March 8, 2022

2015 journal article

The effect of sea level changes on fault reactivation potential in Portugal

Tectonophysics, 658, 206–220.

co-author countries: Portugal 🇵🇹 United States of America 🇺🇸

Contributors: M. Neves*, J. Cabral*, K. Luttrell*, P. Figueiredo*, T. Rockwell* & D. Sandwell*

author keywords: Sea level rise; Coulomb stress; Slip tendency; Flexure; Seismicity
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2014 journal article

Seismic triggering induced by lithospheric flexure due to eustatic sea level rise | Sismicidade desencadeada em Portugal Continental por flexão litosférica associada a subida eustática do nível do mar

Comunicacoes Geologicas, 101, 913–917. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84939799713&partnerID=MN8TOARS

By: M. Neves, J. Cabral, P. Figueiredo, D. Sandwell, T. Rockwell & K. Luttrell

Contributors: M. Neves, J. Cabral, P. Figueiredo, D. Sandwell, T. Rockwell & K. Luttrell

Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2014 journal article

Seismic triggering induced by lithospheric flexure due to eustatic sea level rise | Sismicidade desencadeada em Portugal Continental por flexão litosférica associada a subida eustática do nível do mar

Comunicacoes Geologicas. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84939799713&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Contributors: M. Neves, J. Cabral, P. Figueiredo, D. Sandwell, T. Rockwell & K. Luttrell

Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2013 journal article

Recognition of Pleistocene marine terraces in the southwest of Portugal (Iberian Peninsula): Evidences of regional quaternary uplift

Annals of Geophysics, 56(6).

By: P. Figueiredo, J. Cabral & T. Rockwell*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸

Contributors: P. Figueiredo, J. Cabral & T. Rockwell*

Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2013 journal article

The 1909 Benavente (Portugal) earthquake: Search for the source

Natural Hazards, 69(2), 1211–1227.

By: J. Cabral*, C. Moniz*, J. Batlló*, P. Figueiredo*, J. Carvalho*, L. Matias*, P. Teves-Costa*, R. Dias*, N. Simão*

co-author countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 Portugal 🇵🇹

Contributors: J. Cabral*, C. Moniz*, J. Batlló*, P. Figueiredo*, J. Carvalho*, L. Matias*, P. Teves-Costa*, R. Dias*, N. Simão*

author keywords: Benavente earthquake; Seismotectonics; Lower Tagus Valley; Portugal
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2012 journal article

Late Pliocene to Pleistocene tectonic activity in SW Portugal: the S. Teotónio-Aljezur-Sinceira fault system – a review

Trabajos De Geologia. http://www.geol.uniovi.es/TDG/Volumen30/TG30-05.PDF

Contributors: P. Figueiredo, J. Cabral, T. Rockwell & R. Dias

Source: ORCID
Added: April 5, 2023

2011 journal article

Active surface faulting or landsliding in the Lower Tagus Valley (Portugal)? A solved controversy concerning the Vila Chã de Ourique site

Journal of Seismology, 15(2), 215–234.

By: J. Cabral*, F. Marques*, P. Figueiredo* & L. Matias

co-author countries: Portugal 🇵🇹

Contributors: J. Cabral*, F. Marques*, P. Figueiredo* & L. Matias

author keywords: Surface faulting; Landsliding; Paleoseismicity; Lower Tagus Valley; Mainland Portugal
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2009 book

Palaeoseismology of the Vilariça segment of the Manteigas-Bragança fault in northeastern Portugal

In Geological Society Special Publication (Vol. 316, pp. 237–258).

By: T. Rockwell, J. Fonseca*, C. Madden, T. Dawson*, L. Owen*, S. Vilanova, P. Figueiredo*

co-author countries: Portugal 🇵🇹 United States of America 🇺🇸

Contributors: T. Rockwell, J. Fonseca*, C. Madden, T. Dawson*, L. Owen*, S. Vilanova, P. Figueiredo*

Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2006 article

Multidisciplinary approach for the Seismotectonic study of the Tagus Lower Valley

http://repositorio.ul.pt/

Contributors: P. Figueiredo

Source: ORCID
Added: April 5, 2023

2004 journal article

The Azambuja fault: An active structure located in an intraplate basin with significant seismicity (Lower Tagus Valley, Portugal)

Journal of Seismology, 8(3), 347–362.

By: J. Cabral, P. Ribeiro*, P. Figueiredo, N. Pimentel* & A. Martins*

co-author countries: Portugal 🇵🇹

Contributors: J. Cabral, P. Ribeiro*, P. Figueiredo, N. Pimentel* & A. Martins*

author keywords: active faulting; neotectonics; seismotectonics; Lower Tagus Valley; Portugal
Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2003 journal article

Paleoseismological data from a new trench across the El Camp Fault (Catalan Coastal Ranges, NE Iberian Peninsula)

Annals of Geophysics, 46(5), 763–774. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-2042527665&partnerID=MN8TOARS

By: H. Perea, P. Figueiredo, J. Carner, S. Gambini & K. Boydell

Contributors: H. Perea, P. Figueiredo, J. Carner, S. Gambini & K. Boydell

Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

2003 journal article

Paleoseismological data from a new trench across the El Camp Fault (Catalan Coastal Ranges, NE Iberian Peninsula)

Annals of Geophysics. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-2042527665&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Contributors: H. Perea, P. Figueiredo, J. Carner, S. Gambini & K. Boydell

Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

manuscript

Data Management for GIS

Source: ORCID
Added: October 12, 2020

Employment

Updated: April 6th, 2023 11:21

2019 - present

NC State University Raleigh, NC, US
Post Doctoral Research Assistant Marine, Earth and Academic Sciences

2016 - 2019

University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, US
Post Doctoral Geology

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias Lisboa, PT
Fellowship Geology Department

Education

Updated: April 28th, 2015 15:49

Lisbon University Lisbon, PT
PhD Geology Geology Department

Funding History

Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: May 6th, 2023 09:59

grant November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2021
RAPID: Sparta Earthquake Surface Deformation Characterization
Directorate for Geosciences
grant January 1, 2020
High-Resolution Determination of Short-term Slip Rates, Southernmost San Andreas Fault
Southern California Earthquake Center
grant July 1 - November 30, 2019
Collaborative Research: Paleoseismology of the M7.3 1915 Pleasant Valley Earthquake Ruptures
Directorate for Geosciences
grant June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2021
Cajon Pass Earthquake Gate Area: Refining the Cajon Pass Quaternary surfaces chronology ­ implications for the long term slip rates of the San Jacinto and San Andreas systems
Southern California Earthquake Center
grant June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2021
High-Resolution Determination of Short-term Slip Rates, Southernmost San Andreas Fault
Southern California Earthquake Center
grant July 1, 2018 - June 1, 2019
Active fault mapping and evaluation of potential sites to measure the Holocene slip rate along the Glen Helen and San Jacinto faults in the Cajon Pass area.
Southern California Earthquake Center
grant October 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018
Collaborative Research with University of South Florida and University of Cincinnati: Characterization of Long-Term Slip Rates for Camp Rock Fault (Eastern California Shear Zone) using Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating
United States Geological Survey
grant July 1, 2014 - June 1, 2015
FASTLOAD, Fault Activity and Seismicity Triggered by Ocean Loading in West Iberia
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
grant January 1, 2009 - March 30, 2012
Paleoseismological Study of Active Faults in Mainland Portugal
Foundation for Science and Technology
grant January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2010
Mainland Portugal Active Faults Paleoseismicity Studies (PaleosisPor)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
grant January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2006
Tagus II, Lower Tagus Valley Active Fault Characterization
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia