地球和空间科学学院

固体地球物理学术报告通知-YangSHEN教授

报告地点:教学行政楼708-710会议室

报告时间:星期三,2016-07-20 15:00- 16:30

报告人:Yang SHEN 教授

报告题目:Full-Wave Ambient Noise Tomography Reveals Deep Controls on Segmentation in Volcanism Along Subduction Zones

报告内容简介

Subduction zones are known to be segmented with clusters of volcanoes separated by gaps in volcanism. A mechanism proposed initially to explain the clustering of volcanoes, or “hot fingers”, along the Japan arc is arc-normal, small-scale convection facilitated by low viscosity in a hydrated mantle wedge. To test this hypothesis, we carried out full-wave ambient noise tomography to image the structure beneath the Cascadia arc, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The resulting model shows low-velocity bodies in the mantle beneath the arc and back-arc that are spatially correlated with the Cascadia volcano clusters. A more detailed study at the crustal level further delineates the magma plumbing system and the importance of deep crustal magma chambers in the segmentation of arc volcanism.