Comparison of crustal and upper mantle heterogeneity in different time periods: Indonesian subduction zone to northern Australia

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摘要 EarthquakeeventsfromtheIndonesiansubductionzonerecordedinnorthernAustraliashowalongandhigh-frequencycodaassociatedwithbothPandSwaves.RegionaleventsrecordedbyWarramungaarrayinnorthernAustraliacanseparateoutwavepropagationthroughthemantlebyfocusingonthecoherentsignalacrossthemedium-aperturearray.Mostoftheincoherentwavecomponentsresultfromstructuresinthevicinityofthearraywithsmall-scalelengthsof1–2kmorsmaller.Thecoherentphaseswithrelativelyrapidchangesinwaveformsareassociatedwiththescatteringofseismicwavesbycrustalandmantleheterogeneity,butinsomecasecanberelatedtostructuraleffectsnearthesource.Asthedepthofthesourceincreases,thecoherentportionoftheseismicwavefieldtendstobecomemuchsimpler,whichsuggeststhattheheterogeneitytendstoweakenatdepthwithlarger-scalelength.WecomparethecoherentsignalfeaturesofearthquakesfromtheIndonesiansubductionzonethathaveoccurredinrecentyearswiththoseintheearly1980s,firststudiedbyKennett(PhysEarthPlanetInter47:319–332,1987).Thegeneralcharacteristicsofthecoherentsignalvariationwithdepthinrecentyearsarethesameasthoseobservedin1980s,butthevariationsarelarger.Thischangesuggestsastringervariationinheterogeneitywithdepththanbefore,whichmaybearimportantinformationaboutthedynamicprocessesandevolutionofthecrustanduppermantle.
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出处 《地震学报:英文版》 2014年1期
出版日期 2014年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)