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| Huang, Haibo; Qiu, Xuelin; Pichot, Thibaud; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Zhao, Minghui; Wang, Ping; Hao, Tianyao. |
| Evolution of the continental margins of the South China Sea (SCS) is one of the open questions when discussing continental breakup and seafloor spreading. We processed data from a wide-angle seismic profile (OBS2011–1), which passes through the northwestern margin of the SCS, and performed travel time modeling to obtain the seismic velocity structures. The modeling results show a stepwise variation of the crustal thicknesses from continental margin to oceanic basin. Stretching factor of the upper crust is nearly double the estimate of the lower crust along the Zhongsha Trough. The lower crust shows asymmetrical upwelling towards the trough center, accompanied by ∼0.3 km/s of the velocity increase due to magmatic addition. The upper and lower crusts have... |
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Palavras-chave: Seismic tomography; Continental tectonics: extensional; Crustal structure; Rheology: crust and lithosphere. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00500/61189/64720.pdf |
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