The mantle structure of North China Craton and its tectonic implications: insights from Teleseismic P-Wave Tomography

Yu, W. and Wei, W. and Hammond, James O.S. and Han, C. and Tan, H. and Hao, H. (2025) The mantle structure of North China Craton and its tectonic implications: insights from Teleseismic P-Wave Tomography. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13 (4), p. 786. ISSN 2077-1312.

Abstract

To study the mantle structure of the North China Craton (NCC) and its tectonic implications, in particular, the evolution of the rift systems in the Trans-North China Orogen (TNCO), we used teleseismic data recorded by 250 portable seismic stations to invert for the P-wave velocity (Vp) structures of the mantle beneath the NCC. Our results show a large-scale low-Vp anomaly in the shallow mantle and high-Vp anomalies in the deeper upper mantle beneath the eastern NCC, with fine-scale high-Vp anomalies at the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary, indicating multi-stage lithospheric delamination during the Cenozoic. In the Yan Mountains (YanM), an east–west striking high-Vp anomaly between 60 to 200 km depths and low heat flow suggest the preservation of a thick mantle root. In the TNCO, high-Vp bodies in the upper mantle and the upper part of the mantle transition zone (MTZ) are imaged. The shallower high-Vp anomaly located beneath the Shanxi–Shaanxi Rift (SSR), along with an overlying local-scale low-Vp anomaly, indicates local hot material upwelling due to lithospheric root removal. The India–Eurasia collision’s far-field effects are proposed to cause lithospheric thickening, subsequent root delamination, and the formation and evolution of the SSR.

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