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Relation between Earth surface phenomena and deep mantle structure inferred from a hybrid P-wave tomography

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25287116
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Solid earth and planetary physics
Research InstitutionJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

OBAYASHI Masayuki  国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構, 地球深部ダイナミクス研究分野, 主任研究員 (30359179)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) YOSHIMITSU Junko  国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構, 地球深部ダイナミクス研究分野, 技術副主任 (70392941)
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥14,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,390,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥8,190,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,890,000)
Keywords地震波トモグラフィー / 火山現象 / テクトニクス / 地球内部構造 / 沈み込むスラブ / マントルプルーム / ホットスポット / トモグラフィー / 深発地震 / シャツキー海台 / スラブ / 内部構造
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed a P-wave mantle tomography, using ray theory for onset times and finite frequency kernels for broadband waveform data. We applied this new method to investigate mantle structures in Northeastern Asia and French Polynesia and succeeded to obtain detail structures.
The tomography image shows slow anomalies below the Cenozoic volcanoes around the Songliao basin. In the mantle transition zone, no extended flatten slab is observed beneath the basin while it is observed to the north and south. It looks like a hole of the stagnant slab. The hole of the stagnant slab may be related with the volcanism of Changbaishan. Below the French Polynesia, the image shows that a strong large-scale (~1000 km in diameter) slow anomalies from the core-mantle boundary do not extend straight to the surface but become small and weak in the depth range about 550 - 900 km. The small-scale slow anomalies seem to shape a circle connecting the Society, Marquesas, Pitcairn and MacDonald hotspots.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • 2013 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (22 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 2013 Other

All Journal Article (10 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 10 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] CSMAP: Cross Section Selector and Tomogram Generator2016

    • Author(s)
      Taewoon Kim, Yoshio Fukao, Masayuki Obayashi
    • Journal Title

      JAMSTEC Report of Research and Development

      Volume: 22 Issue: 0 Pages: 31-38

    • DOI

      10.5918/jamstecr.22.31

    • NAID

      130005142490

    • ISSN
      1880-1153, 2186-358X
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Rapid lateral variation of P-wave velocity at the base of the mantle near the edge of the Large-Low Shear Velocity Province beneath the western Pacific2015

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka S., Kawakatsu H., Obayashi M., Chen Y.J., Ning J., Grand S.P., Niu F., Ni J.
    • Journal Title

      Geophys. J. Int.

      Volume: 200 Issue: 2 Pages: 1052-1065

    • DOI

      10.1093/gji/ggu455

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Changbaishan volcanism in northeast China linked to subduction-induced mantle upwelling2014

    • Author(s)
      Youcai Tang, Masayuki Obayashi, Fenglin Niu, Stephen P. Grand, Yongshun John Chen, Hitoshi Kawakatsu, Satoru Tanaka, Jieyuan Ning & James F. Ni
    • Journal Title

      Nature Geoscience

      Volume: 7 Pages: 470-475

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Crustral structure beneath NE China imagaed by NECESSArray receiver function data2014

    • Author(s)
      Tao K., Niu. F., Ning J., Chen Y.J., Grand S.P. , Kawakatsu H. , Tanaka S., Obayashi M., Ni J.
    • Journal Title

      Earth and Planetary Science Letters

      Volume: 398 Pages: 48-57

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.043

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Upper Mantle Tomography in the Northwestern Pacific Region Using Triplicated P Waves2014

    • Author(s)
      Takeuchi, N., H. Kawakatsu, S. Tanaka, M. Obayashi, Y. J. Chen., J. Ning, S. P. Grand, F. Niu, J. F Ni, R. Iritani, K. Idehara, T. Toneg
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research

      Volume: 119 Issue: 10 Pages: 7667-7685

    • DOI

      10.1002/2014jb011161

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] High resolution 3-D crustal structure beneath NE China from joint inversion of ambient noise and receiver functions using NECESSArray data2014

    • Author(s)
      Guo Z., Y. J. Chen, J. Ninga, Y. Feng, S. P. Grand, F. Niu, H. Kawakatsu, S. Tanaka, M. Obayashi, J. Ni
    • Journal Title

      Earth and Planetary Science Letters

      Volume: 426 Pages: 1-11

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.044

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Receiver function images of the mantle transition zone beneath NE China: New constraints on intraplate volcanism, deep subduction and their potential link2014

    • Author(s)
      Liu Z., F. Niu, Y. J. Chen, S. Grand, H. Kawakatsu, J. Ning, S. Tanaka, M. Obayashi, J. Ni
    • Journal Title

      Earth and Planetary Science Letters

      Volume: 412 Pages: 101-111

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.019

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Subduction Zone Structure in the Mantle Transition Zone2014

    • Author(s)
      Yoshio Fukao and Masayuki Obayashi
    • Journal Title

      Treatise on Geophysics, second edition

      Volume: 印刷中

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Finite frequency whole mantle P wave tomography : Improvement of subducted slab images2013

    • Author(s)
      Obayashi, M., J. Yoshimitsu, G. Nolet
    • Journal Title

      Geophys. Res. Lett.

      Volume: 40 Issue: 21 Pages: 5652-5657

    • DOI

      10.1002/2013gl057401

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Subducted slabs stagnant above, penetrating through, and trapped below the 660 km discontinuity2013

    • Author(s)
      Fukao Y. and M. Obayashi
    • Journal Title

      J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth

      Volume: 118 Issue: 11 Pages: 5920-5938

    • DOI

      10.1002/2013jb010466

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Unusually Deep Bonin Earthquake (M7.9) of May 30, 2015 Suggests that Stagnant Slab Transforms into Penetration Stage2015

    • Author(s)
      Masayuki Obayashi, Yoshio Fukao, Junko Yoshimitsu
    • Organizer
      American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      San Francisco Moscorne Center(米国、サンフランシスコ)
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-14
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 2015 年 5 月 30 日小笠原深発地震と沈み込むスラブ2015

    • Author(s)
      大林政行
    • Organizer
      日本地震学会 2015年秋季大会
    • Place of Presentation
      神戸国際会議場(兵庫県神戸市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-26
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] tagnant Honshu slab and its implication for Japan Sea Opening and off-arc volcanism2015

    • Author(s)
      Masayuki Obayashi, H. Kawakatsu, S. Tanaka, F. Niu, Y. Chen, J. Ning, S. Grand, J. Ni, J. Yoshimitsu
    • Organizer
      International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 2015 General Assembly
    • Place of Presentation
      Prague Congress Center(チェコ共和国、プラハ)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] P-wave velocity anomalies of the plume beneath the French Polynesia2015

    • Author(s)
      Masayuki Obayashi, Junko Yoshimitsu, Hiroko Sugioka, Aki Ito, Takehi Isse, Hajime Shiobara, Daisuke Suetsugu
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合 2015年大会
    • Place of Presentation
      幕張メッセ(千葉県千葉市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-24
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] P-wave velocity anomalies of the plume beneath the French Polynesia2015

    • Author(s)
      Masayuki Obayashi, Junko Yoshimitsu, Hiroko Sugioka, Aki Ito, Takehi Isse, Hajime Shiobara, Daisuke Suetsugu
    • Organizer
      European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      Austria Center Vienna(オーストリア、ウィーン)
    • Year and Date
      2015-04-12
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Finite Frequency P-Wave Tomography for French Polynesian Region2014

    • Author(s)
      Obayashi M., J. Yoshimitsu, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, T. Isse, H. Shiobara, D. Suetsugu
    • Organizer
      American Geophysical Union fall meeting 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      San Francisco, USA
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-16
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Adjoint Tomography Imaging of Three-dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure in East Asia2014

    • Author(s)
      Miyoshi T., M. Obayashi, Y. Tono, S. Tsuboi
    • Organizer
      Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      ロイトン札幌、北海道札幌市
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-01
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Determination of Earth Structure Using Waveform Inversion and Spectral-element Method2014

    • Author(s)
      Tsuboi S., Miyoshi T., M. Obayashi, Y. Tono
    • Organizer
      Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      ロイトン札幌、北海道札幌市
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-01
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Measurement of differential P-wave travel time between two BBOBSs with correction for crustal reverberation2014

    • Author(s)
      大林 政行, 吉光 淳子, 石原 靖, 末次 大輔
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会
    • Place of Presentation
      パシフィコ横浜、神奈川県横浜市
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-02
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Absence of stagnant slab: implication for volcanism, back-arc opening and trench migration

    • Author(s)
      Obayashi M., F. NIu, J. Yoshimitsu, H. Kawakatsu, S. Tanaka, Y.J. Chen, J. Ning, S.P. Grand, N. Takeuchi, K. Miyakawa, K. Idehara, T. Tonegawa, R. Iritani
    • Organizer
      Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2013
    • Place of Presentation
      幕張メッセ(千葉県)
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] A hole of stagnant slab: Implication for volcanism, back-arc opening and trench migration

    • Author(s)
      Obayashi, M., Niu, F., Yoshimitsu, J., Kawakatsu, H., Tanaka, S., Chen, Y.J., Ning, J., Grand, S.P.
    • Organizer
      IAHS-IASPSO-IASPEI
    • Place of Presentation
      Gothenburg Convention Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 海洋多重反射波の補正法(広帯域海底地震計間P波相対走時測定のための)

    • Author(s)
      大林政行、石原靖、末次大輔
    • Organizer
      日本地震学会2013年度秋季大会
    • Place of Presentation
      神奈川県民ホール(神奈川県)
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report

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