Shear velocity structure of crust and uppermost mantle in China from surface wave tomography using ambient noise and earthquake data

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摘要 Wepresenta3DmodelofshearvelocityofcrustanduppermantleinChinaandsurroundingregionsfromsurfacewavetomography.Wecombinedispersionmeasurementsfromambientnoisecorrelationandtraditionalearthquakedata.ThestationsincludetheChinaNationalSeismicNetwork,globalnetworks,andalltheavailablePASSCALstationsintheregionovertheyears.Thecombineddatasetsprovideexcellentdatacoverageoftheregionforsurfacewavemeasurementsfrom8to120s,whichareusedtoinvertfor3Dshearwavevelocitystructureofthecrustanduppermantledowntoabout150km.WealsoderivenewmodelsofthestudyregionforcrustalthicknessandaveragedSvelocitiesforupper,mid,andlowercrustandtheuppermostmantle.Themodelsprovideafundamentaldatasetforunderstandingcontinentaldynamicsandevolution.Thetomographyresultsrevealsignificantfeaturesofcrustanduppermantlestructure,includingmajorbasins,Mohodepthvariation,mantlevelocitycontrastbetweeneasternandwesternNorthChinaCraton,widespreadlow-velocityzoneinmidcrustinmuchoftheTibetanPlateau,andclearvelocitycontrastsofthemantlelithospherebetweennorthandsouthernTibetwithsignificantE–Wvariations.ThelowvelocitystructureintheuppermantleundernorthandeasternTPcorrelateswithsurfacegeologicalboundaries.ApatchofhighvelocityanomalyisfoundundertheeasternpartoftheTP,whichmayindicateintactmantlelithosphere.MantlelithosphereshowsstrikingsystematicchangefromthewesterntoeasternNorthChinaCraton.TheTanluFaultappearstobeamajorlithosphereboundary.
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出处 《地震学报:英文版》 2013年5期
出版日期 2013年05月15日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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