地震後の変形によって明らかになった上層マントルの弱い基礎
Sunyoung Park1, Jean-Philippe Avouac2, Zhongwen Zhan2
1Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. sunnypark@uchicago.edu.
Nature
|February 22, 2023
まとめ
研究者は,2018年のフィジー地震からの地震後の変形データを用いて,マントルの移行地帯の底部に薄く粘度が低い層を特定しました. この弱い領域は 地質学的現象の解明に役立ちます
科学分野:
- 地理学
- 地球科学
- 地震学
背景:
- マントルの粘性は地球の内部動力学と熱の進化に不可欠です.
- 以前の地質学的研究は,マントルの粘度推論の有意な変動を示している.
- マントルの粘度を理解することは,大規模な地質学的プロセスを説明する鍵です.
研究 の 目的:
- 地震後の変形データを用いてマントルの粘度構造を調査する.
- 地震がマントルに与える影響を分析する
- 地球の内部構造とダイナミクスのモデルを 精査する
主な方法:
- 地震後の変形信号を抽出するために,地質時間系列の独立した構成要素解析を使用しました.
- 各種の粘度構造をテストするために前向きの粘度弾性緩和モデルを適用した.
- 2018年のフィジーの8.2の地震のデータに焦点を当てています.
主要な成果:
- 地震後の変形を 検出して抽出しました
- 薄い (約) の要求を特定しました. 100 km),低粘度層 (10^1710^18 Pa·s) がマントルの移行地帯の底にある.
- このモデルは,スレブの平ら化や孤児化のような,以前は難しい観測を説明します.
結論:
- 推論された低粘度層は,超可塑性,弱いペロブスキート,高水分量,または脱水溶解によって引き起こされる可能性があります.
- この発見は,マントルの移行領域のレオロギーの新しい洞察を提供します.
- この研究は,潜水地帯で観察された重要な特徴の潜在的な説明を提供します.
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