Article: Crustal‐Scale Seismic Structure From Trench to Forearc in the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Journal of geophysical research. 2017 Sept., v. 122, no. 9
2017
Abstract: The (de)hydration process and the amount of hydrated sediment carried by the downgoing oceanic plate play a key role in the subduction dynamics. A high‐resolution shear velocity model from the crust down to the uppermost mantle, extending from trench to ... ...
| Abstract | The (de)hydration process and the amount of hydrated sediment carried by the downgoing oceanic plate play a key role in the subduction dynamics. A high‐resolution shear velocity model from the crust down to the uppermost mantle, extending from trench to forearc, is constructed in the northern Cascadia subduction zone to investigate seismic characteristics related to slab deformation and (de)hydration at the plate boundary. A total of 220 seismic stations are used, including the Cascadia Initiative Amphibious Array and inland broadband and short‐period stations. The empirical Green's functions extracted from continuous ambient noise data from 2006 to 2014 provide high‐quality Rayleigh wave signals at periods of 4–50 s. We simulate wave propagation using finite difference method to generate station Strain Green's Tensors and synthetic waveforms. The phase delays of Rayleigh waves between the observed and synthetic data are measured at multiple period ranges. We then invert for the velocity perturbations from the reference model and progressively improve the model resolution. Our tomographic imaging shows many regional‐ and local‐scale low‐velocity features, which are possibly related to slab (de)hydration from the oceanic plate to the overriding plate. Specifically, we observe (1) NW‐SE oriented linear low‐velocity features across the trench, indicating hydration of the oceanic plate induced by bending‐related faultings; (2) W‐E oriented fingerlike low‐velocity structures off the continental margins due to dehydration of the Juan de Fuca plate; and (3) seismic lows atop the plate interface beneath the Washington forearc, indicating fluid‐rich sediments subducted and overthrusted at the accretionary wedge. |
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| Keywords | deformation ; friction velocity ; geophysics ; models ; research ; sediments ; subduction ; tomography |
| Language | English |
| Dates of publication | 2017-09 |
| Size | p. 7311-7328. |
| Publishing place | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |
| Document type | Article |
| Note | JOURNAL ARTICLE |
| ISSN | 2169-9313 |
| DOI | 10.1002/2017JB014299 |
| Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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