Mantle Anisotropy at Mid-Ocean Ridges
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1 Mantle Anisotropy at Mid-Ocean Ridges Andy Nowacki, Michael Kendall, James Wookey (Nowacki et al., EPSL, 2011)
2 Plate spreading and seismic anisotropy Hess, 1964
3 MOR Anisotropy Anisotropy due to LPO versus Aligned Melt
4 Simple plate spreading Blackman and Kendall 1996; 1997; 2002a,b 2.5D spreading center: Flow rift perpendicular Flow pattern controlled by: Spreading rate Mantle viscosity Melt production
5 Passive Buoyant LPO anisotropy controlled by: Spreading rate Mantle viscosity Mineralogy Shear-wave splitting Shear-wave splitting: Increases off-axis Fast SW polarisation parallel spreading Melt adds additional component to anisotropy Blackman and Kendall, G3, 2002
6 Simple plate spreading SKS Splitting at the EPR (Wolfe and Silver, 1998; Harmon et al. 2004)) 2.5D spreading center: Flow rift perpendicular Model predicts riftperpendicular orientation off-axis (large δt).
7 Kendall et al., Nature, 2005 SKS splitting in the MER
8 EPR anisotropy is very different from MER anisotropy Continental rift versus oceanic spreading center? Spreading rates? Difficult to measure SKS splitting at MORs instead use source-side SWS.
9 Source side splitting (Nowacki et al., Nature, 2010)
10 Events and Stations
11 NWK methodology Rigorous data selection and quality control: Receiver anisotropy must be simple and well characterised. Where possible use data from similar azimuths for both S and SKS. High-quality measurements, low error, clear signal and anisotropy. Inferred source polarisation must agree with CMT solution for the earthquake. Nowacki, Wookey and Kendall, Nature 2010
12 Results
13 East Pacific Rise - source-side splitting Best sampled segment Results agree with Wolfe and Solomon (1998) and Harmon et al. (2004), but split magnitude is larger Ridge parallel (>50km) dt=1-3s Transforms much more complicated
14 Mid Atlantic Ridge - source-side splitting Limited in latitude (-40 to 15) More complicated than EPR Ridge parallel (e.g., - 30degs); smaller than EPR Variations along transforms; magnitudes higher near ridge segments
15 Gakkel Ridge - source-side splitting Only 10 good results Plus 10 good nulls Smallest amounts of splitting Gakkel is mostly ridge parallel Some evidence of asymmetry South West Indian Ridge is similarly complicated (oblique spreading)
16 EPR S-wave vs SKS splitting - Φ δt Spreading direction modelling Modelling B&K-02: S (red lines); SKS (blue lines); note raypath incl and Az are different B&K-02 predictions agree with SKS results (W&S - 98 and Harmon et al. - 04) S-splits are much larger solution: TI anisotropy due to melt alignment? Distance from Ridge Axis (km)
17 Stress driven melt segregation - most effective at flanks (marginal LAB) Holtzman and Kendall, G3, 2010
18 Melt and the LAB Slow spreading steep sides GAKKEL- MER SKS very sensitive to melt anisotropy MER much more melt production Along strike flow? Fast spreading subhoriz LAB EPR SKS not sensitive to melt S and surface waves are sensitive to melt anisotropy Melt enhances LAB
19 Mechanisms for MER anisotropy: Large-scale flow beneath eastern Africa associated with super-swell. Melt focused at plate boundaries - leads to oriented vertical pockets of melt. Contribution from pan- African fabric in lithosphere away from rift. Kendall et al., 2006
20 Conclusions Source-side shear-wave splitting provides global comparison of MOR anisotropy Off-axis splitting is generally ridge perpendicular (Gakkel is perhaps exception; Reykjanes Ridge? along strike flow?) Delay times increase off axis; correlation with spreading rate More complicated near transform faults (patterns?) Melt needed to explain discrepancies between S and SKS splitting (EPR) Melt focused at marginal LAB Melt hypothesis compatible with surface-wave radial anisotropy (Nettles and Dziewonski 2008) and SRFs (Rychert and Shearer, 2009; Kawakatsu et al., 2009)
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