S-wave splitting intensity analysis and inversion

Analysing S-wave splitting has become a routine step in processing multicomponent data. Typically, this analysis leads to determining the principal directions of a transversely isotropic medium with a horizontal symmetry axis, which is assumed to be responsible for azimuthal anisotropy, and to the time delays between the fast and slow S-waves. These parameters are commonly estimated layer-by-layer from the top. Errors in layer stripping occurring in shallow layers might propagate to deeper layers. We propose a method for S-wave splitting analysis and compensation that consists of inverting interval values of splitting intensity to obtain a model of anisotropic parameters that vary with time and/or depth. Splitting intensity is a robust attribute with respect to structural variations and is commutative, which means that it can be summed along a ray (or throughout a sensitivity kernel volume) and can be linearly related to anisotropic perturbations at depth. Therefore, it is possible to estimate anisotropic properties within a geological formation (e.g. the reservoir) by analysing the differences of splitting intensity measured at the top and at the bottom of the layer. This allows us to avoid layer stripping, in particular, for shallow layers where anisotropic parameters are difficult to estimate due to poor coverage, and it makes S-wave splitting analysis simpler to apply. We demonstrate this method on synthetic and real data. Because the splitting intensity attribute shows usefulness in S-wave splitting analysis in transversely isotropic media, we extend the splitting intensity theory to lower symmetry classes. It enables the characterization of tilted transversely isotropic and tilted orthorhombic media, opening new opportunities for anisotropic model building.     

华北克拉通东北部的远震S波走时层析成像研究

华北克拉通是近年来我国地学界研究的热点之一.本文利用布设在华北东北部地区的华北地震科学台阵所记录的远震波形资料,用波形互相关方法拾取了9105条S波走时残差数据,进而用体波走时层析成像方法反演获得了研究区从地表至600 km深度的S波速度结构.所获得的S波层析成像结果表明,华北克拉通中部块体的山西断陷带低速异常一直从地面延伸至上地幔约300 km深处,推测该低速异常体可能与中、新生代的大同火山群的形成与活动有关.研究发现华北东部存在一高速异常体由东部渤中凹陷的地壳一直向西延伸至太行山山前断裂下方地幔转换带410 km附近,推测该高速异常体可能为太平洋板片向西俯冲在华北克拉通东部块体下方地幔过渡带内的滞留.研究结果显示华北克拉通东部的华北盆地表现为高低速相间分布,表明该地区下方的岩石圈发生了破坏,而位于华北克拉通北缘的燕山造山带显示为高速异常,表明燕山造山带下方的岩石圈没有明显的破坏迹象.     

基于纵横波解耦的三维弹性波逆时偏移

纵横波波场分离是弹性波偏移方法的必要条件,通过纵横波成像的差异可以获取更多地下介质的信息.目前所用的纵横波波场分离方法多采用Helmholtz分解,这样得到的波场不仅物理意义发生了变化,振幅和相位也会发生改变.本文采用纵横波解耦的弹性波方程,将其应用于三维介质,对比分析了纵横波解耦方法相对传统Helmholtz分解方法在相位、振幅上的优势.将该解耦的波场分离方法应用于弹性波逆时偏移,能得到相位、振幅和物理意义不受改变的偏移结果.但是该解耦方法分离得到的纵横波波场均为矢量场,将该波场分离方法用于弹性波逆时偏移,还需要解决矢量场如何得到标量成像结果的问题.本文引入了Poynting矢量,通过Poynting矢量对矢量波场进行标量化,这样就能得到保振幅、相位,且无极性反转的标量PP和PS成像结果.同时针对S波Poynting矢量求取不准确的问题,采用拟S波应力场和S波速度场得到了更加准确的S波Poynting矢量.理论计算证明了本文采用的3D波场解耦的矢量波场分离方法的正确性和引入Poynting矢量对矢量波场进行标量成像的有效性.     

龙门山断裂带北段南坝地区上地壳S波分裂特征

基于汶川科钻4号井孔（WFSD-4）附近的较小尺度的南坝微震台阵以及较大尺度的川西流动台站和区域台网的固定台站记录到的近震波形资料,通过横波窗内的S波分裂计算,分析了龙门山断裂带北段南坝地区的上地壳介质各向异性特征,并对区域应力场及构造特征展开讨论.S波分裂计算的结果显示研究区快波偏振方向主要表现为NE-NEE向,与北川断裂的走向一致,也与区域主压应力方向一致.小尺度密集分布的南坝微震台阵的计算结果进一步显示,靠近北川断裂的台站,其快波偏振方向与断裂走向一致,而距北川断裂较远的西北部台站的快波偏振方向与断裂走向不一致,反映了上地壳各向异性特征与地表的活动断裂结构密切相关.从南坝微震台阵的归一化时间延迟随时间的变化情况可以发现,在一个震中位于台阵布设范围内的地震事件发生前后,时间延迟有明显的变化,表明时间延迟随时间变化较为敏感,地震的能量影响了介质的性质.对比龙门山断裂带中段的科钻3号井孔周边地区的S波分裂计算结果,归一化时间延迟与本文结果一致,表明龙门山断裂带中段和北段的上地壳介质各向异性强度基本相同.     

云南地区地壳上地幔三维S波速度与径向各向异性结构研究

云南地区地处青藏高原东南缘,一直是地球科学研究的热点地区.目前,一些热点问题,如云南地区是否存在中下地壳低速流及其空间分布,仍有一定的争议.通过建立云南地区精细的地壳上地幔速度与各向异性结构,可为深入认识上述问题提供重要信息.本文利用天然地震波形记录,采用双台法提取了12~60 s周期的Rayleigh和Love波相速度频散,并进一步反演获得了云南地区10~100 km的三维地壳上地幔SV和SH波速度及径向各向异性结构.结果表明：S波速度与径向各向异性结构在横向和垂向均存在显著变化.在20~30 km深度,存在两个低速条带,且条带内呈现出正径向各向异性（V_SH>V_SV）特征,暗示了中下地壳低速物质的水平向运动.在80~100 km深度,云南西南和东南部显示为低速异常和正径向各向异性特征,暗示了软流圈物质的水平流动.在云南北部的丽江、攀枝花和昭通地区,岩石圈地幔中则存在明显的负径向各向异性（V_SH<V_SV）,可能反映了地幔物质的上涌痕迹.历史强震多发生在地壳低速区域或高低速过渡带,且地震附近的径向各向异性为负或者较弱.一些地震震源下方存在低速层,地壳低速层可能会促进强震发生.     

JOINT INVERSION OF AMBIENT NOISE AND SURFACE WAVE FOR S-WAVE VELOCITY OF THE CRUST AND UPPERMOST MANTLE BENEATH WEIHE BASIN AND ITS ADJACENT AREA

The Weihe Basin is the main component of the extrusion and escape shear zone between the ancient North China craton block in Ordos and the ancient Yangtze platform in Sichuan Basin, and carries the dynamic transmission from the main power source of the Qinghai-Tibet Block in the west to the North China and South China regions in the east. The basin itself plays multi roles in the east-west and north-south tectonic movement, and is an excellent site for studying the structural interlacing, dynamic transformation and transmission. At the same time, Weihe Basin is also a famous strong earthquake zone in China. Historically, there was a strong earthquake of magnitude 8 1/4 occurring in Huaxian County in 1556, causing huge casualties and property losses. In view of the special geological structures and the characteristics of modern seismicity activities in the Weihe fault-depression zone, it is necessary to carry out fine three-dimensional velocity structure detection in the deep part of Weihe Basin and its adjacent areas, so as to study the relationship between velocity structure and geological structural units and their evolution process, as well as the deep medium environment where earth￣quakes develop and occur. We investigate the S-wave velocity structure beneath Weihe Basin and its adjacent regions based on continuous background noise data and teleseismic data recorded by 257 broadband stations in Shaanxi Province and its adjacent regions and China Seismological Science Array Exploration Project, and by adopting seismic surface wave inter-station method and background noise cross-correlation method, a total of 10 049 fundamental-mode Rayleigh surface wave phase velocity dispersion curves in the periods of 5~70s are obtained. Firstly, using the average dispersion curve in this study area, we obtain the one-dimensional average S-wave velocity structure model of the study area, and then we apply the ray-tracing surface-wave-dispersion direct inversion method to obtain the S-wave velocity structure of the crust and uppermost mantle (3~80km) beneath Weihe Basin and its adjacent regions. The test results of a 1°×1° grid checker board show that the recovery is good, except for the areas east of 111° and south of 32° of the study area, where there is almost no resolution. The imaging results show that the velocity structure beneath each tectonic unit in the study area has a certain distribution rule, and there is a good correlation between surface geological structure and deep velocity structure. Based on the analysis of velocity slices at different depths and S-wave velocity structures of three profiles, and combined with existing geological structures, geophysics and other deep exploration research results, we obtain the following knowledge and conclusions:1)The thick sedimentary layer covering the top of Weihe Basin is the cause of low velocity anomaly in its shallow crust, the middle and upper crust of the basin are of low velocity structure, and the low-velocity zone extends about 25km, the Moho interface uplifts abruptly relative to both the Ordos Block and the Qinling orogenic belt on opposite sides, and high-speed materials from the upper mantle intrude into the lower crust, which may be related to the underplating of mafic-ultramafic materials from the upper mantle in Mesozoic-Cenozoic period; 2)The south Ordos Block is not a homogeneous whole, the low-velocity structure of the shallow crust in southern Ordos Block is thin in east and thick in west, which may be related to the overall tilting of the Ordos Basin since the Phanerozoic, as well as the differential uplift and strong and uneven denudation of the Ordos Block since the Late Cretaceous. The crustal structure of the south Ordos Block is relatively simple and homogeneous. There is no significant low-velocity structure in the curst of the block, which shows that the low-velocity structure in the crust does not penetrate the whole Ordos block. We speculate that the southern Ordos Block still maintains the stable craton property, and has not been reformed significantly so far; 3)The variation characteristics of deep structure of the Qinling orogenic belt reflect the deep crustal structure and tectonic deformation characteristics of the orogenic belt which are strongly reformed by land-land collision and suture between North China plate and Yangtze plate, intracontinental orogeny, uplift of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its northeastern expansion since the Late Hercynian-Indosinian period. The deep structure beneath the eastern and western Qinling orogenic belt is different and has the characteristics of segmentation. The low-velocity anomaly at the bottom of the lower crust of the orogenic belt may be affected by tectonic activities such as uplift and outward extension of the NE Tibetan plateau, and the analysis considers that there is little possibility of the existence of lower crustal circulation channel for the eastward flowing of Tibetan plateau materials in the Qinling orogenic belt. However, since the maximum depth from the inversion of this paper is 80km, which is located at the top of the upper mantle, our results cannot prove that there exists a mantle flow channel for the eastward flow of Tibetan plateau material beneath the Qinling orogenic belt.     

岩石扩容与超声波横波速率

通过超声波对单轴压缩试验中岩石扩容现象的测试,分析了超声横波在不同岩石压缩过程中的传播情况。利用超声横波的特性测出岩石在压缩的不同阶段的微裂纹发展情况和体积变化情况,进一步证明了不同岩石在单轴压缩过程中扩容的时间和程度是有所差异的。     

Shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle underneath the Tianshan orogenic belt

From April, 2003 to September, 2004, a passive broadband seismic array consisting of 60 stations was deployed over the Tianshan orogenic belt by State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration. Among them, 51 stations make up an about 500-km-long profile across the Tianshan Mountains from Kuytun to Kuqa. The receiver function profile and S-wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle down to 100 km deep are obtained by using the re-ceiver function method (Liu et al. 1996, 2000). The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) A clear mountain root does not exist beneath the Tianshan Mountains, and the crust-mantle boundaries underneath the stations mostly have transitional structures. This implies that the material differentia-tion between the crust and mantle is not yet accomplished and the orogenic process is still going on. (2) The crust beneath the Tianshan Mountains has laterally blocked structures in direction perpendicular to the mountain strike, and the crust-mantle boundary has a clear dislocation structure. Both of them correspond to each other. (3) The offsets of the Moho discontinuity are highly correlated to the tectonic borders on the surface and that corresponding to the frontal southern Tianshan fault reaches to 14 km. This manifests that large vertical divergent movement took place between different blocks. This sup-ports the discontinuous model of the Tianshan orogeny, and the Tarim block subduction is restricted only to the southern side of the South Tianshan. (4) Inside the upper and middle crust of the Tianshan Mountains exist several low-velocity bodies correlated with high seismicity located on the moun-tain-basin jointures on both sides of the mountain and between different blocks, and the low-velocity bodies on the mountain-basin jointures are inclined obviously to the mountain. This implies that the low-velocity bodies may be correlated closely to the thrust and subduction of the basins on both sides of the mountain, the splicing of adjacent blocks and the fast uplift of the Tianshan Mountains.     

利用ML振幅研究地壳横波Q值I: 不同构造区的衰减特征

本文利用《中国地震年报》中测定震级M_L时所用的区域地震图中水平向的最大振幅及周期资料，研究了地壳内横波的衰减及介质品质因子Q₀特征. 结果表明，中国整个区域平均的Q₀值为367，以华南地台最高，为460，塔里木盆地为442，鄂尔多斯高原为419，华北地区最低，为294，其次是川滇地区为295. 由这个结果可知，Q₀与地质构造之间存在明显的相关特征，在构造上稳定的克拉通地台，如塔里木盆地、鄂尔多斯高原、华南地台等具有较高的Q₀值；而构造上活动的强烈剪切变形带和新生代扩张盆地，如川滇地区和华北断陷盆地往往是Q₀值低的地区，这和Pn速度分布特征也很相似，在Pn速度高的地区地壳Q₀值亦高，在Pn速度低的地区Q₀值亦低.