scholarly journals Geophysical study of the crust and upper mantle beneath the central Rio Grande rift and adjacent Great Plains and Colorado Plateau

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.E. Ander
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Upper Mantle ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Rift ◽  
Crust And Upper Mantle ◽  
Geophysical Study

Distributed deformation across the Rio Grande Rift, Great Plains, and Colorado Plateau

Geology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry T. Berglund ◽  
Anne F. Sheehan ◽  
Mark H. Murray ◽  
Mousumi Roy ◽  
Anthony R. Lowry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Rift

Crustal structure in central New Mexico interpreted from the gasbuggy explosion

1976 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 877-886
Author(s):  
Tousson R. Toppozada ◽  
Allan R. Sanford
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Upper Mantle ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Seismic Profile ◽  
Rio Grande Rift ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Crustal Velocity ◽  
Crustal Model ◽  
Mantle Velocity ◽  
Record Section

abstract Interpretation of a seismic profile extending 548 km southward from the GASBUGGY nuclear test of December 10, 1967 resulted in a crustal model for central New Mexico. The crust is 39.9 km thick below the Paleozoic “basement”. It consists of an upper crust 18.6 km thick having P velocity 6.15 km/sec, and a lower crust 21.3 km thick having P velocity 6.5 km/sec. The apparent upper mantle velocity is 8.12 km/sec. This model applies near the crossover distance, 50 km west of Albuquerque. Additional information from earthquakes and explosions suggests that the upper crustal velocity drops to 5.8 km/sec in the Rio Grande rift, and that the true upper mantle velocity is 7.9 km/sec. The low upper crustal velocity in the Rio Grande rift can be detected on the record section of the GASBUGGY profile.

Crust and Upper Mantle Near the Western Edge of the Great Plains

2013 ◽  
pp. 553-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Chaipayungpun ◽  
M. Landisman
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Upper Mantle ◽  
Crust And Upper Mantle

scholarly journals Oxygen isotope evidence for subduction and rift-related mantle metasomatism beneath the Colorado Plateau–Rio Grande rift transition

2006 ◽  
Vol 151 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
George B. Perkins ◽  
Zachary D. Sharp ◽  
Jane Selverstone
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Mantle Metasomatism ◽  
Rio Grande Rift ◽  
Isotope Evidence

The upper mantle structure of the central Rio Grande rift region from teleseismicPandSwave travel time delays and attenuation

1996 ◽  
Vol 101 (B7) ◽  
pp. 16003-16023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip D. Slack ◽  
Paul M. Davis ◽  
W. Scott Baldridge ◽  
Kenneth H. Olsen ◽  
Andreas Glahn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Upper Mantle ◽  
Time Delays ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Rift ◽  
Mantle Structure ◽  
Upper Mantle Structure
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