scholarly journals Structure of the Reelfoot-Rough Creek rift system, Fluorspar area fault complex, and Hicks Dome, southern Illinois and western Kentucky; new constraints from regional seismic reflection data

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J. Potter ◽  
M.B. Goldhaber ◽  
P.C. Heigold ◽  
James A. Drahovzal
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Rift System ◽  
Southern Illinois ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
Reflection Data ◽  
Western Kentucky

scholarly journals Intrarift fault fabric, segmentation, and basin evolution of the Lake Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, East Africa

Geosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1293-1311
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Scholz ◽  
Donna J. Shillington ◽  
Lachlan J.M. Wright ◽  
Natalie Accardo ◽  
James B. Gaherty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Lake Malawi ◽  
Rift System ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
Reflection Data ◽  
Border Fault ◽  
Low Strain Rate

Abstract The Lake Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, in the East African Rift System (EARS), is an ideal modern analogue for the study of extensional tectonic systems in low strain rate settings. The seismically active rift contains the 700-m-deep Lake Malawi, one of the world’s oldest and largest freshwater lakes with one of the most diverse endemic faunal assemblages on Earth. Modern and reprocessed legacy multichannel seismic-reflection data are constrained by velocity information from a wide-angle seismic experiment to evaluate variability in extension, segmentation, and timing of fault development along the 550-km-long rift zone. Fault geometries and patterns of synrift sediment fills show that the Lake Malawi Rift is composed of three asymmetric rift segments, with intervening accommodation zone morphologies controlled by the degree of overlap between segment border faults. Most extension occurs on the basin border faults, and broadly distributed extension is only observed at one accommodation zone, where no border fault overlap is observed. Structural restorations indicate a weakly extended rift system (∼7 km), with diminishing values of extension and thinner rift fill from north to south, suggesting a progressively younger rift to the south. There is no evidence of diking, sill injection, or extrusives within the synrift fill of the Lake Malawi Rift, although the volcanic load of the Rungwe magmatic system north of the lake and related subsidence may explain the presence of anomalously thick synrift fill in the northernmost part of the lake. The thickest synrift depocenters (∼5.5 km) are confined to narrow 10- to 20-km-wide zones adjacent to each rift segment border fault, indicating concentration of strain on border faults rather than intrarift faults. Intrarift structures control axial sediment delivery in the North and Central rift segments, focusing sediment into confined areas resulting in localized overpressure and shale diapirs. The asymmetric, basement-controlled relief was established early in rift development. When overprinted with frequent high-amplitude hydroclimate fluctuations, which are well documented for this basin, the resulting highly variable landscape and lake morphometry through time likely impacted the diverse endemic faunas that evolved within the basin. New seismic-reflection data, augmented by wide-angle seismic data and age constraints from drill core, offer the most highly resolved 3D view to date of latest Cenozoic extensional deformation in East Africa and provide a foundation for hazards analysis, resource assessments, and constraining deformation in a low strain rate, magma-poor active rift.

The style of transverse faulting in the Dead Sea basin from seismic reflection data: The Amazyahu fault

2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avihu Ginzburg ◽  
Moshe Reshef ◽  
Zvi Ben-Avraham ◽  
Uri Schattner
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
Reflection Data ◽  
Dead Sea Basin ◽  
The Dead

Archive of digital boomer seismic reflection data collected offshore east-central Florida during USGS cruise 00FGS01, July 14-22, 2000

Data Series ◽  
10.3133/ds496 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice A. Subino ◽  
Shawn V. Dadisman ◽  
Dana S. Wiese ◽  
Karynna Calderon ◽  
Daniel C. Phelps
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Reflection Data

Archive of digital CHIRP seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruise 06SCC01 offshore of Isles Dernieres, Louisiana, June 2006

Data Series ◽  
10.3133/ds259 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnell S. Harrison ◽  
Shawn V. Dadisman ◽  
Nick F. Ferina ◽  
Dana S. Wiese ◽  
James G. Flocks
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
Reflection Data

Archive of digital boomer and CHIRP seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruise 06FSH03 offshore of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 2006

Data Series ◽  
10.3133/ds308 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnell S. Harrison ◽  
Shawn V. Dadisman ◽  
Christopher D. Reich ◽  
Dana S. Wiese ◽  
Jason W. Greenwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Seismic Reflection Data ◽  
Fort Lauderdale ◽  
Reflection Data
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