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