Lithosphere structure across the Dead Sea Transform as constrained by Rayleigh waves observed during the DESERT experiment

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May 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008geoji.173..593l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 173, Issue 2, pp. 593-610.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Tomography, Surface Waves And Free Oscillations, Transform Faults, Dynamics Of Lithosphere And Mantle

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The interdisciplinary Dead Sea Rift Transect (DESERT) project that was conducted in Israel, the Palestine Territories and Jordan has provided a rich palette of data sets to examine the crust and uppermost mantle beneath one of Earth's most prominent fault systems, the Dead Sea Transform (DST). As part of the passive seismic component, thirty broad-band sensors were deployed in 2000 across the DST for roughly one year. During this deployment, we recorded 115 teleseismic earthquakes that are suitable for a fundamental mode Rayleigh wave analysis at intermediate periods (35-150s). Our initial analysis reveals overall shear velocities that are reduced by up to 4 per cent with respect to reference Earth model PREM. To the west of the DST, we find a seismically relatively fast but thin lid that is about 80 km thick. Towards the east, shallow seismic velocities are low while a deeper low velocity zone is not detected. This contradicts the currently favoured thermomechanical model for the DST that predicts lithospheric thinning through mechanical erosion by an intruding plume from the Red Sea. On the other hand, our current results are somewhat inconclusive regarding asthenosphere velocities east of the DST due to the band limitation of the recording equipment in Jordan.

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