Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009pepi..175..137b&link_type=abstract
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 175, Issue 3-4, p. 137-144.
Physics
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We examine the upper mantle and transition zone beneath the western Pacific using multiple ScS reverberations. A low-velocity zone (LVZ) is found above the 410-km discontinuity oceanward of the subducting Honshu slab at an average depth of 356 km, with a thickness that ranges from 50 to 75 km assuming the LVZ continues to the 410-km discontinuity, which is locally elevated. The low-velocity region is evident in previous tomographic studies, and our results suggest that the anomaly is best explained by a layer of partial melt. The layer may be entrained from above by subduction or produced in situ by the combined effects of water and temperature. A self-consistent model that explains local P-wave velocities (Obayashi, M., Sugioka, H., Yoshimitsu, J., Fukao, Y., 2006. High temperature anomalies oceanward of subducting slabs at the 410-km discontinuity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 243, 149-158) and our observations calls for a maximum temperature anomaly of ˜150 °C and a resulting maximum olivine water content after melting of 0.100 wt. %.
Bagley Brian
Courtier Anna M.
Revenaugh Justin
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