US-Argentina Cooperative Research on Seismological and Geological Studies of Central Andes of South America

该奖项支持地震学的合作研究 由邱哲明和其他人在孟菲斯指挥 州立大学与Beatriz Coira合作， 来自胡胡伊和萨尔塔大学的何塞·维拉蒙特， 分别在阿根廷。 地震学家和 来自美国和阿根廷的地质学家将进行一次 详细的安第斯山脉中部地震构造研究。 他们将使用获得的高分辨率地震数据 从圣胡安的新地震阵列实验中， 在胡胡伊地区正在进行的试验，目的是：（1） 在设计中考虑到地表断层的知识 （2）对网络的性能进行比较分析， 圣胡安和胡胡伊数据和（3）整合新的地震 数据与地质信息，使构造 解释。 美国地震学家和 阿根廷地质学家将提供新的信息 关于地震活动和地壳岩石圈 结构 地质学，地球化学， 地貌和火山信息， 胡胡伊和萨尔塔的共同调查人员将允许 浅部地壳地震活动详细对比 已知的地表断层 可能的解释。 这类合作社 研究对于获得对区域的新见解至关重要 活动的地壳挤压。

This award supports cooperative research in seismology to be conducted by Jer-Ming Chiu and others at Memphis State University collaborating with Beatriz Coira and Jose Viramonte of the Universities of Jujuy and Salta, respectively, in Argentina. Seismologists and geologists from the U.S. and Argentina will conduct a detailed seismotectonic study of the central Andes. They will use high resolution seismic data obtained from the new seismic array experiment in San Juan and the ongoing experiment in the Jujuy region to: (1) incoporate knowledge of surface faults into the design of the network in Jujuy, (2) compare analysis of the San Juan and Jujuy data and (3) integrate new seismic data with geologic information to make tectonic interpretations. This cooperation between U.S. seismologists and Argentine geologists will provide new information about seismic activity and crustal and lithospheric structure. The addition of geological, geochemical, geomorphological and volcanological information from the co-investigators at Jujuy and Salta will permit a detailed correlation of shallow crustal seismicity with known surface faults making tectonic interpretation possible. This type of cooperative study is essential to obtain new insights into regions of active crustal compression.