Evolution of a highly dilatant fault zone in the grabens of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA – integrating fieldwork, ground-penetrating radar and airborne imagery analysis

The grabens of Canyonlands National Park are a young and active system of sub-parallel, arcuate grabens, whose evolution is the result of salt movement in the subsurface and a slight regional tilt of the faulted strata. We present results of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys in combination with...

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Main Authors: M. Kettermann, C. Grützner, H. W. van Gent, J. L. Urai, K. Reicherter, J. Mertens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2015-07-01
Series:Solid Earth
Online Access:http://www.solid-earth.net/6/839/2015/se-6-839-2015.pdf