Shear-wave velocity structure beneath Alaska from a Bayesian joint inversion of Sp receiver functions and Rayleigh wave phase velocities

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• S-wave velocity gradients with depth and absolute velocities in the Alaskan crust mantle. Thin upper plate lithosphere low asthenospheric reflect subduction effects. Thick high northern Alaska, part due to original tectonic terranes. The present-day lithospheric structure of Alaska is result a unique history terrane accretion that controls thickness rheology. To provide new constraints on mantle beneath we jointly inverted Sp receiver functions Rayleigh wave phase calculate shear-wave profiles. Robust were obtained using broad range frequencies (2–100 s), time-domain deconvolution, K-means cluster analysis. Tests Bayesian joint inversion synthetic data illustrate enhance resolution at Moho lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, while surface waves information about velocities. Our results show central above shallow slab, continental thinnest (∼60 km) asthenosphere has its lowest This zone coincides Denali Volcanic Gap. thickens north Brooks Range Arctic terrane, reaching values 110 130 km, are comparable Archean cratons. pattern consistent northward decrease modification by melt volatiles derived from addition intrinsic viscosity differences between inherited Lithospheric not significantly different inside outside Gap, but boundaries this region increases rapidly gradually south. In south, subducting Yakutat thicker (∼100–120 than Pacific (∼80–90 km), likely crust.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Earth and Planetary Science Letters

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1385-013X', '0012-821X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116785