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Guided Seismic Waves: Possible Mantle-Plume
Diagnostics
Bruce R. Julian
John R. Evans
U. S. Geological SurveyMenlo Park, California
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Problem: Seismological methods offer the highest resolution mantle images, but
current techniques are
• Most sensitive to large structures,
• Most effective in the upper mantle, and
• Limited by uneven data distribution.
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Teleseismic Tomography (of Iceland)
• Resolution is limited to depth < aperture of seismometer array.
Looking South
Looking West
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Whole-Mantle Tomography
• Model S20RTS (Ritsema et al., 1999, 2004)
• Section along MAR through Iceland
• Resolution best in upper mantle (surface waves).
• Limited by ray distribution, esp. in lower mantle.
• Artifacts
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Finite-Frequency Tomography
• Travel time “feels” Fresnel zone, of width. (“Banana”).
• Sensitivity = 0 on ray! (“Doughnut”).
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Lower-Mantle Anomalies (Princeton)
• Based on high-frequency (using ray theory) and low-frequency (using finite-frequency theory) data.
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Ray Distribution (Bolton & Masters, 2001)
• Plume-like anomalies in SW Pacific correspond closely to clumps in data distribution (turning points).
• Tomography is limited by uneven data coverage much more than by finite-frequency effects.
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Multiple ScS Core Reflections
• Hawaii earthquake of 1973 April 26, recorded on Oahu (Best et al., 1974)
• Relative times indicate high wave speeds and low attenuation.
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ScS Sensitivity Kernel
• Using “Banana-Doughnut” theory of Dahlen et al. (2000)
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ScS2 Sensitivity Kernel
• Similar to ScS kernel in upper mantle.
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ScS2-ScS Sensitivity Kernel
• Almost zero small-scale sensitivity in upper mantle
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And Now for Something Completely Different!
• A channel of low seismic-wave speed will act as a waveguide: Waves cannot escape from such a structure, and will follow the channel even around (not too sharp) corners.
• Same principal as fiber-optic cable, SOFAR acoustic channel in the ocean, etc.
• Observation and identification of such guided waves would be virtually conclusive evidence for a continuous low-wave-speed channel.
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Analog: Fault-Zone Waveguide
• Theoretical computations from Li & Leary (1990)
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Cylindrical Rod in Homogeneous Medium
• Torsional modes
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Excitation of Plume-Guided Waves
• Earthquakes in the deep mantle: These would be great, but they don’t occur (we think…).
• Teleseisms recorded by seismometers at hot spots: Adequate?
• Earthquakes at hot-spots recorded teleseismically: These would produce signals comparable to the case above.
• ???
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A Possible Experiment:Teleseism Recorded by Seismometer at a Hot Spot
• Caustic (large wave amplitude) for PKP near 120º.
• Various other core phases have similar caustics.
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Another Possible Experiment:Earthquake at a Hot Spot
• Exchange source and observer: Same result (reciprocity principle).
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Conclusions
• Guided seismic waves are promising tools for detecting mantle plumes.
• Positive result would be nearly conclusive.
• Negative result would be ambiguous: Absence of plume or inadequate excitation of guided wave? Interpretation would require detailed theoretical computation of excitation by various processes.