Scattering objects in the lower mantle beneath northeastern China observed with a short-period seismic array

Details Scattering objects in the lower mantle beneath northeastern China observed with a short-period seismic array Scattering objects in the lower mantle beneath northeastern China observed with a short-period seismic array

Jun 2003

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 138, Issue 1, p. 55-69.

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Precursor and coda portions of short-period PcP waves (reflected P wave from the core-mantle boundary, CMB) recorded at J-array stations in Japan were analyzed in order to extract weak scattered signals originating from small-scale heterogeneities in the lowermost mantle beneath northeastern China. Two nuclear explosions at Lop Nor in China detonated on 21 May 1992 (/Mb=6.5) and 8 June 1996 (/Mb=5.9) were used for our analysis.
Three-dimensional grids above the CMB were defined in the area around the PcP bounce points beneath northeastern China to calculate theoretical travel times of scattered waves which propagate from the sources to each grid point and arrive at each station based on the IASP91 model. Subsequently the waveforms were aligned with respect to the theoretical travel times and the semblance (an amplitude dependent measure of coherency) was calculated for each grid point. In order to obtain a more accurate travel time correction, we applied a cross correlation method to PcP waveforms in order to reduce picking error of the PcP onset time. A cross convolution method was also applied so that the two events could be analyzed simultaneously without using unstable deconvolutions.
We could identify regions with relative high semblance values in semblance contour maps at about 200 and 375km above the CMB. Stacking waveforms with respect to the theoretical travel times for the grid points with relative high semblance values indicate coherent wavelets originating at those grid points, that is, they correspond to scattered waves originating from small-scale heterogeneities in the lowermost mantle. Our results indicate the existence of small-scale scattering objects in the D'' layer, especially in the depth range of 200 and 375km above the CMB beneath northeastern China. Considering recent tomographic images of high velocity anomalies in this area, these scattering objects could be fragments of old oceanic crusts which have subducted through the lower mantle and have accumulated in the D'' layer beneath northeastern China.

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