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TI Crustal seismic structure and anisotropy of Madagascar and southeastern Africa using receiver function harmonics: interplay of inherited local heterogeneities and current regional stress
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AF Tsang-Hin-Sun, Eve
   Evain, Mikael
   Julia, J
   Lamarque, G
   Schnurle, Philippe
AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:3;4:1,2;5:1;
FF 1:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;2:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;3:;4:;5:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;
C1 Ifremer, Marine Geosciences, Centre de Brest, CS 10070 - 29280 Plouzane , France
   Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Laboratoire Geosciences Ocean, UMR 6538, 29280 Plouzané, France
   Departamento de Geofísica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN CEP 59078–970, Brazil
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
   UNIV FED RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRAZIL
SI BREST
SE PDG-REM-GM-LGS
UM LGO
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 3.352
TC 1
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00686/79843/82668.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00686/79843/82669.zip
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Composition and structure of the continental crust;Africa;Seismic anisotropy;Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle
AB This study investigates the seismic structure and anisotropy in the crust beneath Madagascar and south-eastern Africa, using receiver functions. The understanding of seismic anisotropy is essential for imaging past and present deformation in the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. In the upper mantle, seismic anisotropy mainly results from the orientation of olivine, which deforms under tectonic (fossil anisotropy) or flow processes (in the asthenosphere). In the crust, the crystallographic alignment of amphiboles, feldspars(plagioclase) or micas or the alignment of heterogeneities such as fractures, add to a complex geometry, which results in challenges to understanding the Earth's shallow structure. The decomposition of receiver functions into back-azimuth harmonics allows to characterize orientations of lithospheric structure responsible for azimuthally-varying seismic signals, such as a dipping isotropic velocity contrasts or layers of azimuthal seismic anisotropy. By analysing receiver function harmonics from records of 48 permanent or temporary stations this study reveals significant azimuthally-varying signals within the upper crust of Madagascar and south-eastern Africa. At 30 stations crustal anisotropy dominates the harmonics while the signature of a dipping isotropic contrast is dominant at the remaining 18 stations. However, all stations’ back-azimuth harmonics show complex signals involving both dipping isotropic and shallow anisotropic contrasts or more than one source of anisotropy at shallow depth. Our calculated orientations for the crust are therefore interpreted as reflecting either the average or the interplay of several sources of azimuthally-varying signals depending of their strength. However, comparing information between stations allows us to draw the same conclusions regionally: in both southern Africa and Madagascar our measurements reflect the interplay between local, inherited structural heterogeneities and crustal seismic anisotropy generated by the current extensional stress field imposed by the southward propagation of the East-African Rift System. A final comparison of our crustal orientations with SKS orientations attributed to mantle deformation further probes the interplay of crustal and mantle anisotropy on SKS measurements. 
PY 2021
PD JUN
SO Geophysical Journal International
SN 0956-540X
PU Oxford University Press (OUP)
VL 226
IS 1
UT 000680830600039
BP 660
EP 675
DI 10.1093/gji/ggab118
ID 79843
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