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DOI | 10.1029/2019GL084164 |
Seismic Evidence for Plume-Slab Interaction by High-Resolution Imaging of the 410-km Discontinuity Under Tonga | |
Li, Luchen1,2; Chen, Yi-Wei1; Zheng, Yingcai1; Hu, Hao1; Wu, Jonny1 | |
2019-12-03 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 46期号:23页码:13687-13694 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; Peoples R China |
英文摘要 | The Tonga-Samoa system provides a unique tectonic context to study how a cold subducting slab interacts with a hot rising mantle plume. Here we present a 3-D high-resolution image of the 410-km mantle discontinuity (the 410) using seismic signals excited by deep-focus earthquakes. The 410 is found to be similar to 30 km shallower inside the Tonga slab relative to the ambient mantle and similar to 20 km deeper further to the northwest under Fiji Islands. The downward deflection of the 410 under Fiji supports the hypothesis of a plume migration around the northern edge of the Tonga slab from Samoan hot spot to under Fiji due to fast trench rollback. The 50-km topography difference in the 410 between the plume and the slab corresponds to a temperature difference of similar to 500 +/- 100 K. The Samoan plume is inferred to be 200 +/- 50 K hotter than the ambient mantle and supports a thermal origin for the plume. Plain Language Summary How a rising mantle plume interacts with downgoing slab has not been well understood. Tonga-Samoa and Yellowstone are two such important examples. Under the northern Lau basin where the Tonga slab and the Samoa plume have been vigorously interacting with each other, the 410-km discontinuity topography is found to be controlled by temperature not flow-induced dynamic effect. The 410 topography fits the olivine-to-wadsleyite phase change equilibrium. Because the slab and the plume are next to each other in space, a slab-plume temperature difference is inferred to be similar to 500 +/- 100 K on the same baseline. The Samoan plume is found to be 200 +/- 50 K hotter than the ambient mantle, which is in remarkable consistency with olivine thermometry results. |
英文关键词 | mantle plume Samoa Tonga plume-slab interaction discontinuity |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000500077700001 |
WOS关键词 | TRANSITION ZONE ; VELOCITY DISCONTINUITIES ; SUBDUCTION ZONES ; MANTLE ; TOPOGRAPHY ; SS ; SENSITIVITY ; SIGNATURE ; STACKING ; WAVE |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/225142 |
专题 | 环境与发展全球科技态势 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Houston, Dept Earth & Atmospher Sci, Houston, TX 77004 USA; 2.Petr Explorat & Prod Res Inst SINOPEC PEPRIS, Beijing, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Luchen,Chen, Yi-Wei,Zheng, Yingcai,et al. Seismic Evidence for Plume-Slab Interaction by High-Resolution Imaging of the 410-km Discontinuity Under Tonga[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2019,46(23):13687-13694. |
APA | Li, Luchen,Chen, Yi-Wei,Zheng, Yingcai,Hu, Hao,&Wu, Jonny.(2019).Seismic Evidence for Plume-Slab Interaction by High-Resolution Imaging of the 410-km Discontinuity Under Tonga.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,46(23),13687-13694. |
MLA | Li, Luchen,et al."Seismic Evidence for Plume-Slab Interaction by High-Resolution Imaging of the 410-km Discontinuity Under Tonga".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46.23(2019):13687-13694. |
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