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Wide-Angle Sesimic Reflection/Refraction Recordings of Marine Airgun Profiling.

Thomas M. Brocher, & Michael J. Moses, USGS, Menlo Park, California.

Wide-angle seismic reflection/refraction data obtained in the vicinity of the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake provide evidence for a slab of oceanic crust extending from the deep sea floor to the San Andreas fault. During marine seismic relection profiling of the north-central California margin in May 1990, two onshore recording arrays were deployed transverse to and straddling the San Andreas fault at the latitude of Loma Prieta. The Loma Prieta array consisted of 13 stations stretching from the coast landward 94 km to the San Joaquin valley. A shorter array, located 25 km from Ano Nuevo to Cedar Mountain in the Diablo Range. These arrays recorded two 61-km-long, colinear, off-end, reflection lines from source-receiver offsets as small as 11 km to offsets as large as 165 km.

Data consist of common-receiver gathers, one gather per 9-track tape, written in SEG-Y format. Gathers are identified by a reflection line number and a station number. Gathers from Loma Prieta (LP) array contain about 3660 graces, three traces for each airgun shot (one for each of three orthogonal seismometers). Gathers from Ano Nuevo (AN) array contain about 3510 traces. Gathers are stored in reduced format: times have been transformed according to Tred=T-X/6, where T is the original travel time and X is the source-receiver offset. The gathers have been high-pass filtered above 3 Hz to remove low-frequency noise. Each trace is about 23 seconds long; or roughly 2301 2-byte samples and a 240 byte header for each trace.

File list:

LP3210		LP3220		LP3230		LP3240		LP3250
LP3260		LP3270		LP3280		LP3290		LP32100
LP32110		LP32120

LP3810		LP3820		LP3830		LP3840		LP3850
LP3860		LP3870		LP3880		LP3890		LP38100
LP38110		LP38120		LP38130

AN3210		AN3220		AN3230		AN3240		AN3250
AN3260

AN3810		AN3820		AN3830		AN3840		AN3850
AN3860

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