GEON IDV Displays of Yellowstone Park Geophysics
Yellowstone National Park area with GPS velocity vectors, faults (green), and seismic shear wave polarization (blue bars)
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Yellowstone National Park with GPS velocities, caldera outline(red), seismic shear wave tomography isosurface(green),
faults, seismic shear wave polarization bars, and colored topo relief map (transparent).
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Yellowstone National Park
3D oblique view, with transparent 3D topo relief map, GPS vectors, caldera outline, faults, seismic shear wave polarization bars, and
a seismic shear wave tomography isosurface(yellow)
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Yellowstone National Park
3D oblique view, with transparent 3D topo relief map, GPS vectors, caldera outline, faults,
a seismic shear wave tomography isosurface(yellow), earthquake focal mechanism beachballs,
seismic shear wave polarization bars, and
a vertical cross section of shear wave velocity.
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Yellowstone National Park
with a surface geology map draped over 3D topographic relief, earthquake locations colored by magnitude,
and an isosurface and vertical cross section of seismic shear wave velocity.
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Data sources :
GPS vectors: Robert B. Smith, University of Utah
Earthquakes locations and focal mechanisms: Robert B. Smith, University of Utah
Seismic tomography: Michael Jordan and S. Husen, University of Utah
Seismic anisotropy: Table 3 in "Models of lithospheric and asthenosphere anisotropic structure of the Yellowstone hotspot from shear wave splitting" by Gregory P. Waite, Derek L. Schutt, Robert B. Smith, and Eugene D. Humphreys, J. Geophys. Res., 110, 2005, B11304, doi:10.1029/2004JB003501.
Topography: National Geophysical Data Center, GLOBE 30 second data
Fault lines: U.S. Geological Survey, 2006, Quaternary fault and fold database for the United States, accessed April 1, 2006, from USGS web site: http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/qfaults/.
Caldera outline:
National Park boundary outline:
Geology map: Robert L. Christiansen:
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 729-G, Geologic Map of the Yellowstone Plateau Area (http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp729g/).
unavco.org).