基于接收函数法的阿拉斯加中南部地幔转换带特征研究

Application of receiver function method for characterizing the mantle transition zone structures in central and southern Alaska

  • 摘要: 太平洋板块向北美板块俯冲,在北美洲阿拉斯加大陆边缘形成了碰撞造山带和俯冲构造带,前人对该区域阿拉斯加俯冲带地幔转换带的研究存在分歧,一种观点认为太平洋板块俯冲至阿拉斯加中南部下方的地幔转换带内部,引起地幔转换带增厚,另一种观点则认为地幔转换带增厚是由于库拉板块残留造成的。因此,研究阿拉斯加俯冲带区域地幔转换带的精确成像对于厘清太平洋板块俯冲机制和俯冲过程具有重要意义。本文利用美国地震联合学会(IRIS)在阿拉斯加区域布设的USArray部分固定台站接收到远震事件的波形资料,采用天然地震P波接收函数与共转换点道集叠加的方法,反演得到了阿拉斯加山脉和育空高原410 km、660 km间断面和地幔转换带的厚度结构。结果表明:由于太平洋板块俯冲至地幔转换带内部,使得410 km间断面在阿拉斯加山脉东部和育空高原与阿拉斯加山脉交界处的弧形区域出现了抬升现象,抬升幅度为0~20 km,进而导致在该区域出现不同程度的地幔转换带增厚的现象,验证了第一种观点。另外,该地区地幔转换带结构显示,660 km间断面在阿拉斯加山脉东部以及阿拉斯加山脉与育空高原交界的东部出现下沉现象,故此推测阿拉斯加中南部部分区域太平洋板块已经俯冲至地幔转换带底部。

     

    Abstract: The subduction of the Pacific Plate towards the North American Plate has formed a collisional mountain belt and subduction zone at the edge of the continent in Alaska. Previous studies on the mantle transition zone beneath the Alaska subduction were in debate. It is believed that the thickening of the transition zone is due to the subduction of the Pacific Plate, or due to the thickening is caused by the residual Kula Plate. Therefore, accurate imaging of mantle transition zones in the Alaskan subduction zone is of great significance for understanding the subduction mechanism and courses of the Pacific Plate. This study provided waveform data from teleseismic events received in several stations of the US Array deployed by Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) in the Alaska region, and adopts the natural earthquake P-wave receiver function and common conversion point stacking method to obtain 410 km and 660 km discontinuity sections and mantle transition zone thickness structure of the Alaska Range and Yukon Plateau. The new results show that due to the subduction of the Pacific Plate into the mantle transition zone, a 410 km long discontinuity is uplifted in the arc-shaped area of the eastern Alaska Mountains and the junction of the Yukon Plateau and the Alaska Mountains, with an uplift of 0~20 km, which in turn led to different degrees of thickening of the mantle transition zone in this area, which verifies the first view. In addition, the structure of the mantle transition zone in this area shows that a 660 km long discontinuity has subsided in the eastern part of the Alaska Mountain Range and the eastern part of the border between the Alaska Mountains and the Yukon Plateau. Therefore, it is assumed that the Pacific Plate in parts of south-central Alaska has subducted to the bottom of the mantle transition zone.

     

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