 Seismic Station on the Navajo Nation
The seismic monitoring station shown here was deployed on the Navajo
Nation in northwest New Mexico in 1999 and 2000 as part of the LA
RISTRA (Colorado PLAteau/Río Grande RIft Seismic TRAnsect)
experiment, which has yielded a wealth of new data on the structure
and evolution of the mantle and crust beneath the American Southwest.
Researchers and students from three regional universities, a national
laboratory, and the college of the Navajo Nation participated in
this project, which is representative of NSF-funded experiments supported
by the IRIS PASSCAL Program and its Instrument
Center. For more information on LA RISTRA visit http://www.ees.nmt.edu/Geop/Ristra/ristra.html .
Image contributed by Steven Semken, Arizona State University. |
