Dynamic topography produced by lower crustal flow against rheological strength heterogeneities bordering the Tibetan Plateau

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Aug 2005

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Geophysical Journal International, Volume 162, Issue 8, pp. 575-590.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Crustal Rheology, Dynamic Topography, Lower-Crustal Flow, Tibet

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Dynamic stresses developed in the deep crust as a consequence of flow of weak lower crust may explain anomalously high topography and extensional structures localized along orogenic plateau margins. With lubrication equations commonly used to describe viscous flow in a thin-gap geometry, we model dynamic stresses associated with the obstruction of lower crustal channel flow due to rheological heterogeneity. Dynamic stresses depend on the mean velocity , viscosity (μ) and channel thickness (h), uniquely through the term . These stresses are then applied to the base of an elastic upper crust and the deflection of the elastic layer is computed to yield the predicted dynamic topography. We compare model calculations with observed topography of the eastern Tibetan Plateau margin where we interpret channel flow of the deep crust to be inhibited by the rigid Sichuan Basin. Model results suggest that as much 1500 m of dynamic topography across a region of several tens to a hundred kilometres wide may be produced for lower crustal material with a viscosity of 2 × 1018 Pa s flowing in a 15 km thick channel around a rigid cylindrical block at an average rate of 80 mm yr-1.

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