Abstract The Hammerfest Basin is an east–west-trending graben located between the Loppa High and Finnmark Platform in southern part of Norwegian Barents Sea. Mainly siliciclastic strata Carboniferous–Cenozoic age cover Caledonian basement have a total estimated thickness 5–8 km. basin evolved through several tectonic phases: Carboniferous rifting, Late Jurassic opening Atlantic Ocean, Oligocene...

Amplification corrections are presented for the finite-fault stochastic ground-motion simulation model; these corrections represent the total effect of the Los Angeles basin on the ground-motion spectra. Spectral amplification ratios were calculated by dividing the observed spectra for the 1994 Northridge and 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquakes, including shearand basin-generated waves, by the si...

Quantitative subsidence analysis of 26 wells in the Lusitanian basin provides new constraints on the western Iberian Mesozoic passive margin development. Backstripped tectonic subsidence curves show a three-fold subdivision of vertical motions from Late Triassic onward. Continental rifting was initiated during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. From Middle Jurassic onward a distinct differen...

We study the earthquake response of the Zevulun Valley basin, underlying northern Israel‘s largest urban area with two-dimensional viscoelastic seismic modeling of a detailed geological section. We found that amplification of the horizontal vibrations, the ratio of basin to no-basin response spectra, correlates with basin depth. In the deepest portion of the basin (Qishon graben) long periods (...

The Nam Pat Group of the Nam Pat Basin, Uttaradit Province, Thailand is situated in the Nan Suture Zone. Two contrasting tectonic framework models of the Nan Suture have previously been proposed: as a main Paleo-Tethyan suture and as a remnant of a closed back-arc basin. The goal of this study is to analyze the tectonic framework of the Nan Suture and reevaluate the existing tectonic models. Th...

After significant reductions in external phosphorus (P) loads, and subsequent water quality improvements in the early 1980s, the water quality of Lake Erie has declined considerably over the past decade. The frequency and magnitude of harmful algal blooms (primarily in the western basin) and the extent of hypoxic bottom waters in the central basin have increased. The decline in ecosystem health...

The Sava depression represents the most southern part of the Pannonian basin (Fig. 1). After the Middle Eocene, a long continental phase started in the area represented by the present depression, during which tectonic movements occurred and a fault network was created along which the basin subsided by extension. The oldest proven sediments belong to the fresh-water Ottnangian deposits which are...

To determine whether the ~200 Ma Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) coincides with a normal polarity bias and a purported abrupt change in polar wander at the J1 cusp, we collected samples for paleomagnetic study from 80 sites distributed over a ~2500 mthick section of sedimentary units that are interbedded with and overlie CAMP lavas in the Hartford basin, which together represent the i...

[1] The Cenozoic rift system of Baikal, located in the interior of the largest continental mass on Earth, is thought to represent a potential analog of the early stage of breakup of supercontinents. We present a detailed P wave velocity structure of the crust and sediments beneath the Central Basin, the deepest basin in the Baikal rift system. The structure is characterized by a Moho depth of 3...