Tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts within the North American Cordillera orogenic system

WA Yonkee, AB Weil - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

Tectono-stratigraphic framework of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata, west-central US: Protracted rifting, glaciation, and evolution of the North American Cordilleran …

WA Yonkee, CD Dehler, PK Link, EA Balgord… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Stratigraphic, geochronologic, and geochemical patterns of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian
sedimentary and volcanic rocks in Utah, Nevada, and SE Idaho record a dynamically …

Crustal and uppermost mantle structure beneath the United States

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a new model of the shear velocity structure of the crust and uppermost
mantle beneath the contiguous US The model is based on more than a decade of USArray …

P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

B Schmandt, FC Lin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mantle seismic structure beneath the United States spanning from the active western plate
margin to the passive eastern margin was imaged with teleseismic P and S wave traveltime …

Deep electrical resistivity structure of the northwestern US derived from 3-D inversion of USArray magnetotelluric data

NM Meqbel, GD Egbert, PE Wannamaker… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Long period (10–20,000 s) magnetotelluric (MT) data are being acquired across the
continental USA on a quasi-regular grid of∼ 70 km spacing as an electromagnetic …

The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust

HH Huang, FC Lin, B Schmandt, J Farrell, RB Smith… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The Yellowstone supervolcano is one of the largest active continental silicic volcanic fields
in the world. An understanding of its properties is key to enhancing our knowledge of …

Imaging the North American continent using waveform inversion of global and USArray data

AJ Schaeffer, S Lebedev - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
The deployment of USArray during the last decade has produced dense sampling of the
central part of the North American continent with broadband seismic data. Regional …

A 3‐D model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the Central and Western US by joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps from ambient noise and earthquake data are inverted
jointly with receiver functions observed at 828 stations from the USArray Transportable Array …

Seismic tomography and the assessment of uncertainty

N Rawlinson, A Fichtner, M Sambridge… - Advances in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Seismic tomography is a powerful tool for illuminating Earth structure across a range of
scales, but the usefulness of any image that is generated by this method is dependent on …

Data products at the IRIS DMC: Stepping stones for research and other applications

C Trabant, AR Hutko, M Bahavar… - Seismological …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In 2010, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Data Management
Center (DMC) expanded the preexisting effort to generate, archive, and distribute data …