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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2018.21.1.026

S-wave Relative Travel Time Tomography for Northeast China  

Kim, Yong-Woo (Division of Geology and Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
Kim, Hyo-Ji (Division of Geology and Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
Lim, Jung-A (Division of Geology and Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
Chang, Sung-Joon (Division of Geology and Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.21, no.1, 2018 , pp. 26-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Northeast China is an important site geologically and geophysically because of a huge volcano called Mt. Baekdu, which is one of the largest volcanoes in the world. Signs of eruption have been recently observed and people are keen to its behavior. We carried out relative travel time tomography to investigate the velocity structure between 100 ~ 600 km depth beneath Northeast China. We used teleseismic data during 2009 ~ 2011 recorded in NecessArray provided by IRIS (Incorporated Research Institute for Seismology). The relative observations were obtained by using the multi-channel cross-correlation method. Based on the tomographic results, we observed that the locations beneath which low-velocity zones are observed coincide with the locations of several volcanic regions in Northeast China. A low-velocity anomaly is revealed beneath Mt. Baekdu down to 600 km depth, which is thought to the main origin of the magma supply for Mt. Baekdu. Another low velocity anomaly is observed beneath east of the Datong volcano down to around 300 km depth, which is inferred to be related to an upwelling from deep mantle. We observed a low velocity anomaly beneath the Wudalianchi volcano down to around 200 km depth, which may imply that this volcano has been formed by an upwelling from the asthenosphere.
Keywords
S-wave; relative travel time; multi-channel cross-correlation; tomography; Mt. Baekdu;
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