Investigation of a Very Rapid Tectonic Process: Direction and Rates of Lateral Propagation of Reverse Faulting and Folding

凯勒与所有构造有关的一个长期存在的问题是，对变形过程的速率缺乏了解。折叠速度尤其如此，人们对折叠速度知之甚少。该项目将重点放在加利福尼亚州南部的一个地区，那里的太平洋海岸线附近正在发生活跃的褶皱。在这里，凸起的海滩阶地形成了古海岸线的永久标志，当它们被测得年代和现在的海拔测量时，它们将揭示这些褶皱的传播速度。该项目成功的可能性很大，将揭示这一活跃地震区地壳形变速率的基本数据。

9803115Keller A long standing problem relating to all tectonics is the lack of knowledge of the rates of deformational processes. This is especially true of the rates of folding, about which relatively little is know. The project focuses on an area in southern California where active folding is occurring near the Pacific shoreline. Here, the raised beach terraces form permanent markers of the paleoshoreline, and when they are dated and their present elevations measured, they will reveal the rates of propagation of these folds. This project has a high likely hood of success, and will reveal fundamental data on the rates of crustal deformation in this active seismic area.