Sign in

Z9 (2010-2014): Southeastern Suture of the Appalachian Margin Experiment

You must be logged in to request updates to this network.

FDSN Network Information

FDSN code	Z9 (2010-2014)	Network name	Southeastern Suture of the Appalachian Margin Experiment (SESAME)
Start year	2010	Operated by	Brown University, United States of America
End year	2014	Deployment region
Description	The goal of this experiment is to understand crust and mantle seismic structures in the southeastern U.S. associated with the suturing of Laurentia and Gondwana and subsequent continental rifting.

Citation Information

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	10.7914/SN/Z9_2010
Citation	For more: DataCite ( JSON \| XML \| BibTeX )
Published Description	Hopper, E., K. M. Fischer, L. S. Wagner, R. B. Hawman, Reconstructing the end of the Appalachian Orogeny, Geology, 45, 15-18, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G38453.1, 2017. Hopper, E., K. M. Fischer, S. Rondenay, R. B. Hawman, L. S. Wagner, Imaging crustal structure beneath the southern Appalachians with wavefield migration, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 12,054–12,062, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071005, 2016. Parker Jr., E. H., R. B. Hawman, K. M. Fischer, L. S. Wagner, Estimating crustal thickness using SsPmp in regions covered by low-velocity sediments: Imaging the Moho beneath the SESAME array, SE Atlantic Coastal Plain, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 9627–9635, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070103, 2016. Biryol, C. B., L. S. Wagner, K. M. Fischer, R. B. Hawman, Relationship between observed upper mantle structures and recent tectonic activity across the Southeastern United States, J. Geophys. Res., 121, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012698, 2016. Parker Jr., E. H., R. B. Hawman, K. M. Fischer, L. S. Wagner, Constraining lithologic variability along the Alleghanian detachment in the southern Appalachians using passive-source seismology, Geology, 43, 431-434, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G36517.1, 2015. MacDougall, J. G., K. M. Fischer, D. W. Forsyth, R. B. Hawman, L. S. Wagner, Shallow mantle velocities beneath the southern Appalachians from Pn phases, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062714, 2015. Parker, E. H., R. B. Hawman, K. M. Fischer, L. S. Wagner, Crustal evolution across the southern Appalachians: initial results from the SESAME broadband array, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 3853–3857, https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50761, 2013.

Data Access

Data Availability

Loading data availability information...

FDSN Web Services provide a common data access API for seismic data.

Availability based on irisws-fedcatalog service.
Full fedcatalog information for this network

Stations in this Network