TY - JOUR
T1 - Depth to Moho in Greenland
T2 - receiver-function analysis suggests two Proterozoic blocks in Greenland
AU - Dahl-Jensen, Trine
AU - Larsen, Tine B.
AU - Woelbern, Ingo
AU - Bach, Torben
AU - Hanka, Winfried
AU - Kind, Rainer
AU - Gregersen, Søren
AU - Mosegaard, Klaus
AU - Voss, Peter
AU - Gudmundsson, Olafur
N1 - Funding Information:
Project GLATIS is funded by The Danish Council for Research Policy (Grant 9802989), The Bureau of Minerals Resources, Government of Greenland, the instrument pool and data archive facilities at GFZ-Potsdam. The NEAT stations are funded by NERC (UK) and The Danish Lithosphere Centre. The Geological Survey of Canada provided instruments for UPN and TULE, and at TULE they also did the installation. We thank the station caretakers in Greenland for their help. Gabriel Strykowski compiled and calculated the composite gravity anomaly data used in Fig. 9. Frederik Horn and Mathilde Bøttger were responsible for receiving and handling data from Greenland. Published with the permission of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. [SK]
PY - 2003/1/10
Y1 - 2003/1/10
N2 - The GLATIS project (Greenland Lithosphere Analysed Teleseismically on the Ice Sheet) with collaborators has operated a total of 16 temporary broadband seismographs for periods from 3 months to 2 years distributed over much of Greenland from late 1999 to the present. The very first results are presented in this paper, where receiver-function analysis has been used to map the depth to Moho in a large region where crustal thicknesses were previously completely unknown. The results suggest that the Proterozoic part of central Greenland consists of two distinct blocks with different depths to Moho. North of the Archean core in southern Greenland is a zone of very thick Proterozoic crust with an average depth to Moho close to 48 km. Further to the north the Proterozoic crust thins to 37-42 km. We suggest that the boundary between thick and thin crust forms the boundary between the geologically defined Nagssugtoqidian and Rinkian mobile belts, which thus can be viewed as two blocks, based on the large difference in depth to Moho (over 6 km). Depth to Moho on the Archean crust is around 40 km. Four of the stations are placed in the interior of Greenland on the ice sheet, where we find the data quality excellent, but receiver-function analyses are complicated by strong converted phases generated at the base of the ice sheet, which in some places is more than 3 km thick.
AB - The GLATIS project (Greenland Lithosphere Analysed Teleseismically on the Ice Sheet) with collaborators has operated a total of 16 temporary broadband seismographs for periods from 3 months to 2 years distributed over much of Greenland from late 1999 to the present. The very first results are presented in this paper, where receiver-function analysis has been used to map the depth to Moho in a large region where crustal thicknesses were previously completely unknown. The results suggest that the Proterozoic part of central Greenland consists of two distinct blocks with different depths to Moho. North of the Archean core in southern Greenland is a zone of very thick Proterozoic crust with an average depth to Moho close to 48 km. Further to the north the Proterozoic crust thins to 37-42 km. We suggest that the boundary between thick and thin crust forms the boundary between the geologically defined Nagssugtoqidian and Rinkian mobile belts, which thus can be viewed as two blocks, based on the large difference in depth to Moho (over 6 km). Depth to Moho on the Archean crust is around 40 km. Four of the stations are placed in the interior of Greenland on the ice sheet, where we find the data quality excellent, but receiver-function analyses are complicated by strong converted phases generated at the base of the ice sheet, which in some places is more than 3 km thick.
KW - Crustal thickness
KW - Greenland
KW - Receiver functions
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U2 - 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01080-4
DO - 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01080-4
M3 - Article
SN - 0012-821X
VL - 205
SP - 379
EP - 393
JO - Earth and Planetary Science Letters
JF - Earth and Planetary Science Letters
IS - 3-4
ER -