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Kolínský P, Schneider FM, Bokelmann G. Surface Wave Diffraction Pattern Recorded on AlpArray: Cameroon Volcanic Line Case Study. J Geophys Res Solid Earth 2020; 125:e2019JB019102. [PMID: 32999803 PMCID: PMC7507139 DOI: 10.1029/2019jb019102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Stripe-like patterns of surface wave arrival angle deviations have been observed by several seismological studies around the world, but this phenomenon has not been explained so far. Here we test the hypothesis that systematic arrival angle deviations observed at the AlpArray broadband seismic network in Europe are interference patterns caused by diffraction of surface waves at single small-scaled velocity anomalies. We use the observed pattern of Rayleigh waves from two earthquakes under the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and we fit this pattern with theoretical arrival angles derived by a simple modeling approach describing the interaction of a seismic wavefield with small anomalies. A grid search inversion scheme is implemented, which indicates that the anomaly is located in Central Africa, with its head under Cameroon. Moreover, the inversion enables the characterization of the anomaly: The anomaly is inferred to be between 320 and 420 km wide, matching in length the 2,500 km long upper mantle low-velocity region under the volcano-capped swells of the Cameroon volcanic line. We show that this approach can be generally used for studying the upper mantle anomalies worldwide.
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- Petr Kolínský
- Department of Meteorology and GeophysicsUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Department of Meteorology and GeophysicsUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
- Section “Seismology”Helmholtz Centre Potsdam—German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)PotsdamGermany
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- Department of Meteorology and GeophysicsUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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Demenou BB, Migliore J, Heuertz M, Monthe FK, Ojeda DI, Wieringa JJ, Dauby G, Albreht L, Boom A, Hardy OJ. Plastome phylogeography in two African rain forest legume trees reveals that Dahomey Gap populations originate from the Cameroon volcanic line. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 150:106854. [PMID: 32439485 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Paleo-environmental data show that the distribution of African rain forests was affected by Quaternary climate changes. In particular, the Dahomey Gap (DG) - a 200 km wide savanna corridor currently separating the West African and Central African rain forest blocks and containing relict rain forest fragments - was forested during the mid-Holocene and possibly during previous interglacial periods, whereas it was dominated by open vegetation (savanna) during glacial periods. Genetic signatures of past population fragmentation and demographic changes have been found in some African forest plant species using nuclear markers, but such events appear not to have been synchronous or shared across species. To better understand the colonization history of the DG by rain forest trees through seed dispersal, the plastid genomes of two widespread African forest legume trees, Anthonotha macrophylla and Distemonanthus benthamianus, were sequenced in 47 individuals for each species, providing unprecedented phylogenetic resolution of their maternal lineages (857 and 115 SNPs, respectively). Both species exhibit distinct lineages separating three regions: 1. Upper Guinea (UG, i.e. the West African forest block), 2. the area ranging from the DG to the Cameroon volcanic line (CVL), and 3. Lower Guinea (LG, the western part of the Central African forest block) where three lineages co-occur. In both species, the DG populations (including southern Nigeria west of Cross River) exhibit much lower genetic diversity than UG and LG populations, and their plastid lineages originate from the CVL, confirming the role of the CVL as an ancient forest refuge. Despite the similar phylogeographic structures displayed by A. macrophylla and D. benthamianus, molecular dating indicates very contrasting ages of lineage divergence (UG diverged from LG since c. 7 Ma and 0.7 Ma, respectively) and DG colonization (probably following the Mid Pleistocene Transition and the Last Glacial Maximum, respectively). The stability of forest refuge areas and repeated similar forest shrinking/expanding events during successive glacial periods might explain why similar phylogeographic patterns can be generated over contrasting timescales.
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- Boris B Demenou
- Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, CP160/12, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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- Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, CP160/12, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, CP160/12, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, CP160/12, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium; Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Høgskoleveien 8, 1433 Ås, Norway
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Darwinweg 2, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands; Wageningen University & Research, Biosystematics Group, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, CP160/12, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium; AMAP Lab, IRD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, CP160/12, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, CP160/12, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, CP160/12, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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