Vertical velocity of mantle flow of East Asia and adjacent areas
CHENG Xianqiong, ZHU Jieshou, CAI Xuelin
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Department of Geophysics, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China;
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05 Jun 2007
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05 Jun 2007
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Based on the high-resolution body wave tomo-graphic image and relevant geophysical data, we calculated the form and the vertical and tangential velocities of mantle flow. We obtained the pattern of mantle convection for East Asia and the West Pacific. Some important results and understandings are gained from the images of the vertical velocity of mantle flow for East Asia and the West Pacific. There is an upwelling plume beneath East Asia and West Pacific, which is the earth s deep origin for the huge rift valley there. We have especially outlined the tectonic features of the South China Sea, which is of the ]? type in the upper mantle shield type in the middle and divergent in the lower; the Siberian clod downwelling dives from the surface to near Core and mantle bounary (CMB), which is convergent in the upper mantle and divergent in the lower mantle; the Tethyan subduction region, centered in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, is visible from 300 to 2 000 km, which is also convergent in the upper mantle and divergent in the lower mantle. The three regions of mantle convection beneath East Asia and the West Pacific are in accordance with the West Pacific, Ancient Asia and the Tethyan structure regions. The mantle upwelling originates from the core-mantle boundary and mostly occurs in the middle mantle and the lower part of the upper mantle. The velocities of the vertical mantle flow are about 1-4 cm per year and the tangential velocities are 1-10 cm per year. The mantle flow has an effect on controlling the movement of plates and the distributions of ocean ridges, subduction zones and collision zones. The mantle upwelling regions are clearly related with the locations of hotspots on the earth s surface.
CHENG Xianqiong, ZHU Jieshou, CAI Xuelin.
Vertical velocity of mantle flow of East Asia and adjacent areas. Front. Earth Sci., 2007, 1(2): 172‒180 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-007-0022-5
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