Recent Advances in North American Paleoseismology and Neotectonics East of the Rockies

Evidence for post-Triassic brittle faults in eastern Connecticut and south-central Massachusetts using LiDAR, geomorphic, and geophysical data combined with field observations: Implications for the origin of the Moodus area seismicity
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Published:January 01, 2013
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Ronald T. Marple, Robert J. Altamura, Shelton S. Alexander, James D. Hurd, 2013. "Evidence for post-Triassic brittle faults in eastern Connecticut and south-central Massachusetts using LiDAR, geomorphic, and geophysical data combined with field observations: Implications for the origin of the Moodus area seismicity", Recent Advances in North American Paleoseismology and Neotectonics East of the Rockies, Randel Tom Cox, Martitia P. Tuttle, Oliver S. Boyd, Jacques Locat
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The recent availability of high-resolution light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data in Connecticut has led to the discovery of a 125-km-long, northeast-trending geomorphic lineament, herein named the Eastford lineament, in eastern Connecticut and south-central Massachusetts. It appears to represent a surface expression of the 50-km-long Eastford fault that continues to the northeast and southwest. The proposed fault zone appears to be post-Triassic in age, since the Eastford fault and other shorter mapped faults along the lineament offset the ~201-m.y.-old Higganum dike system and Paleozoic lithotectonic terranes and structures. An integration of borehole data from the Moodus Deep Well, the 1987...
- brittle deformation
- Connecticut
- deformation
- dike swarms
- displacements
- fault zones
- faults
- geomorphology
- geophysical methods
- geophysical surveys
- gravity methods
- laser methods
- lidar methods
- lineaments
- Massachusetts
- seismic methods
- seismicity
- seismotectonics
- surveys
- tectonics
- United States
- eastern Connecticut
- Eastford Lineament
- Ponset Brook Fault