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An introduction to global seismic tomography
Institute of Geophysics course on seismic tomography, fall 2009
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Institute of Geophysics course on seismic tomography, fall 2009
web: http://www.seg2.ethz.ch/boschil/tomography/tomography.html
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what is a tomographic model?
Institute of Geophysics course on seismic tomography, fall 2009
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Early (pre-seismology) studies of Earth’s structure
Edmund Halley’s hollow Earth model (1692)
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Late 19th century: development of the seismometer
Filippo Cecchi John Milne
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Late 19th century: development of the seismometer
The first signal recognized as coming from a distant earthquake (Japan to Potsdam, Germany) was identified by E. von Rebeur-Paschwitz in 1889. (From Nature, Vol. 40, 1889.)
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Richard Oldham
Discovery of the Earth’s (outer) core (1906)
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Richard Oldham
Discovery of the Earth’s (outer) core (1906)
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Andrija Mohorovicic
Discovery of the MOHO discontinuity (1909 or 1910?)
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Andrija Mohorovicic
Discovery of the MOHO discontinuity (1909 or 1910?)
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Beno Gutenberg
Accurate measure of the core-mantle boundary--or “Gutenberg discontinuity”--radius (1912)
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Harold Jeffreys
The core is fluid (1926)
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Inge Lehmann
Discovery of the Earth’s inner core (1936)
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Inge Lehmann
Discovery of the Earth’s inner core (1936)
P-wave paths S-waves
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Project MOHOLE (1960s)
oil drillship called CUSS I (Continental Union Superior Shell)
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Project NO-HOLE
oil drillship called CUSS I (Continental Union Superior Shell)
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Kola drill (until 1992)
The deepest hole in the world (12 km)
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The deepest hole in the world (12 km)
Kola drill (until 1992)
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digging does not work, information has to be “extracted” from seismograms
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1960s-present: development of world-wide instrument networks
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“Travel time” of certain seismic phases vs. epicentral distance
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Preliminary Reference Earth Model (1981)
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Don Anderson Adam Dziewonski
Preliminary Reference Earth Model (1981)
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back to seismograms
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back to seismograms
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; July 1963; v. 53; no. 4; p. 741-764 © 1963 Seismological Society of America
Velocities of mantle Love and Rayleigh waves over multiple paths M. NAFI TOKSÖZ and ARI BEN-MENAHEM
“… Phase velocities of Love waves over paths that lie far from each other are different, and this difference is consistent and much greater than the experimental error. From this it is concluded that there are lateral variations in the structure of the earth's mantle…”
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in practice, the problem consists of describing mathematically the response of the Earth to an earthquake (or other seismic excitation).
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in practice, the problem consists of describing mathematically the response of the Earth to an earthquake (or other seismic excitation).
eq. of motion:
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in practice, the problem consists of describing mathematically the response of the Earth to an earthquake (or other seismic excitation).
eq. of motion:
small deformation tensor:
stress tensor:
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What tomographers need is the relationship between displacement u and Earth’s “structure”, ρ(r) λ(r) µ(r)
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What tomographers need is the relationship between displacement u and Earth’s “structure”, ρ(r) λ(r) µ(r)
After writing this relationship in an explicit form:
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What tomographers need is the relationship between displacement u and Earth’s “structure”, ρ(r) λ(r) µ(r)
After writing this relationship in an explicit form:
we can linearize it in a perturbative approach: