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   <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Earth Sciences</journal-id>
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    <journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Earth Sciences</journal-title>
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     <trans-title>Russian Journal of Earth Sciences</trans-title>
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   <issn publication-format="online">1681-1208</issn>
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   <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">51063</article-id>
   <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2205/2022ES000814</article-id>
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     <subject>ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЕ СТАТЬИ</subject>
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     <subject>ORIGINAL ARTICLES</subject>
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     <subject>ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЕ СТАТЬИ</subject>
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    <article-title xml:lang="en">The Caucasus Territory Hot-Cold Spots Determination and Description Using 2D Surface  Waves Tomography</article-title>
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     <trans-title>The Caucasus Territory Hot-Cold Spots Determination and Description Using 2D Surface  Waves Tomography</trans-title>
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     <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9694-974X</contrib-id>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Abrehdari</surname>
       <given-names>Seyed Hossein </given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Abrehdari</surname>
       <given-names>Seyed Hossein </given-names>
      </name>
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     <email>abrehdari@ut.ac.ir</email>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Karapetyan</surname>
       <given-names>Jon </given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Karapetyan</surname>
       <given-names>Jon </given-names>
      </name>
     </name-alternatives>
     <email>jon_iges@mail.ru</email>
     <bio xml:lang="ru">
      <p>доктор геолого-минералогических наук;</p>
     </bio>
     <bio xml:lang="en">
      <p>doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences;</p>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Rahimi</surname>
       <given-names>Habib </given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Rahimi</surname>
       <given-names>Habib </given-names>
      </name>
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     <email>rahimih@ut.ac.ir</email>
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      <p>доктор геолого-минералогических наук;</p>
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      <p>doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences;</p>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Geodakyan</surname>
       <given-names>Eduard </given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Geodakyan</surname>
       <given-names>Eduard </given-names>
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     <email>geodakyan.e@mail.ru</email>
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      <p>доктор геолого-минералогических наук;</p>
     </bio>
     <bio xml:lang="en">
      <p>doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences;</p>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology, National Academy of Sciences</institution>
     <country>Армения</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology, National Academy of Sciences</institution>
     <country>Armenia</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran</institution>
     <country>Иран</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran</institution>
     <country>Iran</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Institute of Seismology, University of Helsinki</institution>
     <country>Финляндия</country>
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    <aff>
     <institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Seismology, University of Helsinki</institution>
     <country>Finland</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology after A. Nazarov</institution>
     <country>Россия</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology after A. Nazarov</institution>
     <country>Russian Federation</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology after A. Nazarov</institution>
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    <day>04</day>
    <month>12</month>
    <year>2022</year>
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   <volume>22</volume>
   <issue>5</issue>
   <fpage>1</fpage>
   <lpage>22</lpage>
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    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-06-23T00:00:00+03:00">
     <day>23</day>
     <month>06</month>
     <year>2022</year>
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     <day>23</day>
     <month>10</month>
     <year>2022</year>
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   <abstract xml:lang="ru">
    <p>Many questions have been raised about the thermal-mechanical development of plate tectonics boundary interactions, lithospheric processes, mantle activity, movement of faults, continental thinning, and generally the heat beneath our feet. The earthquake waves are originating in the Earth’s crust or upper mantle, which ricochet around the earth's interior and traveling most rapidly through cold, dense regions, and more slowly through hotter rocks. In this paper, in order to identify and describe the Caucasus territory Hot-Cold spots and better understand the regional tectonic activities based on the fast and slow wave velocity anomalies, the 2D tomographic maps of Rayleigh wave dispersion curves were imaged. To obtain these maps in the ever-evolving collision zone of the Eurasian-Arabic plates, we performed a 2D-linear inversion procedure on the Rayleigh wave in a period ranging from 5 to 70 s (depth ~200 km). To conduct this, ~1500 local-regional earthquakes (M≥3.7) recorded by the 48 broadband-short period stations from 1999 to 2018 were used. In this study, we assumed that the low-velocity tomography images or dark red-orange shades indicate hot spots (slow-regions) and high-velocity or dark blue-green-yellow shades imply cold spots (fast-regions). Therefore, by using the technique of increasing-decreasing the velocity anomaly in a wide area with complicated tectonic units the hot-zones and extensive cold-aseismic areas were described and investigated. Hence, for short-periods (5≤T≤25 s; 6.6≤depth≤30.8 km) 15 hot spots were determined. The result for medium-periods (30≤T≤45 s) show two hot spots with a depth of ~108 km. In long-periods (depth ~200 km), most part of the study area has covered by ultra-low-velocity anomaly as a permanent hot spots.</p>
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   <trans-abstract xml:lang="en">
    <p>Many questions have been raised about the thermal-mechanical development of plate tectonics boundary interactions, lithospheric processes, mantle activity, movement of faults, continental thinning, and generally the heat beneath our feet. The earthquake waves are originating in the Earth’s crust or upper mantle, which ricochet around the earth's interior and traveling most rapidly through cold, dense regions, and more slowly through hotter rocks. In this paper, in order to identify and describe the Caucasus territory Hot-Cold spots and better understand the regional tectonic activities based on the fast and slow wave velocity anomalies, the 2D tomographic maps of Rayleigh wave dispersion curves were imaged. To obtain these maps in the ever-evolving collision zone of the Eurasian-Arabic plates, we performed a 2D-linear inversion procedure on the Rayleigh wave in a period ranging from 5 to 70 s (depth ~200 km). To conduct this, ~1500 local-regional earthquakes (M≥3.7) recorded by the 48 broadband-short period stations from 1999 to 2018 were used. In this study, we assumed that the low-velocity tomography images or dark red-orange shades indicate hot spots (slow-regions) and high-velocity or dark blue-green-yellow shades imply cold spots (fast-regions). Therefore, by using the technique of increasing-decreasing the velocity anomaly in a wide area with complicated tectonic units the hot-zones and extensive cold-aseismic areas were described and investigated. Hence, for short-periods (5≤T≤25 s; 6.6≤depth≤30.8 km) 15 hot spots were determined. The result for medium-periods (30≤T≤45 s) show two hot spots with a depth of ~108 km. In long-periods (depth ~200 km), most part of the study area has covered by ultra-low-velocity anomaly as a permanent hot spots.</p>
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    <kwd>Caucasus territory</kwd>
    <kwd>Hot-Cold spots determination</kwd>
    <kwd>2D surface wave tomography</kwd>
    <kwd>Geothermal resources</kwd>
    <kwd>2D linear inversion</kwd>
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    <kwd>Caucasus territory</kwd>
    <kwd>Hot-Cold spots determination</kwd>
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    <kwd>Geothermal resources</kwd>
    <kwd>2D linear inversion</kwd>
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    <funding-statement xml:lang="en">No Funding</funding-statement>
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