USGS Professonal Paper 1096 - IRIS

CONNECTICUT
Weston, HA
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Code
Station name
Latitude
(!leg H )
Longitude
(!leg W.)
Elev
(meters)
Date
ollened
Date
closed
Foundation; geologic age
APT Avery Point------------- 41.3160
72.0639
3
1/07/72 6/10/77 Stonington Gneiss of Martin
(1925)1; Paleozoic.
BCT Brookfield-------------- 41.4933
73.3839
69
6/10/75 Open-- Brookfield Diorite Gneiss of
Gregory (1906)2; early Paleozoic.
BPT Bridgeport-------------- 41.2221
73.2422
83
1/07/72 6/10/77 Straits Schist; Paleozoic.
CPL Chaplin----------------- 41. 7890
72 .1073
161
1/19/72 7/23/74 Eastford Gneiss; Devonian or Silurian.
ECT Ellsworth--------------- 41.8346
73.4113
342
1/28176 Open-- Granite schist; Paleozoic.
IIDM Haddam------------------ 41. 4858
72.5232
24
12/23/74 --do-- Haddam Granite Gneiss; Paleozoic.
NSC North Stonington-------- 41.4807
71.8516
110
6/27/77 --do-- Metavolcanics and gneiss; Ordovician.
TlIT Talcott Mountain-------- 41.8114
72.7989
290
1/07/72 6/10/77 Holyoke Basalt; Triassic.
UCT University of----------- 41.8317
Connecticut (Storrs).
72.2506
149
11/05/74 Open-- Brimfield Schist; Ordovician or older.
IMartin. L. H. 1925. Geology of the Stonington region. Connecticut: Connecticut Geol. and Nat. History Survey Bull. 33. 70 p.
2Gregory, H. E., 1906, The Crystalline rocks of Connecticut: Connecticut Geol. and Nat. History 8urvey Bull. 6, p. 39-156.
INSIRUMENIAIION
Seismometer Galvo Type Magnification
Code Type Component T (sec) T g(sec) recording at T
0 0
Remarks
APT Benioff-------------- Z 1.0 Develocorder 1.68 K
Geotech 8-13--------- Z 1.0 --do-------- 100 K
BCT Geotech 8-13--------- Z 1.0 --do-------- 100 K Telemetered to WE8.
BPI --00----------------- Z 1.0 --do-------- 15 K Do.
CPL --do----------------- Z 1.0 --do-------- 130 K Do.
ECT --do----------------- Z 1.0 --do-------- 150 K Do.
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