期刊
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
卷 152, 期 3, 页码 688-698出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01882.x
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Eurasia Basin; heat flow; Laptev Sea; ocean-continent transition; rifts; spreading
New geophysical data have become available from shipborne and satellite measurements allowing a re-evaluation of the largely unknown junction of the Arctic spreading centre and the northeastern Siberian continental margin where the transpolar mid-ocean Gakkel Ridge abuts against the continental slope of the Laptev Sea. Based on multichannel seismic reflection and gravity data, this sediment-covered spreading axis can be traced to the continental rise where it is cut-off by a transcurrent fault. Further continuation of the extensional axis into the continental slope can be attributed to two asymmetric grabens, which terminate against the prominent Khatanga-Lomonosov Fracture. Remnants of hydrothermal fauna and high heat-flow values of approximately 100 mW m(-2) documented around these grabens in the up-slope area are typical for an oceanic spreading axis. Thus we consider these grabens to be morphotectonic termination of the global Atlantic-Arctic spreading system with plate motions shifting to the Khatanga-Lomonosov Fracture. The high heat flow and the distribution of earthquake epicentres allow us to assume that the present-day divergent plate tectonic boundary passes from the Gakkel Ridge to the eastern part of Laptev Sea with an offset of initial rifting along the Bel'kov-Svyatoi Nos Rift to the projected prolongation of the buried spreading axis by 140-150 km.
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