Crustal structure across the eastern North American margin from ambient noise tomography

TitleCrustal structure across the eastern North American margin from ambient noise tomography
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsLynner, C, Porritt, RW
JournalGeophysical Research Letters
Volume44
Pagination6651–6657
ISSN1944-8007
Keywordsambient noise, crustal structure, eastern North American margin, passive margin
Abstract

Passive tectonic margins, like the eastern North American margin (ENAM), represent the meeting of oceanic and continental material where no active deformation is occurring. The recent ENAM Community Seismic Experiment provides an opportunity to examine the crustal structure across the ENAM owing to the simultaneous deployment of offshore and onshore seismic instrumentation. Using Rayleigh wave phase and group velocities derived from ambient noise data, we invert for shear velocity across the ENAM. We observe a region of transitional crustal thicknesses that connects the oceanic and continental crusts. Associated with the transitional crust is a localized positive gravitational anomaly. Farther east, the East Coast magnetic anomaly (ECMA) is located at the intersection of the transitional and oceanic crusts. We propose that underplating of dense magmatic material along the bottom of the transitional crust is responsible for the gravitational anomaly and that the ECMA demarks the location of initial oceanic crustal formation.

URLhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017GL073500
DOI10.1002/2017GL073500

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