1. Multimode ambient noise double-beamforming tomography with a dense linear array: revealing accretionary wedge architecture across Central Taiwan.
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Liu, Cheng-Nan, Lin, Fan-Chi, Huang, Hsin-Hua, Wang, Yu, and Gkogkas, Konstantinos
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SEISMIC arrays , *MICROSEISMS , *RAYLEIGH waves , *PHASE velocity , *FRICTION velocity - Abstract
Taiwan, one of the most active orogenic belts in the world, undergoes orogenic processes that can be elucidated by the doubly vergent wedge model, explaining the extensive island-wide geological deformation. To provide a clearer depiction of its cross-island orogenic architecture, we apply ambient noise tomography across an east–west linear seismic array in central Taiwan, constructing the first high-resolution 2-D shear velocity model of the upper crust in the region. We observe robust fundamental- and higher-mode Rayleigh waves, with the latter being mainly present in the western Coastal Plain. We develop a multimode double-beamforming method to determine local phase velocities across the array between 2- and 5-s periods. For each location, we jointly invert all available fundamental- and higher-mode phase velocities using a Bayesian-based inversion method to obtain a 1-D model. All 1-D models are then combined to form a final 2-D model from the surface to ∼10 km depth. Our newly developed 2-D model clearly delineates major structural boundaries and fault geometries across central Taiwan, thereby corroborating the previously proposed pro-wedge and retro-wedge models while offering insight into regional seismic hazards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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