Seismic anisotropy of upper mantle beneath the Dabie-Sulu and its adjacent areas
Seismic anisotropy of upper mantle beneath the Dabie-Sulu and its adjacent areas
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大别-苏鲁及其邻区上地幔地震各向异性
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2012
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Li Zhen
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Wang Chun-Yong;Ding Zhi-Feng;Chang Li-Jun;Li Zhen
The Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt is a collision zone of the Yangtze block and North China block,and the analysis on upper-mantle anisotropy beneath the study region will help us to understand the mantle dynamics process.In this paper,we have analyzed observations of low frequency SKS waves recorded by Shandong,Jiangsu,Anhui,Henan and Hubei digital seismograph networks and China Broadband Digital Seismograph Network(2006.05~2011.05).With rotation correlation and transverse component minimization methods,we have obtained splitting parameters(Φ,δt) beneath Dabie-Sulu and its adjacent areas.The results show that the delay times between fast and slow wave range from 0.5 s to 1.63 s in the study,which indicate that the anisotropic structures are at depths about 57.5~187.45 km,including the effects of lithosphere and asthenosphere.The fast wave polarization directions beneath this area are divided into four groups.The fast wave polarizations beneath North China are nearly E-W,and according to the geology,we infer that the upper mantle anisotropy beneath North China is caused by the convection of the asthenosphere.The anisotropy results beneath Dabie orogenic belt show a good relation with the strike direction of the belt,which reflect the north-south-trending compression and collision of Yangtze block and North China block.In Yangtze,the results to the south of Dabie are nearly perpendicular to the Dabie orogenic belt,and the results to the east of Dabie show NEE-SWW trends.The anisotropy beneath Sulu orogenic belt is NEE-SWW,which are different from both the strike direction of the surface structures and the absolute plate motion.The upper mantle anisotropy can be explained by the combined effects of asthenosphere convection and the so-called "fossil anisotropy" frozen in the lithosphere during the Indosinian-Yanshanian period.