Constraints on average Taiwan Reference Moho Discontinuity Model-receiver function analysis using BATS data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-19

  Wang, Hsiao Lan ^a   Chen, How Wei ^b   Zhu, Lupei ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Composition of the continental crust; Continental margins: convergent; Crustal structure; Image processing; Rheology: crust and lithosphere

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; ASIA; BACK-ARC OPENING; BOUNDARY GEOMETRY; CHICHI EARTHQUAKE; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THINNING; DISCONTINUITY MODEL; EURASIAN PLATES; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; LITHOSPHERIC; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MOHO DEPTH; MOHO TOPOGRAPHY; MOUNTAIN BELTS; NORTHERN TAIWAN; OROGENIC PROCESS; POISSON'S RATIO; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; REFERENCE MODELS; SEISMICITY PATTERN; SOUTHEASTERN CHINA; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TECTONIC FRAMEWORK; TECTONIC STRESS; TELESEISMIC WAVEFORMS; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; WADATI-BENIOFF ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MAMMALS; POISSON RATIO; RHEOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THINNING; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; P-WAVE; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRANSITION ZONE;

CHINA; TAIWAN;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 78349270934     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04692.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Ai, Y., Chen, Q.F., Zeng, F., Hong, X. & Ye, W., 2007. The crust and upper mantle structure beneath southeastern China, Earth Planet, Sci. Lett., 260, 549-563.
2. Ammon, C.J., 1991. The isolation of receiver effects from teleseismic P waveforms, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 81(6), 2504-2510.
3. Biq, C., 1971. Comparison of mélange tectonics in Taiwan and some other mountain belts, Petrol. Geol. Taiwan, 9, 79-106.
4. Chang, S.J. & Baag, S.R., 2005. Crustal structure in southern Korea from joint analysis of teleseismic receiver functions and surface wave dispersion, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 95(4), 1516-1534.
5. Chemanda, A.I., Yang, R.K., Hsieh, C.H. & Groholsky, A.L., 1997. Evolutionary model for the Taiwan collision based on physical modeling, Tectonophysics, 274, 253-274.
6. Chen, P.F., Huang, B.S. & Liang, W.T., 2004. Evidence of a slab of subducted lithosphere beneath central Taiwan from seismic waveforms and travel times, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 229, 61-71.
7. Chen, W.P. & Yang Z., 2004. Earthquakes beneath the Himalayas and Tibet: Evidence for strong lithospheric mantle, Science, 304, 1949-1952.
8. Chen, H.W., 2006. Prestack parallel computing of dispersive and attenuating medium, Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 17(1), 203-231.
9. Crotwell, H.P. & Owens, T.J., 2005. Automated receiver function processing, Seismological Research Lett., 76, 702-709.
10. Ernst, W.G., 1983. Mountain-building and metamorphism, a case history from Taiwan, in Mountain building, pp. 247-256, ed. Hsu, K.J., Academic Press, London
11. Ho, C.S., 1999. An introduction to the Geology of Taiwan, Explanatory Text of the Geologic Map of Taiwan, Central Geol. Surv. Minist. of Econ. Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan
12. Hsu, S.K. & Sibuet, J.C., 1995. Is Taiwan the result of arc-continent or arc-arc collision? Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 136, 315-324.
13. Hwang, R.D. & Yu, G.K., 2005. Shear-wave velocity structure of upper mantle under Taiwan from the array analysis of surface waves, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L07310, doi:.
14. Karrenbach, M., Ritter, J. & Fuchs, K., 1994. Wave propagation in the heterogeneous lower crust-Finite difference calculations: SEP80, 563-588.
15. Kao, H., Chang, C.H. & Chen, R.Y., 2002. Receiver function analysis for broadband stations in Taiwan, CWB Annual Report: MOTC-CWB-91-E-07.
16. Kim, K.H., Chiu, J.M., Kao, H., Liu, Q. & Yeh, Y.H., 2004. A preliminary study of crustal structure in Taiwan region using receiver function analysis, Geophys. J. Int., 159, 146-164.
17. S structural models associated with the active subduction and collision tectonics in the Taiwan region, Geophys. J. Int., 162, 204-220.
18. Langston, C.A., 1977. The effect of planar dipping structure on source and receiver responses for constant ray parameter, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 67(4), 1029-1050.
19. Liu, K.S. & Tsai, Y.B., 2009. Large effects of Moho reflections (SmS) on peak ground motion in northwestern Taiwan, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 99(1), 255-267, doi:.
20. Lee, C.R. & Cheng, W.T., 1986. Preliminary heat flow measurements in Taiwan, presented at the Fourth Circum-Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources Conference, Singapore
21. Lee, S.J., Chen, H.W. & Huang, B.S., 2008a. Simulation of strong ground motion and three-dimensional amplification effects in the Taipei basin by using a composite grid finite-difference method, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 98(3), 1229-1242.
22. Lee, S.J., Chen, H.W. Liu, Q., Komatitsch, D., Huang, B.S. & Tromp, J., 2008b. Mesh generation and strong motion simulations in the Taipei basin based upon the spectral-element method, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 98(1), 253-264, doi:.
23. Lee, S.J., Chen, H.W. & Ma, K.F., 2007. Strong motion simulation of the 1999, Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake from a realistic three-dimensional source and crustal structure, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B06307, doi:.
24. Lin, C.H., 2000. Thermal modeling of continental subduction and exhumation constrained by heat flow and seismicity in Taiwan, Tectonophysics, 324, 189-201.
25. Lin, C.H. & Ando, M., 2004. Seismological evidence of simultaneous mountain-building and crust-thickening from the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake (Mw = 7.6), Earth Planets Space, 56, 163-167.
26. Lin, C.H., 2005. Identification of mantle reflections from a dense linear seismic array: Tectonic implications to the Taiwan orogeny, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L06315, doi:.
27. Ligorría J.P. & Ammon, C.J., 1999. Iterative deconvolution and receiver-function estimation, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 89(5), 1395-1400.
28. Mori, J. & Helmberger, D., 1996. Large-amplitude Moho reflections (SmS) from Landers aftershocks, southern California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 86(6), 1845-1852.
29. Niu, F., Levander, A., Ham, S. & Obayashi, M., 2005. Mapping the subducting Pacific slab beneath southwest Japan with Hi-net receiver functions, Earth and Planetary Sci. Lett., 239, 9-17.
30. Owens, T.J., Crotwell, H.P., Groves, C. & Oliver-Paul, P., 2004. SOD: Standing Order for Data, Seismological Research Lett., 75, 515-520.
31. Rau, R.J. & Wu, F.T., 1995. Tomographic imaging of lithospheric structures under Taiwan, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 133, 517-532.
32. Shih, R.C., Lin, C.H., Lai, H.L., Yeh, Y.H, Huang, B.S. & Yen, H.Y., 1998. Preliminary crustal structures across Central Taiwan from modeling of the onshore-offshore wide-angle seismic data, Terr. Atm. Ocean., 9(3), 317-328.
33. Suppe, J., 1987. The active Taiwan mountain belt, in The Anatomy of Mountain Ranges, pp. 277-293, eds Schaer, J.P. & Rogers, J., Princeton Univ. Press, New Jersey
34. Tapponnier, P., Xu, Z., Francoise, R., Bertrand, M., Nicolas, A., Gerard, W. & Yang, J., 2001. Oblique stepwise rise and growth of the Tibet Plateau, Science, 23, 294(5547), 1671-1677.
35. Tomfohrde, D.A. & Nowack, R.L., 2000. Crustal structure beneath Taiwan using frequency-band inversion of receiver function waveforms, Pure and Appl. Geophys., 157, 737-764.
36. Wu, F.T., Rau, R.J. & Salzberg, D., 1997. Taiwan orogengy: think-skinned or lithospheric collision? Tectonophysics, 274, 191-220.
37. Wu, Y.M., Chang, C.H., Zhao, L., Shyu, J.B.H., Chen, Y.-G., Sieh, K. & Avouac, J.P., 2007, Seismic tomography of Taiwan: Improved constraints from a dense network of strong motion stations, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B08312, doi:.
38. Wu, Y.M., Chang, C.H., Zhao, L., Teng, T.L. & Nakamura, M., 2008. A comprehensive relocation of earthquakes in Taiwan from 1991 to 2005, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 98(3), 1471-1481, doi:.
39. Yamauchi, M., Hirahara, K. & Shibutani, T., 2003. High resolution receiver function imaging of the seismic velocity discontinuities in the crust and uppermost mantle beneath southwest Japan, Earth Planets Space, 55, 59-64.
40. Yeh, Y.H., Shih, R.C., Lin, C.H, Liu, C.C., Yen, H.Y., Huang, B.S., Liu, C.S. & Wu, F.T., 1998. Onshore/offshore wide-angle deep seismic profiling in Taiwan, Terr. Atm. Ocean., 9(3), 301-316.
41. Yen, H.Y., Yeh, Y.H. & Wu, F.T., 1998. Two-dimensional crustal structures of Taiwan from gravity data, Tectonics, 17(1), 104-111.
42. Yu, S.B., Chen, H.Y. & Kuo, L.C., 1997. Velocity field of GPS stations in the Taiwan area, Tectonophysics, 274, 41-59.
43. Yu, Y. E., 2008. Seismic travel-time studies on reference models evaluation, earthquake location and crustal structure in west central Taiwan, Master thesis, National Central University.
44. Zandt, G. & Ammon, C.J., 1995. Continental crust composition constrained by measurements of crustal Poisson's ratio, Nature, 374, 152-154.
45. Zandt, G., Myers, S.C. & Wallace, T. C., 1995. Crust and mantle structure across the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau boundary at 37°N latitude and implications for Cenozoic extensional mechanism, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 10529-10548.
46. Zhu, L., 2000. Crustal structure across the San Andreas Fault, southern California from teleseismic converted waves, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 279, 183-190.
47. Zhu, L., Zeng, R.S., Wu, F.T., Owens, T.J. & Randall, G.E., 1993. Preliminary study of of the Tibetan plateau by using broadband teleseismic body waveforms, Acta Seismologica Sinica, 6, 305-316.
48. Zhu, L., Owens, T.J. & Randall, G.E., 1995. Lateral variation in crustal structure of the northern Tibetan plateau inferred from teleseismic receiver functions, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 85(6), 1531-1540.
49. Zhu, L. & Kanamori, H., 2000. Moho depth variation in southern California from teleseismic receiver function, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 2969-1980.
50. Zhu, L., Mitchell, B.J., Akyol, N., Cemen, I. & Kekovali, K., 2006. Crustal thickness variations in the Aegean region and implications for the extension of continental crust, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B01301, doi:.