Three-dimensional structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the south China area from long period surface waves |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Earth Science, Yunnan University, 650091 Kunming, China;(2) Institute of Geophysics, State Seismological Bureau, 100081 Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | In the present study the long period surface wave records of 238 wave-paths from 79 earthquakes within China and its adjacent
regions received by 30 seismic network stations are measured by using the improved match-filtering frequency-time analysis
technique and the grid dispersion inversion method to obtain the rayleigh pure-path dispersion values for 147 slant grids
of 4° × 4° in this area, then a three-dimensional shear wave velocity model of the crust and upper mantle beneath south China
area to a depth of 170 km is inversed.
It is found that there are obvious differences among the main structural units, and there are also certain differences among
the subordinate elements even in the individual unit. The crustal thickness of this area is ranging from 30 to 43 km, and
is getting thicker gradually from the east to the west. The average shear velocity of crust is ranging form 3.48 to 3.68 km/s
with the lowest in the northeast part and highest in the west part. No obvious crustal low velocity layer of large scale is
detected. There exist upper mantle low velocity zones in the most of south China area with the starting depth ranging from
75 to 106 km. The lowest shear velocity within the low velocity zones is about 4.28–4.38 km/s. Despite of the existing of
upper mantle low velocity zones beneath the most of south China area, the interfaces between the important layers are quite
clear, the variation of the bedding surfaces is very gentle, and the lateral changes measured in a larger scale of the underground
structure are rather small. It may indicate that the crustal and upper mantle structure of the main part of south China area
belongs to the relatively stable structure of the continental blocks except for the fringe areas such as the fold-faulted
region in the west part and the fault system along the southeastern coast which may belong to the tectonically active area.
The Chinese version of this paper appeared in the Chinese edition ofActa Seismologica Sinica,15, 159–167, 1993.
This subject is supported by the National Science Foundation of China. |
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| Keywords: | grid dispersion inversion Rayleigh waves group velocity dispersion low velocity zones in the upper mantle three-dimensional structure |
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