Colorado Plateau/Rio Grande Rift/Great Plains Seismic Transect

耳朵- 0207812 Aster里约热内卢大裂谷地震样带（RISTRA）项目旨在研究美国西南部的地壳和地幔，利用一套特殊的数据集，该数据集由1999年至2001年期间在德克萨斯州，NM， AZ和UT沿1000公里样带记录的57个站点的18个月宽带远震IRIS pascal数据组成。在最初的NSF资助下，广泛的野外工作完成，数据在IRIS数据管理中心进行处理和存档，并进行初步分析并向地球科学和更广泛的社区传播。该项目继续对RISTRA进行分析，以前所未有的分辨率阐明和解释与里约热内卢大裂谷（RGR）、科罗拉多高原（CP）和大平原（GP）相关的结构和过程。主要目标是确定：(1)目前CP高海拔的支持性质；(2)与地表形态和构造相关的地幔作用深度；(3) RGR区域地幔与地壳应变的联系；(4)法拉龙板块残余物和任何可能分离的大陆岩石圈在地幔中的位置。利用接收函数方法对不连续面进行成像，并结合剪切波分裂、三维地震层析成像、捕虏体和其他地质/地球物理约束条件的研究，以揭示该地区深度约800公里的结构。地震偏移处理技术充分利用了RISTRA实验的质量、长度和密集（~18 km）站距的优势。美国能源部/SEG下一代建模（NGM）项目正在与洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室和休斯顿大学合作，将弹性和三维建模工作纳入该项目。

EAR-0207812 Aster The Rio Grande Rift Seismic Transect (RISTRA) project is designed to study the crust and mantle beneath the southwestern U.S. utilizing an exceptional data set consisting of 18 months of broadband teleseismic IRIS PASSCAL data from 57 sites along a 1000-km transect in TX, NM, AZ, and UT recorded during 1999-2001. Under initial NSF funding extensive fieldwork was completed, data were processed and archived at the IRIS data management center, and preliminary analysis was performed and disseminated to the earth science and broader communities. This project continues the analysis of RISTRA to illuminate and interpret structure and processes associated with the Rio Grande Rift (RGR), Colorado Plateau (CP), and Great Plains (GP) at unprecedented resolution. Principal goals are to determine the: (1) nature the support of the present high elevation of the CP; (2) depth extent of mantle processes associated with surface morphology and tectonics; (3) connection between mantle and crustal strain beneath the RGR region; (4) location in the mantle of remnants of the Farallon plate and any possible detached continental lithosphere. Imaging of discontinuities using receiver function methods is being coupled with studies of shear wave splitting, 3-D seismic tomography, xenolith, and other geological/geophysical constraints to reveal the structure of the region to depths of approximately 800 km. Seismic migration processing techniques that take full advantage of the quality, length, and dense (~18 km) station spacing of the RISTRA experiment are being applied. Elastic 2- and 3-D modeling efforts are being incorporated into the DOE/SEG Next Generation Modeling (NGM) Project in association with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Houston.