| Shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle underneath the Tianshan orogenic belt |
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| 作者姓名： | LI Yu LIU QiYuan CHEN JiuHui LI ShunCheng GUO Biao & LAI YuanGen State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics Institute of Geology China Earthquake Administration Beijing China |
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| 作者单位： | LI Yu，LIU QiYuan，CHEN JiuHui，LI ShunCheng，GUO Biao & LAI YuanGen State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics，Institute of Geology，China Earthquake Administration，Beijing 100029，China |
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| 基金项目： | the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.40234043) |
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| 摘 要： | From April, 2003 to September, 2004, a passive broadband seismic array consisting of 60 stations was deployed over the Tianshan orogenic belt by State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration. Among them, 51 stations make up an about 500-km-long profile across the Tianshan Mountains from Kuytun to Kuqa. The receiver function profile and S-wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle down to 100 km deep are obtained by using the re-ceiver function method (Liu et al. 1996, 2000). The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) A clear mountain root does not exist beneath the Tianshan Mountains, and the crust-mantle boundaries underneath the stations mostly have transitional structures. This implies that the material differentia-tion between the crust and mantle is not yet accomplished and the orogenic process is still going on. (2) The crust beneath the Tianshan Mountains has laterally blocked structures in direction perpendicular to the mountain strike, and the crust-mantle boundary has a clear dislocation structure. Both of them correspond to each other. (3) The offsets of the Moho discontinuity are highly correlated to the tectonic borders on the surface and that corresponding to the frontal southern Tianshan fault reaches to 14 km. This manifests that large vertical divergent movement took place between different blocks. This sup-ports the discontinuous model of the Tianshan orogeny, and the Tarim block subduction is restricted only to the southern side of the South Tianshan. (4) Inside the upper and middle crust of the Tianshan Mountains exist several low-velocity bodies correlated with high seismicity located on the moun-tain-basin jointures on both sides of the mountain and between different blocks, and the low-velocity bodies on the mountain-basin jointures are inclined obviously to the mountain. This implies that the low-velocity bodies may be correlated closely to the thrust and subduction of the basins on both sides of the mountain, the splicing of adjacent blocks and the fast uplift of the Tianshan Mountains.
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| 收稿时间： | 31 December 2005 |
| 修稿时间： | 13 June 2006 |
Shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle underneath the tianshan orogenic belt |
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| LI Yu,LIU QiYuan,CHEN JiuHui,LI ShunCheng,GUO Biao & LAI YuanGen State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics,Institute of Geology,China Earthquake Administration,Beijing ,China.Shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle underneath the Tianshan orogenic belt[J].Science in China(Earth Sciences),2007,50(3):321-330. |
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| Authors: | Li Yu Liu QiYuan Chen JiuHui Li ShunCheng Guo Biao Lai YuanGen |
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| Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, 100029, China |
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| Abstract: | From April, 2003 to September, 2004, a passive broadband seismic array consisting of 60 stations was deployed over the Tianshan orogenic belt by State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration. Among them, 51 stations make up an about 500-km-long profile across the Tianshan Mountains from Kuytun to Kuqa. The receiver function profile and S-wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle down to 100 km deep are obtained by using the re- ceiver function method (Liu et al. 1996, 2000). The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) A clear mountain root does not exist beneath the Tianshan Mountains, and the crust-mantle boundaries underneath the stations mostly have transitional structures. This implies that the material differentia- tion between the crust and mantle is not yet accomplished and the orogenic process is still going on. (2) The crust beneath the Tianshan Mountains has laterally blocked structures in direction perpendicular to the mountain strike, and the crust-mantle boundary has a clear dislocation structure. Both of them correspond to each other. (3) The offsets of the Moho discontinuity are highly correlated to the tectonic borders on the surface and that corresponding to the frontal southern Tianshan fault reaches to 14 km. This manifests that large vertical divergent movement took place between different blocks. This sup- ports the discontinuous model of the Tianshan orogeny, and the Tarim block subduction is restricted only to the southern side of the South Tianshan. (4) Inside the upper and middle crust of the Tianshan Mountains exist several low-velocity bodies correlated with high seismicity located on the moun- tain-basin jointures on both sides of the mountain and between different blocks, and the low-velocity bodies on the mountain-basin jointures are inclined obviously to the mountain. This implies that the low-velocity bodies may be correlated closely to the thrust and subduction of the basins on both sides of the mountain, the splicing of adjacent blocks and the fast uplift of the Tianshan Mountains. |
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| Keywords: | nonlinear inversion receiver function S-wave velocity crust and upper mantle Tianshan orogenic belt |
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