THE CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF NORTHEASTERN TIBET: A RESULT OF RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS FOR TELESEISMIC P WAVEFORM

THE CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF NORTHEASTERN TIBET: A RESULT OF RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS FOR TELESEISMIC P WAVEFORM     

Seismic crustal structure of the Limpopo mobile belt,Zimbabwe

A 145 km N–S seismic traverse was deployed to determine the crustal structure of the Limpopo mobile belt in southern Zimbabwe and the nature of its northern boundary with the Zimbabwean craton. Rockbursts from South African gold mines to the south and regional seismicity from the Kariba-South Zambia belt to the north were used as seismic sources. P-wave relative teleseismic residuals were also measured to assess whether any velocity contrast between the craton and the mobile belt extended into the upper mantle.Interpretation of reduced travel times from the local Buchwa iron-ore mine blasts, which were broadside to the traverse, revealed an upper crustal interface in the Limpopo mobile belt at a depth of 5.8 ± 0.6 km, dividing material with a velocity of about 5.8 km/s from that of about 6.4 km/s. On the craton, arrivals from the same source showed a 4.4 ± 0.5 km thick 5.5 km/s layer overlying crust of about velocity 6.5 km/s. P-wave arrivals from the regional seismicity were used to construct a crustal cross-section. Absolute crustal thickness was tentatively estimated from the identification of a Moho reflection on the mine blast recordings. To the south of Rutenga, the crust thins from around 34 km to 29 km in association with a positive gravity anomaly centred over the late-Karoo Nuanetsi Igneous Province and Karoo Tuli Syncline. North of Rutenga to the boundary with the Zimbabwean craton, the crust is about 34 km thick. The craton boundary was found to be a steeply southerly dipping zone associated with high-velocity material, which could either be deep-seated greenstones or mafic material associated with the margin in the region studied. This zone divides cratonic crust, which was found to be about 40 km thick, from that typical of the mobile belt and implies a step in the Moho of around 6 km.Analysis of relative teleseismic residuals showed that the velocity contrasts are not confined to the crust but extend into the uppermost upper mantle with the cratonic lithosphere being about 4% faster than that of the Limpopo mobile belt. The resolution of the technique is such that it is difficult to ascertain whether these differences are features of Precambrian evolution or are due to reactivation of the upper mantle during Karoo igneous and tectonic activity.     

川西藏东板块构造体系及特提斯地质演化

川西藏东可划分为巴颜喀拉、羌塘和拉萨3个板块构造体系。每个体系由结合带、岛弧褶皱带、弧后盆地褶皱带和盆后隆起组成。它们是在晚二叠世冈瓦纳古陆和劳亚古陆沿巴塘拼合带碰撞拼合的基础上，自ＮＥ而ＳＷ经历了三叠纪巴颜喀拉板块构造体系的形成、株罗纪羌塘板块构造体系的形成和白垩纪拉萨板块构造体系的形成以及新生代以来陆－陆碰撞造山和高原隆升而逐渐形成的。     

Deep seismic refraction and gravity crustal model and tectonic deformation in Tocantins Province, Central Brazil

Interpretation of seismic refraction data in the central sector of Tocantins Province, Central Brazil, has produced a seismic crustal model with well-defined upper, intermediate, and lower crust layers having smooth velocity gradient in each layer. The depths to Moho vary from 32 to 43 km, and mean crustal P velocity varies from 6.3 km/s, beneath Goiás magmatic arc on the western side, to 6.4 km/s, below Goiás massif in the central portion and the foreland fold-and-thrust belt on the eastern side. The behaviour of the lower crust layer allows an improved understanding of regional gravimetric features of the central and northern sectors of Tocantins Province and suggests subduction of the Amazon plate in Central Brazil. In the southeastern sector, the refraction experiment resulted in the detection of a thinner crust (38 km) below Brasília fold belt and a thicker crust (41 km) below Paraná basin and São Francisco craton (42 km). The upper crust beneath Paraná Basin is around 20 km thick, whereas it is less than 10 km thick below the craton. These results bring new insights into the geological history of the central and southeastern sectors of Tocantins Province.Gravimetric measurements in the central sector of Tocantins Province delineate a high and a low anomaly separated by a steep gradient with a NE direction. The axis of the gradient seems to bend still further to NE in the northern sector of that province, whereas the gravimetric high continues northwards, defining a separation between them. This suggests that those features belong to different tectonic processes that occurred during Tocantins Province orogenesis. The gravimetric model, which incorporates seismically resolved structure beneath Tocantins Province, better matches the observed gravimetric data.Although tectonic movements have only been monitored with high-precision GPS for short time interval (1999–2001), the results suggest observable deformations. The main seismicity of Central Brazil, the Goiás–Tocantins seismic belt, seems to be spatially associated with the large gravimetric high anomaly and with the observed tectonic deformation.     

中国大陆科学钻探场址区的地壳速度结构特征

为了深入研究大别—苏鲁超高压变质带的深部结构及空间展布特征, 进一步揭示该超高压变质形成的动力学过程, 在中国大陆科学钻探场址区进行了广角反射/折射地震测深调查.根据广角反射/折射地震测深的资料研究, 建立了中国大陆科学钻探场址区的地壳纵波速度结构.从纵向上来看, 研究区域的地壳结构可划分为上、中、下3层: 上地壳的速度小于6.2 0km/s, 厚10余km; 中地壳的速度为6.4 0km/s, 厚亦为10km左右; 下地壳的速度为6.6 0km/s.地壳厚度为31km左右, 且其地壳的平均速度为6.30km/s.上地壳中的速度倒转指示了超高压变质体在地壳内部的空间分布, 且超高压变质体在大陆科学钻探场址及其附近的下部呈现为一隆起形态.      

青海银石山地区巴颜喀拉前陆盆地构造变形特征及动力学机制

银石山地区巴颜喀拉前陆盆地自北而南可分为冬银山倒转褶皱带、丛崭山-张公山大型向斜、屏岭-银石山断褶带等3个变形特征迥异的构造单元。三叠纪末,巴颜喀拉板块北缘向北消减过程中具“双层汇聚”机制——硬度较大的基底板块仍沿其二叠纪末与昆仑地块间的俯冲分界面向北消减,相对较软的巴颜喀拉三叠系盖层则沿其底面薄弱面剥离,被动向昆仑地块之上仰冲,从而在单剪应力状态下在其北面形成北倒南倾的等斜褶皱(东部)或轴面南倾的斜歪褶皱(西部)。受昆仑地块南缘“东凸西凹”的古构造格局控制,巴颜喀拉板块在向北消减时东部具右旋走滑,使北东面巴颜喀拉山群褶皱枢纽呈北东东向,并导致北部及中部的构造变形具东强西弱的特点。盖层与基底问界面、巴颜喀拉山群三段与四段间界面等为两个主要滑脱剥离面。受其控制,在中部丛崭山-张公山一带形成大型向斜,而在南部屏岭-银石山地区则形成中小规模连续褶皱。     

Crustal structure of mainland China from deep seismic sounding data

Since 1958, about ninety seismic refraction/wide angle reflection profiles, with a cumulative length of more than sixty thousand kilometers, have been completed in mainland China. We summarize the results in the form of (1) a new contour map of crustal thickness, (2) fourteen representative crustal seismic velocity–depth columns for various tectonic units, and, (3) a Pn velocity map. We found a north–south-trending belt with a strong lateral gradient in crustal thickness in central China. This belt divides China into an eastern region, with a crustal thickness of 30–45 km, and a western region, with a thickness of 45–75 km. The crust in these two regions has experienced different evolutionary processes, and currently lies within distinct tectonic stress fields. Our compilation finds that there is a high-velocity (7.1–7.4 km/s) layer in the lower crust of the stable Tarim basin and Ordos plateau. However, in young orogenic belts, including parts of eastern China, the Tianshan and the Tibetan plateau, this layer is often absent. One exception is southern Tibet, where the presence of a high-velocity layer is related to the northward injection of the cold Indian plate. This high-velocity layer is absent in northern Tibet. In orogenic belts, there usually is a low-velocity layer (LVL) in the crust, but in stable regions this layer seldom exists. The Pn velocities in eastern China generally range from 7.9 to 8.1 km/s and tend to be isotropic. Pn velocities in western China are more variable, ranging from 7.7 to 8.2 km/s, and may display azimuthal anisotropy.     

THE ORIGIN OF DOUBLE HIGH CONDUCTIVITY LAYERS IN THE CRUST OF SOUTHERN TIBET AND ITS GEODYNAMIC CONSEQUENCE

THE ORIGIN OF DOUBLE HIGH CONDUCTIVITY LAYERS IN THE CRUST OF SOUTHERN TIBET AND ITS GEODYNAMIC CONSEQUENCE     

青海格尔木市黑海地区三叠系巴颜喀拉山群变质碎屑岩地球化学特征及物源分析

巴颜喀拉地块位于青藏高原东北部,是古特提斯的主体,对其进行深入的研究不仅对确定古特提斯的演化过程与方式具有重要意义,而且对探讨该地区与古板块演化有关的成矿地质作用和矿产分布规律具有重要的现实意义。巴颜喀拉山群位于巴颜喀拉地块,对其物源研究较为薄弱。碎屑岩中的碎屑组分特征和地球化学特征可以反映物源区和沉积盆地的构造环境。本文通过对三叠系巴颜喀拉山群变碎屑岩岩相学特征、沉积结构特征、地球化学判别参数以及地球化学判别图解的研究,结合前人在这一地区所做的如古水流等相关工作,认为巴颜喀拉沉积盆地是在古老基底裂解的基础上形成的,存在裂陷扩张、海水加深的过程,具有大陆岛弧和活动大陆边缘型物源的特征,接受其北部东昆仑造山带碎屑的沉积,沉积物来自亲上地壳长英质源区。     

Seismic Velocity Structure and Composition of the Continental Crust of Eastern China

On the basis of a one-by-one latitude-longitude grid three-dimensional seismic velocity model, the crustal P-wave velocity structure in eastern China (105-125°E and 18-41°N) is obtained, and a set of geotherms for each grid is established for P-T correction on P-wave velocities. The average depths of sub-crustal layers and their average P-wave velocities of 18 tectonic units in eastern China are exhibited. Our result presents a 32-34 km thick crust beneath eastern China, which is thinner than previous studies, with an average velocity of 6.54 km/s, corresponding to a 5 kg/m3 variation in crustal mean density. The thicker upper but thinner middle and lower crust results in a lower average seismic velocity of eastern China. An intermediate crustal composition with a SiO2 content of 59.7 wt% has been estimated. However, there exists a significant lateral variation in the crustal structures among the tectonic units of eastern China. The structure and composition features of some regions in eastern China in     

Crustal structure of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau from the Songpan-Ganzi terrane to the Ordos basin

The 1000-km-long Darlag–Lanzhou–Jingbian seismic refraction profile is located in the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau. This profile crosses the northern Songpan-Ganzi terrane, the Qinling-Qilian fold system, the Haiyuan arcuate tectonic region, and the stable Ordos basin. The P-wave and S-wave velocity structure and Poisson's ratios reveal many significant characteristics in the profile. The crustal thickness increases from northeast to southwest. The average crustal thickness observed increases from 42 km in the Ordos basin to 63 km in the Songpan-Ganzi terrane. The crust becomes obviously thicker south of the Haiyuan fault and beneath the West-Qinlin Shan. The crustal velocities have significant variations along the profile. The average P-wave velocities for the crystalline crust vary between 6.3 and 6.4 km/s. Beneath the Songpan-Ganzi terrane, West-Qinling Shan, and Haiyuan arcuate tectonic region P-wave velocities of 6.3 km/s are 0.15 km/s lower than the worldwide average of 6.45 km/s. North of the Kunlun fault, with exclusion of the Haiyuan arcuate tectonic region, the average P-wave velocity is 6.4 km/s and only 0.5 km/s lower than the worldwide average. A combination of the P-wave velocity and Poisson's ratio suggests that the crust is dominantly felsic in composition with an intermediate composition at the base. A mafic lower crust is absent in the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau from the Songpan-Ganzi terrane to the Ordos basin. There are low velocity zones in the West-Qinling Shan and the Haiyuan arcuate tectonic region. The low velocity zones have low S-wave velocities and high Poisson's ratios, so it is possible these zones are due to partial melting. The crust is divided into two layers, the upper and the lower crust, with crustal thickening mainly in the lower crust as the NE Tibetan plateau is approached. The results in the study show that the thickness of the lower crust increases from 22 to 38 km as the crustal thickness increases from 42 km in the Ordos basin to 63 km in the Songpan-Ganzi terrane south of the Kunlun fault. Both the Conrad discontinuity and Moho in the West-Qinling Shan and in the Haiyuan arcuate tectonic region are laminated interfaces, implying intense tectonic activity. The arcuate faults and large earthquakes in the Haiyuan arcuate tectonic region are the result of interaction between the Tibetan plateau and the Sino–Korean and Gobi Ala Shan platforms.     

vp/vs Estimation in Tibetan Crust From Inversion of Surface Wave Dispersions

v_p/v_s ESTIMATION IN TIBETAN CRUST FROM INVERSION OF SURFACE WAVE DISPERSIONS     

Joint Inversion of the 3D P Wave Velocity Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle under the Southeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau Using Regional Earthquake and Teleseismic Data

The special seismic tectonic environment and frequent seismicity in the southeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau show that this area is an ideal location to study the present tectonic movement and background of strong earthquakes in mainland China and to predict future strong earthquake risk zones. Studies of the structural environment and physical characteristics of the deep structure in this area are helpful to explore deep dynamic effects and deformation field characteristics, to strengthen our understanding of the roles of anisotropy and tectonic deformation and to study the deep tectonic background of the seismic origin of the block's interior. In this paper, the three-dimensional(3D) P-wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle under the southeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is obtained via observational data from 224 permanent seismic stations in the regional digital seismic network of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces and from 356 mobile China seismic arrays in the southern section of the north–south seismic belt using a joint inversion method of the regional earthquake and teleseismic data. The results indicate that the spatial distribution of the P-wave velocity anomalies in the shallow upper crust is closely related to the surface geological structure, terrain and lithology. Baoxing and Kangding, with their basic volcanic rocks and volcanic clastic rocks, present obvious high-velocity anomalies. The Chengdu Basin shows low-velocity anomalies associated with the Quaternary sediments. The Xichang Mesozoic Basin and the Butuo Basin are characterised by lowvelocity anomalies related to very thick sedimentary layers. The upper and middle crust beneath the Chuan–Dian and Songpan–Ganzi Blocks has apparent lateral heterogeneities, including low-velocity zones of different sizes. There is a large range of low-velocity layers in the Songpan–Ganzi Block and the sub–block northwest of Sichuan Province, showing that the middle and lower crust is relatively weak. The Sichuan Basin, which is located in the western margin of the Yangtze platform, shows high-velocity characteristics. The results also reveal that there are continuous low-velocity layer distributions in the middle and lower crust of the Daliangshan Block and that the distribution direction of the low-velocity anomaly is nearly SN, which is consistent with the trend of the Daliangshan fault. The existence of the low-velocity layer in the crust also provides a deep source for the deep dynamic deformation and seismic activity of the Daliangshan Block and its boundary faults. The results of the 3D P-wave velocity structure show that an anomalous distribution of high-density, strong-magnetic and high-wave velocity exists inside the crust in the Panxi region. This is likely related to late Paleozoic mantle plume activity that led to a large number of mafic and ultra-mafic intrusions into the crust. In the crustal doming process, the massive intrusion of mantle-derived material enhanced the mechanical strength of the crustal medium. The P-wave velocity structure also revealed that the upper mantle contains a low-velocity layer at a depth of 80–120 km in the Panxi region. The existence of deep faults in the Panxi region, which provide conditions for transporting mantle thermal material into the crust, is the deep tectonic background forthe area's strong earthquake activity.     

THE BALANCED CROSS-SECTION AND SHORTENING IN QIANGTANG TERRAIN QINGHAI—TIBET PLATEAU

THE BALANCED CROSS-SECTION AND SHORTENING IN QIANGTANG TERRAIN QINGHAI—TIBET PLATEAU     

Modeling vp and Q on Explosion Seismology Data in NE Tibet

MODELING v_P AND Q ON EXPLOSION SEISMOLOGY DATA IN NE TIBET     

Crust and Upper Structure of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Its Adjacent Regions From Surface Waveform Inversion

CRUST AND UPPER STRUCTURE OF QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU AND ITS ADJACENT REGIONS FROM SURFACE WAVEFORM INVERSION     

A Geotransect in the Central Indian Shield,across the Narmada-Son Lineament and the Central Indian Suture

This paper reports on a geotransect in the central Indian shield along a 100 km wide NW-SE corridor between Hirapur and Rajnandgaon. This corridor has been selected based on two seismic profiles—a 235 km long seismic-refraction/wide-angle-reflection profile between Hirapur and Mandla and a 130 km long coincident deep-reflection/refraction profile between Seoni and Kalimati. Since the geologic, gravity, magnetic, and heat-flow data are available up to Rajnandgaon, the second part of the corridor has been extended by another 80 km in the absence of seismic data. From northwest to southeast, the transect corridor covers different tectonic units of the Late Archean to Mesoproterozoic Bundelkhand craton, the Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic Satpura mobile belt, the Middle Archean to Mesoproterozoic Kotri-Dongargarh mobile belt, and the Neoproterozoic Bastar craton.

The seismic results in the Bundelkhand craton show lower crustal velocity values at a very shallow depth; these data have now been interpreted as a lower-crustal intrusive body that is present throughout the Bundelkhand craton in the lower crust at depths of 23 to 25 km. Combined interpretation of seismic travel times with the gravity data indicate the presence of a local magmatic body at mid-crustal depth in the Satpura mobile belt. The crust-mantle boundary is at depths varying between 40 and 44 km.

The seismic-reflection data set identifies the presence of a suture at the Satpura mobile belt/ Kotri-Dongargarh mobile belt boundary. A well-defined Moho offset and a pattern of adjacent fabrics, each characterized by dips toward each other, mark tectonically imbricated crust on opposite sides of the suture.     

青海北巴颜喀拉成矿带基于专家证据权重法锑金矿资源潜力评价

青海北巴颜喀拉成矿带虽然总体研究程度低,但显示出巨大的找矿潜力,急需寻求新的找矿突破。利用前人的地质、矿产、化探等资料,建立了青海北巴颜喀拉成矿带基于GIS的空间数据库。在此基础上重新建立了研究区锑金矿区域找矿模型,其中主要找矿标志包括金水系沉积物异常、锑水系沉积物异常、砷水系沉积物异常、重砂异常、NW－NWW向线性构造和巴颜喀拉山群。采用作者提出的专家证据权重法,对研究区首次进行了基于GIS下的专家证据权重法矿产资源评价工作。据此重新圈定找矿远景区和找矿靶区,将后验概率大于0.001的区域作为找矿远景区,将后验概率大于0.005的区域作为找矿靶区;并依据找矿靶区内预测含矿区域后验概率二重积分大小,将找矿靶区的找矿潜力级别由高到低分别划分为A 、B 、C 3级,其中A级6处,B级10处,C级13处。     

The crustal structure of the axis of the Great Valley,California, from seismic refraction measurements

In 1982 the U.S. Geological Survey collected six seismic refraction profiles in the Great Valley of California: three axial profiles with a maximum shot-to-receiver offset of 160 km, and three shorter profiles perpendicular to the valley axis. This paper presents the results of two-dimensional raytracing and synthetic seismogram modeling of the central axial profile. The crust of the central Great Valley is laterally heterogeneous along its axis, but generally consists of a sedimentary section overlying distinct upper, middle, and lower crustal units. The sedimentary rocks are 3–5 km thick along the profile, with velocities increasing with depth from 1.6 to 4.0 km/s. The basement (upper crust) consists of four units:

• 1.(1) a 1.0–1.5 km thick layer of velocity 5.4–5.8 km/s,
• 2.(2) a 3–4 km thick layer of velocity 6.0–6.3 km/s,
• 3.(3) a 1.5–3.0 km thick layer of velocity 6.5–6.6 km/s, and
• 4.(4) a laterally discontinuous, 1.5 km thick layer of velocity 6.8–7.0 km/s. The mid-crust lies at 11–14 km depth, is 5–8 km thick, and has a velocity of 6.6–6.7 km/s. On the northwest side of our profile the mid-crust is a low-velocity zone beneath the 6.8–7.0 km/s lid. The lower crust lies at 16–19 km depth, is 7–13 km thick, and has a velocity of 6.9–7.2 km/s. Crustal thickness increases from 26 to 29 km from NW to SE in the model.

Although an unequivocal determination of crustal composition is not possible from P-wave velocities alone, our model has several geological and tectonic implications. We interpret the upper 7 km of basement on the northwest side of the profile as an ophiolitic fragment, since its thickness and velocity structure are consistent with that of oceanic crust. This fragment, which is not present 10–15 km to the west of the refraction profile, is probably at least partially responsible for the Great Valley gravity and magnetic anomalies, whose peaks lie about 10 km east of our profile. The middle and lower crust are probably gabbroic and the product of magmatic or tectonic underplating, or both. The crustal structure of the Great Valley is dissimilar to that of the adjacent Diablo Range, suggesting the existence of a fault or suture zone throughout the crust between these provinces.     

HQ-E爆破地震测深剖面的地壳浅部精细结构及其地质构造研究

HQE爆破地震测线的地壳浅部的精细结构研究结果表明,上地壳的速度结构由疏松盖层、沉积层、加里东褶皱构造层及元古宙结晶基底等4个构造层构成,且大致以武夷山为界,宁都以西的低速凹陷区与中新生代沉积盆地相对应,加里东褶皱基底底部剧烈起伏,其最大埋深可达10km;而在宁都以东地区,地表速度明显增大,且加里东褶皱基底底界的深度明显变浅,仅为3～5km。笔者根据地壳浅部速度精细结构的变化特征对剖面沿线的构造单元进行了划分,并对邵阳盆地、衡阳盆地、茶陵盆地及泰(和)兴(国)盆地等盆地的分布范围、性质、基底及其主要地层分布进行了初步的分析和探讨。