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Basement along the profile is at a minimum depth of 4,700 m in the Black Warrior Basin and a maximum depth of 7,200 m in the Birmingham Graben System, yielding 2,500 m of relief in this Precambrian rift system. The coherent reflectors in this cross-section show no evidence for a ductile duplex; thus, the section was balanced using line length balancing techniques. The balanced cross-section yields a minimum of 30 km or 24% shortening. This value is similar to other balanced cross-sections to the north and south that span the Alleghanian fold-thrust belt in Alabama.","abstract_html":"In the central part of the Alleghanian fold-thrust belt of Alabama, multi-channel seismic and well log data are used to analyze structural elements of the thrust belt. Six horizons were interpreted on the seismic data in two-way travel time and were depth-converted using interval velocities derived from a synthetic seismogram as well as from sonic logs from USS-29-01-09 and COGC-USX #1. 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