Near-surface deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone as imaged by high resolution SH-wave seismic methods

Details Near-surface deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone as imaged by high resolution SH-wave seismic methods Near-surface deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone as imaged by high resolution SH-wave seismic methods

Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.1615w&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 15, p. 1615-1618.

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Deformation, Earth Crust, Imaging Techniques, Seismographs, Tectonics, Geological Faults, Geological Surveys, Seismic Waves, Wave Propagation

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Over 1.5 km of high-resolution, SH-wave refraction and reflection profiles have been performed in the Madrid Bend area of northwestern Tennessee, approximately 8 km north of Tiptonville, Tennessee, to establish the existence of neotectonic, near-surface deformation. The specific area was chosen because of the access it provided to the Tiptonville dome (a Holocene flexure) and the trend of contemporary seismicity within the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ). We believed the highest likelihood of near-surface deformation to be over these features. Partially reversed refraction/reflection walk-away tests and common depth point seismic profiling, using the nontraditional SH-wave method, have traced antiformal flexure and numerous faults into the late Eocene and Holocene sediments of the Tiptonville dome province of the Lake County uplift. Vertical displacements exhibited across the faults range from approximately 3 to 30 m. These structures have been interpreted to be neotectonic features associated with tensional stresses across the Tiptonville dome.

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