Imaging mantle transition zone thickness with SdS-SS finite-frequency sensitivity kernels

Details Imaging mantle transition zone thickness with SdS-SS finite-frequency sensitivity kernels Imaging mantle transition zone thickness with SdS-SS finite-frequency sensitivity kernels

Jul 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008geoji.174..143l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 174, Issue 3, pp. 143-158.

Statistics

Computation

13

Tomography, Phase Transitions, Body Waves, Interference Waves, Computational Seismology

Scientific paper

We invert differential SdS-SS traveltime residuals measured from stacked waveforms and finite-frequency sensitivity kernels for topography on the 410- and 660-km discontinuities. This approach yields higher resolution images of transition zone thickness than previous stacking methods, which simply average/smooth over topographic features. Apparent structure measured using simple stacking is highly dependent upon the bin size of each stack. By inverting for discontinuity topography with a variety of bin sizes, we can more accurately calculate the true structure. The inverted transition zone model is similar to simple stack models with an average thickness of 242 km, but the lateral variations in thickness are larger in amplitude and smaller in scale. Fast seismic velocities in 3-D mantle models such as SB4L18 correlate with areas of thicker transition zone. The elongated curvilinear regions of thickened transition zone that occur near subduction zones are narrow and high amplitude, which suggests relatively little lateral spreading and warming of subducted lithosphere within the transition zone. The anomalously thin transition zone regions are laterally narrow, and not broadly continuous. If these variations in transition zone thickness are interpreted as thermal in nature, then this model suggests significant temperature variations on small lateral scales.

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