Yann Gavillot

Yann Gavillot


Geologist—Associate Professor
Phone: (406) 496-4890
Email: ygavillot@mtech.edu
MBMG—Butte
1300 West Park Street
Butte, MT 59701


  • Biographical Information
  • Outreach & Presentations
  • Publications

Education

2014—Ph.D., Geology, Oregon State University
2008—M.S., Geology, University of California, Los Angeles
2003—B.S., Geosciences, University of Arizona

Biography & Research Interests

I am a research geologist interested in active faults, earthquake geology, landslides, and tectonic-surface processes that shape our landscape. My research integrates field-based mapping, neotectonics and geomorphic analyses, paleoseismic trenching investigations, high resolution topographic and remote sensing data (Lidar, UAS), and various Quaternary dating techniques to characterize active faults for seismic hazards analysis.

Research Interests:

Neotectonics, Paleoseismology, Earthquake Geology, Geologic Hazards Assessment, Tectonic Geomorphology, Geological Mapping, Structural Geology, Quaternary Geology, Tectonics.

Areas of active research include the Bitterroot fault (western Montana), Fault and Landslide hazards maps using Lidar (multiple counties across Montana), Continental-Elk Park faults (Montana), Northern Ruby Range (Montana), and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Northern California).

Date Citation
3/15/2022 Gavillot, Y., Lonn, J., Stickney, M., and Hidy., A., 2022, Late Quaternary slip rates and surface rupture of the Bitterroot fault, Western Montana: An enigmatic seismogenic fault in the Northern Rockies Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 54, no. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022CD-373500.
1/25/2022 Gavillot, Y. G., DeLong S., Pickering, A., Sickler, R., and Meigs, A., 2022, Paleoseismology of the Black Butte fault-San Joaquin faults system: Evidence of multiple Holocene surface rupturing earthquakes near the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop, 25-27 Jan 2022.
10/10/2021 Gavillot, Y., Stickney, M., Lonn, J., and Hidy., A., 2021, Late Quaternary slip rates of the Bitterroot fault in western Montana from Be-10 dating of offset Pinedale and Bull Lake glacial deposits: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 53, no. 6, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2021AM/webprogram/Paper371188.html
2/2/2021 Gavillot, Y., DeLong S., Pickering, A., Sickler, R., and Meigs, A., 2021, Paleoseismic trench investigations on the Black Butte fault: Evidence of late Pleistocene and Holocene surface rupture events near the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop, February 2-4, 2021
12/9/2019 Yu, W., Aung, L., Shi, X., Khaing, S., Weldon, E., Min, S., Dawson, T., Gavillot, Y., Meltzner, A., Weldon, R., and Thant, M., 2019, The Short Rupture Interval of The Westernmost Nam Ma Fault in the Past Millennium, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 9-13, 2019.
9/23/2019 Gavillot, Y., Hassane, B., and Baddouh, M., 2019, The Tafraoute region in the Western Anti-Atlas (Morocco) as a Geopark concept for sustainable development and geotourism, Geological Society of America with Programs, v. 51, no. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-340255.
5/1/2019 Gavillot, Y., DeLong S., Pickering, A., and Cyr, A., 2019, Reevaluating seismic hazards from new mapping of the Back Butte-San Joaquin fold-thrust belt, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop, May 1-2, 2019.
1/1/2019 Gavillot, Y., Weldon, R., Wiwegwin., W., Owen, L., Weldon., E., Xuhua, S., Kosuwan, S., Wang, Y., Streig, A., and Hidy, A., 2019, Integrating tectonic geomorphology with seismic hazards on the Mae Chan fault, Northern Thailand: Deciphering land surface change from tectonics and human activity, Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, 115th Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs # 329237.
12/10/2018 Baddouh, M., Gavillot, Y.G, Beraaouz, E.H., and Anders, M., 2018, Re-Interpretation of Neoproterozoic Sediments of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas Mountains: Implication for the Snowball Earth Model, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 10-14 December 2018.
12/10/2018 Baddouh, M., Gavillot, Y.G, Beraaouz, E.H., Anders, M., Unzular, N., and Lisenbee., A.L., 2018, Anti-Atlas Field Camp, Tafrouate Morocco, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 10-14 December 2018.
12/10/2018 Gavillot, Y., DeLong, S., Pickering, A., and Cyr, A., 2018, Reevaluating seismic hazards from new mapping of the Back Butte-San Joaquin fold-thrust belt, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 10-14, 2018.
12/4/2017 Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., Rittenour, T., Sousa, F., Stockli, D., and Malik, M., 2017, Linking bedrock exhumation, fluvial terraces, and geomorphic indices to constrain deformation rates at multiple timescales across the Himalayan deformation front in the Kashmir Himalaya, northwest India, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 4-8, 2017.
1/1/2017 Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., Rittenour, T., Sousa, F., Stockli, D., and Malik, M., 2017, Linking bedrock exhumation, fluvial terraces, and geomorphic indices to constrain deformation rates at multiple timescales across the Himalayan deformation front in the Kashmir Himalaya, northwest India, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 49, no. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-304914.
12/12/2016 Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., Rittenour, T., Malik, M., 2016, Active folding of fluvial terraces across a "blind" Himalayan deformation front in the Kashmir Himalaya, northwest India, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 12-16, 2016.
9/1/2015 De Wever, P., Cadet, J-P., Gavillot, Y., Obert, D., and McKeever, P., 2015, Promenade geologique a l'UNESCO, Biotope Editions, Paris, 34 p.
9/29/2014 Gavillot, Y.G., 2014, Active Tectonics and Earthquake Potential on Folds, Out-of-Sequence Thrusts, and Duplexes in the Kashmir Himalaya (NW India) [Ph.D. thesis]: Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon State University, 231 p.
1/1/2014 Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., Stockli, D., Malik, M., and Yule, D., 2014, Late Cenozoic - Recent exhumation history of the Kashmir Himalaya from the Siwalik-Murree belt to the High Himalaya using (U-Th/He) thermochronometry, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, no. 6, p.176.
12/9/2013 Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., and Stockli, D., 2013, Late Cenozoic exhumation and timing of deformation front of the Kashmir Himalayas from (U-Th/He) Thermochronometry, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 9-13, 2013.
10/4/2010 Axen, G., Fakhari, M., Guest, B., Gavillot, Y., Stockli, D., and Horton, B., 2010, Distributed oblique-dextral transpression in the High Zagros Mountains, Iran, Tectonic Crossroads: Evolving Orogens of Eurasia-Africa-Arabia, Ankara, Turkey, October 4-8, 2010.
6/2/2010 Meigs, A., Madden, C., Yule, J.D., Gavillot, Y., Hebeler, A., Hussain, A., Bhat, M.I., Kaussar, A.B., Malik, M., Ramzan, S., Sayab, M. and Yeats, R., 2010, Distributed deformation, distributed earthquakes in the northwest Himalaya, in Leech, M.L., and others, eds., Proceedings for the 25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2010-1099, 2 p.
1/1/2010 Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., Hebeler, A., Yule, D., Madden, C., Malik, M., Yeats, R., and Kaericher, M., 2010, Active Thrusting within the Himalayan Orogenic Wedge in the Kashmiri Himalaya, Seismological Research Letters, v. 81, no. 2, p. 325.
1/1/2010 Hebeler, A., Yule, D., Madden, C., Malik, M., Meigs, A., and Gavillot, Y., 2010, Middle Holocene surface rupture of the Riasi fault, Kashmir, India, Seismological Research Letters, v. 81, no. 2, p. 346.
1/1/2010 Meigs, A., Madden, C., Yule, J., Gavillot, Y., Hebeler, A., Hussain, A., Bhat, M., Kaussar, A., Malik, M., Ramzan, S., Sayab, M. and Yeats, R., 2010, Distributed deformation, distributed earthquakes in the northwest Himalaya, in Leech, M.L., and others, eds., Proceedings for the 25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2010-1099, 2 p.
1/1/2009 Axen, G., Gavillot, Y., Fakhari, M., Stockli, D., and Horton, B., 2009, Onset and sequence of thrusting in the High Zagros (HZ) mountains, Iran, from fossils and apatite (U-Th)/He ages: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 41 (7), p. 406 [invited].
1/1/2009 Gavillot, Y., Axen, G., Horton, B., Stockli, D., and Fakhari, M., 2009, Timing of Thrust activity in the High Zagros fold-thrust belt, Iran, from (U-Th)/He Thermochronometry, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, no. 7, p. 481.
1/1/2006 Gavillot, Y., Horton, B., Axen, G., Fakhari, M., and Stockli, D., 2006, Thermochronologic analysis of exhumation in the Zagros Mountains: Constraints on the timing of the Arabia-Eurasia continental collision, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p. 419.
Year Citation
2023 Gavillot, Y., Lonn, J., Stickney, M., and Hidy, A., 2023, Quaternary slip rates and most recent surface rupture of the Bitterroot fault, western Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 142, 44 p.
2022 Gavillot, Yann G., 2022, Landslide inventory and slope map of Jefferson County, southwest Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Geologic Map 85, 1 sheet, scale 1:100,000.
2022 Gavillot, Yann G., 2022, Quaternary fault map of Jefferson County, southwest Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Geologic Map 84, 1 sheet, scale 1:100,000.
2022 Lonn, J.D., and Gavillot, Y.G., 2022, Geologic map of the southern Bitterroot fault, Bitterroot Valley, western Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Geologic Map 83, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.
2021 Gavillot Y., Meigs, A., DeLong, S., Pickering, A., and Cyr, A., 2021, Deformation rates, detailed mapping and seismic hazard of the Black Butte San Joaquin fold-thrust belt adjacent to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Collaborative Research with Oregon State University and the U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Award Number, Final Technical Report - G18AP00093.
2021 Gavillot, Y., and Meigs, A., 2021, Paleoseismic and seismotectonic investigations of the Black Butte - San Joaquin faults system as proximal seismic sources to the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta: Collaborative Research with the U.S. Geological Survey, U. S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Award Number, Final Technical Report - G20AP00078
2021 Gavillot, Y., Lonn, J., and Stickney, M., 2021, Quaternary Slip Rates and Most Recent Surface Rupture of the Bitterroot Fault, Western Montana, from Cosmogenic Radio Nuclide Dates of Offset Glacial Deposits, U. S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Award Number, Final Technical Report - G20AP00047
2021 Rotzien, J., Sincavage, R., Pellowski, C., Gavillot, Y., Filkorn, H., Cooper, S., Shannon, J., Yildiz, U., Sawyer, F., Uzunlar, N., 2021, Field Based Geoscience Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Planning, Execution, Outcomes, and Forecasts. GSA Today, v. 31.
2020 Zuza, A., Gavillot, Y., Haproff, P., and Wu, C., 2020, Kinematic evolution of a continental collision: Constraining the Himalayan Tibetan orogen via bulk strain rates, Tectonophysics, 797, 228642, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228642.
2018 Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., Sousa, F., Stockli, D., Yule, D., & Malik, M., 2018, Late Cenozoic foreland‐to‐hinterland low‐temperature exhumation history of the Kashmir Himalaya. Tectonics, 37, 3041-3068.
2016 Gavillot, Y., Meigs, A., Yule, D., Heermance, R., Rittenour, T., Madugo, C., and Malik, M., 2016, Shortening rate and Holocene surface rupture on the Riasi thrust in the Kashmir Himalaya: Active thrusting within the Northwest Himalayan orogenic wedge, GSA Bulletin, 128 (7-8), 1070 -1094, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31281.1.
2014 Gavillot, Y., 2014, Active Tectonics and Earthquake Potential on Folds, Out-of-Sequence Thrusts, and Duplexes in the Kashmir Himalaya (NW India) [Ph.D. thesis]: Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon State University, 231 p.
2012 Meigs A., Madden, C., Yule, J., Gavillot, Y., Hebeler, A., Hussain, A., Bhat, M., Kausar, A., Malik, M., Ramzan, S., Sayab, M., and Yeats, R., 2012, Pattern, rate, and timing of surface rupturing earthquakes across the northwest Himalaya, Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences, v. 45, 2, pp 111-114.
2010 Gavillot, Y., Axen, G., Stockli, D., Horton, B., and Fakhari, M., 2010, Timing of thrusting in the High Zagros fold-thrust belt, Iran from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, Tectonics, 29, TC4025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009TC002484.
2008 Gavillot, Y., 2008, Age of thrusting in the High Zagros fold-thrust belt, Iran from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry [M.S. thesis]: Los Angeles, California, University of California, 62 p.