Onshore-offshore broadband seismic studies of Earth structure and tectonic processes

我的研究计划侧重于两个主要的科学目标：限制地质结构和过程对活跃的海洋-大陆板块边界的动力学的作用，并阐明大科迪勒拉山脉的生长和命运，如地球物理数据所揭示的那样。我通过开发大陆和海洋板块系统及其地震活动的地震速度模型，使用从陆地和海上的宽带地震仪器的大型网络获得的数据来解决这些目标。特别是，我使用和开发植根于现代统计理论的地震分析工具，从这些数据中提取最大的信息。我的研究重点是加拿大西部的构造，形成大型天然实验室来研究这些科学目标。在加拿大西部海岸线上，太平洋和胡安德富卡海洋板块与北美大陆沿着两个板块边界并列：南部的卡斯卡迪亚俯冲带和北部的夏洛特皇后-费尔韦瑟断层。每一种边界类型都包含了长时间封闭的大断层，并在大地震（有时是巨大的）中滑动，因此对沿海人口构成了重大的地震危险。这些地震和断层本身大多数位于近海，因此，对它们的研究需要近海地震数据。俯冲带除了对沿海地区构成威胁外，还在大陆边留下痕迹，形成火山弧和大型背弧，演变成科迪勒拉山脉带，温度高，在很长一段时间内（~百万年）容易变形。加拿大科迪勒拉山脉自中生代以来一直很活跃，拥有重要的矿物和地热能源。它目前的地震活动也反映了部分受其结构和地质组成控制的不均匀应力分布。在这个建议中，我计划利用所有可用的宽频带地震数据来源，包括加拿大西部，研究这些大型构造系统;重要是，我的长期愿景是致力于新的宽带海洋-在太平洋东北部和加拿大西部北极地区部署海底地震仪，并利用美国大型移动式阵列部署的存在和未来加拿大科迪勒拉阵列创造的机会研究这些系统并实现科学目标的倡议。

My research program focuses on two main scientific objectives: constraining the role of geological structure and processes on the dynamics of active ocean-continent plate boundaries and elucidating the growth and fate of large Cordilleras, as revealed by geophysical data. I address these objectives by developing seismic velocity models of continental and oceanic plate systems and their seismic activity using data obtained from large networks of broadband seismic instruments, both on land and offshore. In particular, I use and develop seismic analysis tools rooted in modern statistical theory to extract maximum information from these data. My research focuses on the tectonics of western Canada, which form large natural laboratories to study these scientific objectives. On the western Canadian coastline, the Pacific and Juan de Fuca oceanic plates are juxtaposed against the North American continent along two plate boundaries: the Cascadia subduction zone to the south and the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault to the north. Each boundary type contains large faults that are frictionally locked for long periods of time, and slip in large (and sometimes giant) earthquakes, and therefore represent significant seismic hazard to coastal populations. The majority of these earthquakes and the faults themselves are located offshore; their study therefore requires onshore-offshore seismic data. In addition to the threat they pose to coastal areas, subduction zones leave their imprint on the continental margin by forming volcanic arcs and large back arcs that evolve into cordilleras mountain belts that are hot and easy to deform over long time scales (~Myr). The Canadian Cordillera has been active since the Mezosoic and contains important mineral and geothermal energy resources. Its current seismic activity also reflects heterogeneous stress distribution that is partly controlled by its structural and geological makeup. In this proposal I plan to use all available sources of broadband seismic data encompassing western Canada to study these large tectonic systems; importantly, my long-term vision is to work toward new broadband ocean-bottom seismograph deployments in the northeast Pacific and western Canadian Arctic and capitalize on the presence of the large USArray Transportable Array deployment and on the opportunities created by the prospective Canadian Cordillera Array initiative to study these systems and address the scientific objectives.