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Moho depths beneath the European Alps: a homogeneously processed map and receiver functions database.

Authors :
Michailos, Konstantinos
Hetényi, György
Scarponi, Matteo
Stipčević, Josip
Bianchi, Irene
Bonatto, Luciana
Czuba, Wojciech
Di Bona, Massimo
Govoni, Aladino
Hannemann, Katrin
Janik, Tomasz
Kalmár, Dániel
Kind, Rainer
Link, Frederik
Lucente, Francesco Pio
Monna, Stephen
Montuori, Caterina
Mroczek, Stefan
Paul, Anne
Piromallo, Claudia
Source :
Earth System Science Data Discussions. 11/29/2022, p1-32. 32p.
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

Since the 1980s a number of active and passive seismic experiments have revealed significant information about the Earth's crust in the broader European Alpine region. In this paper, we use seismic waveform data from the AlpArray Seismic Network and three other temporary seismic networks, to perform receiver function (RF) calculations and time-to-depth migration to update the knowledge of the Moho discontinuity beneath the broader European Alps. In particular, we set up a homogeneous processing scheme to compute RFs using the time-domain iterative deconvolution method, and apply consistent quality control to yield 107,633 high-quality RFs. We then perform time-to-depth migration in a newly implemented 3D spherical coordinate system and using a European-scale reference P and S wave velocity model. This approach, together with the dense data coverage, provide us with a 3D migrated volume, from which we present migrated profiles that reflect the firstorder crustal thickness structure. We create a detailed Moho map by manually picking the discontinuity in a set of orthogonal profiles covering the entire area. We make the RF dataset, the software for the full processing workflow, as well as the Moho map, openly available; these open-access datasets and results will allow other researchers to build on the current study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
18663591
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Earth System Science Data Discussions
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
160550986
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-397