Principal Investigators:
Paul Mann
Nancy Grindlay (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)
Lewis Abrams (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)

Funded by: USGS - National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program

This study will involve a systematic sidescan sonar mapping, high-resolution sub-bottom profiling, and bottom sampling effort of the shallow insular shelf of western Puerto Rico to provide a better understanding of the seismogenic potential of submarine faults in the Mona Passage.

Companion Onshore Study

Publications related to this study:
Grindlay, N., Abrams, L., Del Greco, L., and Mann, P., 2005, Toward an integrated understanding of Holocene fault activity in western Puerto Rico: Constraints from high-resolution seismic and sidescan sonar data, in Mann, P., editor, Active Tectonics and Seismic Hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Offshore Areas, Geological Society of America Special Paper 385, p. 139-160.

Grindlay, N., Mann, P., Dolan, J. and van Gestel, J. P., 2005, Neotectonics and subsidence of the northern Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands margin in response to the oblique subduction of high-standing ridges, in Mann, P., editor, Active Tectonics and Seismic Hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Offshore Areas, Geological Society of America Special Paper 385, p. 31-60.

Mann, P., Hippolyte, J.C., Grindlay, N., and Abrams, L., 2005, Neotectonics of southern Puerto Rico and its offshore margin, in Mann, P., editor, Active Tectonics and Seismic Hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Offshore Areas, Geological Society of America Special Paper 385, p. 173-214.

Hanzlik, M., Mann, P., Abrams, L., and Grindlay, N., 2005, Late Quaternary seismic stratigraphy and structure of the western insular shelf margin of Puerto Rico, AGU fall meeting, San Francisco.