Creating a 3-dimensional transect of the earth's crust from craton to ocean basin across the N Appalachian orogen

This project is the first of its kind to attempt to characterize a volume of the earth's crust the dimensions of a transect (880 km long, 100 km wide, and up to 45 km deep) using 3-dimensional, digital modeling techniques. The transect is divided into discrete blocks approximately 50 km by 70 km in areal extent and extending down to the base of the crust, or MOHO. These blocks are being used to construct 3-dimensional geologic models. Five principal geological/geophysical data sets were combined with a digital elevation model and used to construct 3-dimensional models. -from Authors