Singh, S and Ghosh, A (2020) The role of crustal models in the dynamics of the India-Eurasia collision zone. In: Geophysical Journal International, 223 (1). pp. 111-131.
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We investigate how different crustal models can affect the stress field, velocities and associated deformation in the India-Eurasia collision zone. We calculate deviatoric stresses, which act as deformation indicators, from topographic load distribution and crustal heterogeneities coupled with density driven mantle convection constrained by tomography models. We use three different crustal models, CRUST2.0, CRUST1.0 and LITHO1.0 and observe that these models have different crustal thickness and densities. As a result, gravitational potential energy (GPE) calculated based on these densities and crustal thicknesses differ between these models and so do the associated deviatoric stresses. For GPE only models, LITHO1.0 provides a better constraint on deformation as it yields the least misfit (both orientation and relative magnitude) with the surface observations of strain rates, lithospheric stress, plate motions and earthquake moment tensors. However, when the stresses from GPE are added to those associated with mantle tractions arising from density-driven mantle convection, the coupled models in all cases provide a better fit to surface observations. The N-S tensional stresses predicted by CRUST2.0 in this area get reduced significantly due to addition of large N-S compressional stresses predicted by the tomography models S40RTS and SAW642AN leading to an overall strike-slip regime. On the other hand, the hybrid models, SINGHS40RTS and SINGHSAW that are obtained by embedding a regional P-wave model, Singh et al., in global models of S40RTS and SAW642AN, predict much lower compression within this area. These hybrid models provide a better constraint on surface observations when coupled with CRUST1.0 in central Tibet, whereas the combined LITHO1.0 plus mantle traction model provides a better fit in some other areas, but with a degradation of fit in central Tibet. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Geophysical Journal International |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Additional Information: | The copyright of this article belongs to Oxford University Press |
| Keywords: | Deformation; Earthquakes; Potential energy; Seismic waves; Stresses; Structural geology; Tomography, Coupled models; Crustal thickness; Deviatoric stress; Gravitational potential energy; Load distributions; Mantle convection; Surface observation; Traction models, Strain rate, collision zone; computer simulation; crustal structure; crustal thickness; deformation mechanism; Eurasian plate; Indian plate; mantle process; numerical model; plate tectonics, China; Xizang |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Earth Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2021 06:18 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2021 06:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/67375 |
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