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 S5. Trench 5 Unit Descriptions

Unit Name Deposit/Horizon Color Texture Notes
1 Colluvium Clast-supported gravel
2 Scarp-impounded graben fill 5Y 6/2 Silty clay Very light paleo E or B horizon?
3 A/Ob 10YR 2/1 Clay Abundant charcoal
4 Flood/graben fill 2.5Y 5/3 Clayey silt
5 Flood/graben fill 2.5Y 5/1 Silty clay
6 Scarp-impounded graben fill 2.5Y 5/1 Clayey silt
7 Scarp-impounded graben fill 5Y 6/1 Silty clay
8 Fissure fill; colluvial wedge 2.5Y 7/1 Matrix-supported gravel Less gravel and induration than unit 1
9 E
10 A/O 10YR 3/1 Clay (hanging wall) Peat stringers

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