[S-CG42] Hard-Rock Drilling Science: Continental and Deep-Sea Drilling, and Ophiolite

[SCG42-01] Seismic anisotropy in the Horoman peridotites calculated from crystal-fabrics of olivine, orthopyroxene, and clinopyroxene

*Kazuki Matsuyama ¹, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi¹ (1.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, GSES, Nagoya University)

Keywords:Peridotite, Crystallographic preferred orientation, The Horoman peridotite complex

In this study, we calculated the P-wave and S-wave velocities and anisotropies using bulk elastic tensors from the measured crystallographic preferred orientations (CPOs) of olivine, orthopyroxene, and clinopyroxene in Horoman peridotites, Hokkaido (Matsuyama and Michibayashi 2023). Three peridotites were used to present the deformation structures and CPOs of Horoman peridotites. The calculations were conducted for a range of possible modal percentages of minerals: 50–100 % olivine, 0–50 % orthopyroxene, and 0–50 % clinopyroxene. We used a Vp-Flinn diagram (Michibayashi et al. 2016) to explore the relative influence of the three minerals on the seismic properties (e.g. anisotropy, propagation pattern, and Vp/Vs ratio) of the peridotites. As a result, the bulk P-wave velocities and S-wave velocities were 7.85–9.15 km/s and 4.79–5.2 km/s, respectively. The azimuthal anisotropies of the P-wave velocity ranged from 2.89–15.2%, whereas the maximum polarization anisotropies of the S-wave ranged from 2.48–9.99%. VpVs ratios were 1.58–1.75. In Horoman peridotites, increasing the amount of orthopyroxene and/or clinopyroxene caused a decrease in the bulk seismic velocities and anisotropies, and modification of seismic propagation patterns. Because CPOs in the Horoman peridotite complex are different in the basal fault zone (Matsuyama and Michibayashi 2023), their seismic properties could be different from the others. In this study, we discuss the relationships among the crystal-fabric, the calculated seismic properties, and the lithospheric structure inferred from geophysical observatories.

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