EGU24-9631, updated on 08 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-9631
EGU General Assembly 2024
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European and Siberian lithospheric thermo-chemical heterogeneity and density structure.

Alexey Shulgin1,2 and Irina Artemieva3,4
Alexey Shulgin and Irina Artemieva
  • 1Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway
  • 2Geomap Norge, Norway
  • 3GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
  • 4State Key Laboratory GPMR, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.

We present a new combined model for the density structure of the lithospheric upper mantle beneath Europe and Siberia, based on a 3D tesseroid gravity modeling. Our results are based on the EuNaRho model (Shulgin & Artemieva, 2019) complimented by similar modeling approach for Siberia. For Siberia modeling is preformed based on a detailed crustal structural database SibCrust (Cherepanova et al., 2013) constrained by regional seismic data. The presented residual lithospheric mantle gravity anomalies are derived by removing the 3D gravitational effect of the crust. Later, these anomalies are converted to lithosphere mantle in situ densities. To evaluate chemical heterogeneities of the lithospheric mantle, thermal effects are removed based on the global continental thermal model TC1 (Artemieva, 2006). The resulting density model at SPT conditions shows a highly heterogeneous structure of the cratonic lithospheric mantle, and distinct change at the transition between different tectonic units. We speculate on the origin of these anomalies.

How to cite: Shulgin, A. and Artemieva, I.: European and Siberian lithospheric thermo-chemical heterogeneity and density structure., EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-9631, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-9631, 2024.