scholarly journals A lithospheric velocity model for the flat slab region of Argentina from joint inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocity dispersion and teleseismic receiver functions

2015 ◽  
Vol 202 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Baptiste Ammirati ◽  
Patricia Alvarado ◽  
Susan Beck
Keyword(s):  
Phase Velocity ◽  
Rayleigh Wave ◽  
Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Joint Inversion ◽  
Velocity Model ◽  
Receiver Functions ◽  
Flat Slab ◽  
Phase Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Wave Phase Velocity ◽  
Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity

Upper mantle shear velocity structure beneath the equatorial East Pacific Rise from array-based teleseismic surface-wave dispersion analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiushi Zhai ◽  
Huajian Yao ◽  
Zhigang Peng
Keyword(s):  
Phase Velocity ◽  
Rayleigh Wave ◽  
Upper Mantle ◽  
Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Velocity Structure ◽  
Shear Velocity ◽  
Wave Phase ◽  
Phase Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Wave Phase Velocity ◽  
Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity

Summary The Discovery/Gofar transform faults system is associated with a fast-spreading center on the equatorial East Pacific Rise. Most previous studies focus on its regular seismic cycle and crustal fault zone structure, but the characteristics of the upper mantle structure beneath this mid-ocean ridge system are not well known. Here we invert upper mantle shear velocity structure in this region using both teleseismic surface waves and ambient seismic noise from 24 ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) deployed in this region in 2008. We develop an array analysis method with multi-dimensional stacking and tracing to determine the average fundamental mode Rayleigh wave phase-velocity dispersion curve (period band 20–100 s) for 94 teleseismic events distributed along the E-W array direction. Then, we combine with the previously measured Rayleigh wave phase-velocity dispersion (period band 2–25 s) from ambient seismic noise to obtain the average fundamental mode (period band 2–100 s) and the first-higher mode (period band 3–7 s) Rayleigh wave phase-velocity dispersion. The average dispersion data are inverted for the 1-D average shear wave velocity (Vs) structure from crust to 200-km depth in the upper mantle beneath our study region. The average Vs between the Moho and 200-km depth of the final model is about 4.18 km/s. There exists an ∼5-km thickness high-velocity lid (LID) beneath the Moho with the maximum Vs of 4.37 km/s. Below the LID, the Vs of a pronounced low-velocity zone (LVZ) in the uppermost mantle (15–60 km depth) is 4.03–4.23 km/s (∼10 per cent lower than the global average). This pronounced LVZ is thinner and shallower than the LVZs beneath other oceanic areas with older lithospheric ages. We infer that partial melting (0.5–5 per cent) mainly occurs in the shallow upper mantle zone beneath this young (0–2 Myr) oceanic region. In the deeper portion (60–200 km depth), the Vs of a weak LVZ is 4.15–4.27 km/s (∼5 per cent lower than the global average). Furthermore, the inferred lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) with ∼15-km thickness can fit well with the conductive cooling model. These results are useful for understanding the depth distribution and melting characteristics of the upper mantle lithosphere and asthenosphere in this active ridge-transform fault region.

scholarly journals The Passive Surface Wave Methods for Shallow Engineering Exploration Based on the ESPAC Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 01041
Author(s):  
Tong Wu ◽  
Kezhu Song ◽  
Zhengyang Sun ◽  
Hongwei Zhao ◽  
Xin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
Phase Velocity ◽  
Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Vertical Component ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Phase Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Wave Phase Velocity ◽  
Wave Methods ◽  
Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity ◽  
Selection Of

ESPAC method is a rapidly emerging field of seismological research, which can reflect the physical properties of the Earth’s medium. In the process of using the ESPAC method, sometimes the noise of the original data is relatively large, and the raw data of each seismometer needs to be preprocessed, including operations such as de-averaging, de-trending, re-sampling, normalization, and filtering. The selection of the normalized method and the selection of the bandwidth of the filter are particularly important, and it will produce the wrong result if not handled properly. This article attempts to use the extended spatial autocorrelation (ESPAC) method to extract Rayleigh-wave phase velocity dispersion curves from the vertical component of the seismic stations’ microtremors, and proposes feasible and effective solutions to the selection of the normalized method and bandwidth of bandpass filtering.

A note on Rayleigh-wave flattening corrections

1976 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1873-1879
Author(s):  
R. G. North ◽  
A. M. Dziewonski
Keyword(s):  
Phase Velocity ◽  
Rayleigh Wave ◽  
Wave Dispersion ◽  
Period Range ◽  
Empirical Correction ◽  
Phase Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Wave Phase Velocity ◽  
Earth Models ◽  
Normal Mode Calculations ◽  
Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity

abstract The effects of sphericity and gravity upon Rayleigh-wave dispersion are examined. The widely used empirical correction of Bolt and Dorman (1961), although originally determined from a limited set of earth models, appears to predict phase-velocity curves in a spherical gravitating earth from flat earth calculations to almost 1 per cent accuracy, as claimed, for five earth models chosen to reproduce the considerable range of observed dispersion. Its application in the past therefore does not seem likely to have introduced large errors in inversion of such dispersion to determine earth structure. The use of spherical gravitating earth normal mode calculations in computing dispersion is strongly urged: for those without access to the computing facilities required by the complexity of the numerical problem a new empirical correction based on flat earth group velocity is proposed. This predicts Rayleigh-wave phase velocity dispersion in a spherical gravitating earth to better than 0.4 per cent in the period range 10 to 200 sec. Even better precision can be obtained by application of the tables of corrections given for different types of crustal and upper mantle structures.

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