Images of the Earth's Crust & Upper Mantle

Updated: Aug 24, 2007

Australasia

Australia - Basement overthrust, Ngalia Basin, 1967

Australia - 1953 atomic bomb tests, Emu Plains, Moho reflections

Australia - 1968 deep seismic profiling tests and Moho reflections, Mildura

Australian National Seismic Imaging Resource (ANSIR)

Tasman Orogen Transect, Eastern Australia
Transect across the Tasman Orogen of eastern Australia, a well-preserved region of continental accretion and land mass addition.

Central Australian Basins Transect, Australia
Transect across a series of major E-W gravity anomalies and a Precambrian orogen showing major Moho offsets.

SESI
The SESI seismic reflection profile images the geometry of the pre-110 Ma basement units down the south-east coastline of South Island . It sheds light on the geometry of terrane boundaries preserved in approximately their pre-Cenozoic configurations.

SIGHT
SIGHT96 experiment crosses the central South Island of New Zealand. Transect aimed at understanding the crustal-upper mantle deformation that is occurring at a continental obliquely compressive plate boundary.

SIGHT98 is a follow-up to SIGHT96. It also is an experiment that crosses the central South Island of New Zealand. Transect aimed at understanding the crustal-upper mantle deformation that is occurring at a continental obliquely compressive plate boundary.

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