oa Frontiers of Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling

Over the past two decades multichannel reflection profiling has grown to become the lead methodology in many national and international programs to explore the deep structure of the continental lithosphere. Deep reflection surveys by groups such as COCORP (US), LITHOPROBE (Canada), DEKORP (Germany), BIRPS (Great Britain) and ECORS (France) have made a number of major discoveries about the complexity of the lower crust and upper mantle, including delineation of crustal-scale faults, wide-spread lamination in the lower crust, magma "bright spots" in the mid-crust, systematic variations in Moho character and distinct structures in the mantle lithosphere.