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| Crustal structure of the northeastern Tibetan plateau, the Ordos block and the Sichuan basin from ambient noise tomography |
| Yong Zheng1, Yingjie Yang1, 2, Michael H. Ritzwoller2, Xiufen Zheng3, Xiong Xiong1, Zuning Li4 |
1 Key Laboratory of Dynamic Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China
2 Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80303, USA
3 Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100081, China
4 Earthquake Administration of Fujian Province, Fuzhou 350003, China |
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Abstract We apply ambient noise tomography to significant seismic data resources in a region including the northeastern Tibetan plateau, the Ordos block and the Sichuan basin. The seismic data come from about 160 stations of the provincial broadband digital seismograph networks of China. Ambient noise cross-correlations are performed on the data recorded between 2007 and 2009 and high quality inter-station Rayleigh phase velocity dispersion curves are obtained between periods of 6 s to 35 s. Resulting Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps possess a lateral resolution between 100 km and 200 km. The phase velocities at short periods (<20 s) are lower in the Sichuan basin, the northwest segment of the Ordos block and the Weihe graben, and outline sedimentary deposits. At intermediate and long periods (>25 s), strong high velocity anomalies are observed within the Ordos block and the Sichuan basin and low phase velocities are imaged in the northeastern Tibetan plateau, reflecting the variation of crustal thickness from the Tibetan plateau to the neighboring regions in the east. Crustal and uppermost mantle shear wave velocities vary strongly between the Tibetan plateau, the Sichuan basin and the Ordos block. The Ordos block and the Sichuan basin are dominated by high shear wave velocities in the crust and uppermost mantle. There is a triangle-shaped low velocity zone located in the northeastern Tibetan plateau, whose width narrows towards the eastern margin of the plateau. No low velocity zone is apparent beneath the Qinling orogen, suggesting that mass may not be able to flow eastward through the boundary between the Ordos block and the Sichuan basin in the crust and uppermost mantle.
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Received: 31 May 2010
Published: 10 October 2010
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| Fund:Chinese Academy of Sciences grant kzcx2-yw-142 and Y009021002, National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 40974034, and also by NSF-EAR award 0944022 and a sub-award from NSF-OISE 0730154 at the University of Colorado at Boulder |
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Corresponding Authors:
Yong Zheng
E-mail: yzheng4@gmail.com
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