Seismic refraction measurements along two unreversed lines
indicate that the earth's crust is 26 km thick in southeastern Alaska
and 30 km thick along the Inside Passage of British Columbia. The
crust in southeastern Alaska, north of Dixon Entrance, consists of
a layer 9 km thick with a seismic velocity...
A free-air gravity anomaly map of the area between 10°-17°N and
90°-101°W shows distinctive positive and negative anomalies which
parallel the Tehuatepec Ridge. The positive anomaly approximately
overlies the topographic expression of the ridge. On the wide continental
shelf southeast of the Gulf of Tehuantepec a positive gravity
anomaly with...
The thermal regime of a postulated descending lithospheric slab
is calculated. The gravity anomaly associated with such a structure
is large in amplitude and long in wavelengh. Observed free-air
gravity anomalies in the Pacific Northwest do not indicate a gravitational
effect due to a descending slab.
Two hypothetical compensation models...