Layering of subcontinental lithospheric mantle

作     者：Ling Chen 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 

出 版 物：《Science Bulletin》 (科学通报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第62卷第14期

页      面：1030-1034页

核心收录：

学科分类：070904[理学-构造地质学] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41225016, 41688103, 91414301) Chinese Academy of Sciences 

主　　题：岩石圈地幔 克拉通地区 岩石圈不连续 MLD 科学前沿 地震 地球 

摘      要：Recent seismic studies reveal a sharp velocity drop mostly at^70–100 km depth within the thick mantle keel beneath cratons, termed the mid-lithosphere discontinuity(MLD). The common presence of the MLD in cratonic regions indicates structural and property layering of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle(SCLM). The nature and origin of the MLD, and many issues associated with the layering of the SCLM are essential to understand the formation and evolution of continents, and have become frontier subjects in the Earth sciences.