continental lithosphere investigations using seismological tools
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Continental lithosphere investigations using seismological tools. Seismology- lecture 5 Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley. CIDER2012, KITP. Seismological tools. Seismic tomography: surface waves, overtones Volumetric distribution of heterogeneity “smooth” structure – depth resolution ~50 km - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Continental lithosphere investigations using seismological tools
Seismology- lecture 5
Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley
CIDER2012, KITP
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Seismological tools• Seismic tomography: surface waves, overtones
– Volumetric distribution of heterogeneity– “smooth” structure – depth resolution ~50 km– Overtones important for the study of continental lithosphere– Additional constraints from anisotropy
• “Receiver functions”– Detection of sharp boundaries (i.e. Moho, LAB?, MLD?)
• “Long range seismic profiles” –– Several 1000 km long– Map sharp boundaries/regions of strong scattering
• “Shear wave splitting” analysis
• Teleseismic P and S wave travel times: constraints on average velocities across the upper mantle
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Archean Cratons
• Stable regions of continents, relatively undeformed since Precambrian
• Structure and formation of the cratonic lithosphere– How did they form?– How did they remain stable since the archean
time?– How thick is the cratonic lithosphere?– What is its thermal structure and composition?
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Cooper et al., 2004;Lee, 2006;Cooper and Conrad, 2009
Transitionallayer
Strength
Transitionallayer
From heat flowData ~200 km
Upper mantle under cratons
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Density Structurenormative densities In situ densities
A B
A
BA B
3.40 Mg/m3 3.40 Mg/m3
3.40 Mg/m 3
3.35 Mg/m 3
Isopycnic (Equal-Density) Hypothesis
The temperature difference between the cratonic tectosphere and the convecting mantle is density-compensated by the depletion of the
tectosphere in Fe and Al relative to Mg by the extraction of mafic fluids.
Courtesy of Tom Jordan
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How thick is the cratonic lithosphere?
• Jordan (1975,1978) “tectosphere” ~400 km
• Heat flow data, magnetotelluric, xenoliths ~200 km (e.g. Mareschal and Jaupart, 2004; Carlson et al., 2005; Jones et al., 2003)
• Receiver functions (Rychert and Shearer, 2009): ~ 100 km?
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SEMum
S362ANI
Cluster analysis of upper mantle structure from seismic tomography
Lekic and Romanowicz, EPSL, 2011
Isotropic Vs
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Cratons
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Clustering analysis of
SEMum model
N=2
N=3
N=4
N=5
N=6
Lekic andRomanowicz2011,EPSL
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Cammarano and Romanowicz, PNAS, 2007
3D temperature variations based on inversion of long periodseismic waveforms (purely thermal interpretation)
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modified from Mareschal et al., 2004
Continental geotherms obtained with a purely thermal interpretation are too cold => compositional signature
Courtesy of F. Cammarano, 2008
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Kustowski et al., 2008 Cammarano and Romanowicz, 2007
From global S wave tomography: cratonic lithosphere is thick and fast
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Rayleigh waveovertones
By including overtones, we can see into the transition zone and the top of the lower mantle.
after Ritsema et al, 2004
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P-RF Ray Paths
Reading EPSL 2006
P Receiver functions: P-RF
PdSConverted phase:
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Crustal P-RF and Multiples
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Rychert and Shearer, Science, 2009
Depth of “LAB” from receiver function analysis
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Seismic anisotropy• In an anisotropic structure, seismic
waves propagate with different velocities in different directions.
• The main causes of anisotropy are:
– SPO (shape-Preferred Orientation)– LPO (lattice-preferred orientation)
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Seismic anisotropy• In the presence of flow, anisotropic
crystals will tend to align in a particular direction, causing seismic anisotropy at a macroscopic level.
• In the earth, anisotropy is found primarily:– in the upper mantle (olivine+ deformation)– in the lowermost mantle (D” region)– in the inner core (iron crystals)
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Wave propagation in an elastic medium --------------------Linear relationship between strain and stress:
Stress tensor Strain tensor
i,j,k ->1,2,3
Elastic tensor :4-th order tensor which characterizes the medium
In the most general case the elastic tensor has 21 independent elements
ui: displacement
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Special case 1: Isotropic medium :
m = shear modulus
Compressional modulus
l,m: Lamé parameters
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Types of anisotropy• General anisotropic model: 21
independent elements of the elastic tensor Cijkl
• Surface waves (and overtones) are sensitive to a subset, (13 to 1st order), of which only a small number can be resolved:– Radial anisotropy (5 parameters)- VTI– Azimuthal anisotropy (8 parameters)
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e.g. SPO:Anisotropy due to layering
Radial anisotropy5 independent elementsof the elastic tensor:A,C,F,L,N (Love, 1911)
Radial Anisotropy (or transverse isotropy)
L = ρ Vsv2
N = ρ Vsh2
C = ρ Vpv2
A = ρ Vph2
= F/(A-2L)
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Azimuthal dependence ofseismic wave velocities supportsthe idea that there is latticepreferred orientation in thePacific lithosphere associatedwith the shear caused by platemotion.
Fast direction of olivine: [100]aligns with spreading direction
Pn wave velocities in Hawaii, where azimuthzero is 90o from the spreading direction
Pn is a P wave which propagates right belowthe Moho.
Spreading direction
Anisotropy in the upper mantle
(Hess, 1964)
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Azimuthal anisotropy:
– Velocity depends on the direction of propagation in the horizontal plane
Where y is the azimuth counted counterclockwise from North
a,b,c,d,e are combinations of 13 elements of elastic tensor Cijkl
(A, C, F, L, N, B1,2, G1,2, H1,2, E1,2)
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Vectorial tomography(Montagner and Nataf, 1988)
Orthotropic medium: hexagonal symmetry with inclined symmetry axis
x
y
z
Axis of symmetry
(A, C, F, L, N, B1,2, G1,2, H1,2, E1,2)(A0, C0, F0, L0, N0, , )
(L0, N0, , )
Use lab. measurements of mantle rocks to establish proportionalities betweenP and S anisotropies (A,C / L, N), and ignore some azimuthal terms
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Montagner, 2002
x = (Vsh/Vsv)2RadialAnisotropy
Isotropic velocity
Azimuthal anisotropy
Hypotheticalconvectioncell
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Depth = 140 km
“SH”: horizontally polarized S waves“SV”: vertically polarized S waves“hybrid”: both
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Depth= 100 km
Montagner, 2002
Ekstrom and Dziewonski, 1997
Pacific ocean radial anisotropy: Vsh > Vsv
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Gung et al., Nature 2003
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Gung et al., Nature, 2003
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Dispersion of Rayleigh waves with 60 second period (most sensitive to depthsof about 80-100 km.
Orange is slow, blue is fast. Red lines show the fast axis of anisotropy.
Surface wave anisotropy
Ekströmet al., 1997
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Montagneret al.2000
Predictions from surface wave inversion
SKS splitting measurements
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s
Body wave anisotropy
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SKS splitting observationsIn an isotropic medium, SKS should be polarized as “SV” and observedon the radial component, but NOTon the transverse component
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Huang et al., 2000
SKS Splitting Observations
Dt = time shift between fast and slow waves
o = Direction of fast velocity axis
Interpreted in terms of a model of a layer of anisotropy with a horizontal symmetry axis
Montagner et al. (2000) show how to relate surface wave anisotropy and shearwave splitting
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• Station averaged SKS splitting is robustAnd expresses the integrated effect of anisotropy over the depth of the upper mantle
Wolfe and Silver, 1998
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Marone and Romanowicz, 2007
Absolute Plate Motion
Surface waves + overtones + SKS splitting
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From Turcotte and Schubert, 1982
Couette Flow
Channel Flow
Absolute Plate Motion
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Continuous lines: % Fo (Mg) fromGriffin et al. 2004Grey: Fo%93black: Fo%92
Yuan and Romanowicz, Nature, 2010
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YKW3
ULM
Fast axisdirection
IsotropicVs
Azimuthal anisotropystrength
ChangeIn directionwith depth
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From :Cooper et al.2004
Geodynamical modeling:Estimation of thermal layer thickness
from chemical thickness
A
A’
Yuan and Romanowicz, Nature, 2010
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LAB in the western US and MLD in the craton occur at nearly same depth
LAB MLD
Receiver functions
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• LAB: top of asthenosphere• MLD: in the middle of high Vs lid, also
detected with azimuthal anistropyLAB MLD
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Thybo and Perchuc, 1997
Long range seismic profiles
8o discontinuity
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Azimuthal anisotropyNorth American continent
Isotropic velocityNorth America
Yuan et al., 2011
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O’Reilly, 2001
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100 to 140 km
200 to 250 km: LAB
Less depletedRoot
x
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Does this hold on other cratons?
• At least in some…
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Levin and Park,2000,
Arabian ShieldAnisotropicMLD fromReceiverfunctions
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• Need to combine information:– Long period seismic waves (isotropic
and anisotropic)– Receiver functions– SKS splitting
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Anisotropy direction in shallow upper mantle
Major suture zones
Our results also reconcile contrasting interpretations of SKS splitting measurements (in north America):SKS expresses frozen anisotropy (Silver, 1996)SKS expresses flow in the asthenosphere (Vinnik et al. 1994)
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Layer 1 thickness
Mid-continental rift zoneTrans HudsonOrogen
LAB thickness
Yuan and Romanowicz, 2010