Double layer anisotropy beneath the New Madrid seismic zone and adjacent areas: insights from teleseismic shear wave splitting


https://doi.org/10.4081/rg.2013.e3
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2013)
Published: 28 February 2014
shear wave splitting, New Madrid Seismic Zone, anisotropy, splitting time.
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A total of 93 well-defined PKS, 54 SKKS, and 126 SKS shear-wave splitting parameters are determined at 25 broadband seismic stations in an approximately 1000 by 1000 km2 area centered at the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) in order to test the existence of two anisotropic layers and to map the direction and strength of mantle fabrics. The individual splitting parameters suggest a significant and systematic spatial and azimuthal variation in the splitting parameters. The azimuthal variations at most stations can be explained as the results of present SW ward asthenospheric flow and NNE trending lithospheric fabrics formed during past orogenic events. In the NMSZ, rift-parallel fast directions (potentially related to a long-rift flow) and rift-orthogonal fast directions from small-scale mantle convection are not observed. In addition, reduction in splitting times as a result of vertical asthenospheric flow is not observed.

Moikwathai Dax Moidaki, Physics Department, University of Botswana, Gaborone
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Moidaki, M. D. (2014). Double layer anisotropy beneath the New Madrid seismic zone and adjacent areas: insights from teleseismic shear wave splitting. Research in Geophysics, 3(1), e3. https://doi.org/10.4081/rg.2013.e3

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