Wadati Benioff zone, image from Tonga trench, Ocean-Ocean crust, Deep brittle ... Problems with the Mercalli Scale- unfortunately there is not equal amounts of ...
Dense oceanic crust sinks into mantle. What and where is the Wadati-Benioff zone? ... Deformation intensifies in the core of the orogen (higher T and P) ...
A brief history of seismology Early 1800 s theoretical development of elastic wave propagation (Cauchy, Poisson, Stokes, Rayleigh, etc) knew about body waves ...
Tarea 3 Cap tulo 5 (p gina 367) Problemas: 5 y 9 Ver ejercicio en la p gina siguiente: 1/2 Sismolog a 1 Tarea 3 From the above seismograms determine the origin ...
Lecture 16 Earthquakes What are earthquakes? Elastic rebound theory Waves generated by earthquakes: P waves, S waves, Surface waves Locating earthquakes
Title: Internationales Qualit ts-Netz: Georisiken Author: Prof. Dr. Heiner Igel Last modified by: User Created Date: 12/10/2001 8:15:33 PM Document presentation format
History of Plate Tectonics 1490 Leonardo Da Vinci Noticed on early charts that the continents would fit together like a jigsaw puzzle 1620 - Francis Bacon Also ...
History of Plate Tectonics 1490 Leonardo Da Vinci Noticed on early charts that the continents would fit together like a jigsaw puzzle 1620 - Francis Bacon Also ...
Convergence et subduction Les caract ristiques des marges actives. Les caract ristiques morphologiques Pr sence d une fosse oc anique: relief n gatif pouvant ...
Title: Die Erde in Bewegung Author: paddy Last modified by: Michael Riedel Created Date: 11/21/2001 2:23:33 PM Document presentation format: Bildschirmpr sentation
More Plate Tectonics A CLOSER LOOK AT PLATE TECTONICS PLATE TECTONICS: THE RULES Earth s surface layer (the lithosphere ) is divided into a series of rigid ...
Earthquakes extend to 600 km beneath Lau Basin. Note that tomographic image slab appears to terminate at 660 km ... Island Arc Petrogenesis. Figure 16-11b. ...
Earthquake Science (Seismology) Quick review of last lecture (fault, epicentre, ... Fault: A surface across which two blocks can move relative to each other. ...
When two tectonic plates converge often one will get buried or subducted beneath ... Subduction zones only occur at convergent boundaries between oceans and ...
... fit of continents across the Atlantic Ocean--Required global maps before this ... All of the continents were together in a super continent, termed Pangaea, until ...
Usually associated with volcanoes. Deepest quakes reach 700km implies brittle failure ... The collision of plates is accompanied by earthquakes and volcanoes. ...
This is well illustrated by the. collision of Gondwana terrains with Eurasia. ... INCIPIENT CONTINENTAL COLLISION (example from the Australian plate- Banda Arc) ...
Epicenters (map view) indicate plate boundaries. Hypocenters (add depth) map ... different densities, rays are reflected or refracted depending on the angle ...
Chapter 11 Earthquakes What is an earthquake An earthquake is the vibration of Earth produced by the rapid release of energy Energy released radiates in all ...
Sedimentary Basins Related to Volcanic Arcs Types of Basins Rift related Collision / Subduction related Intracratonic Strike-Slip related Two stages of an opening rift.
GEOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE EARTH P-waves go through the upper mantle faster than those that go through the crust. Velocity also slows down as they go through the ...
Tectonics of the Caribbean Richard Robertson Seismic Research Unit, U.W.I. St. Augustine, Trinidad www.uwiseismic.com Outline Definitions: Tectonics, Caribbean Plate ...
Earthquake Location by Walter Mooney USGS Menlo Park Overview The basic principles S-P location (manual) location by inversion single station location depth ...
A. Dissolution of carbonates. CaCO3 (calcite) H2CO3 = Ca2 HCO3- B. Hydrolysis of Fe-Mg silicates (not ... Major quake could occur in the next 50 years ...
... sounds in the instruments which result in seismometer impulse response signals. ... Long period seismometer components x, y and z of source A001 after despiking, ...
This map from 1858 shows that Africa and South America can be fit together very well. ... nice match if the continents are fit together ... Growth of Continents ...
Dynamic Earth Class 8 2 February 2006 Any Questions? Note: Exam #1 Date shown on hardcopy syllabus as February 14th, but said February 15th. The correct date is ...
Kratka povijest seizmologije http://www.gfz.hr/~mherak/Povijest_Seizmologije.ppt http://www.gfz.hr/osobne_stranice/marijan_herak/index.htm KRATKA POVIJEST SEIZMOLOGIJE
Earthquake Location The basic principles S-P location (manual) location by inversion single station location depth assessment velocity models Relocation methods
A single trace can therefore give the origin time and distance (but not azimuth) ... on the horizontal components gives the azimuth. W. Single station method ...
Title: Kratka povijest seizmologije Author: Marijan Last modified by: m Created Date: 10/8/2001 8:11:08 AM Document presentation format: On-screen Show (4:3)
My name is amber and I will be your tour guide today. Whenever you see my handwriting ... Now lets get on our way! ... The Earth is an oblate spheroid. ...
Clastic sediments are derived from wearing-down of mountains that ultimately owe ... chain is close to the sea a 'clastic wedge' can form (more on this in next ...
Plate tectonics. The current view regarding the dynamics of Earth's geology ... Present plate tectonics theory. Lithosphere. Crustal rocks & the upper, rigid ...
The subduction zone is the thrust fault along which the two plates move. ... The fold/thrust belt is mostly thin-skinned and only deforms the former passive ...
1. Introduction to scientific writing 8/20 9:00-10:20 ... Catastrophism. Uniformitarianism. vs. Gradually evidence began to support uniformitarianism ...