Application of dislocation theory to analysis of vertical displacements at the ground surface caused by the Duryea event

Open-File Report 68-20
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Abstract

Dislocation theory is used in an analysis that explains measured vertical displacements across a fault near the Duryea underground nuclear explosion. The difference between the measured vertical displacement and the theoretically predicted vertical displacement caused by cavity formation is termed the residual vertical displacement. The residual vertical displacement is, therefore, assumed to be the result of faulting triggered by the explosion.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Application of dislocation theory to analysis of vertical displacements at the ground surface caused by the Duryea event
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 68-20
DOI 10.3133/ofr6820
Year Published 1968
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s) U.S. Geological Survey
Description 24 p.
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