Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration (지구물리와물리탐사)

Korean Society of Earth and Exploration Geophysicists (한국지구물리·물리탐사학회)
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Evaluation and interpretation of the effects of heterogeneous layers in an OBS/air-gun crustal structure study

OBS/에어건을 이용한 지각구조 연구에서 불균질층의 영향에 대한 평가와 해석

  • Published : 2008.02.29
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Abstract

We present a method for interpreting seismic records with arrivals and waveforms having characteristics which could be generated by extremely inhomogeneous velocity structures, such as non-typical oceanic crust, decollement at subduction zones, and seamounts in oceanic regions, by comparing them with synthetic waveforms. Recent extensive refraction and wide-angle reflection surveys in oceanic regions have provided us with a huge number of high-resolution and high-quality seismic records containing characteristic arrivals and waveforms, besides first arrivals and major reflected phases such as PmP. Some characteristic waveforms, with significant later reflected phases or anomalous amplitude decay with offset distance, are difficult to interpret using only a conventional interpretation method such as the traveltime tomographic inversion method. We find the best process for investigating such characteristic phases is to use an interactive interpretation method to compare observed data with synthetic waveforms, and calculate raypaths and traveltimes. This approach enables us to construct a reasonable structural model that includes all of the major characteristics of the observed waveforms. We present results here with some actual observed examples that might be of great help in the interpretation of such problematic phases. Our approach to the analysis of waveform characteristics is endorsed as an innovative method for constructing high-resolution and high-quality crustal structure models, not only in oceanic regions, but also in the continental regions.

본 연구에서는 비정상적인 해양지각이나 섭입대의 데꼴망(decollement), 해저산 등과 같이 매우 불균질한 속도구조에서 발생할 수 있는 특성들을 가진 신호와 파형들이 포함된 탄성파 자료를 합성 탄성파 파형과의 비교를 통해 해석하는 방법을 제시하였다. 최근 대양지역에서의 광역 굴절법 탐사나 광각(wide-angle) 반사법 탐사를 통해 우리는 특징적인 신호와 파형뿐만 아니라 초동과 PmP와 같은 주요 반사파 위상들을 포함하고 있는 많은 양의 고해상, 고품질 탄성파 자료를 얻을 수 있다. 주요 후기 반사파 위상이나 거리에 따른 이상 진폭 감쇠를 포함한 몇몇 특징적인 파형들은 주시토모그래피 역산과 같은 기존의 해석법만 사용하기에는 해석에 어려움이 많다. 그러한 특징적인 위상들을 위한 최선의 해석 방법은 관측자료를 합성 탄성파 파형과 비교하면서 파선의 경로와 주시를 계산하는 것이다. 이 방법을 통해 우리는 관측된 파형들의 주된 특징들을 모두 포함한 적절한 구조 모델을 만들 수 있다. 앞서 말한 문제의 위상들을 해석하는데 있어서 많은 도움이 될 몇몇 실제 관측한 실례들을 포함한 결과들이 제시되었다. 파형 특성 분석에 있어서 우리가 접근한 방법은 대양지역뿐만 아니라 대륙지역에서도 고해상 및 고품질의 지각 구조 모델을 만드는데 있어서 혁신적인 방법임을 확신한다.

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