A study on 3-D velocity structure of crust and upper mantle in Sichuan-Yunnan region, China*

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摘要 BasedonthefirstarrivalPandSdataof4625regionalearthquakesrecordedat174stationsdispersedintheYunnanandSichuanProvinces,the3-Dvelocitystructureofcrustanduppermantleintheregionisdetermined,incorporatingwithpreviousdeepgeophysicaldata.Intheuppercrust,apositiveanomalyvelocityzoneexistsintheSichuanbasin,whereasanegativeanomalyvelocityzoneexistsinthewesternSichuanplateau.TheboundarybetweenthepositiveandnegativeanomalyzonesistheLongmenshanfaultzone.TheimagesoflowercrustanduppermantleintheLongmenshanfault,Xianshuihefault,Honghefaultandothersshowthecharacteristicoftectonicboundary,indicatingthatthefaultslikelypenetratetheMohodiscontinuity.Thenegativevelocityanomaliesatthedepthof50kmintheTengchongvolcanicareaandthePanxitectoniczoneappeartobeassociatedwiththetemperatureandcompositionvariationsintheuppermantle.TheoverallfeaturesofthecrustalandtheuppermantlestructuresintheSichuan-Yunnanregionaretheloweraveragevelocityinbothcrustanduppermostmantle,thelargecrustalthicknessvariations,andtheexistenceofhighconductivitylayerinthecrustor/anduppermantle,andhighergeothermalvalue.AllthesefeaturesarecloselyrelatedtothecollisionbetweentheIndiaandtheAsiaplates.ThecrustalvelocityintheSichuan-Yunnanrhombicblockgenerallyshowsnormalvalueorpositiveanomaly,whilethenegativeanomalyexistsintheareaalongthelargestrike-slipfaultsastheblockboundary.Itisconducivetothecrustalblockside-pressingoutalongthefaults.Inthemajorseismiczones,theseismicityisrelativetothenegativeanomalyvelocity.Moststrongearthquakesoccurredintheupper-midcrustwithpositiveanomalyornormalvelocity,wherethenegativeanomalyzonegenerallyexistsbelow.
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出处 《地震学报:英文版》 2002年1期
出版日期 2002年01月11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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