Upper crustal seismic structure of the Mazury complex and Mazowsze massif within East European Craton in NE Poland
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| Title: | Upper crustal seismic structure of the Mazury complex and Mazowsze massif within East European Craton in NE Poland |
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| Authors: | Czuba, W.1 wojt@igf.edu.pl, Grad, M.2 mgrad@mimuw.edu.pl, Luosto, U.3 luosto@seismo.helsinki.fi, Motuza, G.4 gediminas.motuza@lgt.lt, Nasedkin, V.4 |
| Source: | Tectonophysics. Dec2002, Vol. 360 Issue 1-4, p115. 14p. |
| Subjects: | Seismology, Suture zones (Structural geology), Earth's mantle |
| Geographic Terms: | Europe |
| Abstract: | The large-scale seismic experiment POLONAISE '97 (POlish Lithospheric ONsets—An International Seismic Experiment) was carried out in May 1997 in Poland, Lithuania, and Germany. Its main purpose was to investigate the structure of the crust and the uppermost mantle in the region of the Trans European Suture Zone (TESZ) that lies between the East European Craton (EEC) and the Palaeozoic Platform. This paper covers the interpretation of seismic data along the NW–SE-trending, 180-km-long profile P5 located on the EEC. The recordings were of a high quality with seismic energy clearly visible along the whole profile. We have not found waves refracted below the upper crust in first arrivals. In the NW part of the profile, we have delineated a high-velocity body with the P-wave velocity in the range of 6.5–6.75 km/s in the upper crust. It corresponds to the Ke˛trzyn anorthosite massif within the Mazury complex. The Mazowsze massif is rather uniformly characterized by P-wave velocities 5.9–6.05 and 6.2–6.35 km/s in two layers, respectively. Sufficient S-wave data were available to estimate the Vp/Vs ratio (as well as the Poisson ratio), being 1.80 (0.277) in the high-velocity body and 1.67 (0.220) in the upper crust.Apart from the 2-D model along the profile, results of 3-D modelling in the area of the P5 profile are presented. Using off-line recordings, we got P-wave velocity field up to 8 km/s below the P5 profile at the depth of about 40 km as well as horizontal extent of the high-velocity body. [Copyright &y& Elsevier] |
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