A zone of very low seismicity in the vicinity of the Chang Thang Platform, Tibet

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Nov 1989

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 58, Issue 1, p. 82-86.

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We note that the area of `no Sn' transmission and `no lid' of previous researchers in the central Chang Thang Platform of Tibet has low seismicity. Whereas the Kun Lun and Lhasa blocks, lying north and south of the Chang Thang Platform, are seismically active, an area bounded by the Nujiang Kun Lun Fault and Kokoxili Suture in the north, the Bangong-Nujiang Suture and Kang Ting Fault in the south, and longitudes 87 and 100 ° E, encompassing a large portion of the Chang Thang Platform in central Tibet, has low seismicity. We also note that portions of this area have a signature in topography as well: the elevations are higher by several hundred metres here than over the Lhasa and Kun Lun blocks. These observations and the reported extensive Quaternary volcanism in the Chang Thang Platform suggest upwelling of hot mantle material below this area as the most likely explanation.

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