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Upper Mantle Q and Thermal Structure Beneath Tanzania, East Africa from Teleseismic P Wave Spectra - Fig. 1
Credit:
Anupama Venkataraman • Stanford University; Andrew A. Nyblade • Pennsylvania State University; Jeroen Ritsema • Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France/IRIS
We measure P-wave spectral amplitude ratios from deep-focus earthquakes recorded at broadband seismic stations of the Tanzania network to estimate regional variation of sublithospheric mantle attenuation beneath the Tanzania craton and the eastern branch of the East African Rift. One-dimensional profiles adequately explain the systematic variation of P-wave attenuation in the sublithospheric upper mantle: beneath the cratonic lithosphere, while it is ~ 80 beneath the rifted lithosphere. By combining the values and a model of P-wave velocity perturbations, we estimate that the temperature beneath the rifted lithosphere (100-400 km depth) is higher than ambient mantle temperatures, consistent with the observation that the 410-km discontinuity in this region is depressed by 30-40 km.
Venkataraman, A., A. Nyblade, and J. Ritsema, Upper mantle Q and thermal structure beneath Tanzania, East Africa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, No. 15, L15611, 10.1029/2004GL020351, 2004.
Date Taken: January 29, 2009 Photographer / Contributor: Anupama Venkataraman • Stanford University; Andrew A. Nyblade • Pennsylvania State University; Jeroen Ritsema • Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France
