Shear wave crustal velocity model of the Western Bohemian Massif from Love wave phase velocity dispersion |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Petr?KolínskyEmail author Ji?í?Málek Johana?Broke?ová |
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| Institution: | 1.Department of Seismology, Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, v.v.i.,Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,Prague 8,Czech Republic;2.Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,Charles University in Prague,Prague 8,Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: | We propose a new quantitative determination of shear wave velocities for distinct geological units in the Bohemian Massif,
Czech Republic (Central Europe). The phase velocities of fundamental Love wave modes are measured along two long profiles
(~200 km) crossing three major geological units and one rift-like structure of the studied region. We have developed a modified
version of the classical multiple filtering technique for the frequency-time analysis and we apply it to two-station phase
velocity estimation. Tests of both the analysis and inversion are provided. Seismograms of three Aegean Sea earthquakes are
analyzed. One of the two profiles is further divided into four shorter sub-profiles. The long profiles yield smooth dispersion
curves; while the curves of the sub-profiles have complicated shapes. Dispersion curve undulations are interpreted as period-dependent
apparent velocity anomalies caused both by different backazimuths of surface wave propagation and by surface wave mode coupling.
An appropriate backazimuth of propagation is found for each period, and the dispersion curves are corrected for this true
propagation direction. Both the curves for the long and short profiles are inverted for a 1D shear wave velocity model of
the crust. Subsurface shear wave velocities are found to be around 2.9 km/s for all four studied sub-profiles. Two of the
profiles crossing the older Moldanubian and Teplá-Barrandian units are characterized by higher velocities of 3.8 km/s in the
upper crust while for the Saxothuringian unit we find the velocity slightly lower, around 3.6 km/s at the same depths. We
obtain an indication of a shear wave low velocity zone above Moho in the Moldanubian and Teplá-Barrandian units. The area
of the Eger Rift (Teplá-Barrandian–Saxothuringian unit contact) is significantly different from all other three units. Low
upper crust velocities suggest sedimentary and volcanic filling of the rift as well as fluid activity causing the earthquake
swarms. Higher velocities in the lower crust together with weak or even missing Moho implies the upper mantle updoming. |
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