Boundary-layer mantle flow under the Dead Sea transform fault inferred from 
seismic anisotropy.

Rümpker, G.; Ryberg, Trond; Bock, G.; Desert Seismology Group,; 2.4 Seismology, 2.0 Physics of the Earth, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum

doi:10.1038/nature01982

Datensatz

DATENSATZ AKTIONENEXPORT

Zur Ablage hinzufügen

Lokale TagsFreigabegeschichteDetailsÜbersicht

Freigegeben

Zeitschriftenartikel

Boundary-layer mantle flow under the Dead Sea transform fault inferred from seismic anisotropy.

Urheber*innen

Rümpker, G.
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
Publikationen aller GIPP-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

/persons/resource/trond

Ryberg, Trond
2.2 Geophysical Deep Sounding, 2.0 Physics of the Earth, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
Publikationen aller GIPP-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Bock, G.
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
Publikationen aller GIPP-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Desert Seismology Group,
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
Publikationen aller GIPP-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Externe Ressourcen

Es sind keine externen Ressourcen hinterlegt

Volltexte (frei zugänglich)

Es sind keine frei zugänglichen Volltexte in GFZpublic verfügbar

Ergänzendes Material (frei zugänglich)

Es sind keine frei zugänglichen Ergänzenden Materialien verfügbar

Zitation

Rümpker, G., Ryberg, T., Bock, G., Desert Seismology Group (2003): Boundary-layer mantle flow under the Dead Sea transform fault inferred from seismic anisotropy. - Nature, 425, 6957, 497-501.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01982

Zitierlink: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_229793

Zusammenfassung

Lithospheric-scale transform faults play an important role in the dynamics of global plate motion. Near-surface deformation fields for such faults are relatively well documented by satellite geodesy, strain measurements and earthquake source studies, and deeper crustal structure has been imaged by seismic profiling. Relatively little is known, however, about deformation taking place in the subcrustal lithosphere—that is, the width and depth of the region associated with the deformation, the transition between deformed and undeformed lithosphere and the interaction between lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle flow at the plate boundary. Here we present evidence for a narrow, approximately 20-km-wide, subcrustal anisotropic zone of fault-parallel mineral alignment beneath the Dead Sea transform, obtained from an inversion of shear-wave splitting observations along a dense receiver profile. The geometry of this zone and the contrast between distinct anisotropic domains suggest subhorizontal mantle flow within a vertical boundary layer that extends through the entire lithosphere and accommodates the transform motion between the African and Arabian plates within this relatively narrow zone.