Critical Zone Structure Under a Granite Ridge Inferred From Drilling and Three‐Dimensional Seismic Refraction Data

Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface - Tập 123 Số 6 - Trang 1317-1343 - 2018
Brady Flinchum1,2,3, W. Steven Holbrook2,3, Daniella Rempe4, Seulgi Moon5, C. S. Riebe2,3, Bradley J. Carr2,3, J. L. Hayes6,2,3, James St. Clair2,7,3, Marc Philipp Peters2,3
1CSIRO Land and Water, PMB 2, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia
2Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
3Wyoming Center for Environmental Hydrology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
4Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
5Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
6Department of Earth Sciences, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA
7Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA.

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AbstractObserving the critical zone (CZ) below the top few meters of readily excavated soil is challenging yet crucial to understanding Earth surface processes. Near‐surface geophysical methods can overcome this challenge by imaging the CZ in three dimensions (3‐D) over hundreds of meters, thus revealing lateral heterogeneity in subsurface properties across scales relevant to understanding hillslope erosion, weathering, and biogeochemical cycling. We imaged the CZ under a soil‐mantled ridge developed in granitic terrain of the Laramie Range, Wyoming, using data from five boreholes and a 3‐D volume (970 by 600 by 80 m) of seismic velocities generated by ordinary kriging of 25 two‐dimensional seismic refraction transects. The observed CZ structure under the ridge broadly matches predictions of two recently proposed hypotheses: the uppermost surface of weathered bedrock is consistent with subsurface weathering driven by bedrock drainage and subsurface topography defining the top of unweathered protolith is consistent with fracturing predicted from topographic and regional stresses. In contrast, differences in slope aspect along the ridge are too subtle to explain observed variations in regolith structure. Our observations suggest that multiple processes, each of which may dominate at different depths, work in concert to regulate deep CZ structure.

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Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface

Tập 123 Số 6

1317-1343

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