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Hill & Blewitt 2006
Hill, E.M. and Blewitt, G. (2006). Testing for fault activity at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, using independent GPS results from the BARGEN network. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2006GL026140. issn: 0094-8276.

Data from BARGEN GPS stations around Yucca Mountain (YM) have been independently processed using GIPSY-OASIS and GAMIT/GLOBK. The RMS velocity differences between these solutions is 0.06 mm/yr (east component) and 0.10 mm/yr (north), indicating an ability to resolve tectonic signals >0.3 mm/yr with high confidence. Inversion of GPS station velocities for Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) fault parameters produces an unreasonably deep locking depth of ~30 km for the Death Valley-Furnace Creek fault system, contradicting seismological evidence. The GPS cluster locally west of YM observes a strain rate of 17.0 ¿ 1.8 ns/yr, marginally higher than our ECSZ model predicts (13.9 ¿ 0.7 ns/yr). Significantly, the cluster to the east observes 22.3 ¿ 2.1 ns/yr, which is 6.2σ higher than the model (8.6 ¿ 0.7 ns/yr), suggesting that additional sources of strain more local to YM (0.7 mm/yr.

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Keywords
Geodesy and Gravity, Transient deformation (6924, 7230, 7240), Geodesy and Gravity, Space geodetic surveys, Tectonophysics, Continental neotectonics
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Geophysical Research Letters
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