DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.033
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85049570586
论文题名: SKS splitting in the Western Indian Ocean from land and seafloor seismometers: Plume, plate and ridge signatures
作者: Scholz J.-R. ; Barruol G. ; Fontaine F.R. ; Mazzullo A. ; Montagner J.-P. ; Stutzmann E. ; Michon L. ; Sigloch K.
刊名: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
ISSN: 0012821X
出版年: 2018
卷: 498 起始页码: 169
结束页码: 184
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Central Indian Ridge
; La Réunion hotspot
; plume–ridge connection
; SKS splitting
; Southwest Indian Ridge
; upper mantle seismic anisotropy
Scopus关键词: Anisotropy
; Plates (structural components)
; Seismographs
; Central Indian Ridge
; Hot spot
; Seismic anisotropy
; SKS splitting
; Southwest Indian Ridge
; Seismology
; body wave
; geodynamics
; hot spot
; plate tectonics
; plume
; Rayleigh wave
; seafloor
; seismic anisotropy
; seismograph
; submarine ridge
; upper mantle
; wave splitting
; Central Indian Ridge
; Indian Ocean
; Indian Ocean (West)
; Mid-Indian Ridge
; Mozambique Channel
英文摘要: We present SKS splitting measurements in the Western Indian Ocean, recorded on 20 land and 57 seafloor seismometers deployed by the RHUM-RUM experiment (Réunion Hotspot and Upper Mantle – Réunions Unterer Mantel). We discuss our splitting observations within their geodynamic settings and compare them to SKS splitting parameters predicted from an azimuthally anisotropic Rayleigh wave tomography model that includes the RHUM-RUM data. We find that anisotropic directions poorly correlate with the present-day motion of the Somali plate, which at <2.6 cm/yr may be too slow to cause strongly sheared fabric in the asthenosphere. Fast split directions (Φ) between La Réunion and the Central Indian Ridge (CIR) trend E–W and provide strong, first seismological evidence for near-horizontal flow in the asthenosphere that connects the Réunion mantle upwelling with the CIR, supporting a long-standing hypothesis on plume–ridge interaction. In the vicinity of the Réunion hotspot, we observe a seismic anisotropy pattern indicative of a parabolic asthenospheric flow controlled by the Réunion mantle upwelling and its consecutive asthenospheric spreading. We furthermore observe ridge-normal Φ along the CIR and ridge-parallel Φ along the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR), both mainly attributed to asthenospheric mantle flows. In the Mozambique Channel between East-Africa and Madagascar, we attribute E–W trending Φ to frozen lithospheric structures, recording the paleo-orientation of the spreading ridges that enabled Madagascar's separation away from Africa. Based on the synopsis of this and previous SKS splitting studies at mid-ocean ridges, we propose that ridge-normal Φ may develop at fast and intermediate spreading ridges (e.g., CIR and East Pacific Rise) and ridge-parallel Φ could be characteristic to slow spreading ridges (e.g., SWIR, Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the paleo-ridges in the Mozambique Channel). © 2018 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/109757
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion, Université de La Réunion, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR CNRS 7154, Saint-Denis, F-97744, France; Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, UMR7154 CNRS, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France; Earth Sciences Department, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Scholz J.-R.,Barruol G.,Fontaine F.R.,et al. SKS splitting in the Western Indian Ocean from land and seafloor seismometers: Plume, plate and ridge signatures[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,2018-01-01,498