Models of crustal thickness for South America from seismic refraction, receiver functions and surface wave tomography

Tectonophysics

Volumn 609, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-96

  Assumpção, Marcelo ^a   Feng, Mei ^b   Tassara, Andrés ^c   Julià, Jordi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Andes; Crust; Moho; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ANDES; CONTINENTAL PLATFORMS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CRUST; MOHO; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY;

ESTIMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; REFRACTION; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRATON; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GRAVITY ANOMALY; ISOSTASY; MOHO; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84889087925     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.11.014     Document Type: Review

References (83)

1. Agudelo W.A., Ribodetti J.-Y., Collot S.Operto Joint inversion of multichannel seismic reflection and wide-angle seismic data: improved imaging and refined velocity model of the crustal structure of the north Ecuador-South Colombia convergent margin. Journal of Geophysical Research 2009, 114:B02306. 10.1029/2008JB005690.
2. Ammon C.J. The isolation of receiver effects from teleseismic P waveforms. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1991, 81(6):2504-2510.
3. ANCORP Working Group Seismic imaging of a convergent continental margin and plateau in the central Andes (Andean Continental Research Project 1996 (ANCORP'96)). Journal of Geophysical Research 2003, 108(B7):2328. 10.1029/2002JB001771.
4. Assumpção M., James D., Snoke A. Crustal thicknesses in SE Brazilian shield by receiver function analysis: implications for isostatic compensation. Journal of Geophysical Research 2002, 107(B1). (ESE2-1-ESE2-14, 2006). 10.1029/2001JB000422.
5. Assumpção M., An M., Bianchi M., França G.S.L., Rocha M., Barbosa J.R., Berrocal J. Seismic studies of the Brasília Fold Belt at the western border of the São Francisco craton, central Brazil, using receiver function, surface wave dispersion, and teleseismic tomography. Tectonophysics 2004, 388:173-185.
6. Assumpção M., Schimmel M., Escalante C., Rocha M., Barbosa J.R., Barros L.V. Intraplate seismicity in SE Brazil: stress concentration in lithospheric thin spots. Geophysical Journal International 2004, 159:390-399.
7. Assumpção, M., Bianchi, M.B., Julià, J., Dias, F.L., França, G.S., Nascimento, R.M., Drouet, S., Pavão, C.G., Albuquerque, D.F., Lopes, A.E.V., in press. Crustal thickness map of Brazil: data compilation and main features. Journal of South American Earth Sciences.
8. Bassin C., Laske G., Masters G. The current limits of resolution for surface wave tomography in North America. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 2000, 81:F897.
9. Bastow I.D., Nyblade A.A., Stuart G.W., Rooney T.O., Benoit M.H. Upper mantle seismic structure beneath the Ethiopian hot spot: rifting at the edge of the African low-velocity anomaly. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2008, 9:Q12022. 10.1029/2008GC002107.
10. Beck S.L., Zandt G. The nature of orogenic crust in the central Andes. Journal of Geophysical Research 2002, 107:2230. 10.1029/2000JB000124.
11. Beck S.L., Zandt G., Myers S.C., Wallace T.C., Silver P.G., Drake L. Crustal-thickness variations in the central Andes. Geology 1996, 24:407-410.
12. Bianchi M., Heit B., Jakovlev A., Yuan A., Kay S.M., Sandvol E., Alonso R.N., Coira B., Brown L., Kind R., Comte D. Teleseismic tomography of the southern Puna plateau in Argentina and adjacent regions. Tectonophysics 2013, 586:65-83.
13. Blitzkov D., Matos A.C.O.C., Lobianco M.C.B., Campos I.O. The progress of the geoid in South America under GRACE and EGM08 models. IAG Assembly, Buenos Aires, 2009 2009, (Abstracts).
14. Calkins J.A., Zandt G., Gilbert H.J., Beck S. Crustal images from San Juan, Argentina, obtained using high frequency local event receiver functions. Geophysical Research Letters 2006, 33:L07309. 10.1029/2005GL025516.
15. Cawood P.A. Terra Australis Orogen: Rodinia breakup and development of the Pacific and Iapetus margins of Gondwana during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic. Earth-Science Reviews 2005, 69(3-4):249-279. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.09.001.
16. Clark M.K., Bush J.W.M., Royden L.H. Dynamic topography produced by lower crustal flow against rheological strength heterogeneities bordering the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Journal International 2005, 162:575-590. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02580.x.
17. Collaço B., Sánchez G., Rosa M.L., Assumpção M., Sabbione N., Araujo M., Rocha M.P. Crustal structure of the Paraná Basin from ambient noise tomography. XVI Congr. Geological Soc. of Peru, Lima, 23-26 September 2012, extended abstract 2012.
18. Cordani U.G., Teixeira W., D'Agrella-Filho M.S., Trindade R.I. The position of the Amazonian Craton in supercontinents. Gondwana Research 2009, 15(3-4):396-407. 10.1016/j.gr.2008.12.005.
19. Cormier V.F., Anderson T.S. Efficiency of Lg propagation from SmS dynamic ray tracing in three-dimensionally varying crustal waveguides. Pure and Applied Geophysics 2004, 8:1613-1633.
20. Dávila F.M., Lithgow-Bertelloni C., Giménez M. Tectonic and dynamic controls on the topography and subsidence of the Argentine Pampas: the role of the flat slab. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2010, 295(1-2):187-194. 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.03.039.
21. Dorbath C., Granet M., Poupinet G., Martinez C. A teleseismic study of the Altiplano and Eastern Cordillera in Northern Bolivia: new constraints on a lithospheric model. Journal of Geophysical Research 1993, 98(B6):9825-9844.
22. Escayola M.P., van Staal Cees R., Davis William J. The age and tectonic setting of the Puncoviscana Formation in northwestern Argentina: an accretionary complex related to Early Cambrian closure of the Puncoviscana Ocean and accretion of the Arequipa-Antofalla block. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 2011, 32(4):438-459. 10.1016/j.jsames.2011.04.013.
23. Fan G.W., Lay T. Statistical analysis of irregular wave-guide influences on regional seismic discriminants in China. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1998, 88:74-88.
24. Feininger T., Seguin M.K. Simple Bouguer gravity anomaly field and the inferred crustal structure of continental Ecuador. Geology 1983, 11:40-44. 10.1130/0091-7613(1983) 11<40:SBGAFA>2.0.CO;2.
25. Feng M., Assumpção M., Van der Lee S. Group-velocity tomography and lithospheric S-velocity structure of the South American continent. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 2004, 147:315-331.
26. Feng M., Van der Lee S., Assumpção M. Upper mantle structure of South America from joint inversion of waveforms and fundamental-mode group velocities of Rayleigh waves. Journal of Geophysical Research 2007, 112:B04312. 10.1029/2006JB004449.
27. Ferreira J.M., França G.S., Vilar C.S., do Nascimento A.F., Bezerra F.H.R., Assumpção M. Induced seismicity in the Castanhão reservoir, NE Brazil - preliminary results. Tectonophysics 2008, 456:103-110.
28. Fichtner A., Igel H. Efficient numerical surface wave propagation through the optimization of discrete crustal models-a technique based on non-linear dispersion curve matching (DCM). Geophysical Journal International 2008, 173:519-533. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03746.x.
29. Fichtner A., Kennett B.L.N., Igel H., Bunge H.-P. Full seismic waveform tomography for upper-mantle structure in the Australasian region using adjoint methods. Geophysical Journal International 2009, 179:1703-1725. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04368.x.
30. Gans C.R., Beck S.L., Zandt G., Gilbert H., Alvarado P., Anderson M., Linkimer L. Continental and oceanic crustal structure of the Pampean flat slab region, western Argentina, using receiver function analysis: new high-resolution results. Geophysical Journal International 2011, 186:45-58. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05023.x.
31. Hjörleifsdóttir V., Ekstrom G. Effects of three-dimensional Earth structure on CMT earthquake parameters. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 2010, 179:178-190. 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.11.003.
32. Hussong D.M., Edwards P.B., Johnson S.H., Campbell J.F., Sutton G.H. Crustal structure of the Peru-Chile trench: 8°-12°S latitude. The geophysics of the Pacific Ocean Basin and its margins. AGU Geophysical Monograph 1976, 19:71-85.
33. Julià J., Assumpção M., Rocha M.P. Deep crustal structure of the Paraná Basin from receiver functions and Rayleigh-wave dispersion: evidence for a fragmented cratonic root. Journal of Geophysical Research 2008, 113:B08318. 10.1029/2007JB005374.
34. Justowski B., Dziewonski A.M., Ekstrom G. Nonlinear crustal corrections for normal-mode seismograms. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2007, 97:1756-1762. 10.1785/0120070041.
35. Kay R.W., Kay S.M. Delamination and delamination magmatism. Tectonophysics 1993, 219(1-3):177-189. 10.1016/0040-1951(93)90295-U.
36. King S.D. Geoid and topography over subduction zones: the effect of phase transformations. Journal of Geophysical Research 2002, 107(B1):2013. 10.1029/2000JB000141.
37. Lawrence J.F., Wiens D.A. Combined receiver-function and surface wave phase-velocity inversion using a Niching Genetic Algorithm: application to Patagonia. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2004, 94(3):977-987.
38. Lebedev S., Van Der Hilst Rob D. Global upper-mantle tomography with the automated multimode inversion of surface and S-wave forms. Geophysical Journal International 2008, 173:505-518. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03721.x.
39. Lithgow-Bertelloni C., Guynn J.H. Origin of the lithospheric stress field. Journal of Geophysical Research 2004, 109:B01408. 10.1029/2003JB002467.
40. Lloyd S., van der Lee S., França G.S., Assumpção M., Feng M. Moho map of South America from receiver functions and surface waves. Journal of Geophysical Research 2010, 115:B11315. 10.1029/2009JB006829.
41. McGlashan N., Brown L., Kay S. Crustal thickness in the central Andes from teleseismically recorded depth phase precursors. Geophysical Journal International 2008, 175:1013-1022. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03897.x.
42. Meyer R.P., Mooney W.D., Hales A.L., Helsey C.E., Woollard G.P., Hussong D.M., Kroenke L.W., Ramirez J.E. Project Nariño III: refraction observation across a leading edge, Malpelo Island to the Colombian Cordillera Occidental. The geophysics of the Pacific Ocean basin and its margins. AGU Geophysical Monograph 1976, 19:105-132.
43. Mohriak W.U., Mello M.R., Bassetto M., Vieira I.S., Koutsoukos E.A.M. Crustal architecture, sedimentation, and petroleum systems in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, northeastern Brazil. Petroleum Systems of South Atlantic Margins: AAPG Memoir 2000, 73:273-300. M.R. Mello, B.J. Katz (Eds.).
44. Mooney W.D., Kaban M.K. The North American upper mantle: density, composition, and evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research 2010, 115:B12424. 10.1029/2010JB000866.
45. Mooney W.D., Meyer R.P., Laurence J.P., Meyer H., Ramírez J.E. Seismic refraction studies of the western cordillera, Colombia. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1979, 69:1745-1761.
46. Mooney W.D., Laske G., Masters T.G. CRUST 5.1: a global crustal model at 5°x5°. Journal of Geophysical Research 1998, 103(B1):727-747.
47. Niu F., Bravo T., Pavlis G., Vernon F., Rendon H., Bezada M., Levander A. Receiver function study of the crustal structure of the southeastern Caribbean plate boundary and Venezuela. Journal of Geophysical Research 2007, 112:B11308. 10.1029/2006JB004802.
48. Ocola L.C., Aldrich L.T., Gettrust J.F., Meyer R.P., Ramírez J.E. Project Nariño I: crustal structure under southern Colombian-northern Ecuador Andes from seismic refraction data. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1975, 65:1681-1695.
49. Park Y., Nyblade A.A., Rodgers A.J., Al-Amri A. S wave velocity structure of the Arabian Shield upper mantle from Rayleigh wave tomography. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2008, 9:Q07020. 10.1029/2007GC001895.
50. Pavão C.G., França G.S., Marotta G.S., Menezes P.H.B.J., Neto G.B.S., Roig H.L. Spatial interpolation applied to crustal thickness in Brazil. Journal of Geographic Information System 2012, 4(2):142-152. 10.4236/jgis.2012.42019.
51. Pérez-Gussinyé M., Lowry A.R., Watts A.B. Effective elastic thickness of South America and its implications for intra-continental deformation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2007, 8:Q05009. 10.1029/2006GC001511.
52. Pérez-Gussinyé M., Lowry A.R., Phipps Morgan J., Tassara A. Effective elastic thickness variations along the Andean margin and their relationship to subduction geometry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2008, 9:Q02003. 10.1029/2007GC001786.
53. Phillips K., Clayton R.W., Davis P., Tavera H., Guy R., Skinner S., Stubailo I., Audin L., Aguilar V. Structure of the subduction system in southern Peru from seismic array data. Journal of Geophysical Research 2012, 117:B11306. 10.1029/2012JB009540.
54. Ramos V.A. La plataforma patagónica y sus relaciones con la plataforma brasilera. Geologia do Continente Sul-Americano: Evolução e Obra de Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida 2004, 371-381. Editora Beca, São Paulo, Brazil. V. Matess-Neto (Ed.).
55. Rapela C.W., Pankhurst R.J., Casquet C., Fanning C.M., Baldo E.G., González-Casado J.M., Galindo C., Dahlquist J. The Río de la Plata craton and the assembly of SW Gondwana. Earth-Science Reviews 2007, 83(1-2):49-82. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.03.004.
56. Ritzwoller M.H., Shapiro N.M., Barmin M.P., Levshin A.L. Global surface wave diffraction tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research 2002, 107(B12):2335. 10.1029/2002JB001777.
57. Robalino F. Espesor de la corteza en Quito mediante al análisis del espectro de las ondas P de periodo largo. XI Asamblea General, Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia, Quito 1977, (Abstract).
58. Rosa M.L., Assumpção M., Sabbione N. Crustal structure in the eastern margin of Argentina with receiver functions at LPA and TRQA: evidence for crustal thinning near Río de La Plata. AGU Meeting of the Americas, Brazil 2010, Abstract.
59. Rosa M.L., Collaço B., Sánchez G., Assumpção M., Sabbione N., Araujo M. Crustal thickness beneath the Chaco-Paraná Basin. NE Argentina. Using surface-waves and ambient noise tomography. XVI Congr. Geological Soc. of Peru, Lima, 23-26 September 2012, extended abstract 2012.
60. Sá, N.C., 2004. O campo de gravidade, o geóide e a estrutura crustal na Amé́rica do Sul: Novas estratégias de representação. Tese de Livre-Docência, Universidade de São Paulo. 121pp.
61. Sacek V., Ussami N. Reappraisal of the effective elastic thickness for the sub-Andes using 3-D finite element flexural modelling, gravity and geological constraints. Geophysical Journal International 2009, 179:778-786. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04334.x.
62. Schmitz M., Martins A., Izarra C., Jácome M.I., Sánchez J., Rocabado V. The major features of the crustal structure in north-eastern Venezuela from deep wide-angle seismic observations and gravity modelling. Tectonophysics 2005, 399:109-124.
63. Sieminski A., Lévêque J.-J., Debayle E. Can finite-frequency effects be accounted for in ray theory surface wave tomography?. Geophysical Research Letters 2004, 31:L24614. 10.1029/2004GL021402.
64. Smith W.H.F., Wessel P. Gridding with continuous curvature splines in tension. Geophysics 1990, 55(3):293-305.
65. Snoke J.A., James D.E. Lithospheric structure of the Chaco and Paraná Basins of South America from surface-wave inversion. Journal of Geophysical Research 1997, 102:2939-2951.
66. Soller D.R., Ray R.D., Brown R.D. A new global crustal thickness map. Tectonics 1982, 1(2):125-149.
67. Soares J.E., Berrocal J., Fuck R.A., Mooney W.D., Ventura D.B.R. Seismic characteristics of central Brazil crust and upper mantle: a deep seismic refraction study. Journal of Geophysical Research 2006, 111:B12302. 10.1029/2005JB003769.
68. Stratford W., Thybo H., Faleide J.I., Olesen O., Tryggvason A. New Moho map for onshore southern Norway. Geophysical Journal International 2009, 178:1755-1765. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04240.x.
69. Swenson J.L., Beck S.L., Zandt G. Crustal structure of the Altiplano from broadband regional waveform modeling: implications for the composition of thick continental crust. Journal of Geophysical Research 2000, 105:607-621.
70. Tanimoto T. Crustal structure of the Earth. Global Earth Physics, A Handbook of Physical Constants. AGU reference shelf Series 1995, vol 1:214-224. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, (ISBN 0-87590-851-9).
71. Tassara A., Echaurren A. Anatomy of the Andean subduction zone: three-dimensional density model upgraded and compared against global-scale models. Geophysical Journal International 2012, 189(1):161-168. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05397.x.
72. Tassara A., Götze H.-J., Schmidt S., Hackney R. Three-dimensional density model of the Nazca plate and the Andean continental margin. Journal of Geophysical Research 2006, 111:B09404. 10.1029/2005JB003976.
73. Tassara A., Swain C., Hackney R., Kirby J. Elastic thickness structure of South America estimated using wavelets and satellite-derived gravity data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2007, 253(1-2):17-36. 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.10.008.
74. Tassinari C.C.G., Macambira M.J.B. Geochronological provinces of the Amazonian craton. Episodes 1999, 22(3):174-182.
75. Tohver E., Cawood P.A., Rossello E.A., Jourdan F. Closure of the Clymene Ocean and formation of West Gondwana in the Cambrian: evidence from the Sierras Australes of the southernmost Rio de la Plata craton, Argentina. Gondwana Research 2012, 21(2-3):394-405. 10.1016/j.gr.2011.04.001.
76. van der Lee S., Nolet G. Upper mantle S velocity structure of North America. Journal of Geophysical Research 1997, 102:22,815-22,838.
77. van der Lee S., James D., Silver P. Upper mantle S velocity structure of central and western South America. Journal of Geophysical Research 2001, 106:30821-30834.
78. van der Meijde M., Julià J., Assumpção M. Gravity derived Moho for South America. Tectonophysics, Special issue 2013, 609:456-467. (submitted for publication).
79. Wessel P., Smith W.H.F. New, improved version of Generic Mapping Tools released. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 1998, 79(47):579.
80. Whitman D., Isacks B.L., Mahlburg Kay S. Lithospheric structure and along-strike segmentation of the Central Andean Plateau: seismic Q, magmatism, flexure, topography and tectonics. Tectonophysics 1996, 259(1-3):29-40. 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00130-1.
81. Yuan X., Sobolev S.V., Kind R. Moho topography in the central Andes and its geodynamic implications. Earth Planetary Science Letters 2002, 199:389-402. 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00589-7.
82. Zalán P.V., Severino M.C.G., Rigoti C.A., Magnavita L.P., Oliveira J.A.B., Vianna A.R. An entirely new 3D-view of the crustal and mantle structure of a South Atlantic passive margin - Santos, Campos and Espírito Santo Basins, Brazil. AAPG Annual Convention, Houston TX, 2011, Extended Abstracts, Search and Discovery article #30177 2011, (2011).
83. Zhu L., Kanamori H. Moho depth variation in southern California from teleseismic receiver functions. Journal of Geophysical Research 2000, 105(B2):2969-2980.