EGU23-14706
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14706
EGU General Assembly 2023
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Moho Inversion of East China Sea and Its Adjacent Areas Based on Potential Field Data

Dingding Wang1, Wanyin Wang1,2,3, and Yimi Zhang1,4
Dingding Wang et al.
  • 1Institute of Gravity and Magnetic Technology, School of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Qingdao, China
  • 3National Engineering Research Center of Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Beijing, China
  • 4Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

East China Sea and its adjacent areas are an important part of the circum-Pacific tectonic belt, and its fluctuation characteristics of Moho can provide an important basis for the study of the deep structure of the western Pacific. At present, the inversion of Moho depth based on potential field data is an important task. Meanwhile, its inversion accuracy is closely related to the gravity anomaly data quality, and to the density contrasts and inversion algorithm. We use the fast solution algorithm of forward problem for gravity field in a dual interface model to eliminate the gravity influence of terrain and sediments, and adopt the minimum curvature potential field separation method to remove the effect of residual geological bodies. Then we try to identify the Moho gravity anomaly as the regional field which has the strongest correlation with depths estimations from seismic data. Regression analysis and the "3σ" principle are used to delete the constraint points of Moho depth with large deviations, and the Bouguer plate formula is used to estimate the laterally variable density contrasts of Moho. Finally, the Moho depth in East China Sea and its adjacent areas is obtained by the dual-interface fast inversion algorithm, and the inversion deviations are mostly concentrated within 2 km. The inversion result shows that there is an obvious local uplift zone of Moho in East China Sea Basin, while the Okinawa Trough basin is located on a whole Moho uplift. The strike of the two uplift belts has the same change from NE to NNE.

How to cite: Wang, D., Wang, W., and Zhang, Y.: Moho Inversion of East China Sea and Its Adjacent Areas Based on Potential Field Data, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-14706, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14706, 2023.