Electronic Supplement to
Modeling Earthquake Moment Magnitudes on Imbricate Reverse Faults from Paleoseismic Data: Fox Peak and Forest Creek Faults, South Island, New Zealand

by T. Stahl, M. C. Quigley, A. McGill, and M. S. Bebbington

Table S2. Trench 2 Unit Descriptions

Unit Name Deposit/Horizon Color Texture Notes
1a Indurated debris flow Random clast orientation, poor sorting
1b Fault breccia
2a Clast-supported river gravels Imbricated
2b Matrix-supported river gravels Poor imbrication
3 Low-energy graben fill/paleosol? 2.5Y 6/3; gley 1 6/10Y (lower facies) Clay to clayey silt Iron–manganese concretions and water–iron banding
4 Liquefaction silt 2.5Y 6/4 Silt Sharp top contact
5 Debris flow 5Y 6/4 Loam Boulder lag at base
6 Graben-fill wash element 5Y 7/1 Clayey silt and sand
7 Debris flow 5Y 5/4 Silt loam Near-random clast orientation
8 Colluvial wedge 2.5Y 6/4 Silt loam Iron band at base
9 AC/C 5Y 5/4
10 B 5YR 5/8 Silty clay
11 A 7.5YR 3/1 Silt

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