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Upper mantle structure in the Basin and Range province, western North America, from the apparent velocities of S waves

DEPARTMENT OF GEOPHYSICS STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

Abstract

The variation of shear velocity with depth in the upper mantle for the Basin and Range province of western North America has been studied with direct measurements of dT/d for S waves in the distance range 14° < < 40°. Three orthogonal components of digital data were used and onset times were determined using the product of the horizontal radial and vertical components of motion and particle motion diagrams. A linear LRSM array in Arizona was used for the measurement of dT/d.

An S-wave velocity distribution is derived, compatible with P-wave velocity models for the same region. The derived model consists of a thin lid zone of shear velocity 4.5 km/sec overlying a low-velocity zone and a change in velocity gradient at a depth of 160 km. Two regions of high-velocity gradient are located at depths beginning at 360 km and 620 km.

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