Mapping the Moho in the Bohemian Massif and the Western Carpathians with P-receiver functions

Abstract

We present the Moho depths in the Bohemian Massif and Western Carpathians derived from P-to-S receiver functions calculated from broad-band P-coda waveforms from teleseismic events recorded at temporary and permanent stations operated in a region within 10–23º E and 47.5–52º N during last two decades. By the Zhu and Kanamori method (2000) and the Ps time delays (Kvapil et al., 2021), we process data collected from running AdriaArray Seismic Network (since 2022), PACASE experiment (2019 – 2022), AlpArray Seismic Network (2015 – 2019) and its complementary experiment AlpArray-EASI (2014 – 2015), as well as from previous passive seismic experiments in the region – BOHEMA I-IV (2001 – 2014), PASSEQ (2006 – 2008) and EgerRift (2007 – 2013). By applying different methods, we aim at upgrading the current knowledge of the crust in the broader surroundings of the European Alps (Michailos et al., 2023), the Pannonian Basin (Kalmar et al., 2019), and the Carpathians. Locally, differences between Moho depth from individual methods could highly exceed 5 km, thus reflecting various sensitivities of individual methods to the local complex structure. An extended amount of data and regionally combined evaluation provide a homogeneous estimate of Moho depths, particularly for the usage in deep Earth studies, e.g., in applying crustal corrections in the upper mantle tomography of Central Europe.