- Experiment Name: Shear-wave Splitting in the Snake River Plain
- PI: Walker, Klemperer
- Email: ktwalker@stanford.edu
- Sponsor: Stanford U
- Inst: Stanford, Stanford
- Start_Date: 6/1/2000
- End_Date: 9/15/2001
- Lat: 57.0
- Long: -170.0
- Chan6: 4
- Broadband: 4
- Descr: The tectonic evolution of the outer Bering Shelf is a subject
of debate regarding three competing hypotheses for its late Cretaceous
and Cenozoic deformation history. Each predicts a different orientation
for the maximum principal stress. I propose to conduct a seismic shear-wave
splitting study to determine the orientations of the stress axes at
two locations in the outer Bering Shelf region, and so to distinguish
between these competing hypotheses.
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