Crustal Structure Revealed by a Deep Seismic Sounding Profile of Baijing-Gaoming-Jinwan in the Pearl River Delta

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摘要 ThePearlRiverEstuaryarea,locatedinthemiddlepartofthesouthernChinacoastalseismicbelt,haslongbeenconsideredapotentialsourceofstrongearthquakesabovemagnitude7.0.Toscientificallyassessthepotentialstrongearthquakeriskinthisarea,athree-dimensionalartificialseismicsoundingexperiment,consistingofareceivingarrayandseabedseismograph,wasperformedtorevealthedeepcrustalstructureinthisregion.Weusedartificialship-borneair-gunexcitationshotsassources,andfixedandmobilestationsasreceiverstorecordseismicdatafromMaytoAugust2015.ThispaperpresentsresultsalongalinefromthewesternsideofthePearlRiverEstuarytothewesternsideoftheBaijing-Gaoming-Jinwanprofile.Atwo-dimensionalvelocitystructurewasconstructedusingseismictravel-timetomography.TheinversionresultsshowthattheMohodepthis27kminthecoastalareaand30kminthenorthwestofthePearlRiverEstuaryarea,indicatingthatthecrustthinsfromlandtosea.Twostructuraldiscontinuitiesandmultiplelow-velocityanomaliesappearinthecrustalsection.Insidebothdiscontinuityzones,alow-velocitylayer,withaminimumvelocityof6.05kms?1,existsatadepthofabout15km,andanother,withaminimumvelocityof6.37kms?1,existsatadepthofabout21.5kmbetweenthemiddleandlowercrust.Theselowvelocitiessuggestthatthediscontinuitiesmayconsistofpartlymoltenmaterial.Earthquakeswithmagnitudeshigherthan5.0occurredinthelow-velocitylayeralongtheprofile.ThedeepKaiping-Enpingfault,rootedinthecrust,maybeoneofthemostimportantchannelsfordeepmaterialupwellingandisrelatedtotectonicmovementsincetheCretaceousinthePearlRiverDeltatectonicriftbasin.
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出版日期 2018年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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