Interpretation of a seismic refraction profile across the Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah and vicinity

Technical Report · Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5814637· OSTI ID:5814637

Gertson, R C; Smith, R B

In April 1977, a seismic refraction profile was recorded across the Milford Valley, the Roosevelt Hot Springs KGRA, and the northern Mineral Mountains in southwestern Utah. Seven shot points were used to provide multiple subsurface seismic refraction coverage along the 30 km east-west profile line. Since an inspection of power spectrums revealed large components of 60 Hz noise on some traces, computer routines were used to low-pass filter all seismograms. Amplitude information was utilized by normalizing all traces that recorded the same blast. Subsurface structural modeling was conducted by means of first arrival P-wave delay-time analysis and ray tracing. Herglotz-Wiechert travel-time inversion was used for the velocity-depth distribution in the Mineral Mountains. The interpretation of the P-wave travel-times suggests that the Milford Valley fill consists of two units with a total thickness of at least 1.8 km. In the vicinity of the Roosevelt KGRA, a thin low velocity alluvial layer covers a basement igneous complex with a velocity of 5.2 km/s. Granite velocities between 3.3 km/s and 4.0 km/s were calculated from the travel-times in the Mineral Mountains.

• Research Organization: Utah Univ., Salt Lake City (USA). Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
• DOE Contract Number: EG-78-C-07-1701
• OSTI ID: 5814637
• Report Number(s): IDO-78-1701.a.3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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