Mantle plumes beneath the South Pacific superswell revealed by finite frequency P tomography using regional seafloor and island data

被引:11
作者
Obayashi, M. [1 ]
Yoshimitsu, J. [1 ]
Sugioka, H. [1 ,2 ]
Ito, A. [1 ]
Isse, T. [3 ]
Shiobara, H. [3 ]
Reymond, D. [4 ]
Suetsugu, D. [1 ]
机构
[1] Japan Agcy Marine Earth Sci & Technol, Dept Deep Earth Struct & Dynam, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
[2] Kobe Univ, Dept Planetol, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
[3] Univ Tokyo, Earthquake Res Inst, Tokyo, Japan
[4] CEA, Lab Geophys, Tahiti, France
基金
日本学术振兴会;
关键词
WAVE TOMOGRAPHY;
D O I
10.1002/2016GL070793
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
We present a new tomographic image beneath the South Pacific superswell, using finite frequency P wave travel time tomography with global and regional data. The regional stations include broadband ocean-bottom seismograph stations. The tomographic image shows slow anomalies of 200-300 km in diameter beneath most hot spots in the studied region, extending continuously from the shallow upper mantle to 400 km depth. Narrow and weak slow anomalies are detected at depths of 500-1000 km, connecting the upper mantle slow anomalies with large-scale slow anomalies with lateral dimension of 1000-2000 km prevailing below 1000 km depth down to the core-mantle boundary. There are two slow anomalies around the Society hot spot at depths shallower than 400 km, which both emerge from the same slow anomaly at 500 km depth. One of them is located beneath the Society hot spot and the other underlies 500 km east of the Society hot spot, where no volcanism is observed.
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页码:11628 / 11634
页数:7
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