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Asymmetric Upwarp Of The Asthenosphere Beneath The Baikal Rift Zone, Siberia, Stephen S. Gao, Paul M. Davis, Kelly H. Liu, Philip D. Slack, Yu A. Zorin, Nikolai A. Logatchev, M. Kogan, P. D. Burkholder, Robert P. Meyer Aug 1994

Asymmetric Upwarp Of The Asthenosphere Beneath The Baikal Rift Zone, Siberia, Stephen S. Gao, Paul M. Davis, Kelly H. Liu, Philip D. Slack, Yu A. Zorin, Nikolai A. Logatchev, M. Kogan, P. D. Burkholder, Robert P. Meyer

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In the summer of 1991 we installed 27 seismic stations about lake Baikal, Siberia, aimed at obtaining accurately timed digital seismic data to investigate the deep structure and geodynamics of the Baikal rift zone and adjacent regions. Sixty-six teleseismic events with high signal-to-noise ratio were recorded. Travel time and Q analysis of teleseisms characterize an upwarp of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary under Baikal. Theoretical arrival times were calculated by using the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's interior 1991 Earth model, and travel time residuals were found by subtracting computed arrival times from observed ones. A three-dimensional downward …


Sporomorphs And Palynological Interpretations Of Lower Oligocene Strata From The Eastern Gulf Coast, U.S.A., Lisa M. Reeves Mar 1994

Sporomorphs And Palynological Interpretations Of Lower Oligocene Strata From The Eastern Gulf Coast, U.S.A., Lisa M. Reeves

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The Vicksburg Group in the eastern Gulf Coast of the United States belongs to one of the most complete and continuous Paleogene strata in the world. Previous studies in this region have neglected the rich palynomorph assemblages of the Lower Oligocene units of the Vicksburg Group. Four samples from Wayne County Mississippi were analyzed for palynological information on the Vicksburg Group. The initial objective of the study was to understand the principles of palynology and the basis for sporomorph identification. A minimum of 300 specimens were counted per slide to determine the distribution of sporomorphs in the sediments. Two hundred …