Fault-Related Folding in California’s Northern Channel Islands Documented by Rapid-Static GPS Positioning and other buried reverse faults depend has focused largely on using surface entirely on assumptions unique to the deformation measurement to test fault-bend fold geometry. We suggest subsurface models of fault-related Nicholas Pinter, Geology Department, that alternative models should be folding. Southern Illinois University, considered where geologically Precise positioning using the Global Carbondale, IL 62901-4324, USA, reasonable, and that surface uplift Positioning System (GPS) has
[email protected] measurements across fault-related folds revolutionized investigations of can provide a crucial test of subsurface geodynamics and crustal deformation Bjorn Johns, UNAVCO, geometry. (University NAVSTAR Consortium, 1998). 3340 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO 80301, Data collection of ≥24–48 hours per site USA,
[email protected] INTRODUCTION can yield precisions of a few millimeters Especially since the 1994 Northridge in measurements of intersite baseline Brandy Little, Geology Department, earthquake, buried reverse faults have distances. In contrast, this project used Southern Illinois University, been the target of intensive research. In the same geodetic-quality GPS Carbondale, IL 62901-4324, USA, southern California and elsewhere, the equipment as a high-precision surveying
[email protected] locations of these structures, their tool, sacrificing roughly an order of geometry at depth, and rates and magnitude of precision for rapid- W. Dean Vestal, Geology Department, histories of slip are based primarily on acquisition capability and results Southern Illinois University, balanced cross sections utilizing the forthcoming in a single field season. Carbondale, IL 62901-4324, USA, fault-bend-fold and fault-propagation- Unlike geodynamic GPS studies, which
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