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Seismic slip of oceanic strike-slip earthquakesAderhold, Kasey 08 April 2016 (has links)
Oceanic strike-slip earthquakes occur on transform faults and fracture zones that cut across thousands of kilometers of seafloor. The largest of these events often rupture a considerable portion of their associated fault and can provide a comprehensive look at seismic slip across the entire fault plane as well as constraints on the depth extent of seismic slip. It is generally accepted that seismic and aseismic slip along oceanic transform faults is thermally controlled, however composition and geometry have been proposed as significant controls on some faults. High strain rates are a mechanism to achieve greater rupture depths, such as the unusually deep centroids reported for the largest strike-slip earthquake recorded to date, the 2012 MW 8.6 Indian Ocean earthquake. Detailed studies of notable earthquakes and a scattering of well-known faults have been of great use in elucidating oceanic strike-slip rupture. Determining if observed behavior is characteristic of all oceanic strike-slip faults requires a different approach.
To resolve how seismic and aseismic slip are controlled with depth and along strike, well-constrained depths of many earthquakes along oceanic strike-slip faults are determined by modeling teleseismic body waves. Finite-fault slip inversions are calculated for the largest, most recent, and best-recorded oceanic strike-slip events. The constrained depth and along-strike location of slip for numerous oceanic earthquakes on strike-slip faults illuminates the distribution of seismic rupture on these faults in detail, as well as in unprecedented breadth through the examination of oceanic faults in a range of spreading rates and lithosphere ages. These well-constrained depths are within the expected limit to brittle failure (600-800ºC) and show that seismic rupture extends throughout the upper mantle to the crust. Observations of seismic rupture along an oceanic strike-slip fault also provide a comparison to the behavior of continental strike-slip faults that pose a far greater hazard to population centers, such as the San Andreas Fault in the Western United States and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey.
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Structural observations at the southern Dead Sea Transform from seismic reflection data and ASTER satellite images / Structural observations at the southern Dead Sea Transform from seismic reflection data and ASTER satellite imagesKesten, Dagmar January 2004 (has links)
Die folgende Arbeit ist Teil des multidisziplinären Projektes DESERT (DEad SEa Rift Transect), welches seit dem Jahr 2000 im Nahen Osten durchgeführt wird. Dabei geht es primär um die Struktur der südlichen Dead Sea Transform (DST; Tote-Meer-Transformstörung), Plattengrenze zwischen Afrika (Sinai) und der Arabischen Mikroplatte. Seit dem Miozän beträgt der sinistrale Versatz an dieser bedeutenden aktiven Blattverschiebung mehr als 100 km. Das steilwinkelseismische (NVR) Experiment von DESERT querte die DST im Arava Tal zwischen Rotem Meer und Totem Meer, wo die Hauptstörung auch Arava Fault genannt wird. Das 100 km lange Profil erstreckte sich von Sede Boqer/Israel im Nordwesten nach Ma'an/Jordanien im Südosten und fällt mit dem zentralen Teil einer weitwinkelseismischen Profillinie zusammen.
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Steilwinkelseismische Messungen stellen bei der Bestimmung der Krustenstruktur bis zur Krusten/Mantel-Grenze ein wichtiges Instrument dar. Obwohl es kaum möglich ist, steilstehende Störungszonen direkt abzubilden, geben abrupte Veränderungen des Reflektivitätsmuster oder plötzlich endende Reflektoren indirekte Hinweise auf Transformbewegung. Da bis zum DESERT Experiment keine anderen reflexionsseismischen Messungen über die DST ausgeführt worden waren, waren wichtige Aspekte dieser Transform-Plattengrenze und der damit verbundenen Krustenstruktur nicht bekannt. Mit dem Projekt sollte deshalb untersucht werden, wie sich die DST sowohl in der oberen als auch in der unteren Kruste manifestiert. Zu den Fragestellungen gehörte unter anderem, ob sich die DST bis in den Mantel fortsetzt und ob ein Versatz der Krusten/Mantel-Grenze beobachtet werden kann. So ein Versatz ist von anderen großen Transformstörungen bekannt.
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden zunächst die Methode der Steilwinkelseismik und die Datenverarbeitung kurz erläutert, bevor die Daten geologisch interpretiert werden. Bei der Interpetation werden die Ergebnisse anderer relevanter Studien berücksichtigt.
Geologische Geländearbeiten im Gebiet des NVR Profiles ergaben, dass die Arava Fault zum Teil charakterisiert ist durch niedrige Steilstufen in den neogenen Sedimenten, durch kleine Druckrücken oder Rhomb-Gräben. Ein typischer Aufbau der Störungszone mit einem Störungskern, einer störungsbezogenen Deformationszone und einem undeformierten Ausgangsgestein, wie er von anderen großen Störungszonen beschrieben worden ist, konnte nicht gefunden werden. Deshalb wurden zur Ergänzung der Reflexionsseismik, welche vor allem die tieferen Krustenstrukturen abbildet, ASTER (Advanced Spacebourne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) Satellitendaten herangezogen, um oberflächennahe Deformation und neotektonische Aktivität zu bestimmen. / Following work is embedded in the multidisciplinary study DESERT (DEad SEa Rift Transect) that has been carried out in the Middle East since the beginning of the year 2000. It focuses on the structure of the southern Dead Sea Transform (DST), the transform plate boundary between Africa (Sinai) and the Arabian microplate. The left-lateral displacement along this major active strike-slip fault amounts to more than 100 km since Miocene times.
The DESERT near-vertical seismic reflection (NVR) experiment crossed the DST in the Arava Valley between Red Sea and Dead Sea, where its main fault is called Arava Fault. The 100 km long profile extends in a NW—SE direction from Sede Boqer/Israel to Ma'an/Jordan and coincides with the central part of a wide-angle seismic refraction/reflection line.
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Near-vertical seismic reflection studies are powerful tools to study the crustal architecture down to the crust/mantle boundary. Although they cannot directly image steeply dipping fault zones, they can give indirect evidence for transform motion by offset reflectors or an abrupt change in reflectivity pattern. Since no seismic reflection profile had crossed the DST before DESERT, important aspects of this transform plate boundary and related crustal structures were not known. Thus this study aimed to resolve the DST's manifestation in both the upper and the lower crust. It was to show, whether the DST penetrates into the mantle and whether it is associated with an offset of the crust/mantle boundary, which is observed at other large strike-slip zones.
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In this work a short description of the seismic reflection method and the various processing steps is followed by a geological interpretation of the seismic data, taking into account relevant information from other studies.
Geological investigations in the area of the NVR profile showed, that the Arava Fault can partly be recognized in the field by small scarps in the Neogene sediments, small pressure ridges or rhomb-shaped grabens. A typical fault zone architecture with a fault gauge, fault-related damage zone, and undeformed host rock, that has been reported from other large fault zones, could not be found. Therefore, as a complementary part to the NVR experiment, which was designed to resolve deeper crustal structures, ASTER (Advanced Spacebourne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) satellite images were used to analyze surface deformation and determine neotectonic activity.
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