High-resolution surface wave tomography beneath the Aegean-Anatolia region: Constraints on upper-mantle structure

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 406-420

  Salaün, Gwénaëlle ^a   Pedersen, Helle A ^a   Paul, Anne ^a   Farra, Véronique ^b   Karabulut, Hayrullah ^c   Hatzfeld, Denis ^a   Papazachos, Costas ^d   Childs, Dean M ^c   Pequegnat, Catherine ^a   Afacan, T ^c   Aktar, M ^c   Bourova Flin, E ^e   Cambaz, D ^c   Hatzidimitriou, P ^d   Hubans, F ^e   Kementzetzidou, D ^d   Karagianni, E ^d   Karagianni, I ^d   Komec Mutlu, A ^c   Dimitrova, L ^f   Ozakin, Y ^c   Roussel, S ^e   Scordilis, M ^d   Vamvakaris, D ^d   more..

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^f BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: compressional; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Europe; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BROADBAND NETWORKS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: COMPRESSIONAL; DYNAMICS OF LITHOSPHERE AND MANTLES; EUROPE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES AND FREE OSCILLATIONS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BROADBAND DATA; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PHASE VELOCITY; RAY TRACING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

AEGEAN SEA; ANATOLIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 84862190116     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05483.x     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Alvizuri, C. & Tanimoto, T., 2011. Azimuthal anisotropy from array analysis of Rayleigh waves in Southern California, Geophys. J. Int., 186, 1135-1151.
2. Angus, D.A., Wilson, D.C., Sandvol, E. & Ni, J.F., 2006. Lithospheric structure of the Arabin and Eurasian collision zone in eastern Turkey from S-wave receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., 166, 1335-1346.
3. Armijo, R., Meyer, B., Navarro, S., King, G. & Barka, A., 2002. Asymetric slip partitioning in the Sea of Marmara pull-apart: a clue to propagation processes of the North Anatolian Fault, Terra Nova, 14, 80-86.
4. Baumont, D., Paul, A., Zandt, G., Beck, S.L. & Pedersen, H., 2002. Lithospheric structure of the central Andes based on surface wave dispersion, J. geophys. Res., 107(B12), 2371, doi:.
5. Bécel, A. et al ., 2009. Moho crustal architecture and deep deformation under the North Marmara Trough, from the SEISMARMARA Leg 1 offshore-onshore reflection-refraction survey, Tectonophysics, 467, 1-21.
6. Beucler, E., Stutzmann, E. & Montagner, J.-P., 2003. Surface-wave higher mode phase velocity measurements using a roller coaster type algorithm, Geophys. J. Int., 155, 289-307.
7. Bijwaard, H., Spakman, W. & Engdahl, E.R., 1998. Closing the gap between regional and global travel time tomography, J. geophys. Res., 103(B12), 30 055-30 078.
8. Biryol, C.B., Beck, S.L., Zandt, G. & Özacar, A.A., 2011. Segmented African lithosphere beneath the Anatolian region inferred from teleseismic P-wave tomography, Geophys. J. Int., 184, 1037-1057.
9. Bodin, T. & Maupin, V., 2008. Resolution potential of surface wave phase velocity measurements at small arrays, Geophys. J. Int., 172, 698-706.
10. de Boor, C., 1978. A practical guide to splines, amplitude computation in heterogenous media by ray perturbation theory: a finite element approach, Geophys. J. Int., 103, 341-354.
11. de Boorder, H., Spakman, W., White, S.H. & Wortel, M.J.R., 1998. Late Cenozoic mineralization, orogenic collapse and slab detachment in the European Alpine Belt, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 164, 569-575.
12. Boschi, L., Ekström, G. & Kustowski, B., 2004. Multiple resolution surface wave tomography: the Mediterranean basin, Geophys. J. Int., 157, 293-304.
13. Bourova, E., Kassaras, I., Pedersen, H.A., Yanovskaya, T., Hatzfeld, D. & Kiratzi, A., 2005. Constraints on absolute S velocities beneath the Aegean Sea from surface wave analysis, Geophys. J. Int., 160, 1006-1019.
14. Brun, J.P. & Sokoutis, D., 2010. 45 m.y. of the Aegean crust and mantle flow driven by trench retreat, Geology, 38, 815-818.
15. Bruneton, M., Farra, V., Pedersen, H.A. & the SVEKALAPKO Seismic Tomography Working Group, 2002. Non-linear surface wave phase velocity inversion based on ray theory, Geophys. J. Int., 151, 583-596.
16. Bruneton, M., Pedersen, H.A., Farra, V., Arndt, N.T., Vacher, P. & the SVEKALAPKO Seismic Tomography Working Group, 2004. Complex lithospheric structure under the central Baltic Shield from surface wave tomography, J. geophys. Res., 109, B10303, doi:.
17. Cambaz, M.D. & Karabulut, H., 2010. Love-wave group velocity maps of Turkey and surrounding regions, Geophys. J. Int., 181, 502-520.
18. Chang, S.-J. et al ., 2010. Joint inversion for three-dimensionals velocity mantle structure along the Tethyan margin, J. geophys. Res., 115, B08309, doi:.
19. Chevrot, S. & Zhao, L., 2007. Multiscale finite-frequency Rayleigh wave tomography of the Kaapvaal craton, Geophys. J. Int., 169, 201-215.
20. Cotte, N., Pedersen, H.A., Campillo, M., Farra, V. & Cansi, Y., 2000. Off-great circle propagation of intermediate period surface waves as observed on a dense array in the French Alps, Geophys. J. Int., 142, 825-840.
21. Curtis, A., Trampert, J., Snieder, R. & Dost, B., 1998. Eurasian fundamental mode surface wave phase velocities and their relationship with tectonic structures, J. geophys. Res., 103(B11), 26 919-26 947.
22. Debayle, E., 1999. SV-wave azimuthal anisotropy in the Australian upper mantle: preliminary results from automated Rayleigh waveform inversion, Geophys. J. Int., 137, 747-754.
23. Debayle, E., Kennett, B. & Priestley, K., 2005. Global azimuthal seismic anisotropy and the unique plate-motion deformation of Australia, Nature, 433, 509-512.
24. Deschamps, G.A., 1972. Ray techniques in electromagnetic, Proc. IEEE, 60, 1022-1035.
25. Endrun, B., Meier, T., Lebedev, S., Bohnoff, M., Stavrakakis, G. & Harjes, H.-P., 2008. S velocity structure and radial anisotropy in the Aegean region from surface wave dispersion, Geophys. J. Int., 174, 593-616.
26. Erduran, M., Endrun, B. & Meier, T., 2008. Continental vs. oceanic lithosphere beneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea-implications from Rayleigh wave dispersion measurements, Tectonophysics, 457, 42-52.
27. Farra, V. & Madariaga, R., 1987. Seismic waveform modeling in heterogeneous media by ray perturbation theory, J. geophys. Res., 92, 2697-2712.
28. Fichtner, A., Kennett, B.L.N., Igel, H. & Bunge, H.-P., 2008. Theoretical background for continental- and global-scale full-waveform inversion in the time-frequency domain, Geophys. J. Int., 175, 665-685.
29. Flerit, F., Armijo, R., King, G. & Meyer, B., 2004. The mechanical interaction between the propagating North Anatolian Fault and the back-arc extension in the Aegean, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 224, 347-362.
30. Forsyth, D.W. & Li, A., 2005. Array-analysis of two-dimensional variations in surface wave velocity and azimuthal anisotropy in the presence of multipathing interference, in Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms, Vol. 157, pp. 81-97, eds Levander, A. & Nolet, G., AGU Geophysical Monograph.
31. Friederich, W., 1998. Wave-theoretical inversion of teleseismic surface waves in a regional network: phase velocity maps and a 3-D upper mantle shear wave velocity model for southern Germany, Geophys. J. Int., 132, 203-225.
32. Friederich, W. & Wielandt, E., 1995. Interpretation of seismic surface waves in regional networks: joint estimation of wave-field geometry and local phase velocity. Method and numerical tests, Geophys. J. Int., 112, 264-275.
33. Friederich, W., Wielandt, E. & Stange, S., 1994. Non-plane geometries of seismic surface wavefields and their implications for regional surface-wave tomography, Geophys. J. Int., 119, 931-948.
34. Govers, R. & Wortel, W.J.R., 2005. Lithosphere tearing at STEP faults. Response to edges of subduction zones, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 236, 505-523.
35. Grad, M., Tiira, T., & ESC Working Group, 2009. The Moho depth map of the European Plate, Geophys. J. Int., 176, 279-292.
36. Herrin, E. & Goforth, T., 1977. Phase-matched filters: Application to the study of Rayleigh waves, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 67, 1259-1275.
37. Hubans, F., 2010. Utilisation des corrélations de bruit micro-sismique pour l'analyse des propriétés du champ d'onde et l'imagerie crustale, PhD thesis, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France
38. Karabulut, H., Paul, A., Afaçan Ergun, T., Hatzfeld, D., Childs, D.M. & Aktar, M., 2010. The lithospheric structure and upper mantle structure beneath the central Turkey obtained from receiver function profile, Geophys. Res. Abstr., 12, EGU2010-4225.
39. Karagianni, E.E. & Papazachos, C.B., 2007. Shear velocity structure in the Aegean region obtained by joint inversion of Rayleigh and Love waves, Geol. Soc London, Spec. Publ., 291, 159-181.
40. Karagianni, E.E., Papazachos, C.B., Panagiotopoulos, D.G., Suhadolc, P., Vuan, A. & Panza, G.F., 2005. Shear velocity structure in the Aegean area obtained by inversion of Rayleigh waves, Geophys. J. Int., 160, 127-143.
41. Kennett, B.L.N, Engdahl, E.R. & Buland, R., 1995. Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from traveltimes, Geophys. J. Int., 122, 108-124.
42. Knapmeyer, M. & Harjes, H.-P., 2000. Imaging crustal discontinuities and the downgoing slab beneath western Crete, Geophys. J. Int., 143, 1-21.
43. Kustowski, B., Ekström, G. & Dziewonski, A.M., 2008. The shear-wave velocity structure in the upper mantle beneath Eurasia, Geophys. J. Int., 174, 978-992.
44. Laigle, M., Becel, A., de Voogd, B., Hirn, A., Taymaz, T., Ozalaybey, S. & Members of SEISMARMARA Leg1 Team, 2008. A first deep seismic survey in the Sea of Marmara: Deep basins and whole crust architecture and evolution, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 270, 168-179.
45. Lander, A.V. & Levshin, A.L., 1989. Recording, identification and measurement of surface wave parameters, in Laterally Inhomogeneous Earth, ed. Keilis-Borok, V.I., Kluwer, Dordrecht
46. Lebedev, S., Nolet, G., Meier, T. & van der Hilst, R.D., 2005. Automated multimode inversion of surface ands waveforms, Geophys. J. Int., 162, 951-964.
47. Lévêque, J.-J., Rivera, L. & Wittlinger, G., 1993. On the use of the checker-board test to assess the resolution of tomographic inversions, Geophys. J. Int., 115, 313-318.
48. van der Lee, S. & Nolet, G., 1997. Upper mantles velocity structure of North America, J. geophys. Res., 102, 22 815-22 838.
49. Li, X. et al ., 2003. Receiver function study of the Hellenic subduction zone: imaging crustal thickness variations and the oceanic Moho of the descending African lithosphere, Geophys. J. Int., 155, 733-748.
50. Lin, F.-C., Ritzwoller, M.H. & Snieder, R., 2009. Eikonal tomography: surface wave tomography by phase front tracking across a regional broad-band seismic array, Geophys. J. Int., 177, 1091-1110.
51. Maggi, A. & Priestley, K., 2005. Surface waveform tomography of the Turkish-Iranian plateau, Geophys. J. Int., 160, 1068-1080.
52. Marone, F., van der Lee, S. & Giardini, D., 2004. Three-dimensional upper-mantle S-velocity model for Eurasia-Africa plate boundary region, Geophys. J. Int., 158, 109-130.
53. Maupin V., 1988. Surface waves across 2D structures: a method based on coupled local modes, Geophys. J. Int., 93, 173-185.
54. Maupin, V., 2011. Upper-mantle structure in southern Norway from beamforming of Rayleigh wave data presenting multipathing, Geophys. J. Int., 185, 985-1002.
55. Maupin, V. & Cara, M., 1992. Love-Rayleigh wave incompatibility and possible deep upper mantle anisotropy in the Iberian peninsula, Pure appl. Geophys., 138, 429-444.
56. Mooney, W.D., Laske, G. & Masters, G., 1998. CRUST 5.1: a global crustal model at 5° × 5°, J. geophys. Res., 103, 727-747.
57. Mutlu, A.K. & Karabulut, H., 2011. Anisotropic Pn tomography of Turkey and adjacent regions, Geophys. J. Int., 187, 1743-1758.
58. Nolet, G., 1990. Partitioned waveform inversion and two-dimensional structure under the network of autonomously recording seismographs, J. geophys. Res., 95, 8499-8512.
59. Papazachos, C. & Nolet, G., 1997. P ands deep velocity structure of the Hellenic area obtained by robust nonlinear inversion of travel times, J. geophys. Res., 102(B4), 8349-8367.
60. Pedersen, H.A., 2006. Impacts of non-plane waves on two-station measurements of phase velocities, Geophys. J. Int., 165, 279-287.
61. Pedersen, H.A., Coutant, O., Deschamps, A., Soulage, M. & Cotte, N., 2003. Measuring surface wave velocities beneath small broad-band arrays: test of an improved algorithm and application to the French Alps, Geophys. J. Int., 154, 903-912.
62. Piromallo, C. & Morelli, A., 2003. P wave tomography of the mantle under the Alpine-Mediterranean area, J. geophys. Res., 108(B2), 2065, doi:.
63. Pollitz, F.F., 1999. Regional velocity structure in northern California from inversion of scattered seismic surface waves, J. geophys. Res., 104, 15 043-15 072.
64. Pourteau, A., Candan, O. & Oberhänsli, R., 2010. High-pressure metasediments in central Turkey: constraints on the Neotethyan closure history, Tectonics, 29, TC5004, doi:.
65. Sachpazi, M. et al ., 2007. Moho topography under central Greece and its compensation by Pn time-terms for the accurate location of hypocenters: the example of the Gulf of Corinth 1995 Aigion earthquake, Tectonophysics, 440, 53-65.
66. Saito, M., 1988. Disper 80: a subroutine package for the calculation of seismic modes solutions, in Seismological Algorithms, pp. 293-319, ed. Doornbos, D.J., Academic Press, San Diego, CA
67. Schivardi, R. & Morelli, A., 2011. EPmantle: a 3-D transversely isotropic model of the upper mantle under the European Plate, Geophys. J. Int., 185, 469-484.
68. Sengör, A.M.C., Özeren, S., Genç, T. & Zor, E., 2003. East Anatolian high plateau as a mantle-supported, north-south shortened domal structure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(24), 8045, doi:.
69. Snieder, R., 1988. Large-scale waveform inversion of surface waves for lateral heterogeneity, 1. Theory and numerical examples, J. geophys. Res., 93, 12 055-12 065.
70. Sodoudi, F. et al ., 2006. Lithospheric structure of the Aegean obtained from P ands receiver functions, J. geophys. Res., 111, B12307, doi:.
71. Spakman, W., van der Lee, S. & van der Hilst, R.D., 1993. Travel-time tomography of the European-Mediterranean mantle down to 1400 km, Phys. Earth planet. Int., 79, 3-74.
72. Suckale, J., Rondenay, S., Sachpazi, M., Charalampakis, M., Hosa, A. & Royden, L.H., 2009. High-resolution seismic imaging of the western Hellenic subduction zone using teleseismic scattered waves, Geophys. J. Int., 178, 775-791.
73. Tarantola, A., 1987. Inverse Problem Theory: Methods for Data Fitting and Parameter Estimation, Elsevier, Amsterdam
74. Tarantola, A. & Valette, B., 1982. Generalized nonlinear inverse problems solved using the least square criterion, Rev. Geophys., 20, 219-232.
75. Tesauro, M., Kaban, M.K. & Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., 2008. EuCRUST-07: a new reference model for the European crust, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L05313, doi:.
76. Tirel, C., Gueydan, F., Tiberi, C. & Brun, J.-P., 2004. Aegean crustal thickness inferred from gravity inversion. Geodynamical implications, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 228, 267-280.
77. Wessel, P. & Smith, W.H.F., 1991. Free software helps map and display data, EOS, Trans. Am. geophys. Un., 72, 441, 445-446.
78. Wiener, N., 1949. Time Series, p. 163, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
79. Yoshizawa, K. & Kennett, B.L.N., 2002. Non-linear waveform inversion for surface waves with a neighbourhood algorithm: application to multimode dispersion measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 149, 118-133.