New insights into geologic and tectonic processes in Alaska and northwestern Canada
The northwest of the North American continent is geologically dynamic and tectonically active. A network of seismic and geodetic instruments deployed across the region as part of the EarthScope project provided data crucial to understanding its geological, tectonic, and seismic processes.
Tectonics and Seismic Structure of Alaska and Northwestern Canada: EarthScope and Beyond presents review papers and new scientific studies using EarthScope data to advance understanding of the region’s structure, seismic activity, and geodynamic processes.
About this volume:
- Describes the infrastructure and capabilities of the EarthScope seismic and geodetic networks
- Draws from a comprehensive set of geophysical data
- Includes field studies, laboratory analyses, and numerical modeling
- Spans processes from the Earth’s interior and the lower mantle to the crust and surface
- Covers examples from subduction zones, fault systems, and some of the largest recorded earthquakes
- Provides scientific explanations for the natural landscapes and ongoing movements shaping northwest of the North American continent
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Table of Contents
Part I: An Introduction to the EarthScope Networks
1. EarthScope Networks in Alaska
2. Perspectives on Transportable Array Alaska Background Noise Levels
Part II Synthesis Studies of Alaska and Northwestern Canada: From the Crust to the Lower Mantle
3. A Decade of Alaska Seismicity: 2013-2022
4. Updating the Crustal Fault Model for the 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model for Alaska
5. Geodetic Observations of Tectonic Deformation in Alaska and western Canada: The EarthScope Revolution
6. Synthesis of the Seismic Structure of the Greater Alaska Region: Continental Lithosphere
7. Structure, origin, and deformation of the lithosphere in the northern Canadian Cordillera from high-resolution, passive-source seismic velocity models
8. Synthesis of the Seismic Structure of the Greater Alaska Region: Subducting Slab Geometry
9. Synthesis of the Seismic Structure of the Greater Alaska Region: Geodynamic Implications
Part III Aleutian-Alaska Subduction: Properties, Interface Structure, and Dynamics
10. An Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone interface earthquake recurrence model from geology and Geodesy
11. Tectonic Tremor Observations Across Alaska
12. Insights into Inherited Crustal Features and Southern Alaska Tectonic History from Sp Receiver Functions
13. Implications of plateau buoyancy versus variable plate coupling on flat slab subduction in Alaska
14. Constraining the earthquake recording threshold of intraslab earthquakes with turbidites in southcentral Alaska�s lakes and fjords
15. Variations in Reflection Signature and Slip Behavior of the Subduction Interface Offshore Alaska Peninsula From 152 deg to 161 deg W
16. Implications of the 2020-2021 Earthquakes for Megathrust Coupling and Seismicity in the Vicinity of the Shumagin Gap
Part IV Transform and Oblique Fault Systems: From the Plate Boundary Corner to the Northeastern Brooks Range
17. Oblique contraction along the fastest ocean-continent transform plate boundary focuses rock uplift west of the Fairweather fault, southeast Alaska
18. Slip Redistribution onto the Totschunda Fault of Southern Alaska-a Result of a Pacific Plate Motion Change at ca 6 Ma
19. Inherited Upper-plate Controls on Localized Arc Magmatism Since ca 100 Ma along the Alaska Range Suture Zone
20. Geologic evolution of the Denali fault system and associated crustal structure
21. Seismicity and Anisotropic Imaging Reveal an Active Detachment Beneath the Northern Alaska Range Foothills
22. The 2018 Kaktovik, Alaska earthquakes and their context: insights from seismotectonics, In SAR geodesy, and static stress changes
