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.

Nick is developing several field and laboratory based programs, including:

- Fault rocks from mid-ocean ridges

- Structure of the Cayman Trough and Mid-Cayman Spreading Center

- Bransfield Strait rift processes (Antarctica) & Beagle Channel (Chile)

- Shear zones in granular materials

(see the spotlight on the Jackson School Website: http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/resspotlights/2009/tabletop_earthquakes.html)

- Japan margin structure

- Gulf of Mexico-margin evolution

- Tertiary evolution of the Pacific Northwest

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

NantroSEIZE Expedition 319
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.

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications, Data Reports, & Field Guides (see CV for complete list)

Hayman, N.W., Anma, R. and Veloso, E. 2009, Data Report: Microstructure of chilled margins in the sheeted dike complex of Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Hole 1256D. In Teagle, D., Alt, J., Umino, S., Miyashita, S., Banerjee, N., Wilson, D. and the Expedition 309/312 Scientists, Proceedings of the IODP, 309/312: College Station, TX, USA.

Cheney, E.S., and Hayman, N.W., 2009, Cenozoic shortening of the central Cascade Range, Washington State, USA, GSA Bulletin, v.121, pp.1135-1153, doi: 10.1130/B2446.1 .

Hayman, N. W., and J. A. Karson (2009), Crustal faults exposed in the Pito Deep Rift: Conduits for hydrothermal fluids on the southeast Pacific Rise, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q02013, doi:10.1029/2008GC002319. Paper #: 2008GC002319

Daniels, K.E., and Hayman, N.W., 2008. Force Chains in seismogenic faults visualized with photoelastic granular shear experiments, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 113, B11411, doi:10.1029/2008JB005781

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, Journal of Structural Geology, 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.

Wilson, D.S., et al. (the science party for IODP Hole 1256D), 2006. Drilling to Gabbro in Intact Ocean Crust, Science, v. 312, pp. 1016-1020. DOI: 10.1126/science.1126090

Hayman, Nicholas W., 2006, Shallow crustal fault rocks from the Black Mountain detachments, Death Valley, CA, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 28, Issue 10, pp. 1767-1784. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2006.06.017

Hayman, N.W., Housen, B.A., Cladouhos, T.T., and Livi, K., 2004. Magnetic and clast fabrics as measurements of grain-scale processes within the Death Valley shallow-crustal detachment faults, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 109, pp. B05409 doi:10.1029/2003JB002902

Hayman, N.W., Knott, J., Cowan, D.S., Nemser, E., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., 2003. Quaternary low-angle slip on detachment faults in Death Valley, California, Geology, v. 31, pp. 343-346 . DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0343:QLASOD>2.0.CO;2

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. DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<0476:ROPSNF>2.0.CO;2