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Structure Beneath The Northern Los Angeles Basins From Teleseismic Receiver Functions, Guibao Liu Mar 2019

Structure Beneath The Northern Los Angeles Basins From Teleseismic Receiver Functions, Guibao Liu

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis presents part of the work published in Liu et al. (2018).

The Los Angeles area is at high risk of seismic amplification due to its location on top of sedimentary basins. It is very important to obtain accurate information on the crustal structure, in particular, the basin structure of the northern basins, in order to estimate the resulting ground motion and earthquake hazards due to a large San Andreas fault earthquake. In the Liu et al. (2018) study, we image the crustal structure beneath the northern basins using a densely spaced, autonomous 3-component seismometer array in the urban …


Reflector Dip Trends In Seismic Sh-Wave Imaging Of A Modern Lower Mississippi River Point Bar, Adam Gostic Mar 2019

Reflector Dip Trends In Seismic Sh-Wave Imaging Of A Modern Lower Mississippi River Point Bar, Adam Gostic

LSU Master's Theses

Various studies of ancient point bars have noted that a relationship can be observed between the dip angle and grain size of point bar lateral accretion deposits, with the most mud-rich deposits tending to exhibit the greatest dip. No analysis and only cursory explanations for this relationship have been provided. Additionally, buried mid-channel bars are absent from typical models of point bar architecture.

We successfully image the architecture of late-stage point bar deposits with a near surface 2D seismic SH-wave reflection survey and generate an SH-wave velocity model of the subsurface in the study area in order to interpret the …