Teleseismic studies of the lithosphere below the Abitibi-Grenville Lithoprobe transect

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 415-426

  Rondenay, Stéphane ^a   Bostock, Michael G ^a   Hearn, Thomas M ^b   White, Donald J ^c   Wu, Hua ^d   Sénéchal, Guy ^d   Ji, Shaocheng ^e   Mareschal, Marianne ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOPROBE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMOLOGY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

CANADA;

EID: 0033853952     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e98-088     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Adams, J., and Basham, P. 1991. The seismicity and seismotectonics of eastern Canada. In Neotectonics of North America. Edited by D.B. Slemmons, E.R. Engdahl, M.D. Zoback, and D.D. Blackwell. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., pp. 261-276.
2. Ammon, C.J., Randall, G.E., and Zandt, G. 1990. On the nonuniqueness of receiver function inversions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95: 15 303-15 318.
3. Antonuk, C.N., and Mareschal, J.C. 1992. Preliminary gravity modelling along the LITHOPROBE seismic reflection profiles 28 and 29, Northern Abitibi Subprovince. In Proceedings, Lithoprobe Abitibi-Grenville Transect, Report 33, pp. 71-75.
4. Babuška, V., and Cara, M. 1991. Seismic anisotropy in the Earth. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
5. Bédard, J.H. 1985. The opening of the Atlantic, the Mesozoic New England Igneous Province, and mechanisms of continental breakup. Tectonophysics, 113: 209-232.
6. Bellefleur, G., Barnes, A., Calvert, A., Hubert, C., and Mareschal, M. 1995. Seismic reflection constraints from Lithoprobe line 29 on the upper crustal structure of the northern Abitibi greenstone belt. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32: 128-134.
7. Benn, K., Sawyer, E.W., and Bouchez, J.-L. 1992. Orogen parallel and transverse shearing in the Opatica belt, Quebec: implications for the structure of the Abitibi Subprovince. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 29: 2429-2444.
8. Bowman, J.R., and Ando, M. 1987. Shear-wave splitting in the upper-mantle wedge above the Tonga subduction zone. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 88: 25-41.
9. Calvert, A.J., Sawyer, E.W., Davis, W.J., and Ludden, J.N. 1995. Archaean subduction inferred from seismic images of a mantle suture in the Superior Province. Nature (London), 375: 670-673.
10. Card, K.D. 1990. A review of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield, a product of Archean accretion. Precambrian Research, 48: 99-156.
11. Card, K.D., and Ciesielski, A. 1986. DNAG No. 1. Subdivisions of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. Geoscience Canada, 13: 5-13.
12. Cassidy, J.F. 1995. Review: Receiver function studies in the southern Canadian Cordillera. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32: 1514-1519.
13. Crough, S.T. 1981. Mesozoic hotspot epeirogeny in eastern North America. Geology, 9: 2-6.
14. Crough, S.T., Morgan, W.J., and Hargraves, R.B. 1980. Kimberlites: their relation to mantle hotspots. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 50: 260-274.
15. Desrochers, J.-P., Hubert, C., Ludden, J.N., and Pilote, P. 1993. Accretion of Archean oceanic plateau fragments in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada. Geology, 21: 451-454.
16. Duncan, R.A. 1984. Age progressive volcanism in the New England Seamounts and the opening of the Central Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89(B12): 9980-9990.
17. Foland, K.A., Gilbert, L.A., Sebring, C.A., and Chen, J.-F. 1986. 40Ar/39Ar ages for plutons of the Monteregian Hills, Quebec: evidence for a single episode of Cretaceous magmatism. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 97: 966-974.
18. Foster, J., and Symons, D.T.A. 1979. Defining a paleomagnetic polarity pattern in the Monteregian intrusives. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 16: 1716-1725.
19. Grand, S.P. 1994. Mantle shear structure beneath the Americas and surrounding oceans. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99(B6): 11 591-11 621.
20. Grandjean, G., Wu, H., White, D., Mareschal, M., and Hubert, C. 1995. Crustal velocity models for the Archean Abitibi greenstone belt from seismic refraction data. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32: 149-166.
21. Green, A.G., Milkereit, B., Mayrand, L.J., Ludden, J.N., Hubert, C., Jackson, S.L., Sutcliffe, R.H., West, G.F., Verpaelst, P., and Simard, A. 1990. Deep structure of an Archean greenstone terrane. Nature (London), 344: 327-330.
22. Guillou, L., Mareschal, J.-C., Jaupart, C., Gariepy, C., Bienfait, G., and Lapointe, R. 1994. Heat flow, gravity and structure of the Abitibi belt, Superior Province, Canada: implications for mantle heat flow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 122: 103-123.
23. Holbrook, W.S., Mooney, W.D., and Christensen, N.I. 1992. The seismic velocity structure of the deep continental crust. In Continental lower crust. Edited by D.M. Fountain, R. Arculus, and R.W. Kay. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1-34.
24. Jackson, S.L., Sutcliffe, R.H., Ludden, J.N., Hubert, C., Green, A.G., Milkereit, B., Mayrand, L., West, G.F., and Verpaelst, P. 1990. Southern Abitibi greenstone belt: Archean crustal structure from seismic-reflection profiles. Geology, 18: 1086-1090.
25. Ji, S., Rondenay, S., Mareschal, M., and Sénéchal, G. 1996. Obliquity between seismic and electrical anisotropies as a potential indicator of movement sense for ductile shear zones in the upper mantle. Geology, 24(11): 1033-1036.
26. Kellett, R.L., Mareschal, M., and Kurtz, R.D. 1992. A model of lower crustal electrical anisotropy for the Pontiac Subprovince of the Canadian Shield. Geophysical Journal International, 111: 141-150.
27. Kellett, R.L., Barnes, A.E., and Rive, M. 1994. The deep structure of the Grenville Front: a new perspective from western Quebec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 31: 282-292.
28. Kennedy, C.S., and Kennedy, G.C. 1976. The equilibrium boundary between graphite and diamond. Journal of Geophysical Research, 81(14): 2467-2470.
29. Kennett, B.L.N., and Engdahl, E.R. 1991. Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification. Geophysical Journal International, 105: 429-465.
30. Kimura, G., Ludden, J.N., Desrochers, J.-P., and Hori, R. 1993. A model of ocean-crust accretion for the Superior province, Canada. Lithos, 30: 337-355.
31. Lacroix, S., and Sawyer, E.W. 1995. An Archean fold-thrust belt in the northwestern Abitibi Greenstone Belt: structural and seismic evidence. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32: 97-112.
32. Langston, C.A. 1979. Structure under Mount Rainier, Washington, inferred from teleseismic body waves. Journal of Geophysical Research, 84(B9): 4749-4762.
33. Ludden, J., and Hubert, C. 1986. Geologic evolution of the Late Archean Abitibi greenstone belt of Canada. Geology, 14: 707-711.
34. Ludden, J., Hubert, C., Barnes, A., Milkereit, B., and Sawyer, E. 1993. A three-dimensional perspective of the evolution of Archean crust: LITHOPROBE seismic reflection images in the southwestern Superior province. Lithos, 30: 357-372.
35. Mareschal, M., Fyfe, W.S., Percival, J., and Chan, T. 1992. Grain-boundary graphite in Kapuskasing gneisses and implications for lower-crustal conductivity. Nature (London), 357: 674-676.
36. Mareschal, M., Kellet, R.L., Kurtz, R.D., Ludden, J.N., Ji, S., and Bailey, R.C. 1995. Archaean cratonic roots, mantle shear zones and deep electrical anisotropy. Nature (London), 375: 134-137.
37. Martignole, J., and Calvert, A.J. 1996. Crustal-scale shortening and extension across the Grenville Province of western Quebec. Tectonics, 15: 376-386.
38. McHone, J.G., and Butler, J.R. 1984. Mesozoic igneous provinces of New England and the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 95: 757-765.
39. McHone, J.G., Ross, M.E., and Greenough, J.D. 1987. Mesozoic dyke swarms of Eastern North America. In Mafic dyke swarms. Edited by H.C. Halls and W.F. Fahrig. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 34, pp. 279-288.
40. Meyer, H.O.A., Waldman, M.A., and Garwood, B.L. 1994. Mantle xenoliths from kimberlite near Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The Canadian Mineralogist, 32: 295-306.
41. Owens, T.J., Zandt, G., and Taylor, S.R. 1984. Seismic evidence from an ancient rift beneath the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee: a detailed analysis of broadband teleseismic P waveforms. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89(B9): 7783-7795.
42. Percival, J.A., and West, G.F. 1994. The Kapuskasing uplift: a geological and geophysical synthesis. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 31: 1256-1286.
43. Rivers, T., Martignole, J., Gower, C.F., and Davidson, A. 1989. New tectonic divisions of the Grenville Province, southeast Canadian Shield. Tectonics, 8(1): 63-84.
44. Rondenay, S. 1996. Anisotropie sismique et electrique dense manteau supérieur, au niveau du Front de Grenville (Canada). M.A.Sc. thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal.
45. Saltzer, R.L., and Humphreys, E.D. 1997. Upper mantle P wave velocity structure of the eastern Snake River Plain and its relationship to geodynamic models of the region. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(B6): 11 829-11 841.
46. Saltzer, R.L., Jordan, T.H., and Gaherty, J.B. 1998. How are shear-wave splitting measurements affected by variations in the anisotropy with depth? In Proceedings of the 1998 Spring Meeting, American Geophysical Union, May 26-29, 1998, Boston, Mass. Program with Abstracts, p. S212.
47. Sawyer, E.W., and Benn, K. 1993. Structure of the high-grade Opatica belt and adjacent low-grade Abitibi subprovince and Archaean mountain front. Journal of Structural Geology, 15: 1443-1458.
48. Sénéchal, G., Rondenay, S., Mareschal, M., Guilbert, J., and Poupinet, G. 1996. Seismic and electrical anisotropies in the lithosphere across the Grenville Front, Canada. Geophysical Research Letters, 23(17): 2255-2258.
49. Silver, P.G., and Chan, W.W. 1988. Implications for continental structure and evolution from seismic anisotropy. Nature (London), 335: 34-39.
50. Silver, P.G., and Chan, W.W. 1991. Shear wave splitting and subcontinental mantle deformation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96(10): 16 429-16 454.
51. Sleep, N.H. 1990. Monteregian hotspot track: a long-lived mantle plume. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95(B13): 21 983-21 990.
52. Sykes, L.R. 1978. Intraplate seismicity, reactivation of preexisting zones of weakness, alkaline magmatism, and other tectonism postdating continental fragmentation. Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, 16(4): 621-688.
53. VanDecar, J.C. 1991. Upper-mantle structure of the Cascadia subduction zone from non-linear teleseismic travel-time inversion. Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington, Seattle.
54. VanDecar, J.C., and Crosson, R.S. 1990. Determination of teleseismic relative phase arrival times using multi-channel cross-correlation and least squares. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 80(1): 150-169.
55. Van der Lee, S., and Nolet, G. 1997. Upper mantle S velocity structure of North America. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(B10): 22 815-22 838.
56. Vinnik, L.P., Kosarev, G.L., and Makeyeva, L.I. 1986. Azimuthal anisotropy of the Earth's interior from observations of long-period body waves. Izvestiya Earth Physics, 22(11): 955-960.
57. Vinnik, L.P., Farra, V., and Romanowicz, B. 1989. Azimuthal anisotropy in the Earth from observations of SKS at Geoscope and NARS broadband stations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 79: 1542-1558.
58. Vinnik, L.P., Makeyeva, L.I., Milev, A., and Usenko, A.Yu. 1992. Global patterns of azimuthal anisotropy and deformations in the continental mantle. Geophysical Journal International, 111: 433-447.
59. Vinnik, L.P., Green, R.W.E., and Nicolaysen, L.O. 1995. Recent deformations of the deep continental root beneath southern Africa. Nature (London), 375: 50-52.
60. Wessel, P., and Smith, W.H.F. 1991. Free software helps map and display data. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 72: 441, 445-446.
61. Winardhi, S., and Mereu, R.F. 1997. Crustal velocity structure of the Superior and Grenville provinces of the southeastern Canadian Shield. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34: 1167-1184.
62. Wolfe, C.J., and Silver, P.G. 1998. Seismic anisotropy of oceanic upper mantle: shear wave splitting methodologies and observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103(B1): 749-771.