Tomography of the southern Taiwan subduction zone and possible emplacement of crustal rocks into the forearc mantle

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Title:	Tomography of the southern Taiwan subduction zone and possible emplacement of crustal rocks into the forearc mantle
Authors:	許樹坤;Cheng, W.B.;Hsu, S.K.;Chang, C.H.
Contributors:	地球科學學院地球科學學系
Keywords:	data collection;earthquakes;fluid migration;gravity;quartz;seismic tomography;serpentinite;serpentinization;South China Sea;Taiwan;tomography;velocity;weather
Date:	2012-06-01
Issue Date:	2026-04-23 11:49:43 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Elsevier;Elsevier B.V
Abstract:	摘要： This paper investigates velocity structure of the active plate boundary in southern Taiwan by joint analysis of gravity anomaly and seismic arrival time data. P and S–P arrival time data from 3238 earthquakes were used. In addition to CWBSN permanent networks, seismic data include the Central Weather Bureau permanent networks and a temporary network consisting of 11 ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) that was deployed to detect the aftershocks of the 2006 (ML7.1) Henchun earthquake occurred beneath southern Taiwan. The total available OBS data set consists of ~700 detected earthquakes, from which around 500 could be well located where about 450 events have been used in simultaneous inversion for hypocenters, three-dimensional Vp and Vp/Vs models for the study area. The main objective of incorporating gravity analysis is used to improve the velocity model for the offshore area, where it is poorly sampled by local earthquakes. This study found a low-velocity zone existing above the subducting South China Sea slab in the mantle wedge. Based on gravity modeling and our resulting velocity and Poisson's ratio models suggest that the subduction complex, which is characterized with a low P-wave velocity and low Poisson's ratios beneath the southern Taiwan. This duplex structure is characterized by a zone of low P-wave velocities in the range of 6.2–6.8km/s between 25 and 40km depth. It also shows that earthquake hypocenters do not fall within this low velocity zone. We have also used seismic tomography velocities to estimate the volume percentage of serpentinite and silica concentrations in southern Taiwan. The calculated serpentinite is about 30% and the volume percentage of quartz estimated is about 20% at the base of the forearc lower crust. 出版者： Elsevier B.V 出版日期： 2012-06 出處： Global and planetary change, 2012-06, Vol.90-91, p.20-28 資源來源： ScienceDirect Journals 版權： 2012 Elsevier B.V. 識別號： ISSN: 0921-8181 識別號： EISSN: 1872-6364 識別號： DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.01.003
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