The Nature of Laramide Intracratonic Deformation: Detailed Structural Studies to Supplement the 1999 CD-Rom Seismic Experiments

9814698 erslev CD-ROM（大陆动力学-落基山样带）项目是一项综合地质和地球物理调查，旨在评估从怀俄明州到新墨西哥州的样带岩石圈结构。该项目的资助期为1998-2001年。该项目涉及来自12所大学的17名研究人员。CD-ROM项目的主要目标之一是了解Laramide构造如何受到更古老的大陆组合结构的影响，以及Laramide上地壳的缩短如何适应于下地壳和上地幔。该项目的首席研究员是Laramide构造学领域公认的专家。他的研究将通过对CD-ROM横断面上Laramide结构几何形状和事件序列的详细分析来加强CD-ROM项目。这对项目的成功至关重要，因为必须识别Laramide构造运动的影响，以区分它们的特征与更老（前寒武纪）和更年轻（里约热内卢大裂谷）事件的特征，这些事件也对北美克拉通西部目前的岩石圈结构做出了贡献。此外，他可以为项目提供宝贵的建议，以确定地震线在样带中的准确位置，从而最大限度地获取有关Laramide基底的克拉通内构造作用的信息

9814698ErslevThe CD-ROM (Continental Dynamics-Rocky Mountain Transect) project is an integrated geological and geophysical investigation to evaluate lithospheric structure in a transect from Wyoming to New Mexico. The project has been funded for the time period 1998-2001. The project involves 17 investigators from 12 universities. One of the major goals of the CD-ROM project is to understand how Laramide structures may have been influenced by older continental assembly structures and how Laramide upper crustal shortening is accommodated in the lower crust and upper mantle. The Principal Investigator of this project is a recognized expert in Laramide tectonics. His studies will strengthen the CD-ROM project by carrying out detailed analyses of Laramide structural geometries and sequences of events along the CD-ROM transects. This is important to the success of the project because the effects of Laramide tectonism must be identified to discriminate their signatures from those of older (Precambrian) and younger (Rio Grande rift) events that have also contributed to the present lithospheric structure of the western part of the North American craton. In addition, he can provide valuable advice to the project about exactly where to site the seismic lines in the transects so as to maximize information about Laramide basement-involved intracratonic tectonism.***