The wide-angle seismic profile between Menglian and Malong crosses the Baoshan block (Gondwana-typed), and Simao and southwestern Yangtze blocks (Yangtze-typed). By in-terpreting the wide-angle seismic data, we obtained the seismic crust/upper mantle structure of P-wave velocities together with the seismic reflections of these three blocks, Changning- Menglian and Mojiang suture zones among the mentioned three blocks. Our interpreting results demonstrate that the P-wave crustal velocity of Simao block is slower than that of Baoshan and southwestern Yangtze block and the crustal thickness gradually thickens from the Baoshan block, Simao to southwestern Yangtze block. Crustal reflection patterns of these three blocks have dis-tinct differences too. For the Gondwana-typed blocks, seismic reflections in the upper crust are well developed while in middle-lower crust they are very weak. The crustal reflections in the Yangtze block are very well developed. The crustal reflection patterns in Simao and southwest-ern Yangtze blocks are distinguishable. The average thickness of the crust in the studied area is about 40 km. And we make some discussions on the crustal thickening model of the three blocks in western Yunnan and tectonic setting of seismic developing and interaction of Gondwana and Yangtze blocks.
ZHANG Zhongjie1, BAI Zhiming1, WANG Chunyong2, TENG Jiwen1, Lü Qingtian3, LI Jiliang1, SUN Shanxue1 & WANG Xinzheng1 1. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
The finite-difference inversion method and RayInvr technique had been employed to inter- pret the wide-angle seismic reflection/refraction data of the Fuliji-Fengxian deep seismic sounding (DSS) profile in Lower Yangtze region, hence the velocity structure was acquired and conclusions were sum- marized as follows: (1) The velocity model along this profile can be divided into three large layers vertically (upper, middle and lower crusts) and six blocks laterally, and this velocity distribution agrees with the feature of stable platform. (2) The depth of Moho discontinuity is 30―36 km. The thickness of the upper crust is 10.5―13.0 km, where the lateral velocity varies strongly, and the velocity increases to 6.2 km/s?1 at bottom. Besides, the velocity distribu- tions in the bottom layer of middle crust and lower crust have an apparent inhomogeneity. The velocity in upper layer of middle crust, lower layer of middle crust, lower crust and uppermost mantle is 5.9―6.2, 6.3―6.4, 6.6―7.0 and 8.06―8.29 km/s?1, respec- tively. (3) On two sides of the Tanlu fault belt (TFB), the mid-crustal velocity structure is quite different, nevertheless no apparent discrimination in velocity distribution and boundary topography exhibits in lower crust, hence it is inferred that the Jiashan segment of TFB had probably cut through whole crust in the Mesozoic, and the fault behaviour in lower crust had disappeared due to the low viscosity produced by the orogenic extension or crustal bal- ance, while the fault features in the rigid middle-uppercrust have been preserved up to the present. (4) The moderate earthquakes with Ms > 5.0 nearby Zhen- jiang are related to the deep faults extending into the lower crust, and the earthquakes were probably induced by the energy been transferred from man- tle lithosphere to upper-mid crust along the deep faults, and aggregated at some preferable tectonic positions.
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TAO XU~1.ZHONGJIE ZHANG~1,AIHUA ZHAO~2,ANJIA ZHANG~1,XI ZHANG~1 and HONGSHUANG ZHANG~1 1 State Key Laboratory of Lithosphere Evolution,Institute of Geology and Geophysics.Chinese Academy of Sciences,China. 2 Institute of Geology and Geophysics,China Earthquake Administration,China.
