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Mattson 2004
Mattson, A. (2004). Tomographic imaging of late Quaternary faulting, Oquirrh Mountains, Utah. Journal of Geophysical Research 109: doi: 10.1029/2004JB003159. issn: 0148-0227.

Seismic tomography can be used to image colluvial material in the subsurface by inverting first arrival travel times for velocity. Colluvial material deposited at the base of a fault-scarp free face often appears as a low-velocity zone (LVZ) on a tomogram because it is generally less compacted and cemented than the surrounding alluvium. A tomogram generated from a forward model of a synthetic velocity structure successfully images two LVZs stacked in the hanging wall of a normal fault. The Mercur fan, Oquirrh Mountains, Utah, provides an opportunity to look for stacked LVZs in a distributed fault zone. Three tomographic images across fault scarps on an intermediate age alluvial fan can be used to identify two stacked low-velocity zones. Interpretation of a fourth tomogram is less conclusive. These two low-velocity zones are interpreted as colluvial packages separated by higher-velocity alluvial material and suggest that tectonic activity is interspersed with pulses of fan building.

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Seismology, Paleoseismology, Seismology, Instruments and techniques, Tectonophysics, Continental neotectonics, tomography, Quaternary, faults
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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