Facility Upgrade: Seismology Laboratory at Lehigh University

9528954 Meltzer这笔拨款为购买硬件和软件以升级里海地震学实验室的费用提供部分支持。具体而言，将购买一台带有大容量存储系统的新型IBM 3CT RS/6000工作站、Power MAC 9500、彩色绘图仪、用于分析地震数据的OMEGA 3-D成像软件以及其他外围设备，用于PI使用高分辨率地震反射和折射数据来解释上部地壳结构的研究。需要具有丰富内存和数据存储能力的强大的新工作站来开始三维分析地震数据。三维地震数据处理将立即对PI目前的研究有用，包括分析门多西诺三重结周围的地壳结构，那里发生了从俯冲到转换构造的转变，以及研究喜马拉雅山脉西北部活跃造山运动期间的地壳断裂。它还将为环境和社会意义的研究（如沿浅断层的流体迁移和高分辨率地层学）提供对上地壳结构的新见解。＊＊＊

9528954 Meltzer This grant provides partial support for the costs of acquiring hardware and software to upgrade the Lehigh seismology laboratory. Specifically, a new IBM 3CT RS/6000 workstation with mass storage system, Power MAC 9500, color plotter, OMEGA 3-D imaging software for analysis of seismic data, and other peripherals will be purchased for use in the PI's research using high resolution seismic reflection and refraction data for interpreting upper crustal structure. Powerful new workstations with an abundance of memory and data storage capabilities are required to begin to analyze seismic data three dimensionally. 3-D seismic data processing will be immediately useful to the PI's current research which includes analyses of the crustal structure around the Mendocino Triple Junction where a transition occurs from subduction to transform tectonics and studies of crustal faulting during active orogenesis in the northwest Himalayas. It will also provide new insight into the structure of the uppermost crust for studies of environmental and societal significance such as fluid migration along shallow faults and high resolution stratigraphy. ***