Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005geoji.160.1068m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International, Volume 160, Issue 1, pp. 1068-1080.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Low-Velocity Upper Mantle, Partitioned Waveform Inversion, Surface Wave Tomography, Turkish-Iranian Plateau
Scientific paper
The Middle East is a tectonically complex region consisting of terrains as diverse as Precambrian shields and young orogens. The dominant tectonic feature is the Turkish-Iranian plateau, a recently elevated, seismically active region along the Zagros-Bitlis suture, which results from the collision of the Arabian Plate with Eurasia. In this study, we use surface waveform tomography to elucidate the upper-mantle shear wave velocity structure beneath the Turkish-Iranian plateau and adjacent regions. The main large-scale feature in the tomographic model is a low shear wave velocity anomaly in the uppermost mantle beneath the plateau. This low-velocity feature correlates with a long-wavelength free-air gravity anomaly and with recent volcanism whose geochemistry has a lower lithospheric mantle signature. Seismology, gravity and volcanism all suggest the presence of a thin lithosphere and warm upper mantle beneath the Turkish-Iranian plateau. The upper-mantle low shear wave velocity zone, the high free-air gravity and the deep lithospheric source depth for the basaltic volcanism are all consistent with a partial delamination of the lithosphere as a result of earlier lithospheric thickening resulting from the continental collision.
Maggi Alessia
Priestley Keith
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