1. Ambient-noise tomography of the wider Vienna Basin region
- Author
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Schippkus, Sven, Zigone, Dimitri, Bokelmann, Götz, Hetenyi, György, Abreu, Rafael, Allegretti, Ivo, Apoloner, Maria-Theresia, Aubert, Coralie, Besancon, Simon, Bes de Berc, Maxime, Brunel, Didier, Capello, Marco, Carman, Martina, Cavaliere, Adriano, Cheze, Jerome, Chiarabba, Claudio, Clinton, John, Cougoulat, Glenn, Crawford, Wayne C., Cristiano, Luigia, Czifra, Tibor, D'Alema, Ezio, Danesi, Stefania, Daniel, Romuald, Dannowski, Anke, Dasovic, Iva, Deschamps, Anne, Dessa, Jean-Xavier, Doubre, Cecile, Egdorf, Sven, Fiket, Tomislav, Fischer, Kasper, Friederich, Wolfgang, Fuchs, Florian, Funke, Sigward, Giardini, Domenico, Govoni, Aladino, Graczer, Zoltan, Gröschl, Gidera, Heimers, Stefan, Heit, Ben, Herak, Davorka, Huber, Johann, Jaric, Dejan, Jedlicka, Petr, Jia, Yan, Jund, Helene, Kissling, Edi, Klingen, Stefan, Klotz, Bernhard, Kolinsky, Petr, Kopp, Heidrun, Korn, Michael, Kotek, Josef, Kühne, Lothar, Kuk, Kreso, Lange, Dietrich, Loos, Jürgen, Lovati, Sara, Malengros, Deny, Margheriti, Lucia, Maron, Christophe, Martin, Xavier, Massa, Marco, Mazzarini, Francesco, Meier, Thomas, Metral, Laurent, Molinari, Irene, Moretti, Milena, Munzarova, Helena, Nardi, Anna, Pahor, Jurij, Paul, Anne, Pequegnat, Catherine, Petersen, Daniel, Pesaresi, Damiano, Piccinini, Davide, Piromallo, Claudia, Plenefisch, Thomas, Plomerova, Jaroslava, Pondrelli, Silvia, Prevolnik, Snjezan, Racine, Roman, Regnier, Marc, Reiss, Miriam, Ritter, Joachim, Rümpker, Georg, Salimbeni, Simone, Santulin, Marco, Scherer, Werner, Schulte-Kortnack, Detlef, Sipka, Vesna, Solarino, Stefano, Spallarossa, Daniele, Spieker, Kathrin, Stipcevic, Josip, Strollo, Angelo, Süle, Balint, Szanyi, Gyöngyver, Szücs, Eszter, Thomas, Christine, Thorwart, Martin, Tilmann, Frederik, Ueding, Stefan, Vallocchia, Massimiliano, Vecsey, Ludek, Voigt, Rene, Wassermann, Joachim, Weber, Zoltan, Weidle, Christian, Wesztergom, Viktor, Weyland, Gauthier, Wiemer, Stefan, Wolf, Felix Noah, Wolyniec, David, Zieke, Thomas, Zivcic, Mladen, Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik [Wien] (IMGW), Universität Wien, Sismologie (IPGS) (IPGS-Sismologie), Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg (IPGS), and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Seismic noise ,Wave propagation ,[SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph] ,Seismic interferometry ,Fault (geology) ,Crustal structure ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Physics::Geophysics ,symbols.namesake ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,Rayleigh wave ,Dispersion (water waves) ,Crustal imaging ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Seismic tomography ,Tectonics ,Geophysics ,symbols ,Seismology ,Geology - Abstract
International audience; We present a new 3-D shear-velocity model for the top 30 km of the crust in the wider Vienna Basin region based on surface waves extracted from ambient-noise cross-correlations. We use continuous seismic records of 63 broad-band stations of the AlpArray project to retrieve interstation Green's functions from ambient-noise cross-correlations in the period range from 5 to 25 s. From these Green's functions, we measure Rayleigh group traveltimes, utilizing all four components of the cross-correlation tensor, which are associated with Rayleigh waves (ZZ, RR, RZ and ZR), to exploit multiple measurements per station pair. A set of selection criteria is applied to ensure that we use high-quality recordings of fundamental Rayleigh modes. We regionalize the interstation group velocities in a 5 km × 5 km grid with an average path density of ∼20 paths per cell. From the resulting group-velocity maps, we extract local 1-D dispersion curves for each cell and invert all cells independently to retrieve the crustal shear-velocity structure of the study area. The resulting model provides a previously unachieved lateral resolution of seismic velocities in the region of ∼15 km. As major features, we image the Vienna Basin and Little Hungarian Plain as low-velocity anomalies, and the Bohemian Massif with high velocities. The edges of these features are marked with prominent velocity contrasts correlated with faults, such as the Alpine Front and Vienna Basin transfer fault system. The observed structures correlate well with surface geology, gravitational anomalies and the few known crystalline basement depths from boreholes. For depths larger than those reached by boreholes, the new model allows new insight into the complex structure of the Vienna Basin and surrounding areas, including deep low-velocity zones, which we image with previously unachieved detail. This model may be used in the future to interpret the deeper structures and tectonic evolution of the wider Vienna Basin region, evaluate natural resources, model wave propagation and improve earthquake locations, among others.
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- 2018