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Seismic tomography: Art or science?
Frederik J SimonsPrinceton University
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What’ s inside the Earth?
Dalton, Nature 2003
Only seismic waves have actually been there, done that
www.glencoe.com
www.usgs.gov
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This looks more complicated than it is;and that’ s my point.
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This looks simpler than it is;and that’ s my point.
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X-Ray attenuation tomography
Projections from all angles:X-ray intensity
Reconstructed image:X-ray attenuation constants
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Seismic wavespeed tomography
Projections from all angles:Waveforms and arrival times
Reconstructed image:Wavespeed variations
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Forward modeling of the wave field, Part I:
Ray tracing, most 1-D
Before AfterBuland, BSSA, 1983Kennett, GJI, 1995 Bullen & Bolt, 1985
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Forward modeling of the wave field, Part II:
Normal-mode summation, 1-D
AfterBeforeDahlen & Tromp, 1998 Simons, Lithos, 1999
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Forward modeling of the wave field, Part III:
Spectral-element methods, 3-DBefore
AfterKomatitsch, GJI, 2002
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Non-continuous source coverage
The CMT catalog of large events
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Source location – (in)extricably linked
After
Before
Schaff, JGR, 2002Source relocation is big business.
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Fermat’ s Principle at Work for you
Zhao, PEPI, 2004
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The reference Earth: Radial models
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… and at least some of it is true…
Karki et al., Rev. Geoph., 2001 Jackson, 1998
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Menke, 1989
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Picking the right continent
A dense path coverage minimizes the amount of a priori information needed
Receiver coverage
Simons, GJI 2002
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Regularization: the Mathematics
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Regularization: the Physics
Such “ fat” rays sample more of the Earth and thus we need fewer of them to have a well-constrained tomographic problem.
Dahlen, GJI, 2002
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Regularization: the Art
Too much?Too smooth?
Too little?Too rough?
Simons, Lithos, 1999
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How to interpret seismic models
Pillet, PEPI, 1999
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Demand to see the ray paths
Pillet, PEPI, 1999
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Nature isn’ t always kind
Wolfe, Nature, 1997Shen, Nature, 1998
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Seismic anisotropy Wave speeds depend on
propagation direction and polarization:
No surprise: elasticity maps stress and strain, and both depend on three directions
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Polarization anisotropy• The particles of Love and Raleigh surface
waves move in orthogonal directions• SH and SV body waves sometimes
exhibit clear splitting
Azimuthal anisotropy• It’ s usually very hard to separate
whether the time difference arises from an anisotropic direction or an isotropic wave speed difference (aka heterogeneity)
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Why is this so hard?
It’ s very hard to tell whether a phase comes in early because it went through a fast patch or because it came in a fast direction – heterogeneity and anisotropy “ trade off.”
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Questions to ask of the tomographer• How is the forward model computed?• What is the ray coverage?• What (sort of) damping did you use?• What does velocity estimation trade off with?• What is the grid size / the correlation length?• How are different data sets weighted?• How far is the final from the starting model?• Does the starting model have discontinuities?• How is the surface/depth parameterization• Is your sensitivity 1-D, 2-D,or 3-D?
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Journey to Middle Earth, Part I:
The continental lithosphere
Gung, Nature, 2003Simons, GRL, 2002
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Journey to Middle Earth, Part II:
Subduction zones
Replumaz, EPSL, 2004
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Journey to Middle Earth, Part III:
Deep mantle plumes
Montelli, Science, 2004
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What does it all mean? Part I:
Temperature anomalies
Goes, JGR, 2002110 km
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What does it all mean? Part II:
Compositional anomalies
Perry, GJI, 2003150 km
ΔFe/(Fe + Mg) ΔT
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What does it all mean? Part III:
Deformation in the mantle
Simons, EPSL, 2003Fossil Contemporaneous
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Conclusions• Ultimately, seismology can only tell us where,
or in which direction, wave propagation is faster or slower than a reference model
• The non-seismologist has to know the basics of inverse problem modeling, understand the sometimes poor constraints, and be critical
• Improvements are being made: better data, better forward models, better inversions
• As much as with the a posteriori interpretation, the community needs to help defining a priori acceptable starting models
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More equations, for completeness
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