Structural geometry of Raplee Ridge monocline and thrust fault imaged using inverse Boundary Element Modeling and ALSM data

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-58

  Hilley, G E ^a   Mynatt, I ^a   Pollard, D D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne laser swath mapping; Boundary element model; Inversion methods; Monocline

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SWATH MAPPINGS; BAYESIAN SAMPLING; BOUNDARY ELEMENT MODELS; BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; COVARIATION; DATA SETS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ELASTIC MODELS; FAULT GEOMETRY; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; POISSON'S RATIO; RHEOLOGICAL MODELS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRAIN CONDITIONS; STRAIN TENSOR; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; THRUST FAULTS; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEFORMATION; MAPPING; POISSON RATIO; RHEOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURVEYING; TENSORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; MAPPING; MONOCLINE; POISSON RATIO; RHEOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THRUST FAULT; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

RAPLEE RIDGE; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 73449119218     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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