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Seismic Studies Of The Tonga Subduction Zone And The Lau Back-Arc Basin, Songqiao Wei
Seismic Studies Of The Tonga Subduction Zone And The Lau Back-Arc Basin, Songqiao Wei
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This dissertation utilizes multiple techniques of seismic tomography and earthquake location to investigate the upper mantle structure and intermediate-depth seismicity of the Tonga subduction zone, the Lau back-arc basin, and adjacent regions. Data for these studies consist of broadband records from 49 ocean bottom seismographs and 17 island-based seismic stations deployed for one year in 2009-2010, as well as more limited earlier datasets. I conducted tomographic studies of Rayleigh wave velocity and body wave attenuation to examine the thermal variations and the distribution of partial melt in the mantle wedge. The shear-wave velocity structure is first determined using only teleseismic …