Economic and Environmental Geology (자원환경지질)

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Geophysical Investigations of the Grenville Front in Ohio, USA

미국 오하이오주에 위치하는 그랜빌 프런트의 지구물리학적 연구

  • Don Sunwoo (Petroleum and Marine Resource Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources) ;
  • Hinze William J. (Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette) ;
  • Kim Jeong Woo (Department of Geoinformation Engineering Sejong University)
  • 선우돈 (한국지질자원연구원 석유해저자원연구부) ;
  • ;
  • 김정우 (세종대학교 지구정보공학과)
  • Published : 2005.06.01
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Abstract

Seismic reflection profile analysis, potential field analysis, and potential field modeling using deep seismic reflection, gravity, magnetic, and geological data were performed to better understand the location and nature of the Grenville Front in Ohio, USA. The seismic reflection profile reveals a broad zone of east dipping basement reflectors associated with the Grenville Front in western Ohio and a broad region of west dipping reflectors cutting through the entire crust in eastern Ohio. Potential field analysis indicates that the Grenville Front is characterized by a gravity low, an associated gravity positive and a magnetic high. The results of the gravity and magnetic modeling using seismic data suggest that the lower crust is thickened at the interpreted position of the Grenville Front and high grade metamorphic rocks make up the Grenville Front Tectonic Zone (GFTZ). The gravity low at the Grenville Front is due to the thickened crust, while the magnetic high is due to high grade metamorphic rocks. The gravity high immediately east of the GFTZ in central Ohio is caused by thrusting of high density lower and middle crustal rocks into the upper crust. There is no compelling evidence that this gravity high is related to a Precambrian rift zone as has been suggested in previous studies.

미국 오하이오주에 있는 Grenville Front의 위치와 특성을 이해하기 위하여 중자력, 탄성파 및 지질자료를 이용한 지구물리학적 연구를 수행하였다. 탄성파 자료에 의하면 서부 오하이오에서의 기반암은 Grenville Front와 관계가 있는 동쪽으로 경사를 이루는 반사면으로 나타나고 이에 반하여 동부 오하이오에서는 서쪽으로 경사를 이루는 반사면이 나타난다. 중자력 자료 분석에 의하면 Grenville Front는 저중력 이상으로 그리고 Grenville Front Tectonic Zone은 고중력 및 고자력 이상으로 특징 지워진다. 탄성파 자료를 근거로 수행한 중자력 모델링 결과는 Grenville Front위치에서 하부지각은 두껍고 Grenville Front Tectonic Zone은 주로 변성도가 높은 변성암으로 구성된다는 것을 제안한다. Grenville Front 위치에서 저중력 이상은 두터운 지각 두께 때문에, 반면에 고자력 이상은 변성도가 높은 변성암들의 존재 때문인 것으로 해석된다. Grenville Front 바로 동쪽의 오하이오 중앙부에서 나타나는 고중력 이상은 밀도가 높은 하부 및 중부 지각이 상부지각으로 트러스팅 (thrusting) 되었기 때문이다. 과거 연구에서는 이 고중력 이상이 선캄브리아대의 열 개지역과 관계된다고 하였는데 이를 뒷받침할 만한 근거는 없다.

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