Wen, Lianxing and Anderson, Don L. (1997) Slabs, hotspots, cratons and mantle convection revealed from residual seismic tomography in the upper mantle. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 99 (1-2). pp. 131-143. ISSN 0031-9201. doi:10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03162-7. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20121008-070807256
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Abstract
To further investigate the fate of slabs, the structure of hotspots and the style of mantle convection, we calculate residual tomographic maps in the upper mantle by excluding from the tomography the first-order effects of conductive cooling of oceanic plates, deep cratonic ‘roots’, and cooling or partial melting associated with subducted lithosphere. No correlation is found between residual tomography in the upper mantle and the 30–130 Ma subduction. The good correlations between residual tomography in the transition zone (400–650 km) and 0–30 Ma subduction, at spherical harmonic degree l = 2 can be explained either by slab accumulation in the transition zone beneath some subduction zones or by the poor lateral resolution of seismic tomography. Hotspots correlate with the residual tomography in the shallow (100–400 km) and the lowermost mantle at degree l = 2. However, correlations of hotspots and seismic velocities in the middle mantle, and correlations between residual tomography at shallow depths and lowermost-mantle tomography are poor. Therefore the connection between residual tomography at shallow depths and seismic tomography in the lowermost mantle is not clear. Craton distribution correlates with distribution of hotspots and residual topography very well at degree l = 6. This might indicate that cratonic ‘roots’ may affect the locations of upwellings and thus modulate upper-mantle convection, or that the degree l = 6 could be intrinsic in upper-mantle convection, with cratons and and other near-surface features establishing the pattern.
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| Additional Information: | © 1997 Elsevier Science B.V. Received 6 June 1995; revised 26 February 1996; accepted 5 March 1996. We thank Jascha Polet for providing digital data of cratons. This work was funded by NSF Grant EAR 92-18390. This paper is Contribution 5554 of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology. | |||||||||
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| Issue or Number: | 1-2 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03162-7 | |||||||||
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| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20121008-070807256 | |||||||||
| Official Citation: | Lianxing Wen, Don L. Anderson, Slabs, hotspots, cratons and mantle convection revealed from residual seismic tomography in the upper mantle, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 99, Issues 1–2, January 1997, Pages 131-143, ISSN 0031-9201, 10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03162-7. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031920196031627) | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Ruth Sustaita | |||||||||
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