High resolution image of the subducted Pacific (?) plate beneath central Alaska, 50-150 km depth

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Sep 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003e%26psl.214..575f&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 214, Issue 3-4, p. 575-588.

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A receiver function transect across the Alaska Range images the subducting Pacific plate at 50-150 km depth. Across a 200 km long array of 30 receivers, the largest observed P-to-S conversions come from the top of the subducting slab. This signal is coherent across the array and is strongly asymmetric, requiring a complicated interface at the top of the slab. Waveform inversion shows that the conversion is generated by a 11-22 km thick low velocity zone at the top of the slab, as much as 20% slower than the surrounding mantle. The velocity of this zone increases with increasing depth of the slab, approaching velocities of the mantle near 150 km depth. All intermediate depth earthquakes occur within the zone, along a plane dipping 5° steeper. The layer is too thick to represent metamorphosed oceanic crust, as proposed for other subduction zones. It may represent a thick serpentinized zone or, more likely, a thick exotic terrane subducting along with the Pacific plate.

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