Examination of the Convergent Tectonic Processes that Created the North American Cordillera Along the Trans-Continental Bering-Chukchi Deep Seismic Reflection Transect

OPP-99-05790Miller1994年，在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，获得了两条深地震反射剖面，它们成像了北美和欧洲大陆交界处的整个地壳。它们提供了一个独特的地壳部分，横跨整个大陆，这些大陆是在中生代和新生代期间运行的主要汇聚构造过程所形成的。必须对深部地震资料进行充分解释，并沿断面绘制声学基底的结构等高线图。美国地质学会(GSA)一篇关于白令海的特别论文的中心部分计划对该断面进行地质和构造解释，但本应进行解释和绘制构造图的研究生没有完成这项工作。斯坦福大学地质学系有一个博士后研究分支机构，目前可以进行全面解释。在白令海GSA特别文件于1999年夏天发表之前，已请求国家科学基金会提供支助，以完成对地震反射剖面的解释。

AbstractOPP-99-05790MillerIn 1994, two deep seismic reflection profiles that image the entire crust across the continental junction between North America and Euraisa were acquired with National Science Foundation support. They provide a unique crustal section which goes across an entire continent created by the major convergent tectonic processes that operated during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. A full interpretation of the deep seismic data must be processed and a structural contour map of the acoustic basement along the transect must be made. A geologic and tectonic interpretation of the transect had been planned for the centerpiece of a Geological Society of America (GSA) Special Paper on the Bering Sea, but the graduate student who was supposed to do the interpretation and make the structural map did not do the work. The Geology Department at Stanford University has a post-doctoral research affiliate who is currently available to make the full interpretation. NSF support has been requested to complete the interpretation of the seismic reflection profiles before the Bering Sea GSA Special paper is published in the summer of 1999.