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Software Development For A Three-Dimensional Gravity Inversion And Application To Study Of The Border Ranges Fault System, South-Central Alaska, Rolando Cardenas
Software Development For A Three-Dimensional Gravity Inversion And Application To Study Of The Border Ranges Fault System, South-Central Alaska, Rolando Cardenas
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The Border Ranges Fault System (BRFS) bounds the Cook Inlet and Susitna Basins, an important petroleum province within south-central Alaska. A primary goal in the research is to test several plausible models of structure along the Border Ranges Fault System using a novel three-dimensional inversion utilizing gravity and magnetic data, constrained with other geophysical, borehole and surface geological information. This research involves the development of inversion modeling software using a Borland C++ compiler as part of the Rapid Application Development (RAD) Studio. The novel inversion approach directly models known geology, and "a priori" uncertainties on the geologic model to allow …
Seismological Studies In South-Central Alaska And Northern Mexico, Oscar Mario Romero De La Cruz
Seismological Studies In South-Central Alaska And Northern Mexico, Oscar Mario Romero De La Cruz
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The work in this study is focused on two different areas, south-central Alaska and northern Mexico. In the first study area, I calculated dynamic stress drops for moderate sized earthquakes and performed receiver function analyses. The goal of the stress drop studies was to determine if events occurring within the more strongly coupled portion of the subducting slab have higher stress drops. My results shows that higher stress drops correspond to the locked and strongly coupled region in Prince William Sound, and lower stress drops are associated with the Cook Inlet region, a zone of relaxation of the plate interface. …
Structural And Tectonic Investigation Of A Transpressional System, Chugach Metamorphic Complex, Southern Alaska, Mitchell Ryan Scharman
Structural And Tectonic Investigation Of A Transpressional System, Chugach Metamorphic Complex, Southern Alaska, Mitchell Ryan Scharman
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Late Cretaceous to Eocene ridge subduction beneath the Mesozic Chugach terrane accretionary complex resulted in the formation of the Chugach metamorphic complex, and anomolus near trench plutonism of the Sanak-Baranof plutonic belt. The Chugach metamorphic complex (CMC), southern Alaska, is a high-temperature/low-pressure metamorphic belt, that offers a down plunge view of the mid- to lower-crust of a dextral transpression system. A distinct progression of deformation is recognized in the complex: 1) D1 contraction throughout the Chugach accretionary complex, 2) D2 margin parallel extension and horizontal simple shear, associated with subduction of higher ridge topography, followed by 3) D3 dextral transpression …