Data Services Products: EMC-NorthernAppalachians_Moho2018 Moho depth beneath the northern Appalachian Mountains derived from teleseismic P-wave receiver functions

Summary

The Moho depths beneath the northern Appalachian Mountains were extracted from 5875 teleseismic P wave receiver functions using the common conversion point (CCP) stacking method.

Description

Name NorthernAppalachians_Moho2018
Title Crustal Thickness Variation in the Northern Appalachian Mountains: Implications for the Geometry of 3-D Tectonic Boundaries Within the Crust
Type Crustal thicknesses
Sub Type Depth km
Year 2018
Short Description   The Moho depths beneath the northern Appalachian Mountains were extracted from 5875 teleseismic P wave receiver functions using the common conversion point (CCP) stacking method.
Author:  
Cong Li
Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
233 Morrill Science Center
627 North Pleasant Street. Amherst, MA 01003, USA
E-mail: conli@geo.umass.edu
   
Previous Model N/A
Reference Model N/A
Model Download The above model expressed as depth in km with 0.1° grid resolution:
NorthAppalachian-Moho-2018-0.1.nc (see metadata ), is the netCDF file for the model
The above model expressed as depth in km with 0.5° grid resolution:
NorthAppalachian-Moho-2018-0.5.nc (see metadata ), is the netCDF file for the model
Original Model Repository https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018GL078777
Depth Coverage
Area northeastern North America (latitude: 39.5°/47.7°; longitude: -76.2°/-67°)
 
Data Set Description This model includes Moho depth in two scales: 1) Moho depth values extracted from the common conversion point (CCP) stacking of teleseismic P wave receiver functions every 0.5 degree. 2) Interpolated Moho depth with the interval of 0.1 degree using triangulation-based cubic interpolation method. We obtained receiver functions from 688 high-quality earthquake events recorded by a total of 87 permanent and 109 temporary broadband seismic stations in this region (see Li et al., 2018 for details). Images of the extracted Moho are available in Li et al. (2018)
 
Supplemental Information
 

Distribution of three-dimensional Moho depth variations
Distribution of three-dimensional Moho depth variations. AA’, BB’, and CC’ correspond to three profiles. The black dashed lines mark the interpreted Grenville-Taconic, Taconic-Gander, and Gander-Avalon boundaries by Hibbard et al. (2006) and Karabinos et al. (2017). AV = Avalon; GA = Gander; TB = Taconic belt; GR = Grenville Province.

Citations and DOIs

To cite the original work behind this Earth model:

  • Li, C., Gao, H., Williams, M. L., & Levin, V. (2018). Crustal thickness variation in the northern Appalachian Mountains: Implications for the geometry of 3-D tectonic boundaries within the crust. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078777

To cite IRIS DMC Data Products effort:

  • Trabant, C., A. R. Hutko, M. Bahavar, R. Karstens, T. Ahern, and R. Aster (2012), Data Products at the IRIS DMC: Stepping Stones for Research and Other Applications, Seismological Research Letters, 83(5), 846–854, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220120032.

DOI for this EMC webpage:

Credits

Model contributed by Cong Li

Timeline

2018-07-23
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