Crustal P-wave velocity distributions and metallotectonics around the North China Craton
Crustal P-wave velocity distributions and metallotectonics around the North China Craton
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10.1144/sp280.15
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2007
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X. Chang;Y. Liu;Mingguo Zhai;Yanghua Wang
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X. Chang;Y. Liu;Mingguo Zhai;Yanghua Wang
Abstract We have collected seismic data, performed high-resolution seismic tomography in the North China Craton and analysed the relationships between crustal seismic velocity distributions and regional tectonics and metallogenesis. In the upper and middle crust velocity anomalies are distributed along east–west- and NNE–SSW-trending structures. Most belts of Cenozoic mineral deposits including gold in the North China Craton coincide with high-velocity anomalies, and the North China basin coincides with a low-velocity zone. Compared with the upper crust, the low-velocity anomalies in the lower crust are diffuse and extensive, which suggests that high-temperature material has upwelled from the mantle. High-temperature material in the lower crust provided buoyant, hot, mineralizing fluids that uplifted and formed the Cretaceous mineral deposits in the upper crust.