U.S. Geological Survey Crustal Studies Technical Letter Number 11
AbstractSeismic-refraction measurements from chemical explosions near San Francisco, California, and Fallon and Eureka, Nevada, were made along a line extending nearly 700 km inland from San Francisco across the Coast Ranges, Great Valley, Sierra Nevada, and Basin and Range Province. The velocity of Pg in the Basin and Range Province was found to be 6.0 km/sec. Between Fallon and Eureka the velocity of Pn is 7.8 km/sec, and just east of the Sierra Nevada it is about 7.9 km/sec. Two prominent phases closely following the first arrival between 50 and 250 km from the source in the Basin and Range Province were interpreted as reflections from an intermediate layer and from the Mohorovičić discontinuity. The velocity of P in the possible intermediate layer, deduced from the reflected phases be cause the refracted wave expected from this layer is nowhere a first arrival, seems to be 6.6 km/sec at the top of the layer and probably increases with depth. |
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Eaton, J.P., 1963, Crustal Structure from San Francisco, California, to Eureka, Nevada, from Seismic-Refraction Measurements: U.S. Geological Survey Crustal Studies Technical Letter Number 11, 55 p. (Available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/misc/tl/0011/.)
Abstract
Introduction
Information from the Seismograms
P in the Sialic Crust of the Basin and Range Provence
Traveltime Corrections
Traveltime Curves
Seismic Profiles: Traveltimes and Amplitudes of Observed Waves and Structure of the Crust
Basin and Range
Fallon to Eureka
Fallon to Owens Valley
Fallon to San Francisco
San Francisco to Fallon
Sumary
Acknowledgments
References