Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024010090
A. M. Petrischevsky
Abstract
Rheological layering of the tectonosphere of the South China Sea (SCS) on the crust—rigid (the depth interval of 5–30 km), viscous subcrustal (the depth interval of 30–70 km), rigid lower lithospheric (50–90 km), astenospheric (80–150 km) and rigid subastenospheric (the depth interval is more than 150 km)—is established. Distributions of the density inhomogeneities related to the main tectonic events in the SCS are caused by the Paleo-Pacific’s convergence, and later, the oceanic Philippine Plate, with the Philippine archipelago and later, with the Asian margin. In this zone, based on density contrast distributions in the tectonosphere, Cenozoic processes of a subduction, stretching, transform shift and structure of the central type of the probable plume nature are traced, which form an evolutionary sequence: back-arc, or paleoceanic spreading → Philippine subduction → NE-stretching with discplacement → formation of a central type of structure, probably with a plume origin. The structures caused by convergence of the Asian continent with the Indo-Australian Plate are isolated from the West Pacific margin, and underthrusting of rigid lithospheric plates from the south under the lithosphere of the marginal sea reflects traces of a more ancient collision of fragments of Gondwana with the Asian continent.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1134/s0001437024010065
S. A. Kovachev, N. V. Libina
Abstract
Seismotectonic and seismoacoustic studies carried out during an expedition onboard the R/V Akademik Boris Petrov in the Pechora Sea revealed a paleoseismic dislocation confined to a fault zone tracing the North Ural seismic lineament. The amplitude of this dislocation (the relative displacement of its sides) makes it possible to estimate the magnitude of the paleoearthquake that occurred within the North Ural lineament. This magnitude was used to estimate the maximum seismic impacts on offshore oil and gas facilities already in operation and those being designed for construction in the northeastern Pechora Sea. These estimates differ significantly from estimates made previously. The method of searching for paleoseismic dislocations using seismoacoustic methods, as well as lineament analysis, can be used for initial assessment seismic impacts in water areas, including the Laptev Sea, as the most seismically active region of the Arctic.
AbstractSeismotectonic and seismoacoustic studies conducted during an expedition on the R/V Akademik Boris Petrov in the Pechora Sea revealed a paleosemic dislocation confined to a fault zone tracing the North Ural seismic lineament.根据这一错位的振幅(其两侧的相对位移),可以估算出在北乌拉尔地震带内发生的古地震的震级。这个震级被用来估算地震对佩乔拉海东北部已经运行和正在设计建造的海上石油和天然气设施的最大影响。这些估算结果与之前的估算结果大相径庭。利用地震声学方法寻找古地震错位的方法以及线状分析,可用于初步评估水域的地震影响,包括拉普捷夫海这个北极地震最活跃的地区。
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