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Published October 28, 2017 | Published + Supplemental Material
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Lower-mantle Substructure Embedded in the Farallon Plate: The Hess Conjugate

Abstract

The morphologies of subducted remnants in the lower mantle are essential to our understanding of the history of plate tectonism. Here we image a high-velocity slab-like (HVSL) anomaly beneath the southeastern U.S. using waveforms from five deep earthquakes beneath South America recorded by the USArray. In addition to travel time anomalies, the multipathing of S and ScS phases at different distances are used to constrain the HVSL model. We jointly invert S and ScS traveltimes, amplitudes, and waveform complexities to produce a best fitting block model characterized by a rectangular shape with a 2.5% S wave velocity increase and tapered edges. While the Farallon slab is expected to dip primarily eastward, the HVSL structure apparently dips 40° to 50° to the SE and appears to be related to the eclogitized Hess conjugate.

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© 2017 American Geophysical Union. Received 20 JUL 2017; Accepted 17 SEP 2017; Accepted article online 29 SEP 2017; Published online 21 OCT 2017. We thank Nathan Simmons, who provided the newest global model used for the FD simulations, and the IRIS DMC (http://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/), which provided the earthquake waveform data used in our study. Suggestions and comments were provided by the Editor (Jeroen Ritsema), a reviewer (Daniel A. Frost), and an anonymous reviewer that helped to improve our manuscript. We also thank Priscilla McLean for her help in preparing this manuscript. This work was supported by the NSF CSEDI program.

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