| Crust and upper mantle structure of the New Madrid Seismic Zone: Insight into intraplate earthquakes | |
Chen, Chuanxu1,2,3 ; Zhao, Dapeng1; Wu, Shiguo2; Chen, CX (reprint author), Tohoku Univ, Dept Geophys, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan.
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| 2014-05-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS
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| 卷号 | 230页码:1-14 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | We determine a 3-D P-wave velocity model of the crust and upper mantle down to 400 km depth to investigate structural heterogeneity and its influences on the generation of intraplate earthquakes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. We used 4871 high-quality arrival times from 187 local earthquakes and 30,846 precise travel-time residuals from 1041 teleseismic events recorded by the EarthScope/USArray Transportable Array. Our results show that, beneath the Reelfoot rift, a significant low-velocity (low-V) zone exists in the upper mantle down to 200 km depth, with a large volume of 200 x 200 x 150 km(3). The origin of the low-V zone may be related to the passage of the Bermuda hotspot and the stalled ancient Farallon slab materials foundering in the mantle transition zone. This low-V zone may have relatively low shear strength and act as a viscously weak zone embedded in the lithosphere, being apt to concentrate tectonic stress and transfer stress to the seismogenic faults in the upper crust, leading to the large intraplate earthquakes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | New Madrid Seismic Zone Seismic Tomography Low-velocity Zone Intraplate Earthquakes Farallon Slab Seismotectonics |
| 学科领域 | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pepi.2014.01.016 |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000337204700001 |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/23807 |
| 专题 | 海洋地质与环境重点实验室 |
| 通讯作者 | Chen, CX (reprint author), Tohoku Univ, Dept Geophys, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan. |
| 作者单位 | 1.Tohoku Univ, Dept Geophys, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanog, Qingdao, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China |
| 第一作者单位 | 中国科学院海洋研究所 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Chen, Chuanxu,Zhao, Dapeng,Wu, Shiguo,et al. Crust and upper mantle structure of the New Madrid Seismic Zone: Insight into intraplate earthquakes[J]. PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS,2014,230:1-14. |
| APA | Chen, Chuanxu,Zhao, Dapeng,Wu, Shiguo,&Chen, CX .(2014).Crust and upper mantle structure of the New Madrid Seismic Zone: Insight into intraplate earthquakes.PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS,230,1-14. |
| MLA | Chen, Chuanxu,et al."Crust and upper mantle structure of the New Madrid Seismic Zone: Insight into intraplate earthquakes".PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS 230(2014):1-14. |
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