The overall location of this study was chosen based on community input from an online poll. The experiment is designed to acquire data that can be used to address key questions in the GeoPRISMS science plan concerning the formation and post-rift evolution of rifted continental margins at a variety of scales. In particular, this experiment encompasses the rifted margin from unextended continental crust onshore to oceanic crust offshore and spans multiple rift segments along the margin. It also covers several submarine landslides on the continental slope. We now invite suggestions from the community on how this plan might be modified to maximize the science of the program. Many aspects of the program are tightly constrained by logistical considerations, including allocated ship time, currents and water depths offshore, and the feasibility of line locations onshore. However, it is still possible for us to make modest adjustments to some line and instrument locations, so we would like feedback from the community on the design of this program.
Please see the website below for maps, GoogleEarth kmz files and descriptions of the experiment plan. If you have comments or suggestions on this plan, please send your comments to one of the PI’s by email by Jan 15, 2014.
http://www.geoprisms.nineplanetsllc.com/enam/community-seismic-experiment.html
We look forward to your feedback.
ENAM CSE PI’s:
Harm Van Avendonk (UT Austin), harm@ig.utexas.edu
Beatrice Magnani (SMU), mmagnani@mail.smu.edu
Donna Shillington (LDEO), djs@ldeo.columbia.edu
Dan Lizarralde (WHOI), danl@whoi.edu
Matt Hornbach (SMU), mhornbach@smu.edu
Jim Gaherty (LDEO), gaherty@ldeo.columbia.edu
Brandon Dugan (Rice), dugan@rice.edu
Mareen Long (Yale), maureen.long@yale.edu
Anne Bécel (LDEO), annebcl@ldeo.columbia.edu
Maggie Benoit (TCoNJ), benoit@tcnj.edu
Steven Harder (UT El Paso), harder@utep.edu
Gail Christeson (UT Austin), gail@ig.utexas.edu