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Calkins, J.A., Zandt, G., Gilbert, H.J. and Beck, S.L. (2006). Crustal images from San Juan, Argentina, obtained using high frequency local event receiver functions. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2005GL025516. issn: 0094-8276. |
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Images of the crust and upper mantle obtained using teleseismic receiver functions exhibit a weak P-S conversion from the Moho in Western Argentina, where a segment of the subducting Nazca plate flattens out beneath the overriding South American plate. To better estimate depth to the Moho and search for mid-crustal impedance contrasts, we calculate high frequency receiver functions using 37 intermediate-depth local earthquakes. Radial receiver functions from a station located near San Juan, Argentina, show a strong signal from the Moho at 7 seconds corresponding to a depth near 50 km, and conversions from interfaces within the crust at depths of ~20 and 35 km. The higher frequency results obtained using local events have twice the vertical resolution of the teleseismic results and the combined data sets indicate a gradational increase in S velocity in the lower crust that cannot be detected in the lower frequency teleseismic data alone. |
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Keywords
Seismology, Body waves, Seismology, Lithosphere, Seismology, Oceanic crust, Seismology, Subduction zones (1207, 1219, 1240) |
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Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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