CSEDI Collaborative Research: The Thermal, Petrological, and Seismological Structure of Subducting Oceanic Lithosphere

9809832 AbersThe的目标，这个项目是集成的热和动力学模型与地震学数据的俯冲带，表现出的玄武岩和辉长岩的缓慢转变的榴辉岩的地震学证据。 PI开始通过产生一个运动学的热模型，产生瞬态和稳态的热结构和俯冲板和上覆地幔楔的压力-温度-时间演化。 接下来，平衡和动力学相变模型用于预测矿物组合，密度和地震波速度。 然后，通过其预测观测到的波形频散和转换相位振幅的地震特性的能力来评估计算出的速度结构。 岩石学预测和地震学观察到的速度结构之间的不匹配，然后通过迭代重复最小化。 如果假设中深度地震需要高的流体压力，那么脱水反应的位点和由此产生的挥发性通量也可以用来预测震源位置，并与观测到的地震震源进行比较。 由此产生的综合模型的热，岩石学和地震学性质的俯冲板将产生进一步深入了解其他板块边界过程，如中深地震，弧岩浆活动，和挥发物的回收。

9809832AbersThe goal of this project is integration of thermal and kinetic models with seismological data for subduction zones that exhibit seismological evidence for sluggish transformation of basalt and gabbro to eclogite. The PIs begin by producing a kinematic thermal model that yields transient and steady-state thermal structures and the pressure-temperature-time evolution of the subducting slab and overlying mantle wedge. Next, equilibrium and kinetic phase transformation models are used to predict mineral assemblages, densities, and seismic wave speeds. The calculated velocity structure is then evaluated by its ability to predict observed seismic properties of waveform dispersion and converted phase amplitudes. Misfit between the petrologically predicted and the seismologically observed velocity structure is then minimized by iterative repetition. If the assumption is made that high fluid pressures are required for intermediate depth earthquakes, then the loci of dehydration reactions and the resultant volatile flux can also be used to predict hypocenter locations and compared to observed earthquake hypocenters. The resulting integrated model of the thermal, petrological, and seismological properties of subducting slabs will yield further insight into other plate boundary processes such as intermediate-depth earthquakes, arc magmatism, and the recycling of volatiles.