The Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) was the geodetic component of the EarthScope Facility. EarthScope was an Earth science program that explored the 4-dimensional...
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EarthScope (category Seismological observatories, organisations and projects)
project had three components: USArray, the Plate Boundary Observatory, and the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (some of which continued beyond the...
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UNAVCO (section Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO))
UNAVCO archived and distributed data from the EarthScope program Plate Boundary Observatory, which later became part of the Network of the Americas (NOTA)...
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public. The observatory undertook a monitoring plan in 2006 that served as the basis for upgrades undertaken by the Plate Boundary Observatory, and by the...
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of UNESCO. In 2005, Chile started to implement the Integrated Plate boundary Observatory Chile (IPOC) which in the following years become a network of...
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EarthScope Consortium (category Seismological observatories, organisations and projects)
EarthScope Program, which included operation of the USArray and Plate Boundary Observatory components. The EarthScope Primary Instrument Center (EPIC) (formerly...
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a major effort (the Plate Boundary Observatory) to install many more strainmeters along the Pacific/North-America plate boundary in the United States...
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USArray (category Seismological observatories, organisations and projects)
Magnetotelluric Observatory) was one of the three components of the Earthscope project, the other two components being the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) and...
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TLALOCNet (category Seismological observatories, organisations and projects)
continuous GPS meteorology or cGPS/Met sites based on the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory standards for the study of atmospheric and geological processes...
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code: PBO) Pine Bluff Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Wisconsin, USA Plate Boundary Observatory, a geodetic observatory in the western United...
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motion determines the type of plate boundary (or fault): convergent, divergent, or transform. The relative movement of the plates typically ranges from zero...
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level during the months leading up to the 2005–2006 eruption. The Plate Boundary Observatory has a network of 10 high-precision GPS instruments on the flanks...
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ionosphere. It was created by combining the following networks: The Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO), which spans Alaska, the continental US, and Puerto Rico...
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National Centre for Seismology (category Seismological observatories, organisations and projects)
of the Indian Plate and its interaction with the neighboring Eurasian Plate in the north. Most of earthquakes occur in the plate boundary regions; however...
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San Andreas Fault (section Plate boundaries)
California. It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate. Traditionally, for scientific purposes, the...
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Puskas, Christine M.; Santillan, Marcelo; Wang, Lei (2016). "Plate Boundary Observatory and related networks: GPS data analysis methods and geodetic products"...
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interferometric reflectometry (GPS IR). GPS-IR was used in the Earthscope Plate Boundary Observatory. Larson also showed that it is possible to measure sea level changes...
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which forms the divergent boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m (2,684 ft)...
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The Juan de Fuca Ridge is a mid-ocean spreading center and divergent plate boundary located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest region of North America...
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continental scale, Silver played a key role in establishing the Plate Boundary Observatory, a part of the large EarthScope research program, which observes...
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Ring of Fire (category Plate tectonics)
plate; the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates beneath the North American plate; the Philippine plate beneath the Eurasian plate; and a complex boundary between...
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tectonic plate collision between the Arabian plate moving northwards with respect to the Eurasian plate. As the Tethys Sea was closed and the Arabian plate collided...
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at the zone boundaries, such that each observatory's plates would overlap with those of the adjacent zones. The participating observatories agreed to use...
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Volcano (category Plate tectonics)
are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and because most of Earth's plate boundaries are underwater, most volcanoes are...
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Glacier is enough to depress the Earth's crust, stabilizing the boundary between the two plates. As the glaciers lose mass, the pressure of the ice is diminished...
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seabed observatory in the world, and also the first of its kind in the United States. Located on the southern part of the Juan de Fuca Plate, off the...
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slab window formed due to differential subduction velocities along the plate boundary, causing stress-induced tearing. This feature is bounded by two faults...
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Mid-ocean ridge (category Plate tectonics)
This feature is where seafloor spreading takes place along a divergent plate boundary. The rate of seafloor spreading determines the morphology of the crest...
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Farallon plate, slab rollback, a propagating rift, or mantle convection driven by abrupt changes in thermal layer thickness at the continent–ocean boundary. A...
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literally: "mountains" or "mountainous region"), as they mark the westernmost boundary of the Indian Subcontinent. They rise to form the eastern edge of the Iranian...
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