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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 />

JSS014 Poster presentation 2291<br />

Crustal structure and Moho depth profile crossing the central Apennines<br />

(Italy) along the N42 parallel.<br />

Dr. Francesco Pio Lucente<br />

CNT INGV <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Massimo Di Bona, Nicola Piana Agostinetti<br />

We present results from a teleseismic receiver function study of the crustal structure in the central<br />

Apennines (Italy). Data from fifteen stations installed during the GeoModAp project [Amato et al.,<br />

1998], deployed in a linear transect running along the N42 parallel, were used for analysis. A total<br />

number of about 350 receiver functions have been analysed. The crustal structure has been<br />

investigated using the neighbourhood algorithm inversion scheme proposed by Sambridge [1999a],<br />

obtaining crustal thicknesses, bulk crustal Vp/Vs ratio and velocity-depth models. The degree of<br />

constraint, resolution and trade-off between different parameters, for the results of the each inversion<br />

have been appraised applying the ensemble inference algorithm by Sambridge [1999b], returning the<br />

Bayesian indicators for each inverted parameter and for specific combinations of them. Although the<br />

seismic deployment crosses a region characterized by great crustal complexities and intense tectonic<br />

activity (recent volcanism, orogenesis, active extensional processes), which are reflected in the<br />

computed receiver functions, the relatively close spacing among the seismometers (about 20 km), and<br />

an ad hoc analysis and inversion strategy for each station, allow for a detailed reconstruction of the<br />

crustal structure and Moho geometry along the transect. We gain the picture of a classical moho-acrossan-orogen<br />

profile: going from a relatively shallow depth (around 22 km) in the Tyrrhenian side,<br />

deepening down to 45 km depth beneath the highest Apennines, and rising up again to about 30 km<br />

depth value in correspondence of the Adriatic foreland.<br />

Keywords: receiver function, apennines, crustal structure

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