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Seismic image of the Tarim basin and its collision with Tibet
- Source :
- Geology. July, 2001, Vol. 29 Issue 7, 575
- Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- A broadband seismic deployment in 1998-1999 in southwestern Tarim provided data for imaging the crust and upper mantle across the contact between the Tarim block and the Tibetan Plateau. A profile composed of migrated teleseismic receiver functions clearly shows lateral structural changes. The crust under the Tarim basin is relatively simple. The Moho discontinuity is mapped at a depth of 42 km near the northern end of the array and dips gently toward the south to ~50 km under the Kunlun foreland. The Tarim basin appears to be rigid, with little shortening. Farther to the south, the imaging reveals a complex of reflectors in the lower crust and the upper mantle. There are both north- and south-dipping upper mantle structures under the Kunlun foreland and Kunlun Shan region. We found the observations to be more consistent with a model of lithospheric collision in which the crust and the upper mantle on both sides interpenetrate and deform. Keywords: receiver function image, lithospheric collision, Tarim, Tibet.
Details
- ISSN :
- 00917613
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Geology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.76929857