One of my main research focuses is on the tomographic joint inversion of multi-dataset to improving our knowledge of subsurface structures and related tectonics. The crustal P-wave and Pn wave data, for example, are usually analyzed separately for individual studies but they can be incorporated in a complementary sense. With the dataset from a newly deployed portable array in northern Vietnam, we employed both phases to obtain the first local seismic tomography for the Red River shear zone (RRSZ), and shows that the RRSZ could be a lithospheric structure at least cutting through the crust (Huang et al., 2013). Moreover, for Taiwan region we also developed an elaborating joint-inversion scheme for various datasets (P-, S-wave, S-P time data, and especially the borehole logging data for near-surface constraints) to derive Vp, Vs, and Vp/Vs models. These new set of models which have comparable resolution and internal consistency can facilitate the tectonic exploration, waveform simulation, etc. (Huang et al., 2014a). In order to expand the model resolution in depth, the teleseismic data is further measured and incorporated together to investigate the lithospheric structures and slab interaction in the upper mantle (Huang et al., 2014b).
Related works:
- Bushenkova, N., I. Koulakov*, S. Senyukov, E. I. Gordeev, H.-H. Huang, S. E. Khrepy, and N. A. Arifi (2019), Tomographic images of magma chambers beneath the Avacha and Koryaksky volcanoes in Kamchatka, J. Geophys. Res., 124, doi:10.1029/2019JB017952.
- Huang, H.-H.*, F.-C. Lin, B. Schmandt, J. Farrell, R. B. Smith, and V. C. Tsai (2015), The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust, Science, 348, doi:10.1126/science.aaa5648.
- Huang, H.-H.*, Y.-M. Wu, X. Song, C.-H. Chang, H. Kuo-Chen, and S.-J. Lee (2014), Investigating the lithospheric structures beneath Taiwan region by nonlinear joint inversion of local and teleseismic P-wave data: Slab continuity and deflection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL061115.
- Huang, H.-H.*, Y.-M. Wu, X. Song, C.-H. Chang, S.-J. Lee, T.-M. Chang, and H.-H. Hsieh (2014), Joint Vp and Vs tomography of Taiwan: Implications for subduction-collision orogeny, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 392, 177-191.
- Koulakov, I.*, Y.-M. Wu, H.-H. Huang, N. Dobretsov, A. Jakovlev, I. Zabelina, and K. Jaxybulatov (2014), Slab interactions in the Taiwan region based on the P- and S-velocity distributions in the upper mantle, J. Asian Earth Sci., 79, 53-64.
- Huang, H.-H.*, Z. Xu, Y.-M. Wu, X. Song**, B.-S. Huang, and N. L. Minh (2013), First Local Seismic Tomography for Red River Shear Zone, northern Vietnam: Stepwise inversion employing crustal P and Pn waves, Tectonophysics, special issue: Active Tectonic Deformation of the Tibetan Plateau and Great Earthquakes, 584, 230-239.
