Evidence for a metastable olivine wedge inside the subducted Mariana slab

Details Evidence for a metastable olivine wedge inside the subducted Mariana slab Evidence for a metastable olivine wedge inside the subducted Mariana slab

Jun 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007e%26psl.258..219k&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 258, Issue 1-2, p. 219-227.

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An anomalous seismic velocity structure is revealed inside the subducted Pacific plate at northern Mariana near the deepest earthquake foci. We observe anomalous later phases in the P wave coda for a small cluster of deep earthquakes and an anomalous differential P wave slowness between a few pairs of the earthquakes belonging to the cluster. We interpret these observations with a 5% low velocity wedge which is nearly 25 km wide at the depth of 590 km and is truncated at 630 km. The wedge is bounded by two steeply dipping (60° 70°) transition layers with the thickness of about 4 km. The highly localized seismic anomaly inside the slab represents a wedge of metastable olivine (α) embedded in dry ringwoodite (γ). Deep earthquakes occur across only one of the boundaries of the metastable wedge, with some of them outside the wedge. The mechanism of deep earthquakes is discussed based on the spatial pattern of seismicity relative to the wedge.

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