کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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6430963 | 1634850 | 2010 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
New data from west-central Tibet show that birefringence of S-waves has two pronounced increases in magnitude toward the hinterland. Null birefringence persists to about 75Â km north of the Indus-Yarlung suture (IYS) between the Indian shield and the Lhasa terrane of southern Tibet. A second, rapid increase occurs about 100Â km farther north of the Bangong-Nujiang sutures between the Lhasa terrane and the Qiangtang terrane in central Tibet. The latter feature is consistently observed along three long transects that collectively span a lateral (orogen-parallel) distance of about 600Â km and is likely to mark the northern, leading edge of sub-horizontally advancing mantle lithosphere of the Indian shield (the “Greater India”) - an interpretation consistent with the latest results of finite-frequency tomography using both P- and S-wave travel-times, previous results of modeling gravity anomalies, and a host of other seismic observations. Similarly, complementary constraints indicate that the sudden onset of significant birefringence north of the IYS is likely to be the southern termination of Eurasian mantle lithosphere. Curiously, the shortest of three transects showed null birefringence through much of the Lhasa terrane, a pattern inconsistent with those of He isotopes and gravity.
Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters - Volume 295, Issues 1â2, 15 June 2010, Pages 297-304