Crustal Velocity Models

Crustal Velocity Models for Northeast North America

Dr. Motazedian’s research team at Carleton University in collaboration with international researchers from Spain and China has provided the first generation of comprehensive crustal seismic velocity models for Northern Canada and Northeastern North America (Motazedian et al., 2013) and some areas of southern Ontario (in collaboration with Professor Corchete, Department of Applied Physics, University of Almeria, Spain) (Ma et. al., 2013). Such models have a wide range of uses: from improving the accuracy of absolute earthquake locations to regional exploration for subsurface hydrocarbon (oil and gas) reservoirs (Motazedian and Ma, 2014; Motazedian et al., 2013; Ma et al., 2013; Ma and Motazedian, 2012).