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Receiver Function Inversion Beneath Ngauruhoe Volcano, New Zealand, using the Genetic Algorithm

유전자 알고리즘을 이용한 뉴질랜드 Ngauruhoe 화산 하부의 수신함수 역산

  • Park, Iseul (Department of Geophysics, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Kim, Ki Young (Department of Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
  • Received : 2014.10.06
  • Accepted : 2015.02.23
  • Published : 2015.02.28
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Abstract

To estimate the shear-wave velocity (${\nu}_s$ beneath the OTVZ seismic station on Ngauruhoe volcano in New Zealand, we calculated receiver functions (RFs) using 127 teleseismic data ($Mw{\geq}5.5$) with high signal-to-noise ratios recorded during November 11, 2011 to September 11, 2013. The genetic inversion algorithms was applied to 21 RFs calculated by the iterative time-domain deconvolution method. In the 1-D ${\nu}_s$ model derived by the inversion, the Moho is observed at a 14 km depth, marked by a ${\nu}_s$ transition from 3.7 km/s to 4.7 km/s. The average ${\nu}_s$ of the overlying crust is 3.4 km/s, and the average ${\nu}_s$ of a greater than 9-km thick low-velocity layer (LVL) in the lower crust is 3.1 km/s. The LVL becomes thinner with increasing distance from the station. Another LVL thicker than 10 km with ${\nu}_s$ less than 4.3 km/s is found in the upper mantle. Those LVLs in the lower crust and the upper mantle and the relatively thin crust might be related to the magma activity caused by the subducting Pacific plate.

뉴질랜드 Ngauruhoe 화산에 설치된 OTVZ 지진관측소 하부의 S파속도(${\nu}_s$)를 규명하기 위해, 2011년 11월 11일에서 2013년 9월 11일까지 기록된 원거리 지진자료($Mw{\geq}5.5$) 중에서 신호 대 잡음비가 높은 127개의 자료만을 이용하여 수신함수를 계산하였다. 수신함수는 시간영역에서 반복적 곱풀기 방법으로 계산되었으며, 21개의 수신함수에 유전자 알고리즘을 적용하여 역산을 실시하였다. 역산으로부터 구한 관측소 하부의 1차원 속도모델은 ${\nu}_s$가 3.7 km/s에서 4.7 km/s로 급격히 변하는 모호면이 14 km 깊이에 존재하며, 지각의 평균 ${\nu}_s$는 3.4 km/s임을 보인다. 하부지각에는 평균 ${\bar}{\nu}_s$ 가 3.1 km/s인 저속도층이 두께 9 km 이내로 존재하며, 관측소에서 멀어질수록 두께가 얇아지는 것으로 분석된다. 또한, 상부맨틀에도 ${\nu}_s$가 4.3 km/s 이하인 저속도층이 10 km 이상의 두께로 존재하며, 이러한 하부지각과 상부맨틀 내에 존재하는 저속도층과 상대적으로 얇은 지각은 태평양판의 섭입에 따른 마그마 활동과 관련이 있을 것으로 추정된다.

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