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El Tahir, N
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Nyblade, A
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Julià, J
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Durrheim, R
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2013-06-03T11:55:47Z |
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2013-06-03T11:55:47Z |
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2013-05 |
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El Tahir, N, Nyblade, A, Julià, J and Durrheim, R. 2013. Crustal structure of the Khartoum Basin, Sudan. Tectonophysics, vol. 593, pp 151-160 |
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0040-1951 |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004019511300142X
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http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6771
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Copyright: 2013 Elsevier. This is an ABSTRACT ONLY. The definitive version is published in Tectonophysics, vol. 593, pp 151-160 |
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The crustal structure of the northern part of the Khartoum Basin has been investigated using data from 3 permanent seismic stations within 40 km of Khartoum and two modeling methods, H–k stacking of receiver functions and a joint inversion of receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocities. The Khartoum Basin is one of several Mesozoic rift basins in Sudan associated with the Central African Rift System. Results from the H–k-stacking indicate that crustal thickness beneath the Khartoum Basin ranges between 33 and 37 km, with an average of 35 km, and that the crustal Vp/Vs ratio ranges from 1.74 to 1.81, with an average of 1.78. From the joint inversion of receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocities,we obtained similar results for Moho depth, aswell as an average shear wave velocity of 3.7 km/s for the crust. These results provide the first seismic estimates of Moho depth for a basin in Sudan. When compared to average crustal thickness for unrifted Proterozoic crust in eastern Africa, our results indicate that atmost only a few kmof crustal thinningmay have occurred beneath the Khartoum Basin. This finding is consistentwith estimates of effective elastic plate thickness, which indicate little modification of the Proterozoic lithosphere beneath the basin, and suggests that there may be insufficient topography on the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath the Sudanese basins to channel plume material westward from Ethiopia. |
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Elsevier |
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Workflow;10908 |
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Teleseismic P-waveforms |
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Moho depth |
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Shear wave velocity |
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Khartoum Basin |
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Crustal structure of the Khartoum Basin, Sudan |
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Article |
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El Tahir, N., Nyblade, A., Julià, J., & Durrheim, R. (2013). Crustal structure of the Khartoum Basin, Sudan. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6771 |
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El Tahir, N, A Nyblade, J Julià, and R Durrheim "Crustal structure of the Khartoum Basin, Sudan." (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6771 |
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El Tahir N, Nyblade A, Julià J, Durrheim R. Crustal structure of the Khartoum Basin, Sudan. 2013; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6771. |
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AB - The crustal structure of the northern part of the Khartoum Basin has been investigated using data from 3 permanent seismic stations within 40 km of Khartoum and two modeling methods, H–k stacking of receiver functions and a joint inversion of receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocities. The Khartoum Basin is one of several Mesozoic rift basins in Sudan associated with the Central African Rift System. Results from the H–k-stacking indicate that crustal thickness beneath the Khartoum Basin ranges between 33 and 37 km, with an average of 35 km, and that the crustal Vp/Vs ratio ranges from 1.74 to 1.81, with an average of 1.78. From the joint inversion of receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocities,we obtained similar results for Moho depth, aswell as an average shear wave velocity of 3.7 km/s for the crust. These results provide the first seismic estimates of Moho depth for a basin in Sudan. When compared to average crustal thickness for unrifted Proterozoic crust in eastern Africa, our results indicate that atmost only a few kmof crustal thinningmay have occurred beneath the Khartoum Basin. This finding is consistentwith estimates of effective elastic plate thickness, which indicate little modification of the Proterozoic lithosphere beneath the basin, and suggests that there may be insufficient topography on the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath the Sudanese basins to channel plume material westward from Ethiopia.
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