High-resolution body wave tomography beneath the SVEKALAPKO array - II. Anomalous upper mantle structure beneath the central Baltic Shield

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 200-214

  Sandoval, Senén ^a   Kissling, Edi ^a   Ansorge, Joerg ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fennoscandian shield; Lithosphere; Teleseismic tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; MANTLE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

BALTIC SHIELD; EURASIA;

EID: 1942521031     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02131.x     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Abramovitz, T., Thybo, H. & Perchuc, E., 2002. Tornographic inversion of seismic P- and S-wave velocities from the Baltic Shield based on FENNOLORA data, Tectonophysics, 358, 151-174.
2. Aki, K., Christoffersson, A. & Husebye, E.S., 1977. Determination of 3-dimensional seismic structure of lithosphere, J. geophys. Res., 82, 277-296.
3. Arlitt, R., 1999. Teleseismic body wave tomography across the trans-European suture zone between Sweden and Denmark. PhD Thesis, ETH, Zurich, p. 126.
4. Artemieva, I.M. & Mooney, W.D., 2001. Thermal thickness and evolution of Precambrian lithosphere: a global study, J. geophys. Res.-Solid Earth, 106, 16 387-16 414.
5. BABEL, Working Group, 1993. Integrated seismic studies of the Baltic shield using data in the Gulf of Bothnia region, Geophys. J. Int., 112, 305-324.
6. Bank, C.G., Bostock, M.G., Ellis, R.M. & Cassidy, J.F., 2000. A reconnaissance teleseismic study of the upper mantle and transition zone beneath the Archean Slave craton in NW Canada, Tectonophysics, 319, 151-166.
7. Bannister, S.C., Ruud, B.O. & Husebye, E.S., 1991. Tomographic estimates of sub-Moho seismic velocities in Fennoscandia and structural implications, Tectonophysics, 189, 37-53.
8. Benz, H.M., Chouet, B.A., Dawson, P.B., Lahr, J.C., Page, R.A. & Hole, J.A., 1996. Three-dimensional P and S wave velocity structure of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska, J. geophys. Res.-Solid Earth, 101, 8111-8128.
9. Bijwaard, H., Spakman, W. & Engdahl, E.R., 1998. Closing the gap between regional and global travel time tomography, J. geophys. Res.-Solid Earth, 103, 30 055-30 078.
10. Blundell, D.J., Freeman, R. & Mueller, S., 1992. A Continent Revealed. The European Geotraverse. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 275.
11. Bokelmann, G.H.R. & Silver, P.G., 2000. Mantle variation within the Canadian Shield: travel times from the portable broadband Archean-Proterozoic transeet 1989. J. geophys. Res.-Solid Earth, 105, 579-605.
12. Bondar, I. & Ryaboy, V., 1997. Regional travel-time tables for the Baltic Shield region, Technical Report. CMR-97/24. Center for Monitoring Research, Arlington, VA.
13. Boyd, R., Nilsson, G., Papunen, H., Vorma, A., Zagorodny, V. & Robonen, V., 1985. General geological map of the Baltic Shield, in Nickel-copper Deposits of the Baltic Shield and Scandinavian Caledonides, p. 394, eds, Papunen H. & Gorbunov G.I., Geol. Survey of Finland, Helsinki.
14. Bruncton, M., Pedersen, H.A., Farra, V. & the SSTW Group, 2002, Surface-wave tomography in Fennoscandia, Geophys. Res. Abs., Vol. 4, 02733, 27th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, 21-26 April, 2002.
15. Calcagnile, G. & Panza, G.F., 1978. Crust and upper mantle structure under Baltic Shield and Barents Sea from dispersion of Rayleigh waves. Tectonophysics, 47, 59-71.
16. Calcagnile, G., 1982. The lithosphere asthenosphere system in Fennoscandia. Tectonophysics, 90, 19-35.
17. Calcagnile, G., 1991. Deep-structure of Fennoscandia from fundamental and higher mode dispersion of Rayleigh waves, Tectophysics, 195, 139-149.
18. Dueker, K.G., Humphreys, E.D. & Biasi, G., 1993. Teleseismic velocity tomography using the ACH method: theory and application to continental-scale studies, in Seismic Tomography: Theory and Practice, pp. 265-298, eds Iyer, H.M. & Hirara, K., Chapman & Hall, London.
19. Eberhart-Phillips, D., 1986. 3-dimensional velocity structure in Northern California Coast Ranges from inversion of local earthquake arrival times, Bull. seismol. Soc. Am., 76, 1025-1052.
20. Elming, S.A. et al., 1993. The drift of the Fennoscandian and Ukrainian shields during the Precambrian-a paleomagnetic Analysis. Tectonophysics, 223, 177-198.
21. Engdahl, E.R., van der Hilst, R. & Buland, R., 1998. Global teleseismic earthquake relocation with improved travel times and procedures for depth determination, Bull. seismol, Soc. Am., 88, 722-743.
22. Evans, B. & Achauer, U., 1993. Teleseismic velocity tomography using the ACH method: theory and application to continental-scale studies, in Seismic Tomography: Theory and Practice, pp. 319-360, eds Iyer, H. M. & Hirahara, K., Chapman & Hall, London.
23. Funke, S. & Friederich, W., 2002. Rayleigh wave dispersion and a ID S-velocity model of the Fennoscandian mantle. in Geophys. Res, Abs., Vol. 4, 04285, 27th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, 21-26 April, 2002.
24. Gee, D.G. & Zeyen, H., 1996. EUROPROBE 1996-Lithosphere Dynamics: Origin and Evolution of Continents, p. 139, EUROPROBE Secretariat, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
25. Gorbatschev, R. & Bogdanova, S., 1993. Frontiers in the Baltic Shield, Precambrian Res., 64, 3-21.
26. Guggisberg, B., Kaminski, W. & Prodehl, C., 1991. Crustal structure of the Fennoscandian Shield-a traveltime interpretation of the long-range Fennolora seismic refraction profile. Tectonophysics, 195, 105.
27. Haslinger, F. et al., 1999. 3D crustal structure from local earthquake tomography around the Gulf of Arta (Ionian region, NW Greece). Tectophysics, 304, 201-218.
28. Haslinger, F. & Kissling, E., 2001. Investigating effects of 3-D ray tracing methods in local earthquake tomography, Phys. Earth planet. Int., 123, 103-114.
29. Husebye, E.S. & Hovland, J., 1982. On upper mantle seismic heterogeneities beneath Fennoscandia, Tectonophysics. 90, 1-17.
30. Husebye, E.S., Hovland, J., Christoffersson, A., Astrom, K., Slunga, R. & Lund, C.E., 1986. Tomographic mapping of the lithosphere and asthenosphere beneath southern Scandinavia and adjacent areas, Tectonophysics, 128, 229-250.
31. James, D.E., Fouch, M.J., Van Decar, J.C. & van der Lee, S., 2001. Tectospheric structure beneath southern Africa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2485-2488.
32. Jordan, T.H., 1978. Composition and development of continental tectosphere, Nature, 274, 544-548.
33. Kennett, B.L. N. & Engdahl, E.R., 1991. Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification, Geophys. J. Int., 105, 429-465.
34. Kissling, E., 1988. Geotomography with local earthquake data, Rev. Geophys., 26, 659-698.
35. Koch, M., 1985. Nonlinear inversion of local seismic travel-times for the simultaneous determination of the 3D-velocity structure and by hypocentres-application to the seismic zone Vrancea, Journal of Geophys, 56, 160-173.
36. Korja, A., Korja, T., Luosto, U. & Heikkinen, P., 1993. Seismic and geoelectric evidence for collisional and extensional events in the Fennoscandian Shield-implications for Precambrian crustal evolution, Tectonophysics, 219, 129-152.
37. Kukkonen, I., Kinnunen, K. & Peltonen, P., 2003. Mantle xenoliths and thick lithosphere in the Fennoscandian Shield. Geophys. Res. Abs., Vol. 5, 03520, 28th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, 7-11 April, 2003.
38. Leveque, J.J. & Masson, F., 1999. From ACH tomographic models to absolute velocity models, Geophys. J. Int., 137, 621-629.
39. Masson, F. & Trampert, J., 1997. On ACH, or how reliable is regional teleseismic delay time tomography? Phys. Earth planet. Inter, 102, 21-32.
40. Meissner, R. & Wever, T., 1986. Intracontinental seismicity, strength of crustal units, and the seismic signatme of fault zones, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A, 317, 45-61.
41. Noponen, I., 1974. Seismic ray direction anomalies caused by deep structure in Fennoscandia, Bull. seismol. Soc. Am., 64, 1931-1941.
42. Oliver, J. & Murphy, L., 1971. WWSSN-seismology's global network of observing stations, Science, 174, 254-261.
43. Peltonen, P., Huhma, H., Tyni, M. & Shimizu, N., 1999. Garnet peridotite xenoliths from kimberlites of Finland: nature of the continental mantle at an Archean craton-Proterozoic mobile belt transition, in VIIth International Kimberlite conference, Vol. 2, pp. 664-676, eds, Gurney, J.J., Gurney, J.L., Pascoe, M.D. & Richardson, S.H., National Book Printers, Cape Town, South Africa.
44. Peltonen, P., Kinnunen, K.A. & Huhma, H., 2002. Petrology of two diamond diferous eclogite xenoliths from the Lahtojoki kimberlite pipe, eastern Finland, Lithos, 63, 151-164.
45. Perchuc, E. & Thybo, H., 1996. A new model of upper mantle P-wave velocity below the Baltic Shield: indication of partial melt in the 95 to 160 km depth range, Tectonophysics, 253, 227-245.
46. Plomerova, J., Hyvonen, T., Sandoval, S., Babuska, V. & the SSTW Group, 2002. Structure of Fennoscandian mantle from seismic velocity anisotropy, in Geophys. Res. Abs., Vol. 4, 02173, 27th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, 21-26 April, 2002.
47. Raita, T., 2001. The seismic tomography experiment of the SVEKALAPKO project, Pro graduate Thesis, University of Oulu, Finland, p. 96.
48. Sacks, I.S., Snoke, J.A. & Husebye, E.S., 1979. Lithosphere thickness beneath the Baltic Shield, Tectonophysics. 56, 101-110.
49. Sandoval, S., Kissling, E. & Ansorge, J., 2003. High-resolution body wave tomography beneath the SVEKALAPKO array: 1. A priori three-dimensional crustal model and associated traveltime effects on teleseismic wave fronts, Geophys. J. Int., 153, 75-87.
50. Shomali, Z.H. & Roberts, R.G., 2002, Non-linear body wave teleseismic tomography along the TOR array, Geophys. J. Int., 148, 562-574.
51. Spakman, W., Vanderlee, S. & Vanderhilst, R., 1993. Travel-time tomography of the European Mediterranean mantle down to 1400 km, Phys. Earth planet. Inter., 79, 3-74.
52. Steck, L.K. & Prothero, W.A., 1991. A 3-D raytracer for teleseismic body-wave arrival times, Bull. seismol. Soc. Am., 81, 1332-1339.
53. Tarvainen, M., Tiira, T. & Husebye, E.S., 1999. Locating regional seismic events with global optimization based on interval arithmetic, Geophys. J. Int., 138, 879-885.
54. Thomson, C.J. & Gubbins, D., 1982. 3-dimensional lithospheric modeling at Norsar-linearity of the method and amplitude variations from the anomalies. Geophys. J. R. astron. Soc., 71, 1-36.
55. Thurber, C.H., 1983. Earthquake locations and 3-dimensional crustal structure in the Coyote Lake area, central California, J. geophys. Res., 88, 8226-8236.
56. Thybo, H. & Perchuc, E., 1997. The seismic 8 degrees discontinuity and partial melting in continental mantle, Science, 275, 1626-1629.
57. Tiira, T., 1999. Slowness vector correction for teleseismic events with artificial neural networks, Phys. Earth planet. Inter., 112, 101-109.
58. Zelt, C.A., 1998. Lateral velocity resolution from three-dimensional seismic refraction data, Geophys. J. Int., 135, 1101-1112.
59. Zhao, D., Horiuchi, S. & Hasegawa, A., 1992. Seismic velocity structure of the crust beneath the Japan Islands, Tectonophysics, 212, 289-301.
60. Zollo, A., De Matteis, R., D'Auria, L. & Virieux, J., 2000. A 2D non linear method for travel time tomography: application to Mt Vesuvius active seismic data, in, problems in geophysics for the new millenium, pp. 125-140, Editorice Compositori, Bologna.