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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
Volume 121, Issue 4, Pages 2636-2660Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015JB012651
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- JSPS [Kiban-S 23224012]
- MEXT [26106005]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23224012] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We present the first three-dimensional P wave radial anisotropy tomography of the Hokkaido subduction zone, as well as P wave azimuthal anisotropy and S wave tomography, which are determined by inverting 298,430 P wave and 233,934 S wave arrival times from 14,245 local earthquakes recorded by 344 seismic stations. Our results reveal significant velocity heterogeneity, seismic anisotropy, and upwelling flows beneath the study region. In the mantle wedge, prominent low-velocity (low-V) anomalies exhibit trench-normal fast-velocity directions (FVDs) and a negative radial anisotropy (i.e., vertical velocity horizontal velocity), which may reflect upwelling mantle flows. Fan-shaped FVDs are found at depths of 65-90 km, and a detailed 3-D mantle flow pattern is revealed, which may be caused by a combination of oblique subduction of the Pacific plate and collision of the Kuril arc with the Honshu arc beneath southern Hokkaido. The radial anisotropy changes at similar to 100km depth, which may reflect variations in temperature and fluid conditions there. The subducting Pacific slab exhibits a positive radial anisotropy (i.e., horizontal velocity vertical velocity), which may reflect the original fossil anisotropy when the Pacific plate formed at the mid-ocean ridge.
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