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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2011.44.6.493

Estimate on the Crustal Thickness from Using Multi-geophysical Data Sets and Its Comparison to Heat Flow Distribution of Korean Peninsula  

Choi, Soon-Young (Dept. of Geoenvironment Sciences, Kongju National University)
Kim, Hyung-Rae (Dokdo Research center, East Sea Branch, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
Kim, Chang-Hwan (Dept. of Geoenvironment Sciences, Kongju National University)
Park, Chan-Hong (East Sea Branch, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
Suh, Man-Chul (Dokdo Research center, East Sea Branch, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.44, no.6, 2011 , pp. 493-502 More about this Journal
Abstract
We study the deep structure of Korean Peninsula by estimating Moho depth and crustal thickness from using land and oceanic topography and free-air gravity anomaly data. Based on Airy-Heiskanen isostatic hypothesis, the correlated components between the terrain gravity effects and free-air gravity anomalies by wavenumber correlation analysis(WCA) are extracted to estimate the gravity effects that will be resulted from isostatic compensation for the area. With the resulting compensated gravity estimates, Moho depth that is a subsurface between the crust and mantle is estimated by the inversion in an iterative method with the constraints of 20 seismic depth estimates by the receiver function analysis, to minimize the uncertainty of non-uniqueness. Consequently, the average of the resulting crustal thickness estimate of Korean Peninsula is 32.15 km and the standard deviation is 3.12 km. Moho depth of South Korea estimated from this study is compared with the ones from the previous studies, showing they are approximately consistent. And the aspects of Moho undulation from the respective study are in common deep along Taebaek Mountains and Sobaek Mountains and low depth in Gyeongsang Basin relatively. Also, it is discussed that the terrain decorrelated free-air gravity anomalies inferring from the intracrustal characteristics of the crust are compared to the heat flow distributions of South Korea. The low-frequency components of terrain decorrelated Free-air gravity anomalies are highly correlated with the heat flow data, especially in the area of Gyeongsang basin where high heat flow causes to decrease the density of the rocks in the lower crust resulting in lowering the Moho depth by compensation. This result confirms that the high heat sources in this area coming from the upper mantle by Kim et al. (2008).
Keywords
crustal thickness; gravity; topography; seismic depth; heat flow distribution;
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