inferring shallow mantle temperatures under iranian plateau from inversion of shear-wave velocity model

Temperature is one of the key parameters controlling the dynamics and rheology of the crust and upper mantle. knowing the temperature distribution with depth can help interpret the origin of the density heterogeneities. recent attempts have been made to infer thermal structure from seismic velocity model using forward modeling, derived from laboratory studies on crustal and mantle minerals or inverse approaches. in this study, we invert the shear wave velocities of the iranian lithosphere (namvaran et al., 2019-under review) into temperature using the thermodynamic modeling codes, to generate synthetic p and s-wave velocities corresponding to the physical conditions of the upper mantle.