Wavefield Migration Imaging of Moho Geometry and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Southern New England
Wavefield Migration Imaging of Moho Geometry and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Southern New England
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DOI：
10.1029/2022gl099013
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发表时间：
2022-06
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Yantao Luo;M. Long;S. Rondenay;Paul Karabinos;Y. Kuiper
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作者：
Yantao Luo;M. Long;S. Rondenay;Paul Karabinos;Y. Kuiper
The crust and upper mantle beneath the New England Appalachians exhibit a large offset of the Moho across the boundary between Laurentia and accreted terranes and several dipping discontinuities, which reflect Paleozoic or younger tectonic movements. We apply scattered wavefield migration to the SEISConn array deployed across northern Connecticut and obtain insights not previously available from receiver function studies. We resolve a doubled Moho at a previously imaged Moho offset, which may reflect westward thrusting of rifted Grenville crust. The migration image suggests laterally variable velocity contrasts across the Moho, perhaps reflecting mafic underplating during continental rifting. A west‐dipping feature in the lithospheric mantle is further constrained to have a slab‐like geometry, representing a relict slab subducted during an Appalachian orogenic event. Localized low seismic velocities in the upper mantle beneath the eastern portion of the array may indicate that the Northern Appalachian Anomaly extends relatively far to the south.
