Computer Science
Scientific paper
Oct 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980e%26psl..50..275l&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 50, Issue 1, p. 275-288.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Results from 12 new two-ship seismic refraction profiles in the Philippine Sea detail regions of crustal thickness significantly less than average for the Pacific. A comparison of layer 3 and mantle intercept times shows that layer 3 in the West Philippine basin is 1-2 km thinner than for similarly aged crust in the Pacific. In the Parece Vela basin layer 3 is on average 0.5 km thinner than its Pacific counterpart but varies considerably across the basin. Layer 2 parameters are also quite variable between profiles but its thicknesses are in the mean 0.5-1.0 km less in the West Philippine basin than for either the Parece Vela basin or for any of the 7 Pacific age groups. In the northeastern sector of the West Philippine basin layer 2 and 3 are both particularly thin which results in a total crustal thickness of as little as 3-4 km.
Pacific and Philippine depth versus age data from DSDP holes are corrected for these variations in crustal thicknesses. The resultant compensated mantle depths can only be fitted by theoretical conductive cooling curves which are depressed for the Philippine basins by an additional 1 km from those that would match Pacific depths. Given such an offset, Philippine Sea depth and heat flow values are consistent with thermal models in which the lithosphere may remain thinner than it is in the Pacific, but still must reach a minimum thickness of at least 50-75 km.
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