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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS011 Poster presentation 2159<br />

Upper Mantle Anisotropy from Shear Wave Splitting on the Southeastern<br />

Passive Margin of Arabia, Dhofar Region, Oman<br />

Dr. Ali Al-Lazki<br />

Seismology Sultan Qaboos University <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Cindy Ebinger, Michael Kendall, George Helffrich, Sylvie Leroy, Christel Tiberi,<br />

Graham Stuart, Khalfan Al-Toobi<br />

As part of the Dhofar-Socotra Broadband Seismic Experiment, eighteen broadband stations were<br />

temporarily deployed on the southeast margin of Arabia in Dhofar region, Sultanate of Oman. The<br />

Dhofar-Socotra seismic experiment stations were deployed for the period September-2005 to August-<br />

2006 and covered an area of about 250km along and 100km across the margin. The spacing between<br />

stations is about 20 kilometers. The objective of this deployment is to map the structure and rheology<br />

of the crust and upper mantle of the young Gulf of Aden passive margins. This deployment is aimed at<br />

studying the transition zone across the passive margin. In this study we use shear wave splitting<br />

methodology to map upper mantle lateral anisotropy variation beneath the study area. We have<br />

categorically selected events that were at epicenter distances larger than 85 degrees. The SKS and few<br />

PKS splitting results show roughly N-S orientations for stations located on the eastern parts of the study<br />

area. This agrees with observation on stations located on the exposed Arabian shield region, in the<br />

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Since most of the events were coming from east, this made the analysesmore<br />

difficult (i.e., only one shear-waveis excited). However, a moreNW-SE orientation is consistently<br />

observed on the three most westerly stations. Generally the splittingmagnitudes are small (~0.6sec).<br />

Anisotropy variations were observed to occur along the margin (not across). Such variations require<br />

careful analysis of the pre-Tertiary rocks and basement that are masked by the Tertiary deposits.<br />

Keywords: shearwavesplitting, gulfofaden, passivemargin

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