Seismic anisotropy beneath the Northern Apennines (Italy): Mantle flow or lithosphere fabric?
Shear-wave splitting estimates from recordings of 10 portable seismographic stations during the first year of the RETREAT seismic deployment, in combination with broadband data from the Italian national seismic network, are associated with seismic anisotropy within the upper mantle beneath the North...
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Shear-wave splitting estimates from recordings of 10 portable seismographic stations during the first year of the RETREAT seismic deployment, in combination with broadband data from the Italian national seismic network, are associated with seismic anisotropy within the upper mantle beneath the Northern Apennines. Anisotropic parameters derived from both shear-wave splitting and P travel-time residuals vary geographically and depend on event back-azimuth, reflecting complexity in the underlying mantle strain field. Variations of the splitting time delays and fast polarization seem to exclude a 2-D sublithosphere corner flow, associated with the Apennines subduction, as the main source of the inferred anisotropy. The anisotropic signal may be generated by a frozen-in fabric of the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian lithosphere domains, or by flow variations induced by episodic and fragmentary slab rollback. Published 157-170 JCR Journal reserved |
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ftingv:oai:www.earth-prints.org:2122/2556 2023-05-15T14:28:31+02:00 Seismic anisotropy beneath the Northern Apennines (Italy): Mantle flow or lithosphere fabric? Plomerová, J. Margheriti, L. Park, J. Babuška, V. Pondrelli, S. Vecsey, L. Piccinini, D. Levin, L. Baccheschi, P. Salimbeni, S. Plomerová, J.; Geophysical Institute, Czech Acad. of Sci., Boční II, 141 31 Prague 4, Czech Republic Margheriti, L.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione CNT, Roma, Italia Park, J.; Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, USA Babuška, V.; Geophysical Institute, Czech Acad. of Sci., Boční II, 141 31 Prague 4, Czech Republic Pondrelli, S.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italia Vecsey, L.; Rutgers University, Department of Geological Sciences, NJ, USA Piccinini, D.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma1, Roma, Italia Levin, L.; Rutgers University, Department of Geological Sciences, NJ, USA Baccheschi, P.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione CNT, Roma, Italia Salimbeni, S.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione CNT, Roma, Italia Geophysical Institute, Czech Acad. of Sci., Boční II, 141 31 Prague 4, Czech Republic Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione ONT, Roma, Italia Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, USA Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italia Rutgers University, Department of Geological Sciences, NJ, USA Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma1, Roma, Italia 2006 http://hdl.handle.net/2122/2556 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.023 en eng Elsevier Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. / 247 (2006) E. Patacca, R. Sartori, P. Scandone, Tyrrhenian basin and Apenninic arcs: kinematic relations since late Tortonian times, Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital. 45 (1990) 425–451. [2] C. Doglioni, A proposal of kinematic modelling for W-dipping subductions possible applications to the Tyrrhenian–Apennines system, Terra Nova 3 (1991) 423–434. [3] P. Elter, M. Grasso,M. Parotto, L. Vezzani, Structural setting of the Apennine–Maghrebian thrust belt, Episodes 26 (2003) 205–211. [4] F.P. Lucente, F. Speranza, Belt bending associated with lateral bending of subducting lithospheric slab: geophysical evidences from the Northern Apennines (Italy), Tectonophysics 337 (2001) 53–67. [5] C. Faccenna, L. Jolivet, C. Piromallo, A. Morelli, Subduction and the depth of convection in the Mediterranean mantle, J. Geophys. Res. 107 (B2) (2003) 2099, doi:10.1029/2001JB001690. [6] G. Selvaggi, A. Amato, Subcrustal earthquakes in the Northern Apennines (Italy): evidence for a still active subduction? Geophys. Res. Lett. 19 (1992) 2127–2130. [7] N. D Agostino, G. Selvaggi, Crustal motion along the Eurasia– Nubia plate boundary in the Calabrian Arc and Sicily and active extension in the Messina Straits from GPS measurements, J. Geophys. Res. 109 (B11402) (2004), doi:10.1029/2004JB002998. [8] S. Pondrelli, C. Piromallo, E. Serpelloni, Convergence vs. retreat in Southern Tyrrhenian Sea: insights from kinematics, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 (2004) L06611, doi:10.1029/ 2003GL019223. [9] M. Wortel, W. Spakman, Subduction and slab detachment in the Mediterranean–Carpathian region, Science 290 (2000) 1910–1917. [10] L.Margheriti, S. Pondrelli, D. Piccinnini,N. PianaAgostinetti, F. P. Lucente, A. Amato, P. Baccheschi, L. Giovani, S. Salimbeni, J. Park,M.Brandon,V. Levin, J. Plomerová, P. Jedlicka, L.Vecsey,V. Babuška, P. Ulbricht, RETREAT seismic deployment in the Northern Apennines, Ann. Geofisica, (in press). [11] F.P. Lucente, C. Chiarabba, G. Cimini, Tomographic constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the Italian region, J. Geophys. Res. 104 (B9) (1999) 20307–20327. [12] C. Piromallo, A. Morelli, P wave tomography of the mantle under the Alpine–Mediterranean area, J. Geophys. Res. 108 (B2) (2003) 2099, doi:10.1029/2002JB001757. [13] J. Plomerová, R. Arvidsson, V. Babuška, M. Granet, O. Kulhánek, G. Poupinet, J. Šílený, An array study of lithospheric structure across the Protogine Zone, Varmland, south-central Sweden; signs of a paleocontinental collision, Tectonophysics 332 (2001) 1–21. [14] V. Babuška, J. Plomerová, L. Vecsey, M. Granet, U. Achauer, Seismic anisotropy of the French Massif Central and predisposition of Cenozoic rifting and volcanism by Variscan suture hidden in the mantle lithosphere, Tectonics 21 (2002) 1029, doi:10.1029/ 2001TC901035. [15] G. Barruol, M. Granet, A Tertiary asthenospheric flow beneath the southern French Massif Central indicated by upper mantle seismic anisotropy and related to the West Mediterranean extension, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 202 (2002) 31–47. [16] M.J. Fouch, K.M. Fischer, E.M. Parmentier, M.E. Wysession, T.J. Clarke, Shear wave splitting, continental keels, and patterns of mantle flow, J. Geophys. Res. 105 (2000) 6255–6275. [17] Ch. Kincaid, P.S. Hall, Role of the back arc spreading in circulation and melting at subduction zones, J. Geophys. Res. 108 (B5) (2003) 2240, doi:10.1029/2001JB001174. [18] A. Davaille, J.M. Lees, Thermal modeling of subducted plates: tear and hotspot at the Kamchatka corner, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 226 (2004) 293–304. [19] S. Civello, L. Margheriti, Toroidal mantle flow around the Calabrian slab (Italy) from SKS splitting, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 (2004) L10601, doi:10.1029/2004GL019607. [20] V. Peyton, V. Levin, J. Park, M.T. Brandon, J. Lees, E. Gordeev, A. 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Geological and geophysical evidences of deep processes article 2006 ftingv https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.023 https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JB001690 2022-07-29T06:04:30Z Shear-wave splitting estimates from recordings of 10 portable seismographic stations during the first year of the RETREAT seismic deployment, in combination with broadband data from the Italian national seismic network, are associated with seismic anisotropy within the upper mantle beneath the Northern Apennines. Anisotropic parameters derived from both shear-wave splitting and P travel-time residuals vary geographically and depend on event back-azimuth, reflecting complexity in the underlying mantle strain field. Variations of the splitting time delays and fast polarization seem to exclude a 2-D sublithosphere corner flow, associated with the Apennines subduction, as the main source of the inferred anisotropy. The anisotropic signal may be generated by a frozen-in fabric of the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian lithosphere domains, or by flow variations induced by episodic and fragmentary slab rollback. Published 157-170 JCR Journal reserved Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Earth-Prints (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) Earth and Planetary Science Letters 247 1-2 157 170 |