An Integrated Geologic Framework for EarthScope's USArray

Details An Integrated Geologic Framework for EarthScope's USArray An Integrated Geologic Framework for EarthScope's USArray

Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006eostr..87..221t&link_type=abstract

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 87, Issue 23, p. 221-224

Physics

Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Tectonics (8149), Tectonophysics: Planetary Tectonics (5475)

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The GeoFrame initiative is a new geologic venture that focuses on the construction, stabilization, and modification of the North American continent through time. The initiative's goals can be achieved through systematic integration of geologic knowledge-and particularly geologic time-with the unprecedented Earth imaging to be collected under the USArray program of EarthScope (http://www.earthscope.org/usarray). The GeoFrame initiative encourages a cooperative community approach to collecting and sharing data and will take a coast-to-coast perspective of the continent, focusing not only on the major geologic provinces, but also on the boundaries between these provinces. GeoFrame also offers a tangible, `you can see it and touch it' basis for a national approach to education and outreach in the Earth sciences. The EarthScope project is a massive undertaking to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent. Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), EarthScope uses modern observational, analytical, and telecommunications technologies to establish fundamental and applied research in the Earth's dynamics, contributing to natural resource exploration and development, the mitigation of geologic hazards and risk, and a greater public understanding of solid Earth systems. One part of this project is USArray, a moving, continent-scale network of seismic stations designed to provide a foundation for the study of the lithosphere and deep Earth.

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