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Bagc.M: Three Dimensional Gravity Modeling Software With An Application In Death Valley, Ca, Brian Eugene Eslick
Bagc.M: Three Dimensional Gravity Modeling Software With An Application In Death Valley, Ca, Brian Eugene Eslick
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Basin Anomaly Gravity Calculator (BAGC.m) is a 3D interactive gravity modeling package designed to create, edit, and calculate the gravitational attraction of basin models entirely within the MATLABTM environment. Gravity anomalies are calculated using the Rectangular Prism Method (Bott, 1960; Kane, 1962; and Plouff, 1966) which subdivides earth models into regularly spaced rectangular prisms. This approach requires large 3D matrices to store most realistic earth models. The process of model editing is simplified by storing basins as 2D gridded files which define the depth to the boundary between basement rock and sedimentary fill for each model cell. In order to …
Studies Of Earthquakes Stress Drops, Seismic Scattering, And Dynamic Triggering In North America, Christian Rene Escudero Ayala
Studies Of Earthquakes Stress Drops, Seismic Scattering, And Dynamic Triggering In North America, Christian Rene Escudero Ayala
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I use the Relative Source Time Function (RSTF) method to determine the source properties of earthquakes within southeastern Alaska-northwestern Canada in a first part of the project, and earthquakes within the Denali fault in a second part. I deconvolve a small event P-arrival signal from a larger event by the following method: select arrivals with a tapered cosine window, fast fourier transform to obtain the spectrum, apply water level deconvolution technique, and bandpass filter before inverse transforming the result to obtain the RSTF. I compare the source processes of earthquakes within the area to determine stress drop differences to determine …
Seismic Investigation Of The Southern Rio Grande Rift, Lennox Emmanuel Thompson
Seismic Investigation Of The Southern Rio Grande Rift, Lennox Emmanuel Thompson
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Competing models exist to explain what caused the Earth's crust to spread apart 29 million years ago to create a region known today as the Rio Grande Rift (RGR). The RGR extends from central Colorado through New Mexico to northern Mexico, near El Paso. The RGR has different geologic features that distinguish it from most other valleys (e.g., the RGR was not cut by a river nor does a river branch upstream). A growing body of evidence shows that geologic activity still occurs in the RGR, with a continuation of faulting, seismicity and widening at a small rate of about …