The average upper mantle P wave velocity structure and lateral heterogeneity in the northern part of China and Mongolia are investigated by waveform inversion of broadband body waveform data recorded by CDSN and digit...The average upper mantle P wave velocity structure and lateral heterogeneity in the northern part of China and Mongolia are investigated by waveform inversion of broadband body waveform data recorded by CDSN and digital stations around China. The average model has a low P wave velocity lid (about 7.8~8.0 km·s -1 ) with thickness about 60 km, and two discontinuities with velocity jumps of 0.29 km·s -1 and 0.55 km·s -1 at depth of 410 km and 665 km respectively. In the Jungger basin, the P wave velocity of uppermost mantle is about 7.7 km·s -1 . The lid thickness (90~100 km) and velocity gradient (average gradient is greater than 0.005 5/s) are large. At the depth of 140 km the P wave velocity reaches to 8.2 km·s -1 . Near in Baikal, the lid is about 30 km thick with average P wave velocity of 8.00~8.05 km·s -1 .展开更多
文摘The average upper mantle P wave velocity structure and lateral heterogeneity in the northern part of China and Mongolia are investigated by waveform inversion of broadband body waveform data recorded by CDSN and digital stations around China. The average model has a low P wave velocity lid (about 7.8~8.0 km·s -1 ) with thickness about 60 km, and two discontinuities with velocity jumps of 0.29 km·s -1 and 0.55 km·s -1 at depth of 410 km and 665 km respectively. In the Jungger basin, the P wave velocity of uppermost mantle is about 7.7 km·s -1 . The lid thickness (90~100 km) and velocity gradient (average gradient is greater than 0.005 5/s) are large. At the depth of 140 km the P wave velocity reaches to 8.2 km·s -1 . Near in Baikal, the lid is about 30 km thick with average P wave velocity of 8.00~8.05 km·s -1 .