https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/411213
標題: | Seismic evidence for the depression of the D<sup>″</sup> discontinuity beneath the Caribbean: Implication for slab heating from the Earth's core | 作者: | YEN-TING KO SHU-HUEI HUNG Kuo, Ban Yuan Zhao, Li |
關鍵字: | D″ discontinuity | post-perovskite phase transition | shear wave triplication | slab heating | thermal boundary layer | waveform modeling | 公開日期: | 1-六月-2017 | 出版社: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | 卷: | 467 | 起(迄)頁: | 128 | 來源出版物: | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 摘要: | © 2017 Elsevier B.V. The lowermost 100–300 km of the Earth's mantle commonly regarded as the thermal boundary layer (TBL) of mantle circulation is characterized by its complex physical properties. Beneath the Caribbean this so-called D″ layer features relatively high velocities and abrupt impedance increase at the top (designated as the D″ discontinuity). These seismic characteristics have been attributed to the accumulation of ancient subducted slab material and the phase transition in the major lower mantle mineral of pervoskite. Geodynamic models predict that the blanketing cold slabs may trap enough heat from core to be buoyantly destabilized, and eventually broken apart and entrained into the bottom of the convection cell. Here we explore the D″ structure with unprecedented resolution through modeling traveltimes, amplitudes, and waveform shapes from the USArray. We find an east-to-west asymmetrical undulation of the D″ discontinuity with a V-shaped depression of ∼70–160 km over a lateral distance of 600 km beneath northern South America. The shear velocity perturbations vary in the same trend showing the most pronounced reduction of ∼3–4% below the thinnest D″ layer in close proximity to an intermittently undetected discontinuity. The strong correlation between the D″ topography and velocity variations indicates the phase transition boundary has been perturbed or even disrupted by the large lateral temperature gradient of slab material which has been reheated from the core over extended periods of time. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/411213 | ISSN: | 0012821X | DOI: | 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.03.032 |
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