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See more from this Session: Large Scale Continental Deformation at Plate Boundaries
Abstract:
These active tectonic processes can now be measured directly by using precise space geodesy. The Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) component of EarthScope is an experiment ideally suited to making the GPS measurements with the necessary precision and scope, at roughly 1000 locations distributed over the entire plate boundary, to reveal the character of the interactions between the tectonic domains.
Synthesizing the new observations from PBO and other GPS networks into plate boundary-scale kinematic models provides a means to visualize and interpret the large (and growing) geodetic dataset. In this presentation I will provide an updated view of the patterns and rates of tectonic deformation of the western part of the BR, discuss the distribution of shear and extensional deformation, and what they might reveal about the dynamics of western U.S. continental lithosphere.
See more from this Division: Pardee Keynote Sessions
See more from this Session: Large Scale Continental Deformation at Plate Boundaries