Tectonic motion in the western United States inferred from Very Long Baseline Interferometry measurements, 1980-1986

1987 ◽  
Vol 92 (B13) ◽  
pp. 14151-14163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Kroger ◽  
Gregory A. Lyzenga ◽  
Karen S. Wallace ◽  
John M. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Very Long Baseline Interferometry ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Tectonic Motion

scholarly journals Geodesy by Radio Interferometry: Determination of Vector Motions for Sites in the Western United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 355-356
Author(s):  
David Gordon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Owens Valley ◽  
Crustal Dynamics ◽  
Tectonic Motion ◽  
Plate Boundary Deformation ◽  
Boundary Deformation ◽  
Earth Dynamics

Since the late 1970's, NASA's Crustal Dynamics Project has been using Mark III VLBI to study plate tectonic motion, plate boundary deformation and earth dynamics. One major thrust has been the study of crustal motions in the western continental United States. For this effort, several relatively large, fixed antennas (Mojave, Owens Valley, Hatcreek, Ft. Davis and Vandenberg) have been used along with two small, highly mobile VLBI systems which have periodically visited sites of tectonic interest.

Writing Time in Metaphors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Do So

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

Women's Studies in the Western United States

NWSA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Karen L. Salley ◽  
Barbara Scott Winkler ◽  
Megan Celeen ◽  
Heidi Meck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Women’S Studies
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