S53A:
Geophysical Parameter Estimation of the Very Upper Crust: Perspectives from the Field, Lab, and Mind Posters

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Session ID#: 24551

Session Description:
Geophysical parameter estimation of the very upper crust plays a critical role in, for example, geologic hazards, construction, archeology, and natural resource assessment and recovery. Methods of characterization and estimation vary widely from direct and indirect measurement in the field and lab to empirical and theoretical interpolation and extrapolation. In this session, we aim to bring together researchers from various disciplines and settings to present their work on geophysical parameter estimation of the top ~1 kilometer of the crust, which includes, for example, the influence of partial saturation, mixed phases, the water table, unconsolidated sediments, rock fractures, and weathering layers.
Primary Convener:  Oliver Salz Boyd, USGS, Golden, CO, United States
Conveners:  Alan Yong, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Manika Prasad, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States
Chairs:  Manika Prasad, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States, Alan Yong, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States and Oliver Salz Boyd, USGS, Golden, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Manika Prasad, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States
Co-Organized with:
Seismology, and Mineral and Rock Physics

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

4302 Geological [NATURAL HAZARDS]
5194 Instruments and techniques [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5199 General or miscellaneous [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
7205 Continental crust [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Geophysical Parameter Estimation of Near Surface Materials Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Invited) (208990)
Kristina Keating, Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States
Data for Regional Heat flow Studies in and around Japan and its relationship to seismogenic layer (227890)
Akiko Tanaka, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
Testing joint inversion techniques of gravity data and cosmic ray muon flux at a well-characterized site for use in the detection of subsurface density structures beneath volcanoes. (230160)
Katherine Cosburn, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Mousumi Roy, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Elena Guardincerri, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Seismic Imaging of the West Napa Fault in Napa, California (230462)
Mark Goldman1, Rufus Catchings2, Joanne H Chan3, Robert R Sickler2, Johanna M Nevitt4 and Coyn Criley2, (1)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, (3)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, 345 Middlefield Rd, Stanford, United States
Deepest Depth of Seismogenic Layer Within the Crust Beneath Japanese Islands on the Japan Sea Side Using High Resolved Earthquake Catalog and Heat Flux Data (231076)
Dr. Makoto Matsubara, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan and Tomoko Elizabeth Yano, NIED National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan
Building a USGS National Crustal Model: Theoretical foundation, inputs, and calibration for the Western United States (232411)
Oliver Salz Boyd1, Anjana K Shah2, Theron Sowers3 and Eric M Thompson1, (1)USGS, Golden, CO, United States, (2)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)California State University Sacramento, Geology, Sacramento, United States
Characterization of the Subsurface Using Vp, Vs, Vp/Vs, and Poisson’s Ratio from Body and Surface Waves (234036)
Rufus Catchings, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States
Evaluation of Rock Surface Characterization by Means of Temperature Distribution (235029)
Dursun Zafer Zafer Seker, ITU, Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, Abdullah Harun Incekara, Gaziosmanpasa University, Geomatics Engineering, Tokat, Turkey, Alparslan Acar, Gaziosmanpasa Universitesi, Geomatics Engineering, Tokat, Turkey, Sinasi Kaya, ITU, Istanbul, Turkey, Bulent Bayram, Yildiz Technical University, Geomatics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey and Nuket Sivri, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE ACROSS THE HAYWARD FAULT ZONE NEAR SAN LEANDRO, CALIFORNIA (236591)
Luther M Strayer1, Rufus Catchings2, Joanne H Chan3, Ian Scott Richardson4, Adrian McEvilly5, Mark Goldman6, Coyn Criley2 and Robert R Sickler2, (1)California State University East Bay, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hayward, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Mountain View, CA, United States, (4)California State University East Bay, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hayward, CA, United States, (5)California State University East Bay, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hayward, CA, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Mountain View, United States
P- and S-Wave Speeds of the Very Upper Crust Estimated by a New Technique Based Upon Body-Wave Polarization (246532)
Sunyoung Park, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Miaki Ishii, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Fracture seismic response to CO2 injection: Ultrasonic and low-frequency shear measurements of a natural dolomite fracture from Kevin Dome, north central Montana (267146)
Seth Saltiel1, Brian P Bonner1 and Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Identifying Conventionally Sub-Seismic Faults in Polygonal Fault Systems (279177)
Callum Fry, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Justin Dix, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom

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