https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/495227
標題: | Weakly coupled lithospheric extension in southern Tibet | 作者: | Tian, X. Chen, Y. Tseng, T.-L. Klemperer, S.L. Thybo, H. Liu, Z. Xu, T. Liang, X. Bai, Z. Zhang, X. Si, S. Sun, C. Lan, H. Wang, E. Jiwen Teng |
關鍵字: | Tibetan plateau; E-W extension; N-S trending rift; VDSS; crustal structure | 公開日期: | 2015 | 出版社: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | 卷: | 430 | 起(迄)頁: | 171 | 來源出版物: | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 摘要: | © 2015 The Authors. West-east extension is a prominent tectonic feature of southern and central Tibet despite ongoing north-south (N-S) convergence between India and Eurasia. Knowledge of deep structure beneath the N-S trending rifts is key to evaluating models proposed for their origin, including gravitational collapse, oblique convergence along the arcuate plate boundary, and mantle upwelling. We model direct S and Moho-reflected SsPmp phases at teleseismic distances to constrain variations in crustal thickness across the major rifts crossed by a ~900-km long, W-E broadband array in the Lhasa Terrane. Crustal thicknesses are ~70-80 km. However, Moho depth decreases by ~10 km within a horizontal distance of 100 km west of the Yadong-Gulu rift (YGR) and Nyainquentanghla mountains (NQTL). This Moho uplift, taken with deep, extensional focal mechanisms and reduced seismic velocity in the upper mantle, suggests that asthenospheric upwelling has significantly contributed to the pattern of extension across the YGR and NQTL. The ~100-km separation between surface rift and Moho uplift is likely enabled by partial decoupling across a ductile middle crust. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/495227 | ISSN: | 0012821X | DOI: | 23534839 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.08.025 |
顯示於: | 地質科學系 |
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